My big weekend actually began on Thursday, sitting in the customer lounge of Albany Subaru, calculating how much time I had to finish the first draft of a remix. John Digweed was scheduled to play in San Francisco the following night, and thanks to some networking done by my friend and music collaborator Mark Musselman, we had a channel to get him some tracks. But I hadn’t made much progress on the remix, and it would take something of a miracle to get it into shape. You don’t want to send one of your favorite DJs something half-baked!
But then I remembered my 2026 motto. For the past few years I’ve been doing an annual motto instead of resolutions. A theme for the year, a few words to encapsulate what I’m focusing on or going for or just trying to remember. My 2026 motto is “Swing Big,” and when I remembered that I realized I had to at least try to finish a draft of the remix. Better to swing and miss than to let an easy pitch go by…