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January 25, 2010

Deborah Cox – Beautiful U R(Inpetto remix)

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When one of dance musics leading exponents sings your praise people should take note. In a relatively short period of time siblings Marco and Dirk Duderstadt have built a name for themselves thats propel them to the forefront of the European house movement. Yet unlike many that have sold out to commercialism or believed their own hype, the boys from Dorsten, Germany, have never strayed far from their original blueprint, and its that level consistency that has made them a clear favourite amongst their peers, and elevated them to critical acclaim as producers, remixers and DJs.

Post production on a handful of releases the last few years has been widely acclaimed, including remixes for David Guetta with Angelo & Ingrosso Everytime We Touch, Andrea Doria & LXR The Beauty Of Silence, Moguai Beatbox, Who’s Who – Klack, Paul Van Dyk For An Angel, Meck So Strong and Armin van Buuren If You Should Go. Additionally they added a new twist to their own epochal recording, Tocas Miracle, in the process helping it return to the UK top 20 singles chart for an impressive third time.

Inpettos ever expanding discography will add a plethora of further mixes before we say farewell to 2009: They do amazing work with vocals thats why I asked them to remixed my new single Closer To The Sun, says Miami house don Robbie Rivera. I play a lot of Inpettos music as its always the right mixture of progressive house and tech house.

Add into the equation a hectic DJ itinerary thats recently featured six dates in Brazil, a trio in Australia, a Columbian tour with Tocadisco and Dirty South and the Czech Festival in St Petersburg with Pete Tong and Kaskade. Forthcoming dates include Robbie Riveras Juicy Night at Privilege in Ibiza among a long list of other festivals and events and its clear to see that 2009 is fast becoming Inpettos most successful year yet.

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Widely Spaced Siblings

September 30, 2009

Gay Activist Dan Cusick Tribute Memorial Video #2 of 2 Evanescence “Bring Me To Life”

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This series of four Genuine G-Shots Tributes was prepared to honor the life and memory of adopted San Francisco’s “Angel of the Castro”. This is from someone who loved Dan very much: “Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many American consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.” ~~James Baldwin. His loving sister Patti, at May 30th memorial service, talked about asking Dan to come back “home” to So. Cal., he told her that he was “home” here in San Francisco’s Castro District, and he was indeed surrounded by a lifetime of love at his beloved Castro Country Club. From Dan’s adopted “hometown” paper the Bay Area Reporter: http://www.aegis.org/news/bar/2009/BR090408.html
Liz Highleyman, liz@black-rose.com Dan Cusick, a longtime AIDS activist and advocate for the recovery community, died Thursday, April 23, due to liver
failure related to hepatitis C. He was 50. Mr. Cusick, who was on the liver transplant waiting list, died in hospice care at UCSF Parnassus Medical Center in the company of family and friends. “Dan was the ‘Angel of Castro Street,’”
said fellow activist Matt Sharp. “He saved many, many people and made lives more bearable for the living because it was the right thing to do, not for himself. He’s one of those people it’s hard to imagine not being among the living and the fighting.” One of nine siblings, Mr. Cusick was born in 1959 and raised in Lakewood, California, in Los Angeles County. He graduated from Lakewood High
School and attended Long Beach City College. During his 20s, he worked as a banquet waiter at the Hyatt Hotel and as a bartender at Ripples in Long Beach. He was involved in the anti-nuclear movement, frequently protesting against the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo. A fan of retro cars and low-riders, he enjoyed attending auto shows. Mr. Cusick became clean and sober at age 26, and in 1990-at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic-he moved to San Francisco and immersed himself in activism, including fighting for wider availability and lower prices for medications for people with HIV.Mr. Cusick joined ACT UP/Golden Gate (later renamed Survive AIDS) and volunteered with the treatment advocacy organization Project Inform, counseling people who called the group’s pioneering HIV treatment hotline. Guided by the late Jeff Getty and the late Martin Delaney, Survive AIDS and Project Inform played a key role in making organ transplants accessible to HIV-positive individuals. A long-term AIDS
survivor himself, Mr. Cusick developed progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML, an often fatal brain disease that he survived thanks to early access to combination anti-retroviral therapy in the mid-1990s – an
experience chronicled in a July 8, 1996 Time magazine article on the new HAART “cocktail” treatment. “Dan’s activism was always based on seeking truth and justice,” said friend and housemate Victor Valdiviezo. “He was proud of being gay and of his Irish heritage, but he was definitely colorblind and a kindred spirit to so many social justice causes.” Mr. Cusick was active in the Long Beach and San Francisco recovery communities, and he is widely remembered for his unfailing encouragement of others. Starting in 2002, he managed the Castro Country Club (now a program of Baker Places Inc.), a clean and sober social space in the heart of the Castro neighborhood that offers an alternative to the bar scene and provides support to individuals seeking a life free of alcohol and drugs. In addition, he was a member of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s crystal methamphetamine task force.”For the past six years, Dan managed the Castro Country Club with the qualities of character that he brought to the rest of his
life: generosity, thoughtfulness, absolute dedication and commitment, focus, and a resolute hopefulness in people and their possibilities,” said Baker Places Executive Director Jonathan Vernick. “Dan was an old-school activist, but it was through his daily work that he showed the way – listening to someone in trouble, offering some tough love mixed with his trademark humor, and in so many other yays,” said longtime friend and housemate Terry Beswick, a former assistant editor at the Bay Area Reporter. “Dan truly gave his life for the well-being of the community, and his spirit will live on through countless others.” Mr. Cusick, along with the late Hank Wilson, was a driving force in the 1999 write-in mayoral campaign of state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-S.F.))-then a city supervisor – against incumbent Mayor Willie Brown. At the 2008 Castro Street Fair, Mr. Cusick was sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. “When you look at the totality of Dan’s work, he saved more lives than anyone I know,” said Michael Lauro, another longtime community activist. “He had a heart large enough to save the world.”
Bring Me To Life-Evanescence
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September 28, 2009

