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S.J. Dibai

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S.J. Dibai (pronounced dee-BY) was born and raised in Philadelphia. If not for music, he would have also died in Philadelphia by now. For if he'd been forced to live in a world without music, the infant SJ would have crawled out of his grandmother's house, crossed busy Windrim Avenue on all fours, waited for a train at Logan Station, and jumped in front of said train as it was coming. Fortunately for the musicians he has promoted as a music publicist and written about as a music journalist and blogger, Mr. Dibai is still very much alive. And as long as there is music in this world, SJ will continue to live. Until he dies. Because he is going to die eventually, you know.
SJ has two blogs he would like you to check out. He is going to give you the links, and there's a chance that MySpace will block the links for no reason and you'll have to type in the URL's yourself. Because MySpace sucks. But anyway, SJ maintains a music blog called One Note Ahead (http://onenoteahead.blogspot.com) and S.J. Dibai's PR Watch (http://dibaipr.blogspot.com), which he established to provide a sampling of his PR work for those who have requested same. He used to post such samplings in his MySpace blog, but that required him to post links which MySpace then blocked for no reason. Because MySpace sucks.
Dibai is an amateur photographer, which is to say his mother gave him a digital camera she no longer wanted and he became addicted to it. You can look at his MySpace photos for proof. He grew tired of photographing nearly every concert he attended in 2009 and is in danger of abandoning his "2009 Rocks!" photo diary. While 2008 was defined as much by the women he danced with as the artists he saw, Mr. SJ's dance card has had an unfortunate number of vacancies in 2009. To be fair, he has attended few "dancing" shows this year, but all the same, if this dancing dry spell continues, 2009 most definitely will not rock.
On the plus side, Mr. Dibai is happy to continue his efforts to photograph Philadelphia, paying special attention to streets, landmarks, transportation, business and industry, unbelievably beautiful sights, and unbelievably ugly sights. Sadly, Mr. SJ will no longer be posting these photos on MySpace because MySpace does not allow him to write detailed captions if he so chooses, and he hates that. Please be on the lookout for an "S.J. Dibai's Philadelphia" website of some sort later this year.
Currently, Mr. SJ Dibai resides in an undisclosed location in the vast wilderness known as Northeast Philly, with plans to move someday to a much hipper (but still undisclosed) part of town.
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Butterfly is back

If you have been observing my music tastes closely, you know I love singer/songwriter Butterfly Boucher and that I have been trying to help spread the word on her in some meaningful way (and not alway...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 14:22:00 GMT

One Note Ahead Search Result Rankings as of 2/26/09

I haven't done this in a long time. I used to search on Google and Yahoo! to see how One Note Ahead ranked. Let's say you wanted to find out whether Ozzy Osbourne was really in a '60s pop band called ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:12:00 GMT

Dying is easy; comedy is hard. Actually, so's dying.

I've always had the performer's bug within me. I might freeze in front of one individual, but give me a crowd and I can work it.I used to sing. Never professionally, but during my teens I was an activ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:11:00 GMT

"The Things People Do" - No. 4

The fourth in a series of blogs about the weird, crazy, ridiculous, or audacious things people do and say. A local dive was hosting an open mic recently, and I was hanging around with some of the...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:12:00 GMT

Taking the "local" out of local music?

I've watched as a lot of Philly-area musicians and music acts have relocated permanently, relocated and returned, relocated and returned only to relocate again, or at least announced plans to rel...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:10:00 GMT

"The Things People Do" - No. 3

The third in a series of blogs about the weird, crazy, ridiculous, or audacious things people do and say.Early yesterday evening, I was sitting outside in the bustling Northeast Philadelphia neighborh...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:54:00 GMT

The Friend-Ship

In an earlier blog entry, I said I learned last year that friendship is an extremely subjective concept. Was I ever right about that! Something keeps occurring to me and it never fails to leave me min...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:28:00 GMT

What it means to be a music publicist.

Continuing from the last blog.   Music Publicist: A few months ago, I was at a show where a fellow audience member was lecturing me--and I do mean LECTURING me--about all the types of gigs I shou...
Posted by on Sun, 25 May 2008 17:39:00 GMT

What it means to be a music journalist.

In Feburary, I posted a blog in which I explained what I do--because a lot of people don't know what a publicist is and some people also can't make sense of the term "music journalist." That blog said...
Posted by on Sun, 25 May 2008 17:38:00 GMT

"The Things People Do" - No. 2

The second in a series of blogs about the crazy, ridiculous, or audacious things people do and say. It's been raining much of the day and I don't drive, but I needed to get the week's shopping done an...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 13:40:00 GMT