I’ve been thinking about bringing Dj Malik back. I’m not ? on this situation by any means, and nor would this mean coming back as a professional DJ. I just love making mixed media. I love designing mixtapes and such, which are very directed. I want to build such a thing around the CoyoteCon event we do every year at my college. I want to be able to drop a DJM 75 for the crowd to absorb over the course of a period as a backdrop to an event–a medley of songs and images drawn from the various comics, anime, and such that reflect the culture we are attempting to promote and in some cases refine.
That is the whole game there–I want to put my stamp back on what I think the culture should look like. When I think about what the event has been lacking over the years, it is that sense of “we are for the culture” and any effort to show what I think the culture looks like. I teach a course on games and game culture and I don’t even think I’ve done a terribly good job of reflecting that cultural aspect there–it’s been mostly a rote academic course masquerading as a game. I have forgotten the face of my Sociologist.
As the teaching season approaches I find myself needing to think more and more about these things, because I don’t do it often enough. It is high time I locked in and created a mood again. That is what I’ve always been good at as a DJ and as a professor… even as a writer. I need to get back to being that Talislegger and all of which that entails.