Gay Activist Dan Cusick #4 of 4 Memorial Tribute Video-Queen ‘Somebody to Love’

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This series of four Genuine G-Shots Tributes was prepared to honor the life and memory of adopted San Francisco’s “Angel of the Castro”.
This is from someone who loved Dan very much:
“Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many American consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.” ~~James Baldwin
His loving sister Patti, at May 30th memorial service, talked about asking Dan to come back “home” to So. Cal., he told her that he was “home” here in San Francisco’s Castro District, and he was indeed surrounded by a lifetime of love at his beloved Castro Country Club.
From Dan’s adopted “hometown” paper the Bay Area Reporter: http://www.aegis.org/news/bar/2009/BR090408.html Bay Area Reporter – April 30, 2009 Liz Highleyman, liz@black-rose.com Dan Cusick, a longtime AIDS activist and advocate for the recovery community, died Thursday, April 23, due to liver failure related to hepatitis C. He was 50. Mr. Cusick, who was on the liver transplant waiting list, died in hospice care at UCSF Parnassus Medical Center in the company of family and friends. “Dan was the ‘Angel of Castro Street,’” said fellow activist Matt Sharp. “He saved many, many people and made lives more bearable for the living because it was the right thing to do, not for himself. He’s one of those people it’s hard to imagine not being among the living and the fighting.” One of nine siblings, Mr. Cusick was born in 1959 and raised in Lakewood, California, in Los Angeles County. He graduated from Lakewood High School and attended Long Beach City College. During his 20s, he worked as a banquet waiter at the Hyatt Hotel and as a bartender at Ripples in Long Beach. He was involved in the anti-nuclear movement, frequently protesting against the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo. A fan of retro cars and low-riders, he enjoyed attending auto shows. Mr. Cusick became clean and sober at age 26, and in 1990-at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic-he moved to San Francisco and immersed himself in activism, including fighting for wider availability and lower prices for medications for people with HIV.Mr. Cusick joined ACT UP/Golden Gate (later renamed Survive AIDS) and volunteered with the treatment advocacy organization Project Inform, counseling people who called the group’s pioneering HIV treatment hotline. Guided by the late Jeff Getty and the late Martin Delaney, Survive AIDS and Project Inform played a key role in making organ transplants accessible to HIV-positive individuals. A long-term AIDS survivor himself, Mr. Cusick developed progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML, an often fatal brain disease that he survived thanks to early access to combination anti-retroviral therapy in the mid-1990s – an experience chronicled in a July 8, 1996 Time magazine article on the new HAART “cocktail” treatment. “Dan’s activism was always based on seeking truth and justice,” said friend and housemate Victor Valdiviezo. “He was proud of being gay and of his Irish heritage, but he was definitely colorblind and a kindred spirit to so many social justice causes.” Mr. Cusick was active in the Long Beach and San Francisco recovery communities, and he is widely remembered for his unfailing encouragement of others. Starting in 2002, he managed the Castro Country Club (now a program of Baker Places Inc.), a clean and sober social space in the heart of the Castro neighborhood that offers an alternative to the bar scene and provides support to individuals seeking a life free of alcohol and drugs. In addition, he was a member of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s crystal methamphetamine task force.”For the past six years, Dan managed the Castro Country Club with the qualities of character that he brought to the rest of his life: generosity, thoughtfulness, absolute dedication and commitment, focus, and a resolute hopefulness in people and their possibilities,” said Baker Places Executive Director Jonathan Vernick. “Dan was an old-school activist, but it was through his daily work that he showed the way – listening to someone in trouble, offering some tough love mixed with his trademark humor, and in so many other ways,” said longtime friend and housemate Terry Beswick, a former assistant editor at the Bay Area Reporter. “Dan truly gave his life for the well-being of the community, and his spirit will live on through countless others.” Mr. Cusick, along with the late Hank Wilson, was a driving force in the 1999 write-in mayoral campaign of state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-S.F.))-then a city supervisor – against incumbent Mayor Willie Brown. At the 2008 Castro Street Fair, Mr. Cusick was sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. “When you look at the totality of Dan’s work, he saved more lives than anyone I know,” said Michael Lauro, another longtime community activist. “He had a heart large enough to save the world.”

