The Elemental'z Diary

Ambition. To have it or not to have it. That is one question. Without ambition I can be aimless. With it, I can be timeless. Both are a bridge too far from my sense of balance. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/draeko/support

As I ponder the equinox, presumably at a halfway point in life, I'm seeking less time in front of a screen and more time thumbing through pages of some good books to read, like in those good ol' days of long attention spans and a total recall of everyone's phone number. Quite possibly and erroneous conclusion, I am of the mindset that this could be a podcast. rant - a National Wild Pet System, a theoretical movement hypothetically backed by government as fervently as the Westward expansion and what it could do to improve quality of life for both man and beast. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/draeko/support

I never realized how annoying I am getting ready to go somewhere until I actually listened to myself getting ready. Zips and tugs and slams and huffs. Darned annoying. I'm learning more and more about myself with these obscure podcasts. Here is a playlist of the music in the background of this episode. Hello Boy! (Original Mix) Anja Schneider Album Hello Boy! Our Freedom (Original Mix) Jay Lumen Album - Our Freedom --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

Music for this episode. Stefan Z Removed (For a Moment) Original Mix Black Cow (original Mix) Booka Shade, Yaruba Into the Deep (Original Mix) Sergeio Fernandez Jiving (Original Mix) Ninetoes - Paapaa/Jiving album Moudness (Original Mix) Miquel Bastida - Moudness/Assault EP Second Base (original Mix) artists info lost Yoruba (Original Club Mix) D-Unity Leg Day. The cling and clang of the dumbbells, both over the bench and on the news, as I work my way back to fitness. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

After feeling the feels about seeing someone I used to care about being BFFs with someone else I'd always felt foolishly threatened by (Mia culpa) the night before, by the next morning I was finally over it to a point where it had all sunk in. I have much, much, much bigger fish to fry right now. And well... life goes on. So, taking my life... by the horns, it was time to get back in shape, get back to my dietary plan before I jumped on that roller coaster ride, and get back out there in the crazy ass world that is this Earth. I took a morning after chill pill. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

Listening to the news, lamenting over lost loves, mixing a couple of tracks while my head is being a jungle with Emma Louise and the MK Remix, and recognizing one of this nation's primary problems. Oh, what fun! Music Time Warp - Eddie Grant Groove Me - Fern Kinney Dirty Talk - Klein and MBO --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

Hitting some biceps and abs with a podcast from the Guardian discussing the FBI Trump raid and its overall implications on the political and national scene. There are bits of my commentary in this, of course, but mainly I'm just focusing on losing this extra 19 lbs of Covid around my bulbous gut. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

As I go about my day, eating my mid-day meal, applying for an Artist's grant, applying for work, going outside for a brief climb, I have the world news playing in the background, stopping it here and there at crucial points for some personal commentary. Since I'm too far from any stage, and I'm not doing stand-up at the moment, I have no other way to voice my opinions on these events, no way to rage against the machine or at my own shortcomings other than on here. Admittedly, I'm not trying to be humorous here, good thing too because I'm not, but this was one of the reasons I even conceived of the Elementalz Diary in the first place. Me having a venue to be totally crazy and unapologetic for that craziness is why I have this podcast. See you next episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

I'm seeing this doughy fat a-hole staring back at me in the mirror and I want him gone. It's also a rant about everything. This is the Elementalz Diary. As such it's raw, uncensored, unapologetic, and unobligingly unappealing. This is me hitting the fan. This is me looking at my bloated form, my self-loathing persona that I've become, at this messed up civilization and saying "No F*#K-ing More!" "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!!!" The Job search has been disappointing. Yes, I know we've got more new job growth then ever before in US history (bullshit) but it's not happening for me. But you know what? I'm going to keep looking. There has to be something, right? Right?!? While my housemates are away, I'm (aloud) to rant. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

Every mind contemplates it. At first I posted then, then pulled it because I felt hesitant about posting it, then I said, (F*#k that!) It's how I feel and I'm not going to be apologetic for how I'm feeling. And (F*#K you!) if you have a problem with it. Since I keep most intimate thoughts like this to myself, this is a way to exorcise those demons. It's a form of catharsis, like shouting at the moon. I certainly feel better afterwards. And if the Native American seniors knew when it was their time to walk into the forest to never return, there is no reason why I shouldn't know also. Once my debts are paid, if it is deemed possible, and once I have the means, then I'd like to go out by my choice. I'm looking at five or so years from now, but yeah. I'm not going to waste away in some senior living facility somewhere. Heck, I couldn't even afford it. So, if the honest talk of suicide makes you uncomfortable, then skip over this episode. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

