




You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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I appreciate it, I get where ur coming from and when I'm in a regular gig that's pretty much how it flows...it's just natural and all... but with the changes in format...all new girls.....computer system I haven't used in over a year.... and butterflies of trying to impress in a short period..... all that together makes a few real good pre-planned zingers and a better idea of the music... a good idea. This ain't my first rodeo, but getting on a new bull still makes me a lil nervous..... as does getting on a bull I've ridden before and got bucked off of lol
Thanks for all the encouragement.....
Originally Posted by Djoser
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson
"The Universe Without Music Would Be Madness." - Chinese Fortune Cookie





If you channel that nervous energy the right way, it'll help you, actually.
Easier said than done--I get nervous as hell at auditions, and totally blew my first 3-4 of them at stripclubs! Even after doing Spring Break gigs in front of way, way more people (as many as 2,000 guys a few afternoons in Daytona!), and a fair amount of theatrical experience.
Doing auditions for theatre work was far less intimidating than auditions in stripclubs.
Fuck, I was even nervous the night one club I worked in opened up an expansion--it was like a new and much bigger club with the same staff. That lasted about 60 seconds into the first night, lol--but I was nervous the whole day before that.
But I think with your experience level (like, 12 years more than me, lol), and reading what you have written, that you might be selling yourself short.
You might consider self-hypnosis or meditation of some kind to focus your energy and mental powers. Another thing I found really helped me once was shouting out the lines I knew on the hour drive to the audition, that was in Cocao Beach. I aced the audition, the first time I really felt good about one at a SC. Unfortunately I backed out, I was worried my car wasn't up to the commute from Daytona.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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Oh I hear ya there.... yeah I'm sure I'm a lil more self critical than I should be. I went to Minneapolis last year and in one night was offered 4 jobs.....
so I usually do ok after I get there....
I'll befuddle a word or two and then flow.... it's just the time leading up to it... I go crazy with the "do I have enough to win em over?"
and if thru all this I only pick up one lil phrase that I didn't use before... it will have the desired effect....
Thanks for the advice..... You'll only have to hear me stress til Wednesday lol
Originally Posted by Djoser
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson
"The Universe Without Music Would Be Madness." - Chinese Fortune Cookie





You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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Absolutely... I ask for advice from everyone.... ya never know where that next real JEWEL is gonna come from.
Yeah, I had for years said the same thing I put in my post earlier... that I believed that I could walk into almost any club and if they let me touch the mic I had the job but had never put it to the test anywhere but here in Panama City Beach.... or North Alabama..... but the Minneapolis night was a huge boost... I went to a big market.... and bam it was such a rush....
now I have to try it at another big city that's not so North lol I made it from Sept to Feb and then Feb 1st had -14 with a wind chill of -34 not for this Florida Boy...
so I came back here..... I've done every club here but it's what I'm comfortable with ya know
I had a gr8 summer... a lil lifeguarding on the beach... an gig here or there.... but nothing steady...
and now the funds are gone and the mind is shot.... time to get busy & get off the pot!
So Anyone, Anywhere WARM..... if you know of any openings..... never hurts to have a plan B, C & D
Originally Posted by Djoser
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson
"The Universe Without Music Would Be Madness." - Chinese Fortune Cookie
LoL I agree with you actually. Im not saying features are any better.
Nevermind i've sat on this site and watching girl after girl bash features to shit.
Hurts when its tossed back at you now doesn't it?
Oh wait im sorry is a girl on all fours popping her ass to the same 3 songs night after night supposed to be entertaining?!





Yeah, I've seen boring features as well, and many a boring dancer.
Christ, I had to put dancers onstage at my last club that were literally and positively surreal, that's how awful they were!
Some nights I could barely take it, I swear. Other nights, if I was in a good mood, it was fun in a sort of humorous way.
What counts now, though, is that we are here to exchange ideas and hopefully be creative. I think we can disagree and debate the point in a positive manner, though, as Callyish and I just did. So long as we all respect each other as individuals, that's what counts.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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Im not here to insult anyone. I just state the truth, and hell sometimes truth hurts.
On that note...
*blasts Kayne West - Stronger*
I am ashamed to admit I like this song *sigh* Okay I love this song... fuck man im supposed to be the rocker chick!





