Hot Fun in the Summertime

Hello kids!  By now summer is in full swing, and I know you're just sitting around wondering where the hell is the Petropolis mix?!  Never fear, I've been busy cooking up some sizzling sequels this year, but first let me take you back to 2006.  This mix remains one of my standards of sunshine bliss, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I still do.  See you by the pool!

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Ooh La La

Hello darlings.  Are you tired from a long day?  Ready to pamper yourself and relax?  Or perhaps you are sipping on a cocktail and getting yourself gussied up for a lovely night out.  Or maybe you are ready for your bubble bath with wine and bon bons.  Whatever your desire, let Petropolis take you away on a heavenly cloud of leisure.  Ooh la la,  C'est bon!

xoxo

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DOUBLE HAPPINESS EXPRESS

ALL ABOARD!  Howdy kids, this is it, the spring mix 2012.  It's taken a lot of man hours, grease and grime below deck to fine tune and spit shine this locomotive into shape, ready for its fantastic voyage.  The fonky engine that could!  The ship of dreams!  I am your conductor, Jeromé Divnitay.  You ready for this?  Fasten your seatbelts.  It's gonna be a bumpy ride...


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LoveGame 2Hearts

Hello lovers.  You may remember a while back a little mix called LoveGame.  It was intended as a Valentine's Day mix, but I missed the mark last year.  Not this time!  While preparing for the glory of spring and entering into a fantastic relationship with myself, I've put together this number to get you all worked up.  Work it out on the dancefloor, if you will.  I didn't mean to turn you on...or did I?


This game is dedicated with love to Johnny Gaga and Charlotte Rose.


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Road to Love

I was writing a lot more when I was still new to New York, because everything was a new experience and adventure.  Through lots of trial and tribulation, I finally found some stability and grounding here, so I'm now able to work on myself and goals from a more focused, anchored place.  While I'm not one to write confessionals on the subject of sex/dating/love, it has been (and continues to be) one of biggest challenges I've faced.  Ever the optimistic student of life, I've tried to take the lesson from each positive and seemingly negative encounter, but I will tell you this.   I'm tired.  I think a lot of people are.


This city seems to breed a lot of protection walls, and a good shield is an essential tool, but I'm noticing that, when neither person lets his guard down, nothing gets accomplished and things remain on that level.  It's a self-feeding loop of getting hurt, putting up the defenses, releasing expectations, giving someone else a shot, wasting time and money on yet another asshole, getting hurt again but becoming more hardened and less affected by it, until everyone is just running around out there not affected by anyone else.  Not needing any kind of human intimacy because you can order up a different flavor every night of the week if you want.  And with websites and apps, you don't even have to leave your house!  Free delivery!


I've been in a giant lab experiment for the past year and a half, and although I've started to feel like a lab rat, I've learned volumes from my research.  I have no regrets, and I've explored aspects of myself that I needed to in order to grow in confidence.  I'm not a saint, but I also no longer consider myself a "hopeless" romantic.  More of a romantic realist at this point.  I'm very aware of how to have no expectations and just have fun, but for someone like me who really does love love, there always is that little spark of hope in the background, that maybe this guy could be someone I could connect with, and get off the hamster wheel and out of the cage.  And I think there are others out there who feel the same way, but they too are caught up on the wheel and don't know how to stop it.

I've invited a lot of active, constructive fire energy into my life recently, and I'm noticing a huge difference already.  I've been aligning my mind, body and spirit through yoga, exercise and spiritual studies.  There's also a big dose of adventure in store for this year.  As frustrated as I may get about this whole dating debacle, it pales in comparison to the self-love I've been experiencing.  Like Bjork said, all is full of love.  Family, friends, myself...my heart is full and I am grateful for my blessings.  The longing and loneliness comes and goes, and I know I'm a better man for staying true to myself.  I've learned to truly enjoy my own company, and I'm actually making a solo pilgrimage in September to hike the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu.  I honestly believe the idea of people coming into your life for a reason, and I know when the time is right, someone will appear to climb mountains and discover new shores with me.  Until then, chin up babe.  There's work to be done.

From Winter Abbey

Legend has it, in a far off mountain range lies a snow covered keep called Winter Abbey.  Through centuries of war, murder, births and loves come and gone, the ghosts of memories past still haunt the walls.  Some are lost souls, wandering the halls in search of peace they will never find.  Some are forever bound in love, and death.  And yet others are vengeful and angry, twisted into monsters as they drive themselves, and guests, insane.  Many a traveler have braved a cold winter's night here, but precious few have come back, raving mad and trapped in a neverending fugue state.  Challenge the darkness if you dare, but be warned. Nary a soul has appeared with his wits about him that returns From Winter Abbey.

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Gold Dust

Hello there,


By now your Halloween costume is probably tossed in the garbage, at the bottom of the hamper or lost to the ether somewhere.  You're left with this waiting period until Thanksgiving and the holiday whirlwind.  Never fear, my friends, I have a special surprise for you.  This is Gold Dust, my 2009 fall mix, and also my favorite.  This mix really captures that mysterious, electric, primal feeling that only autumn can bring.  If you've ever seen the golden light of a sunset through the forest trees, the smell of chimney smoke somewhere in the distance, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.  Happy hunting!


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From the Grave!

Hello kiddies,


My name is Sir Cosmo von Bathory.  Petropolis is out scampering about town in this despicable weather doing god knows what in preparation for this quaint little holiday you all celebrate.  All fun and games to you, but this is the day I was murdered, and it was not a pretty sight. But that is neither here nor there.  Today I am bringing you a little treat, as I am in hiding and not making any appearances this year.  I give you From the Grave: Halloween Revisited. It's a "best of," if you will, culled from several past years of Halloween mixes by Petropolis himself. I do hope you enjoy this and play it at all your silly little parties.  I, however, will be reliving my own death, as I do year after year.  But I shall bore you no more.  Enjoy your holiday.


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Electric Chapel

Well kids, the change is finally upon us.  Summer is gone, the light is waning and the air has that crackle of excitement as fall begins.  I'll be going upstate this weekend to start it off right with some hiking, apple picking and pumpkin pie eating.  I'm kinda in love with this mix right now.  A little darkness and rock n' roll never hurt nobody.  So grab your Jameson or Jack and burn a hole in the road.


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Reborn This Way

This is at once a mix posting and a confessional, so bear with me.  I've been kinda quiet on the blog the past couple of months, but inside my head has been a cacophony of thoughts, ideas and emotions.  After a sense of accomplisment from reaching the year mark in NYC, a silent question hung over me.  Now what?  I thought I knew the direction I was headed, but then the bottom dropped out of some big plans, and I found myself back at square one, feeling more lost than ever.  Now I see several forks in the road, several possible paths, several decisions to make.  It took a minute, but I've now embraced the change, calling on my learned skills of adaptability and seeing where certain paths lead.  Traveling down my own road, watching the signs as I go.

While my mixes are really fun to make, they're also time capsules of where I'm at, mentally and emotionally, at this point in my life.  I think that's why it took so long to get this mix out this summer, because I didn't know what I was feeling.  Everything I tried to put together felt forced, until I retreated to Pennsylvania and had an amazing weekend with an old friend.  Good advice, strange dreams, and the untimely death of an amazing talent oddly came together to crystallize everything for me, to let me know that...it's ok.

So take a swim in the cool waters and brilliant sunshine of Reborn This Way.  It's my own version of a soul-cleansing spiritual baptism.  Even if it only makes sense to me, it'll still make you smile and maybe move your feet.  Enjoy!

This mix is dedicated to Kendall, a true soul mate.  And to Amy, who will be dearly missed.


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