So there we were at 7 a.m. on a Sunday morning in July 2004 in Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera. The sea of hotties parted to reveal the hottiest of them all, Armin Van Buuren, World's # 1 trance DJ for 3 years running (he was #3 at the time - he's really picked up his game since then). The moment yielded this picture, our greatest souvenir from our one month trip to Turkey with the possible exception of Erkut's beach towel (long story, can't get into it now but Noam knows what I'm talking about as he was the perp ;-).
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Notice Noam flashing the 3 there for #3 DJ in the world!Armin was super nice - and not ditzy at all despite his uber-blond hair and generally 'I'm an awesome Trance DJ guy' attitude. In truth, he actually didn't seem full of himself at all and was just a normal guy and wanted to know how we liked the party.
So how did we come to meet the man who is currently the world's #1 trance DJ? All week in Bodrum, where Noam's old Harvard roommate, Erkut Kokobiachi's parents, have a beach house in Turkey's finest, honeyest beach town, we kept seeing signs for the 'World's #3 DJ, Armin van Buuren'. The party was to take place on a boat (with a light up glass bottom that allowed you to see the ocean underneath!) called the Catamaran that sailed out to sea at 10 p.m. and returned at 6 a.m. Armed only with the vodka red bull in our bellies and our best impersonation of Eurotrash, we set sail on the Gulf of Gökova in the Aegean Sea with Armin's trance synthesizer our syren's song.
In general, our trip to Turkey was awesome - I got a really good impression of the people and country. Turks know how to have a good time but they're also a pretty intellectual bunch and it was cool to be in a country that is 99% Muslim and tell everyone we were Jewish and see what sort of reactions we got (they were mostly positive).
Here are some more pictures from our magical evening with Armin van Buuren, World's #1 Trance DJ, because that's how I roll biatches!
Oh no, too much vodka and red bull!
Is that Armin van Buuren's Jewish stunt double?And finally, a YouTube video with Armin vB spinning on the party boat (it may actually be from 2007):
Work it Armondo!
2 comments:
I think you've been watching too much Paris Hilton My New BFF. Slash, you can never watch too much of that show and I very much approve of this nostalgic bit.
Too much PHMNBFF?! I don't think that's possible! Later bitches... ;-)
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