Justin Michael @ Luxy Taipei

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I try to go to most electronic music DJs in Taipei, and when I heard that Justin Michael, an LA based DJ that’s not that well known, I decided to go to Luxy. I hadn’t been to Luxy yet, and it was an interesting experience. I met up with a friend and we arrived a little before 1AM. That was perfect, because Justin Michael started at around 1AM. The place was packed, and stayed packed until 4AM.

My Daily Tweets 12.29-30.11

• Spent 22hrs awake and then slept for 8. I was expecting longer. 3 minutes ago
  
• @yiiee At least nothing’s coming out of her bum. My cat likes to eat ribbons. Hasn’t done so in a while, but it isn’t pretty either. 4 minutes ago
  
• Gizmon iCA Camera Case Turns New iPhones into Old Leicas wp.me/pWvW-6w2 10 minutes ago
  
• I think I’ll just go to bed. Getting drowsy and it’s already 6AM. Going out for NYE at ATT w Dave Seaman and Christian Smith 9 hours ago
  
• Looking forward to tomorrow, Dave Seaman, Christian Smith. Hopefully a nice dancefloor that’s not sardine city 9 hours ago
  
• One thing I learned is that if you want to dance, don’t go to Luxy. I felt like a turnstile. 9 hours ago
  
• Lots of foreigners. Probably the most foreigners that I’ve seen in a long time. 9 hours ago
  
• Met some Germans who said that there were lots of Germans in Taipei. Talked German. They were surprised that I was fluent and had no accent 9 hours ago
  
• The lasers at the entry are a bit confusing. It makes it look like mirrors are everywhere. Still, it was cool. I had fun 9 hours ago
  
• The DJ certainly was having fun. At one pt, he was on his decks, jumping about. Gogo girls were sexy. 9 hours ago
  
• Around minute 50, my daughter announced that we should leave _The Muppets_. I could only love her more if she’d said it 51 minutes earlier. 9 hours ago
  
• Facebook’s core competency: basically just a reminder service to tell your friends “Happy Birthday!” when you sporadically log in. 9 hours ago
  
• It was a meat market, but I had fun w chelsea. 9 hours ago
  
• Too many remixes of famous songs, like smells like teen spirit, wonderwall, etc. Felt out of place. 9 hours ago
  
• DJ was Justin Michael. While there were some good bits during his 4hr set, the kind of music he spins isn’t really what I like. 9 hours ago
  
• Had a good time at Luxy. It was packed. DJ wasn’t bad. It was better than expected. Mixes weren’t always stellar, but cover came w 2 drinks 9 hours ago
  
• Time to walk Spike. 16 hours ago
  
• I think I’ll have a macchiato before leaving. 16 hours ago
  
• 5 tangerines make a great fresh-squeezed juice. Energy booster as well. 16 hours ago
  
• Still going strong on 5 hrs of sleep. I haven’t had much sleep over the last 2 days. I’ll recuperate tonight. 16 hours ago
  
• Bite to eat was good. Probably going to have some fresh-squeezed tangerine juice. 16 hours ago
  
• 10PM, gonna eat something then watch something, then walk Spike and head out. 17 hours ago
  
• Means I have time to eat. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been pretty. 17 hours ago
  
• Not going to town early, will probably take a taxi into town for 11:30PM. Co-worker sounds somewhat sick. That’s not gonna make me stay home 17 hours ago
  
• FU Mozzilla. Another FF crash. WTF. In the middle of writing a post no less. 17 hours ago
  
• @MichaelSurtees Nice one Michael. 17 hours ago
  
• 100 Eleventh Ave and IAC buildings not #walkingtoworktoday instagr.am/p/c4lLd/ 18 hours ago
  
• Jeez, this post is taking long. I still have one left, then espresso, and getting ready to go out. 18 hours ago
  
• They liked me being pro-active. Kid’s a nightmare and makes the class difficult to teach. 18 hours ago
  
• I wrote a detailed list of all of the stuff he did in the last 2 weeks that were unacceptable. Gave copies to co-teacher and boss. 18 hours ago
  
• Boss and co-teacher know this, only the mom doesnt realize this yet. Or she does and doesnt care. She’s probably doing the spoiling. 18 hours ago
  
• We have a difficult kid in our grade 2 class. he’s spoiled rotten, and doesnt understand that the classroom has rules. 18 hours ago
  
• My grade 4 class is obsessed with bikinis. I don’t know why. Each time I say “beginning” they hear bikini. Was funny on a Friday 18 hours ago
  
• I’m down to 84kg. Lowest weight in 2 years. 18 hours ago
  
• “Are you on a diet? You’ve lost weight!” my boss to me today. I liked hearing that. It’s the running and the diet BTW. 18 hours ago
  
• Surprised that my co-worker is coming w me. Fridays are hard days for everyone at work. Lots of kids and only 4 foreign teachers 18 hours ago
  
• The important thing was that I had no breaks. Block hours from 9AM to 6:30PM. I took a break for coffee at 12:30 to 12:45 18 hours ago
  