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September 26, 2009

Gay Activist Dan Cusick #3 of 4 Tribute Memorial Video-Time After Time-Cyndi Lauper

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This series of four Genuine G-Shots Tributes was prepared to honor the life and memory of adopted San Francisco’s “Angel of the Castro”.
This is from someone who loved Dan very much:
“Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many American consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.” ~~James Baldwin
His loving sister Patti, at May 30th memorial service, talked about asking Dan to come back “home” to So. Cal., he told her that he was “home” here in San Francisco’s Castro District, and he was indeed surrounded by a lifetime of love at his beloved Castro Country Club.
From Dan’s adopted “hometown” paper the Bay Area Reporter: http://www.aegis.org/news/bar/2009/BR090408.html Bay Area Reporter – April 30, 2009 Liz Highleyman, liz@black-rose.com Dan Cusick, a longtime AIDS activist and advocate for the recovery community, died Thursday, April 23, due to liver failure related to hepatitis C. He was 50. Mr. Cusick, who was on the liver transplant waiting list, died in hospice care at UCSF Parnassus Medical Center in the company of family and friends. “Dan was the ‘Angel of Castro Street,’” said fellow activist Matt Sharp. “He saved many, many people and made lives more bearable for the living because it was the right thing to do, not for himself. He’s one of those people it’s hard to imagine not being among the living and the fighting.” One of nine siblings, Mr. Cusick was born in 1959 and raised in Lakewood, California, in Los Angeles County. He graduated from Lakewood High School and attended Long Beach City College. During his 20s, he worked as a banquet waiter at the Hyatt Hotel and as a bartender at Ripples in Long Beach. He was involved in the anti-nuclear movement, frequently protesting against the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo. A fan of retro cars and low-riders, he enjoyed attending auto shows. Mr. Cusick became clean and sober at age 26, and in 1990-at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic-he moved to San Francisco and immersed himself in activism, including fighting for wider availability and lower prices for medications for people with HIV.Mr. Cusick joined ACT UP/Golden Gate (later renamed Survive AIDS) and volunteered with the treatment advocacy organization Project Inform, counseling people who called the group’s pioneering HIV treatment hotline. Guided by the late Jeff Getty and the late Martin Delaney, Survive AIDS and Project Inform played a key role in making organ transplants accessible to HIV-positive individuals. A long-term AIDS survivor himself, Mr. Cusick developed progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML, an often fatal brain disease that he survived thanks to early access to combination anti-retroviral therapy in the mid-1990s – an experience chronicled in a July 8, 1996 Time magazine article on the new HAART “cocktail” treatment. “Dan’s activism was always based on seeking truth and justice,” said friend and housemate Victor Valdiviezo. “He was proud of being gay and of his Irish heritage, but he was definitely colorblind and a kindred spirit to so many social justice causes.” Mr. Cusick was active in the Long Beach and San Francisco recovery communities, and he is widely remembered for his unfailing encouragement of others. Starting in 2002, he managed the Castro Country Club (now a program of Baker Places Inc.), a clean and sober social space in the heart of the Castro neighborhood that offers an alternative to the bar scene and provides support to individuals seeking a life free of alcohol and drugs. In addition, he was a member of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s crystal methamphetamine task force.”For the past six years, Dan managed the Castro Country Club with the qualities of character that he brought to the rest of his life: generosity, thoughtfulness, absolute dedication and commitment, focus, and a resolute hopefulness in people and their possibilities,” said Baker Places Executive Director Jonathan Vernick. “Dan was an old-school activist, but it was through his daily work that he showed the way – listening to someone in trouble, offering some tough love mixed with his trademark humor, and in so many other ways,” said longtime friend and housemate Terry Beswick, a former assistant editor at the Bay Area Reporter. “Dan truly gave his life for the well-being of the community, and his spirit will live on through countless others.” Mr. Cusick, along with the late Hank Wilson, was a driving force in the 1999 write-in mayoral campaign of state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-S.F.))-then a city supervisor – against incumbent Mayor Willie Brown. At the 2008 Castro Street Fair, Mr. Cusick was sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. “When you look at the totality of Dan’s work, he saved more lives than anyone I know,” said Michael Lauro, another longtime community activist. “He had a heart large enough to save the world.”

