Sugar Town / Soul kitchen - 8/2/2002

I couldn't be happier! The first Sugar Town was beautifully well-supported by the Portland Queer community! Now we're on the brink of an equally exciting second Sugar Town on August 18th!  Thanks to DJ Pukes in Vans and everyone in the Portland community who helped to make my dream come to life!

And now we start dancing towards August!  I'm so excited to be spinning with Beyonda and Hard French's Brown Amy & Carnita!  I haven't seen the Hard French kids since the crazy time at the  Hard French Winter Ball where my brief obsession with ghosts (and Celebrity Ghost Stories) was born.  With these combined queer soul dee jay forces, August Sugar Town is bound to be a BLAST!  Maybe we'll even get to hear Casey play her coveted copy of "Blowin' Up My Mind" by the Exciters (I sure hope so!)

Carnita, Action Slacks & Brown Amy
Photo by Shot in the Dark

To tide you over, as promised, I've uploaded another vintage episode of Soul Kitchen. Let me take you back to August 2002, a unique time in which we were between 9/11 and just 8 months away from the Iraq War.  So many of us counter-culturists in Olympia, WA still believed that some how we could prevent a war if we just protest hard enough.  No luck.....Still we dreamed.  I'm proud to have been among those idealists.

And now....hear DJ Shannon "Action Slacks" dork out! BTW Apologies for the sound quality. It's an old cassette, a little muffled. You'll also get to hear me clumsily try to pronounce Spanish song titles. Good times.

Part 1 is here:
01 Soul kitchen Aug 2, 2002 by Sugar Town Action Slacks

Part 2 is here:
1-01 Soul Kitchen Aug 2, 2002 pt 2 by Sugar Town Action Slacks