• Almost gave up on finding tops to go out w, when I spotted the DKNY shop w 40% sales. Not bad. Still, didnt like it. 18 hours ago
  
• Just back from work. 9hr shift, not bad. Then, I went clothes shopping. What a nightmare. Hate doing that, but I managed to get some stuff 18 hours ago
• ♂ 30 Dec
• got called in to sub, thought about not going, but It gives me a full day of teaching, w no breaks. Nice. 30 Dec
  
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• The Be st in IKEA Hacks Best of 2011 wp.me/pWvW-6vZ30 Dec
  
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• Princeton Students Disrupt A JP Morgan Recruiting Session With A Devastating Chant businessinsider.com/jp-morgan-occu… via @clusterstock 30 Dec
  
• 6.03 KM (1.89 KM Speed Walk) + Short Run (4.14 KM) wp.me/pWvW-6vR 30 Dec
  
• Got a haircut today My hairdresser gives hard massages I like them. She really grinds me down She doesnt always do massages bc she’s so busy 30 Dec
  
• menthol spray giving me a nice burn. Feeling like an old man. Probably smelling like one too. 30 Dec
  
• I think I have to re-evaluate my real-time goals for training. I’ll be able to run a lot better in 1 or 2 months. 30 Dec
  
• Time for a medium rare steak w peppers. I’m cooking, good-looking! 30 Dec
  
• To me, training is a numbers game. Part of the motivation was to get better numbers at the end of the day. 30 Dec
  
• Pushed myself a bit harder, did 6.06km. “pain is an illusion” and “abstraction” are power words. Had 2 small breaks during teh run. 30 Dec
  
• Started to rain while I was walking Spike, that didn’t stop me from going for a run. 30 Dec
  
• First time I needed a contrast shower to recover from my run. Then menthol spray and compression socks. Feeling pretty good right about now 30 Dec
  
• Unless you’re drinking eagle blood out of a cheetah skull, I don’t want to see your tribal tattoo. 29 Dec
  
• Hates it when someone texts you, you text them back, then… nothing #wtfwhetedidyougo 29 Dec
  
• @itsminhvybitch oui je me suis desabonne a tous les groupes a cause du spam 30 Dec
  
• Can stylometry be used to discover authorship of anonymous docs? Yes. Can adversarial stylometry be defeated by countermeasures? Yes. #28C3 29 Dec
  
• Haven’t had dinner yet, just some fresh-squeezed OJ so that I can run w being full 29 Dec
  
• Getting up was painful. At least tomorrow I can sleep in, slightly. Got a few errands to run b4 work. 29 Dec
• Today I got only 4hrs of sleep + 1h power nap. 29 Dec
  
• Not getting out of a run tonight. It’s 17C, so no layers needed. 29 Dec
  
• @Chelsea_L_Rose me too. havent gotten much sleep and went to bed way too late. coffee only works up to a point. 29 Dec
  
• @yiiee Thankfully, the IKEA is near my house. I need some nice thick towels. 29 Dec
  
• @yiiee That always happens. there’s always something else you need from IKEA 29 Dec
  
• @yiiee Yep, I need your email 29 Dec
  
• @Chelsea_L_Rose anyway let me know what you end up doing, easiest is by text, 0936641984 29 Dec
  
• @Chelsea_L_Rose yep, not going out too late. 29 Dec
  
• @Chelsea_L_Rose I’ll probably go to Luxy, and maybe have dinner in Taipei after class. 29 Dec
  
• @Chelsea_L_Rose r u going out later? I’m working until 6:30PM. 29 Dec
  
• @Chelsea_L_Rose probably. I didnt check my tickets, what are you doing tomorrow? 29 Dec
  
• “Stay away from India” PM David Cameron to Clarkson, Capt Slow and the Hamster, while coming out of 10 Downing St and getting into his car 29 Dec
  
• “Shortly after coming into office, Mr. Cameron noticed that Britain, in essence, was bankrupt” Clarkson in Top Gear on Downing Street 29 Dec
  
• Open Letters: An Open Letter to the Gentleman Blow-Drying His Balls in the Gym Locker Room.: mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-op… 29 Dec
  
• Oh yeah, Top Gear India Special. Yippee, forgot about that! 29 Dec
  
• Keep forgetting that a lot of locals don’t speak much English. It’s noticeable when you flirt. 29 Dec
  
• annoying at times, but still cute. pic.twitter.com/pwGT5uPW 29 Dec
  
• Done for the day. Not bad. Time to relax. 29 Dec
  
• @Chelsea_L_Rose hey, it’s not at Myst, it’s at ATT. Somewhere nearby or in the same building. Myst has got some other DJs that night 29 Dec
  
• Yoda requesting my attention when I try to get some work done. pic.twitter.com/BRLz5NIV 29 Dec
  
