♕ ♛ ♕ The official grand opening party is tonight…♕ ♛ ♕ Hip Hop is DEAD.♕ ♛ ♕ The Return of DJ Brian ‘Docta’ Dawe.♕ ♛ ♕ A Thursday night party to remember has arrived.WANT TO GET ON THE GUEST LIST?Txt your name to: 407.394.9527

This week I was picked for Photoshop Friday at the workplace. This is an exciting weekly event where we pick a person from the office, and insult them to the highest extent. Although many people have mastered the skill of Pshop, and have no issues whipping something up quickly…we have decided to add a twist. Mother Fucking MS Paint. That’s right, you can use nothing except for MS Paint. These are the results.

Lots of Volvo’s, adoption jokes, making fun of my badass dog, my perfectly sculpted hair and calling me a Puerto Rican.  Cago en su mamá ayer. No porque quiero a, pero porque yo me siento que soy necesario. ¡Viva el burrito!

Even though you’d think I would be offended. I’m not. It was quite an exciting morning. This pretty much sums it up.

Off to the pictures yo!

 

 

Shockingly, 28,625 of you visited 74,243 different pages on orangecountyconcepts.com during the month of November. That is down significantly from our glory days, but still a mystery to me considering we haven’t updated since Familiar Joe’s post about the Electric Zoo festival in September. At least our last post was in September, MiamiNights.com hasn’t had a post since June, and DrinkUpOrlando.com and Defame Orlando are like, non-exhistant now, hmmm how things change. So where are you getting your gossipy news now Orlando nightlife people? How are you surviving without our witty, insulting, sarcasm?

 

So you may ask yourself, what is going on with Docta Dawe, dLux, E. Sprad the photographer, Matt Phillips, Chris Callahan the photographer, and the rest of the bloggers that faithfully brought the city of Orlando entertainment for over a year here on OCC. Well, we are at a crossroads… That is:

 

Revive OCC?

Move on to a new project?

 

Its been a tough call. As many of you know I have been sidelined for a few months with a medical thing, (See http://www.orangecountyconcepts.com/2009/03/29/docta-dawe-public-service-announcement-2/) and will be returning to the DJ world around January. Until then I plan on doing a lot of nothing and really would like to get back to blogging. Soooo with that being said I will be announcing how I plan to do that over the next few days…

 

Personally, I would like to create a new blog, one that is not over run with comments from Russians about where to score viagra on the low low. I also would love to do something with my past collaborators… (even Kaypee), we did have a lot of fun here on OCC, and I think that really came across through our blogs. Anyways, hopefully this little thought from my head will catch on to the revival, or to a new project…. either way, my person/temporary blog will be up and running soon, but will mostly focus on my cancer treatment. So lets get this party started again my Orlando blogger friends!!

 

I can always be reached at:

BrianDawe@orangecountyconcepts.com

or facebook.com/DJDoctaDawe

For those who missed out, The 21 Convention ran through it’s third successful year this past July for an unprecedented 4 days.Over 100 people, and 21 of the world’s finest teachers of success in dating, relationships, exercise, nutrition, and more- all right here in downtown Orlando @ The Crowne Plaza. The event was filmed by Creative Cinema of Orlando Florida in true 720p HD and will be released free to the world September 8th on the homepage- The21Convention.com. There is no e-mail collection, no ads, and no cost- it’s simply free to stream in true HD.Photos were taken by Contiga Broadcasting and most (more as each day passes) can be viewed here.For those of you who did attend, thanks! I hope to see everyone out again in 2010.-Anthony “Dream” JohnsonDirector of The 21 Convention

So just about everyone in the UCF/Orlando area read and/or commented on my blog about how lame promoting around this town has become here and here, so this blog will be somewhat of a sequel to that, in a sense.

I’m swag surfing FaceBook today and I see a status update from none other than Clint “Mr.Orlando” House that goes a little something like this…

Gasp.

 You read right folks, Mr. Orlando is officially hanging up his blazers (or should I say blazer) and throwing in the towel on the city that coined his now infamous nickname. Can you blame him? I definetly cannot. One thing I can say is that Clint gave it his best shot. Let’s re-cap, in picture form.

 Clint popped up in the nightlife scene by promoting for WhatsHot with Chris Nault and Rob Hype…

 

(Nault has lost some weight since then, eh? He and Mikey Stylez must be on the same diet because they are both looking way buff these days, no homo. Dawe, you could take some advice from those two.)

Clint left WhatsHot due to financial issues within the company (gasp again) and decided, because he has 2,000+ FaceBook friends, that he should start his own company and thus Revolution Nights was born.

 

I guess no one had the balls to tell Clint that there was a gay club with the same name but whatever. If that wasn’t enough to scratch your head about, he then made a logo to get people to join his ‘revolution’ which looks like someone from South Carolina might have made to make a statement about OTHER things.