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whoaaaaa.. this was not expecting when i clicked on this thread! hell, i usually dont even post in music mix i was just bored! but since i don't know when i keep my mouth shut.. thats mean cally. its not like anyone here hates on features and features alone. we're equal opportunity haters! haha.. i mean, come on now. we complain about other house dancers all the time too so i think that your comment was kinda out of line.
but anyway, on topic.. i think that the overall attitude of the dj is way more important than what he says. the way he says things matters more than what he's saying, too. i am a tiny bit confused though, as to what youre asking for if you've been offered 4 jobs at a time before. obviously you know what you're doing if this is the case.
It was my moment of weakness
I have nothing against anyone lol, I just hate everyone equally
Seriously though ... Ginger and I have both felt it many times... amung a few other girls.... its like any opinion we have of dancing and a club means fuck all because we're features and we can't possibly know what its like to be a house girl.
It was even thrown in my face in this thread on the first page.
Anyway im done with my thread jacking now.





-Hey, my ears are burning! Gracias, Cally. I don't know that anything I say is terrifically brilliant. I do fly "from the hip" quite a bit, which helps. I have certain things I always say, of course. It's something I mentioned once before. I've found that if I DON'T say a few key things in a certain way, girls and custies seem annoyed. I think the main thing is having an excellent repoire with your co-workers. It's easier to be inventive or joking when you know someone a bit. New clubs can be difficult at first for that reason, as can language barriers like Djoser has. So, yeah...I'm not really offering anything terribly helpful, I guess. Wing it!
-I only push buttons, it's true. However, I push them rather eloquently.
-I'm actually waiting for Bridgette to jump in with her "trained monkeys" bit.
waffles are just pancakes with little squares on them.
As I have said before.... maybe not as clearly as I speak on a mic.....lol...
I tend to get a lil nervous when auditionong for a new job, and this time I am extremely nervous because a) I'm broke, b) I'm desperate & c) I left this club before under not the best circumstances....
options are limited in Panama City these days.... the beach city council passed laws making strip clubs illegal on what they consider "tourist routes" then named every street a strip club was on as a "tourist route" so now there are only 2 strip clubs in town and I have worked at both.
and being broke=not being able to relocate to try my hand in another city
I left the cold of Minnesota not knowing they closed down all but 2 clubs, not the best preplanning to say the least
but I have family here, so a lil safety net.... but I really need this job to get going again.... hell where else can I make that kind of money doing what I love & do the best
and since this club already has knowledge of me.... I am looking for a couple of new lines to freshen up my act is all.....
I have the deep, raspy, clear voice I have been working on my whole life & I have the experience... just trying to get a lil bit more of an edge....
in other words.... my own personal demons and I are once again at odds lol and they are yelling at me
btw just FYI I have been a member since 2003.... do I have to pay before it quits calling me a newbie? lol
Originally Posted by Djoser
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson
"The Universe Without Music Would Be Madness." - Chinese Fortune Cookie





^It goes by number of posts.
waffles are just pancakes with little squares on them.
Thank you... I was wondering about that lol.... btw I would sure love to see you in action sometime you seem to be the shiznit! lol I have ladies at the clubs I have worked at say they miss me but not sure they would rave about me like eveyone seems to rave about you!
and looky there with this post I became a member lol
Last edited by DJSlider; 10-08-2007 at 05:27 PM. Reason: I made member LOL
Originally Posted by Djoser
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson
"The Universe Without Music Would Be Madness." - Chinese Fortune Cookie
Wow I sound like a serious bitch in this thread lol.
Okay maybe I got a little snarky.... and went a little over board... not ALL DJs are button pushers.... and I mean I guess to keep track of 100 some odd girls in a large club would not be easy and trying to remember what each girl wants to dance to... I guess its just a large majority of DJs that are useless.... there are good ones out there... ie MrC![]()