Watching the sunset, watching the moon chase the sun. Watching the sunset, listening to the concert of crickets. Watching the sunset, contemplating the dark and its richness. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

This episode begins the exploration of Draeko's actual diary. Uncensored, this is the beginning as it is remembered. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

This episode is a monologue of my experience with one of the most chaotic events in modern American history. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

The thing about a diary is the content within it. Things are written, and things are said, that wouldn't ordinarily be spoken outright, things that are, perhaps, too controversial to be acknowledged by outside ears and eyes. This long-form monologue is my diary of thoughts. No more metaphors. This is what's on my mind. This is how I am seeing the world. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

As a DJ, I play tracks and music from others. It's what we DJ's do. We play tracks we haven't created ourselves for people to dance to and appreciate. In essence, we are the ambassadors for the artists and producers of said tracks. We're the vectors that get their music viral, that get their music heard and distributed. Without us, without the parties, this wouldn't happen. I mixed a special set this month, a Valentine's Day set from the confines of my pandemic-free haven, my bedside. I also went on YouTube and found some classic dance movies to sync the beats up with for my chasing synchronicity impetus that has driven me for so long. I wish I had the bandwidth to choreograph, but one lifetime is just too darned short to do everything we love with the dedication they deserve. So, I repurposed the look and feel of Fred Astair, Eleanor Powell, Ginger Rogers, Anne Miller, Mitzi Gainer, The Nicholas Brothers and other greats of their time, destined to be forgotten by the next generations, and mixed them in with modern-day electronica, with house music, deep house music, and dance. I'm not going to make any money for doing so, since YouTube frowns on that sort of thing, and perhaps Spotify might ding me for spinning other artists' tracks I didn't produce myself. However, for the sake of the Art, I must at least try. To see the video, visit YouTube. To listen to the mix without commentary, music only, visit SoundCloud. As a boy, I would watch PBS and their ballets. I would turn the music down and replace their music (though enjoyable in its own right) with a cassette tape containing my favorite dance music that I recorded from the radio. Basically, it's all I'm doing now, just with better equipment. Here's to the spirit of the dance, the deep appreciation of existential synchronicity, and the heart of every DJ in the world. Happy Valentine's Day (2020) Draeko D.S. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

Starting off Season 02 of the Elemental'z Diary with a change. This season will be more of a podcast for DJ sets. I may go back to the comedy and metaphor at some point, but for now, since I have to focus on the comic book (PowerForce!), I can not at this time put so much effort into the podcast production. This is a house, tech-house mix. Dance it off, baby. Dance it off. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

During my job search two days ago, one of the jobs, I came across was for a vocalist. Unfortunately, they had already filled the position by the time I'd gotten around to submitting a sample, a sample based upon their sample. It was a silly simple sample to be submitted as an example of my ample gamble of their jingle. I dawdled. So I missed out. So otherwise daunted to get a role I wanted, I shall present my audition to you. The link to the actual tune that I lampooned. It's a PSA about train crossing safety, go figure. I couldn't help but sing the jingle all day. Love the singer's voice. And... she has CARTOONS!!! :-) But, oh, Pooh. On with the job search. SFX used in this lampoon were from: Fesliyan Studios Zapsplat I promise to be back once I have regained a sense of secured fiscal stability. Draeko Damen --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

Musings while I sketch. Probably a topic the grown-ups in the room would have while the kiddies are otherwise engaged. There may be laughter here, but it may be darker. There may be comedy here, but it may be bluer. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

Episode_1A The first in a (no-doubt limited) series of brief thoughts on the challenges of our humanity that I can podcast when the more fragile ears are otherwise elsewhere engaged. There can be laughter here, but it may be darker. There may be comedy here, but it may be bluer. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

With Dee and Draeko both gone, it's up to Richard to get things ready for the Halloween show. This episode is kind of short this week, unfortunately. I apologize for that. I've been so short this entire month that I've been a tad stressed and my workflow and creativity have been a bit constricted. I'm working on it. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy it. A special homage to: Witch Hazel Marget hamilton Billie Hayes My Good-est goddess friend Nina V.F., who has one of the most delightful laughs I've ever heard in all of my 6 decades in this life. Tim Curry from Legends and Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell from Fright Night (1985). And a little sample of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, or was that black creature from the blue lagoon, hmm? With snippets of laughter from: Uncle Giggles from the Flintstones Principal Skinner from the Simpsons Bugs Bunny Tom and Jerry and a dash of Grievous and a sprinkle of Palpatine to make this pumpkin spice episode happen. Additional sounds: Mixkit.co Zapsplat.com Otherwise, everything else was Written, Directed, and Performed by Draeko D.S. (even the dollar store version of the Halloween Theme) Thank you to Happy Healthy Home NW for keeping the lights on this month. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

