Down in flames!!!
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You never think it will happen to you, but sometimes life has a way of throwing you a curve ball. We had a fire at our apartment a couple weeks ago. No one was hurt, and not a lot was damaged except some of my cool clothes and everything on the porch and the whole laundry room. It was a late Saturday night (actually Sunday morning) and I had just picked up my girlfriend from her part-time job as a nurse as Disneyland the night of the Pirates of the Caribbean special preview (at $1500 a ticket). It was really late and I decided to spin a load of laundry before going to bed. The next thing we knew, a neighbor was knocking on door and telling us that there was a fire in our laundry room. It was blazing!! We got everyone out of the apartment and all our neighbors as well. We smashed the fire extinguisher's glass and I tried to put the fire. Neighbors kept handing me more extinguishers, but it was no use. Our cell phones were inside as well as my whole studio and all our belongings. One of our neighbors called the fire department and we waiting watching the flames devour our clothes, the whole laundry and melt everything in their. The flames were licking at the living room and front bedroom and our upstairs neighbors porch. The fire department finally got there with 4 trucks and put out the fire in quick order. After about 3 hours our apartment complex put us up at a hotel all of us and the clothes we rescued from the smoky remains smelling of smoke. We ended up spending a week at an extended stay hotel and then moving into a temporary 2 bedroom apartment (all six of us) to wait for a three bedroom to open up or ours to be repaired. I am sitting here writing at my interim studio and office in the dining room. I guess the big guy was watching out for us and maybe our experience will save someone's life. it was accident, but the laundry room doubled as a storage space and really was setup precariously. The apartment complex is now inspecting all the laundry rooms for flammables and redoing the setup. Phew!!!
About Me
- djkamakaze
- Chino Hills, CA, United States
- I was destined to become a composer and songwriter. I grew up surrounded by music. My mom was an opera singer. At the age of 4 I insisted on taking voice and piano lessons from my mother's teacher. As soon as I could read, I was devouring books about famous composers. I absolutely loved Looney Tunes cartoons. I would crank up the tv and listen intently to Carl Stalling's twisted music. I had a hard time connecting what he was doing with what I had heard in the orchestra. That use of music as sound design would figure later in my music productions. I love science and science fiction. If I had not become a musician, I would have become some kind of research scientist. My interest in science and technology manifested itself in my interest in recording, computers and programming music. In my project studio, I have my own musical laboratory where I perform sound experiments that eventually make it onto CD's, film and game scores. My musical heroes are people like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, Todd Rundgren and others who carve out their own niches and march to their own drummers.
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