Oh, that's good, haha!
Yeah, the rapport is the crucial thing. It has been driving me batshit for almost this entire year now, to tell the truth--because there has been, during this time, some truth to Callyish's cynical, humorous assessment. If the women can't understand what I am saying about them, it takes all of the fun out of it! As far as most of them were concerned, that is exactly what I was doing--pushing buttons--even if this has been far from the case in other clubs I have worked in.
Read the linguistics thread in the Lounge for a recent attempt of mine to overcome this.
Recently, though--thank god--they are starting to get it. The new location of the booth where I can make eye contact with them onstage has made all the difference, as well as the fact they know what I am trying to do, after a year now.
I didn't mind Callyish's onslaught upon the skill of the typical DJ--since I'm not, lol. If you cannot scrutinize yourself and question the things you tend to take for granted, they are merely assumptions, inherently without value.
OTOH, to deny the creative ability of some of our outstanding members--Callyish herself included--would be making a very big mistake.
I am glad this thread was started, and took the course it did. So long as we can be polite in our occasional disagreement, it can be a positive thing.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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you're right.... and the reason for that is that there are so few really good ones that alot of the clubs end up hiring almost anyone that walks in the doors out of desperation.... I have had DJ's that worked my days off... that I literally begged the mgrs to let me just go ahead and work 24/7 because I didn't want someones first (and probably last) impression of our club to be on one of his nights!
Originally Posted by Djoser
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson
"The Universe Without Music Would Be Madness." - Chinese Fortune Cookie





The major problem that I have noticed, too--at least in Daytona beach where I have mostly worked--is that the owners and managers pick the cheesy idiots every time. They love that shit, I swear.
I have also had a great deal of trouble, except in my present club perhaps, with the inferior intelligence of the managers being a problem. They know it, they know I know it, we both try to hide it--but it doesn't work. Not good. Intelligence and creativity can literally be a detriment in this business.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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Amen..... I had a new Asst. Mgr. start once.... he had been a cab driver mgr. and on his first day alone with me... he was trying to tell me how to run the show... and didn't have a clue.... not one.... he was repeating what he heard the manager say on a Friday night and trying to make it happen on a Tuesday.... he didn't last long, thank the stars.... but it was a battle for a time lol
Originally Posted by Djoser
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson
"The Universe Without Music Would Be Madness." - Chinese Fortune Cookie
Hmmm...I wasn't actually bashing anyone, and it kind of sucks that anyone would take the time out of their lives on an internet forum site to do as such. I just thought what you said was kind of crappy, and so I said I thought it was. I didn't have much time to type out a complete response to the whole thread, and I just popped off with the first thing that came to mind![]()
I was going to say something along the lines of every employee is an integral part of the strip club process. And like any other business there will be those who are outstanding at their jobs, those who perform them well enough to keep them, and those who just plain out suck...it sounds pretty ignorant to make sweeping generalizations like "all dj's are button pushers" or " 90% of strippers are just tits and ass shaking".
And just to set the record straight, I have never popped my ass for the same three songs night after night...well...I tried to do it once, but a fellow non ass popper paid me to never, ever attempt it again![]()
By the way, Cally....you really ought to learn how to form an opinion![]()
Stripping was my Mr. Big....the best bad relationship I ever had.
Nah opinions are over ratedSeriously my 'opinion' will go back n forth depending on the situation. I like to remain rather open minded to anything
Also I wasn't really bashing anyone... Im just saying that its slim pickings for TRUE entertainment in a strip club these days lol(also note I am not saying that im the only true entertainer because hey for all I know im boring on stage as well).
Now excuse me I gotta go back to planning my next wax show.





We are all friends here, in the same game. Sometimes we disagree, and sometimes we state our case boldly. I know I have spoken freely before on SW without thinking I might hurt someones' feelings or offend someone. Fuck, I just did it the other day, LOL!
But I'm glad you guys understand each other, and are laughing about it.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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