While Draeko is still MIA somewhere in the land of the Rising Sun, Dee is now flying past the sun towards galactic parts unknown with L'il Lawrence of Suburbia in tow. Or is it the other way around? This is kind of a filler episode before the Halloween one. See you next time for "Down To Earth". Opening track of my vocal harmonic "hays" was voiced over an old Disco tune from the heyday of that fad. It was Martin Circus, Disco Circus, in my opinion one of the masterpieces of the time. #disco #martincircus. There was also the effervescence of Summer, Donna, the true queen of disco even post mortem. As a DJ, there are elements of music so crucial towards my personal make-up of who I am today, it is impossible not to snag some of it with the pull of the cerebral vortex that is the Elemental'z Diary. Other than a dash of Wile, everything else was created, produced, and performed by Draeko D.S. Additional Sounds: Fesliyanstudios.com Mixkit.com Zapslat.com I want to throw a special shoutout to a key supporter of the show, HappyHealthyHomeNW.com. A general contractor in the Columbia River Gorge specializing in constructing small footprint, naturally-built homes. Prefabricated and modular, made from sustainable healthy materials. With a vision of the world as it will be before us, and how we must adapt and harmonize with it, and not the other way around, this freshly-managed company has a green plan, a heartfelt earth-centric objective. And I am honored to be a part of it, to assist with whatever creative skills I have to offer to bring that vision into its much-needed fruition. *** A guest appearance you will not be hearing in this episode is not Dena Derakhshan of the Podcasting To My Daughter podcast. Even though he was my motivation for deciding to start producing my own entertainment content via this medium, this is definitely not (not) Dena. No matter what he says, it's most certainly not (not) him. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

The movement is... well... moving. And, aside from having no clear signal, it's not looking pretty. But wait! There's more. Written, Produced, and Performed by Draeko D.S. Along with those used from the usual suspects, additional sounds were provided by: Soundsnap.com No audio was hurt or killed during the making of this production. I swear it! The opening harmonies under FDR was a memory of a tune I heard, Spirited Away, tiger stripes. And I merged it as I would if I were dj-ing with Lipps, FunkyTown, and the toot (sweets) and heys of Donna Summer's Bad Girls. As an artist, I am also a DJ. You can find my mixes on https://www.mixcloud.com/dj_draeko/. Sometimes though, the tunes and melodies from the tracks get embedded in my waking consciousness, and I have to hum or sing or incorporate them in the beat of living to find balance and resonance. It's cathartic. And over my six decades confined to this spinning mudball, I have found it impossible to tell the story without them. Please know with confidence that I will always give the credits when applicable to the moment or as I become more aware. I am learning to be always open to hearing. It, all of it, is a lot of work. D~ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

Written, Produced, and Performed by Draeko D.S. Sound effects: Mixkit.com Fesliyanstudios.com Zapsplat.com Thanks to Genericclown.com for being a sponsor. I had to upload this episode twice because I was NOT happy with the sound levels of the Dear Diary Segment. I think it's the lossy aspects of shifting from wav to mp3, but given how most of our problems are of our own making and most software issues are user-error based, I'm going to take the hit for this one. Thanks for listening, and stay tuned for more. Draeko D.S. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

Written, Produced, and Performed by Draeko D.S. SFX: Zapsplat.com Mixkit.co Fesliyanstudios.com Thanks to Sponsor: Genericclown.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

This one came with a lot of learning for me but was no less fun. Thanks to our sponsor genericclown.com for being my first. The first is always special, even if it's a generic clown and not the full RamBo-zo. Several sounds used were provided by Zapsplat.com and Fesliyanstudios.com. Now... onto the third. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support

This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship, a merging of music, art, personality, writing, and all-around creative energy as I finally get to use all my toys in a space big enough for me to spread out. (gosh that sounded naughty) In the future there will be snippets with guests and some touching on topics, but the goal here is to always keep it light, airy, and fun. Else, what's the point? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/draeko/support