DJ Doofis

I think we can all agree that we know someone who should rather not be allowed close to a DJ box or any device responsible for playing music at an event, public venue or even a Family Christmas Braai.

While at a friend's 26th  birthday braai recently, I happened to realise that I know someone like this...and I would have never guessed it to be that specific person! Now for the sake of anonymity, and just because it's a  friend,  I won't mention any names. Although I'm pretty sure about 50% of the people that read this will know the culprit quite well.

Its like these people got stuck in a really bad prison and tortured with good music, and now they just cannot manage to listen to it. And to always make matters worse, because life would just be to easy otherwise, they're normally either fairly far along the road to drunkenness or have arrived at that specific destination.

This usually doesn't bother me, not even when I have to listen to a really bad techno remix of "Final Countdown" for the fifth consecutive time. Its when they decide that the Captain (Captain Morgan for the slow readers) has made them chief in charge of the playlist for the rest of the night, and no more music from the past 10 years is allowed to feature. This is when my brain "flips a switch"...

I immediately go into kill mode and start looking for the idiot who discovered their parents' High school reunion CD's. I love ABBA, Queen, Paul Simon, Bryan Adams, Cher, Kylie Minogue and even a little Britney or Spice Girls just for kicks; But playing the same old music I associate puberty with, that just won't do! Sure you can play the Macarena and then after that "We are the Champions" go for gold and play "Summer of 69", but then you alternate and remember that there might be people there who don't share your love for classics like the ones mentioned.

And don't feel like a drop-out or failure if someone asks you to kindly step away from the computer, be proud that you had a chance to make it happen. That you got your 10 minutes of glory by making sure those songs get played and heard one more time. Don't act all childish and decide to throw a little fit on the floor, turn the amplifier up just to get everyone's attention or make sure you get people to agree with you that they just don't make good music any more. You're only going to embarrass yourself, and we don't want that.

So to conclude. To those people who love the classics and want to make sure they net stop being heard, here's an idea for you....

Its OK to have a theme party past the age of 13, we just call it a dress-up braai night and make sure there is enough alcohol so everyone laughs at everyone and not just at you or the music you love so dearly. Please just don't do it more than twice a year.....and try not to invite all your parents' friends.

Happy Hunting people....and pass the information along. Let's help those who got left behind ;)