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September 24, 2009

Gay Activist Dan Cusick Memorial Tribute Video #1 of 4 Born in USA

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This series of four Genuine G-Shots Tributes was prepared to honor the life and memory of adopted San Francisco’s “Angel of the Castro”. This is from someone who loved Dan very much: “Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many American consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.” ~~James Baldwin
His loving sister Patti, at May 30th memorial service, talked about asking Dan to come back “home” to So. Cal., he told her that he was “home” here in San Francisco’s Castro District, and he was indeed surrounded by a lifetime of love at his beloved Castro Country Club. From Dan’s adopted “hometown” paper the Bay Area Reporter::http://www.aegis.org/news/bar/2009/BR090408.html Bay Area Reporter – April 30, 2009 Liz Highleyman, liz@black-rose.com – Dan Cusick, a longtime AIDS activist and advocate for the recovery community, died Thursday, April 23, due to liver failure related to hepatitis C. He was 50. Mr. Cusick, who was on the liver transplant waiting list, died in hospice care at UCSF Parnassus Medical Center in the company of family and friends. “Dan was the ‘Angel of Castro Street,’” said fellow activist Matt Sharp. “He saved many, many people and made lives more bearable for the living because it was the right thing to do, not for himself. He’s one of those people it’s hard to imagine not being among the living and the fighting.” One of nine siblings, Mr. Cusick was born in 1959 and raised in Lakewood, California, in Los Angeles County. He graduated from Lakewood High
School and attended Long Beach City College. During his 20s, he worked as a banquet waiter at the Hyatt Hotel and as a bartender at Ripples in Long Beach. Mr. Cusick became clean and sober at age 26, and in 1990-at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic-he moved to San Francisco and immersed himself in activism, including fighting for wider availability and lower prices for medications for people with HIV.Mr. Cusick joined ACT UP/Golden Gate (later renamed Survive AIDS) and volunteered with the
treatment advocacy organization Project Inform, counseling people who called the group’s pioneering HIV treatment hotline. Guided by the late Jeff Getty and the late Martin Delaney, Survive AIDS and Project Inform played a key role in making organ transplants accessible to HIV-positive individuals. A long-term AIDS survivor himself, Mr. Cusick developed progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML, an often fatal brain disease that he survived thanks to early access to combination anti-retroviral therapy in the mid-1990s – an experience chronicled in a July 8, 1996 Time magazine article on the new HAART “cocktail” treatment. “Dan’s activism was always based on seeking truth and justice,” said friend and housemate Victor Valdiviezo. “He was proud of being gay and of his Irish heritage, but he was definitely colorblind and a kindred spirit to so many social justice causes.” Mr. Cusick was active in the Long Beach and San Francisco recovery communities, and he is widely remembered for his unfailing encouragement of others. Starting in 2002, he managed the Castro Country Club (now a program of Baker Places Inc.), a clean and sober social space in the heart of the Castro neighborhood that offers an alternative to the bar scene and provides support to individuals seeking a life free of alcohol and drugs. In addition, he was a member of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s crystal meth amphetamine task force.”For the past six years, Dan managed the Castro Country Club with the qualities of character that he brought to the rest of his life: generosity, thoughtfulness, absolute dedication and commitment, focus, and a resolute hopefulness in people and their possibilities,” said Baker Places Executive Director Jonathan Vernick. “Dan was an old-school activist, but it was through his daily work that he showed the way – listening to someone in trouble, offering some tough love mixed with his trademark humor, and in so many other ways,” said longtime friend and housemate Terry Beswick, a former assistant editor at the Bay Area Reporter. “Dan truly gave his life for the well-being of the community, and his spirit will live on through countless others.” Mr. Cusick, along with the late Hank Wilson, was a driving force in the 1999 write-in mayoral campaign of state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-S.F.))-then a city supervisor – against incumbent Mayor Willie Brown. At the 2008 Castro Street Fair, Mr. Cusick was sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. “When you look at the totality of Dan’s work, he saved more lives than anyone I know,” said Michael Lauro, another longtime community activist. “He had a heart large enough to save the world.”

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