The 48-year-old DJ
How I learned to DJ in the pandemic.
Y’all remember March 2020? Yeah it was weird and none of us expected it to last very long, so we delved into the world of online communicating with gusto. All the online performances, the nightly online teas and morning coffees with friends, the dance parties, the million and one touching videos of people playing music together across balconies in Europe… It wasn’t that bad for a minute if you had internet access. But then of course, it kept going, and ‘Zoom fatigue’ entered our vocabulary.
My attention span began to shrink from all the screen time at home. I ran out of things to think or write about other than how much it had started to suck. I started turning off my camera during Zoom meetings and getting distracted by the eraser collection on my desk. If I was lucky, no one called on me for anything and I could pop back in for that little goodbye wave and a fake smile. That was great, thanks so much!
One place that held my attention more than most though? Live-streaming DJs. Lots of my favorites had gone live on Twitch, Youtube, Reddit and elsewhere, and suddenly, I had access to them again. Not only was I grateful to hear and see my old favorites, but I kinda got the itch, myself. After all, everybody wants to be a DJ, and, you know, pandemic. With all the time in the world, now seemed as good a…