• NSFW @AlyshaNett for Front Mag: alysha.tumblr.com/post/149469686… 29 Dec
  
• @tarynevelyn‘s Tech Top 10 for Unplggd unplggd.com/unplggd/my-tec… 29 Dec
  
• Why did I read so much about Keira Knightley’s vagina in thenewinquiry.com/post/149196255… 29 Dec
  
• I think I need to go buy some clothes. 29 Dec
  
• Prof said class over this morning. I’m not sure if there’s class next week. I’ll have to double-check. That would be swell. 29 Dec
  
• @yiiee You need an invite to join? Joined a while ago and you didnt need one. 29 Dec
  
• @wobblesmccoy And just bought a cheapo repair set, the JVC HAS600, which aren’t bad for their price 29 Dec
  
• @wobblesmccoy I have a pair of Beats Studio by Dre in repair. They are new. An older Sony MDR DJ500 which are also being repaired. 29 Dec
  
• @wobblesmccoy The HD800 cost a bit much for my taste, but I use headphones all of the time, I rarely use speakers. 29 Dec
  
• @wobblesmccoy At least to my ears. 29 Dec
  
• @wobblesmccoy I’d probably buy some Shure, the SE500 or above as my next earbuds. Higher end headphones make a big differences 29 Dec
  
• @wobblesmccoy I’m looking at the HD800, their hi-fi model, which is very expensive, but probably worth it since I can’t buy a TV or speakers 29 Dec
  
• @wobblesmccoy The only Sennheiser headphones I had were the HD 570, over the ear, they were fine but fragile. 29 Dec
  
• @wobblesmccoy I paid about $100 CAD for the SE115 in 2008 or so I believe. They are about to expire, problems w the cord, so I might buy sme 29 Dec
  
• @wobblesmccoy haven’t bought them yet. I have Shure SE115. They are OK 29 Dec
  
• No Facebook you don’t get to push me notifications. Neither does Gmail #InboxZero 29 Dec
• The best way to get rid of a headache is not to have a husband/boyfriend you don’t want to fuck. 29 Dec
• Finished #AlteredCarbon and started#BrokenAngels. 83 rd book of 2011 29 Dec
  
• The last few eps of Gantz the anime were unnecessary. The 2nd movie is more fun for that 29 Dec
  
• One hour 30 left in class 29 Dec
  
• Ugh, enumerative combinatorics until noon. 29 Dec
  
• #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You | Wired wired.com/magazine/2011/… 29 Dec
  
• My teen relatives are at the stage now where the only sounds that come out of them are new text message notifications. 29 Dec
  
• Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone – The Big Picture – Boston.com shar.es/WsOe4 29 Dec
  
• North Korea Mourns Kim Jong Il – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/1… via @in_focus 29 Dec
  
• Holy crap, I am tired this morning. Just want to go back to bed, but I have class and need a haircut. 29 Dec
  
• My Daily Tweets 12.28.11 wp.me/pWvW-6vO 29 Dec

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My Daily Tweets 12.28.11

• @kleankanteen yep, it’s pretty sweet for hot and cold beverages. 20 seconds ago
  
• @kleankanteen I prefer the original color and it was just easier getting it from a store in Taipei, but thanks! 44 seconds ago
  
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• @jackge yep its good 6 hours ago
  
• Gantz the anime series isn’t bad, a lot slower than the movies though. 7 hours ago
  
• Former NYT design director @khoi tries to renew his digital subscription to the paper. It doesn’t go well bit.ly/uREPll 10 hours ago
  
• Got Azure Zoe up to 113 kph, fastest yet. I think that in certain conditions, she might be able to get close to 120kph. 10 hours ago
  
• @Chelsea_L_Rose beurk 10 hours ago
  
• Luxy on Friday night, and ATT on Saturday for Dave Seaman and Justin Smith. 10 hours ago
  
• Done for the day, time to relax, and think about going for a run. Probably will since I have to walk Spike anyway. 10 hours ago
  
• Cat’s giving me these looks of love while I pet her. pic.twitter.com/3xRlYuQ5 12 hours ago
  
• My friend says that he wouldn’t mind going to Luxy on Friday night. I don’t know how late we’ll stay, since we’ll both have a full day work 12 hours ago
  
• Learned that strawberries don’t keep for long, so it’s better to eat them fast. That plus some fresh-squeeze OJ will be my dinner. 12 hours ago
  
• Long day at work. Finally over. More work at home, hopefully, I’ll be done by 8:30PM 12 hours ago
  
• Dinner, well a start. pic.twitter.com/eVkjMyvO 12 hours ago
  
• I’m not wasting any more time on you. 20 hours ago
  
• When someone cheats on you, you don’t want to talk to them anymore. The betrayal was a stab in the back. 20 hours ago
  
• Some bitches need to learn that when I say I want no contact, that doesn’t mean I want your emails etc. 20 hours ago
  
• @yiiee @jackge To be honest, I like the more natural look. 20 hours ago
  
• My Daily Tweets 12.27.11 wp.me/pWvW-6vH 20 hours ago

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