 

Wow.

 And so the revolution began. Now, Clint might not have started a revolution in nightlife but he sure did make a revolution in graphic design.

 

Can we get the number to your graphic designer? Please? I mean, how does he know how to do all those cool tricks on MS Paint?

Ok, Revolution Nights was a bust, so Clint decided to re-brand himself and his company by going back to the moniker that he had while working for Biggins, Mr. Orlando.

Clint then secured himself a night at Antiqua, Project Bikini.

 

Obviously hired a different graphic artist this time cause this one isn’t too bad. It isn’t too good either, because they forgot to put one instrumental thing on the flyer, the date. Being the professional Mr. Orlando is, he pulled out his handy silver colored Sharpie and added the date in himself.

Clint went all in on this party, posting status updates about it once every 30 mins. He even found time to post status updates while swooning the ladies…

Project Bikini was apart of the 4th of July weekend extravaganza Mr. Orlando promised us. Wednesday at Antiqua, Friday at Bliss (also a bikini party) and concluding it all Saturday with the biggest joke of a 4th of July party in Orlando history, the “I’m on a Boat” party, which was cancelled last minute due to nobody giving a shit or willing to pay the ridiculous ticket price.

Mr. Orlando obviously failed to do his homework because…

1. Chillers owns Church Street on Wednesday nights and has for years now.

2. OCC did a bikini party mere weeks before at Antiqua, which would end up being the death of STEREO because it was THAT bad.

So after 3 failed attempts at starting new nights around town (Fusian, Antiqua, and let’s not forget Medicis) he did what no one was expecting and joined forces with Mikey Stylez to help him launch his newest night at Roxy, Models and Bottles. After the first week success of Stylez’ new party, Clint then made himself an official KnightLyfer. Why? Who the fuck knows.

Here he is pictured with DJ19Sixty and his freshly shaven arms…

 

According to Mikey Stylez, Clint pulled $500 that night, which Dawe and I both think is too saucy to be true but if you did Clint, good job. Don’t spend all that money on Bud Light and Marlboro Lights.

One thing Clint did do which I thought was both slick and pathetic at the same time was make a FaceBook group while the Orlando Magic were in the playoffs titled ‘Magic are going to the finals!!’ or something along those lines. In this group, he amassed 1,000+ people. Well, as you know, the Magic didn’t make it past Phil Jackson and his 9 rings, so Clint did what any sleezy promoter would do. He changed the name of his group to ‘I party with Mr. Orlando!’.

Bravo. Rather than make a new group, you just changed the name of the one you made about sports and turned it into a group about partying. Anyway, so after Mikey Stylez made it rain on Clint (no homo) because of that $500 first night at Roxy, Clint then changed the name of the group AGAIN, this time to ‘KnightLyfe.com’. Incredible. Absolutely incredible, Clint.

That brings us to today, where we are left to ask ourselves, what happened? Was the money not good enough? Did they take your microphone from you at the club for laughing into it too much and that rubbed you the wrong way? Did someone steal your bottle of Verdi out of VIP that Stylez gave to you for a job well done? We need answers; the public deserves to know.

 Or was it just for reasons that I explained in the blog that started all this?

 

 

 

Disclaimer: This blog was not meant to be an “I hate Clint House” blog, but merely a busting of the chops. Clint is my friend and knows this should be taken with the smallest grain of salt out of the shaker (as should anything I said about anyone else IE: Stylez, Nault and 19sixty). In the end, you obviously made some type of impression on people if I decided to take time out to write this detailed blog about you. Congrats Clint, you finally got your own blog on OCC.

This blog has been Docta Douche Chris approved:

 

 

 

Despite warnings from OCC about the black hole that is Fusian Ultra Lounge, Smileforecamera.com is debuting a brand new night at Casey Anthony’s favorite party spot tonight. This venue has seen pretty much every promotional company in Orlando attempt a party at least once, and has seen quite a few failures.

If anything has a chance of working in this venue, I say this will be the party. I am a huge fan of smileforcamera.com and there is NOTHING to do in this entire city right now, so there really couldn’t be a more prefect time to try something different. I have my fingers crossed that this weekly party will be a success.

Here’s the info:

EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT starting July 18th!

with DJs // Faux Paw, Queso, Luis Diaz

Doors // 9PM
10PM-11PM // 2 for 1 you-call-its // anything you want, including redbull vodkas and long islands
Sushi served until 1am
$2 Domestics ALL NIGHT // includes Blue Moon
$100 table service // includes bottles of grey goose and free appetizers
Open bar randomly throughout the night
Late night drunk menu // burgers, fries, hotdogs, etc. no need to drive to dennys!
Purchase bottles and 6 packs of beer before 2am and drink it till close. Buckets and ice will be provided

18+
$5 cover all night
Doors at 9pm. Open till…maybe 4am? who knows!
Sign up for the guestlist @ http://www.smileforcamera.com/ilikeitraw to get in for free before 11PM.

