Ladies and gentlemen, we are now entering the Werdhole™: a means of traveling from one galaxy to another while all boundaries of space and time are blurred. This shortcut allows you to reach places of über-radness as the universe greets you on the other side with a huge “WERD”. Recently discovered by one of today’s top synthesists, Albert Einsteinberg, VsT.

Things have been moving at warp speed recently. dejaded, which started out as a fuzzy concept in my journal six years ago, is starting to take shape and has been growing steadily every week. Nerd Revolt’s debut performance is in a month, so we’ve been cranking away on beats at Command Central®. Not to mention I’ve gone snowboarding nine times in two weeks and I bike to every studio session. For the first time in my life, I feel healthy, positive, and creatively fulfilled. It’s crazy to think that just a few years ago, I was getting crunked at afterparties a few times a week, complicating my life with toxic relationships, and getting wrapped up in all the scene bullshit.

How did a reckless party girl from NYC start realizing her dreams in a remote corner of the country that she didn’t even like when she visited?

A whole string of events led up to me moving to Seattle, but first— I had to hit rock bottom.

In the spring of 2006, I fell into one of the worst depressions of my life. Daisy, my dog of 14 years, passed away from cancer and it tore my world apart. For the two years leading up to that, I was becoming more and more self-destructive, numbing myself out with drugs and mindless partying. When she suddenly died, all the people I thought were my friends disappeared. I found myself completely isolated, working dead-end jobs (telemarketing anyone?), and living at my mom’s house. I’d dropped out of grad school, had no clear goals, and was blazing down a road to nowhere.

That’s when I decided that I needed to wake the fuck up and live in the moment.

I quit my job, got rid of my cell phone, and bought myself a year of health insurance. Packed up my laptop and Oxygen 8 and got myself on a plane.

I was going to make beats in Berlin.

To be continued…

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