It seems like so many people want to be a DJ, and yet so many people want to be one for all the wrong reasons. I realized the reason I started playing records was the reason I started doing the light show was the reason I started throwing parties. It was because I wasn't seeing what I wanted to see, and I wasn't hearing what I wanted to hear. However iconoclastic, Richardson takes pains to maintain the overall flow of the evening. In some ways the opener is like the fluffer in the porn movie.
Nobody really thinks about that person too much.
But really in terms of audience enjoyment, the fluffer is very important.