Photos by Smile for Camera // http://www.smileforcamera.com

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Fusian Ultra Lounge
http://www.fusianultralounge.com
875 Woodbury Dr
Orlando, FL 32828

Here is a couple of noteworthy events today.

Arden Villas Independence Day Splash Pool Party w/ Docta Dawe, Justin James, and Kid Juda

What better way to spend 4th of July than at a East Orlando pool party!! If you have been to the last two pool parties we were involved in this summer, you know we do it right. If you forgot how crazy they were, just check out the pics here and here. Soooo we decided to do it again, and at a different location. This time its going down at Arden Villas and will pretty much be an all out free-for-all. Bring your floaties, and your beer goggles, because its going downnnnn with free beer all day as your serenaded by the sounds of Kid Juda, Justin James, and Myself, DJ Docta Dawe. $10 all you can drink beer, all day. (12pm-6pm, $10 all u can drink beer, Arden Villas Apartments, 3303 Arden Villas Blvd, Orlando, FL)

Justin James promises to bring enough chest oil for everyone this time.

B-Live: A-Trak, Matt & Kim, DJ Jazzy Jeff

Via the Orlando Weekly: Bacardi, the propagators of the liquor that launched a thousand rap lyrics from artists grateful for a word to rhyme with “party,” presents its free concert series with headliner A-Trak. The turntable wunderkind and paramour of Kid Sister is a marvel to watch behind the decks, and you couldn’t ask for a better master of ceremonies on a hot July Fourth holiday. In addition, the Bacardi B-Live lineup boasts the hummable talents of Brooklyn duo Matt & Kim, whose last stop in Orlando landed the Matt half in the hospital with back injuries. (His publicist says he’s better now but that our city should take it easy on him.) Also on the bill is Will Smith sidekick DJ Jazzy Jeff, who posted on Twitter that the plug had been pulled from his June 6 Kansas City set for spinning hip-hop. A plethora of excuses were offered by the venue – he was asked beforehand not to play rap; the sound mix was too loud – but Jeff called it censorship. The incident landed the winner of the first-ever Grammy award for rap back in headlines for the first time in decades, and not a moment too soon. Jazzy Jeff has continued his post-Fresh Prince career with class and mastery, mentoring countless young artists and releasing a stellar hip-hop–soul album in 2007. Of course, if Jazzy Jeff doesn’t spin a little “Summertime,” feel free to pull his plug again. (A-Trak, Matt & Kim, DJ Jazzy Jeff; 9 p.m. at House of Blues; all ages; free; 407-934-2583; www.hob.com)

Chris wanted to let all the ladies know he got a haircut today.

As many of you have probably figured out by now if you have been on Church Street for the past couple of Thursdays, that Stereo has shut it doors. Relax, this is only for summer and because we are willing to accept when the town is dead, unlike every other promotion company in town who are still pushing/shoving their parties down your throat. Which brings me to my next subject that Dawe and I have been dying to blog about because it so desperately needs to be done and who better to do it then the only promotion company in town to put people on blast publicly?

IT’S. FUCKING. OVER.

Remember back in 2006-2007? Or maybe even 2007-2008? The glory days when people actually stormed the photographer to get their picture taken at whatever night they were at so they could make it their default in the morning? When college bars would have lines down and around the building just to get in and drink warm, flat beer? Yes we were all a part of them (at least some of us depending on how old you are) and we are all most likely guilty of having at least ONE default picture with a Greezer, Knightlyfe, WhatsHot, OCC, etc. If you didn’t have one of those companies in your default then you were probably at the original Saturday/Thursday or Crush getting your picture taken by, in my opinion, the best photographers/editors in town, Kcoll or the oh so hot Kapoow.

Promotion wasn’t even that hard back then, post a couple MySpace bulletins here and there and you were good to go. The best promotion that was going on was seeing all your friends with pics at some bar that made you want to go to that bar and get your picture taken yourself.

Well here we are in 2009 and my how things have changed. Greezer and Knightlyfe have basically fallen off the map, WhatsHot has one night a week (at least I’m pretty sure they do), Baboom is drowning and pretty much any college kid with 1,000 or more Facebook friends has a “promotion company”.

THE FORMULA

1. Start “promotion” company

2. Get photographer

3. Get cheap drink specials

4. Get horrible “Top 40/Mashup/Electro” DJ that will play for next to nothing

5. Spam, Spam, Spam 

Seriously? This is what this town has become? It’s so sad. Incase you guys haven’t noticed by clubs reincarnating nights every 3 months, this formula is FUCKING DEAD. Nobody and I mean nobody cares anymore. It’s all been done before, the drinks don’t need to be cheaper, and nobody cares about getting on your guest list, nobody. If I get another invite from Dawe saying “THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST NIGHT IN ORLANDO” I am going to jump out the window with Ron Browz.

There is no reason to re-post your event on Facebook ONCE A FUCKING HOUR, EVERYDAY ALL DAY. We know what the flyer looks like, we know how ‘awesome’ its going to be, and we also know we will never go because you annoy the absolute fucking shit out of us. Let your night speak for itself or better yet LET YOUR DJs SPEAK FOR YOUR NIGHT. Is that not the reason these nights flourished in the first place? What happened to actually going somewhere not for the cheap drinks, but because the DJ actually kills it? Oh thats right, every college kid with a trust fund gets an Apple, Serato and cheap equipment and is all the sudden a “DJ” and takes all the other DJs nights because they say they’ll play pretty much for free and play whatever the bar/club owner wants leaving actual talent, originality, pride, and loyalty by the club to be lost.

And since we are on the subject of dead, can we just go ahead and admit that NO ONE will ever have a successful night at Fusian? I’m pretty sure EVERY promotion company has had a night there on EVERY night of the week and it has always failed after no more than a month. I like the venue and the sound system is great but it’s just too far away from anything to even give a shit and the manager will pretty much give a night to anybody who says they can pack the place out, which they never seem to be able to do. Even after one of the biggest scandals in the history of Orlando, the Casey Anthony saga, and pictures of her at Fusian partying turned up, you STILL can’t get people in there.

Something new and fresh needs to happen in the Orlando nightlife hustle, because meanwhile the little bars are all laughing at you and thriving. Places like Cleos, Caseys, Tatame, BBQ-Bar and even I-Bar have seen a resurrection simply because people are tired of the bullshit and just want somewhere to go no matter what the drink specials are, the name of the night, the theme, etc. They go because they know the music is going to be good, the bartenders pour a strong ass drink, aren’t a complete stuck-up cunt/asshole, and they aren’t surrounded by complete tools wearing Ed Hardy/Affliction/Smet/insert douchebag clothing line to go with their pointy shoes, ripped up jeans and blown out hair.

Dawe and myself hope to change the game here soon with something new, fresh, original and actually worth going out to. In the meantime, don’t think we are just sitting back waiting for something to happen. Dawe has a money maker out on I-Drive a couple nights a week, Ice Bar, while I DJ every Thursday at this little dive bar near Full Sail and couldn’t be happier about it. I get to play whatever I want, am complimented for it and there is no stress about attendance numbers, flyers, and all that other bullshit you guys deal with downtown.

I hope this blog has either pissed you off and/or opened your eyes, made you re-think your strategies and will hopefully make you step your game up.

 

 

Imagine the look on the face of any random 50 year old investment banker driving home from his downtown Orlando office, when all of a sudden he sees 200+ people with blood all over them, lurching around the city beautiful.

 

Enter Zombie March Orlando 2009.

(OCC’s own Matt Philip’s participating in last years march)

 

Orlando Zombie March was started in 2006 by Orlando’s Rocky Horror Cast - The Rich Weirdoes. This has been an annual event they have put on for the past 3 years. They are inviting all to be apart of this years “Zombie March”. The March is TODAY, so get that makeup ready, FYI: Justin James has plenty of makeup at his house if anyone needs to borrow some. According to the facebook invite:

 

“If you want to be a zombie, grab an old Halloween costume, Old work uniform, or old clothes and dirty/bloody them however you want. Makeup need not be elaborate(unless you want to) We’d like to see all kinds of Zombies this year- Zombies, Ghouls, Vampires(or Vampire Zombies), Postal Workers, Theme Park Employees, Corporate Zombies, Plague Victims(swine flu please…scary stuff),Furry Zombies(You know who you are), Dead Celebrities, Dead Rockers, Etc.

 

1st MARCH: 4pm: Meet on Park Ave. Near Rollins College. (7-11) We’ll march down past the stores and shoppers till we reach the gazebo in the park. Then back to the 7-11.

 

2nd MARCH: 6pm: Meet at Gazebo on Lake Eola (opposite side with theater) We’ll march around the lake, into Downtown Orlando, Up Orange, and then back to the lake.

 

In years past we’ve seen more victims on the first March but had more zombies on the 2nd. Feel free to do one or both, but know that the Marches are unique in their own way. Which is why we keep doing both.”

 

BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAINS!

 

Zombie Nation  -  Kernkraft 400 (Laidback Luke 2009 Remix) (yousendit link)