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Why would you get advance tickets? Well, a couple of reasons.
1. It's a Friday night on Memorial Day weekend. There are 3 bands that all promote the hell out of their shows - especially Corporate X - and we have around a 200 person capacity venue. That's simple math. You should buy advance tickets.
2. It's also good for the band. For our band, for everyone's band - when working with a venue - to have the type of impact that can generate advance sales. You want to see us headlining the Metro in a year or 2 here, don't you? Go get 'em!
So, about those websites. We’re going to be upgrading the Flagrant Store to a true SSL/shopping cart/merchant service kind of deal instead of the existing Paypal scheme. I imagine a couple people will want to buy the Grayscale CD, so I need to be prepared. Not that there’s anything wrong with Paypal – but there’s something wrong with Paypal. Also getting a much needed overhaul is the site you are reading. Say bye bye to the forum, hello to comments, and I’ll be our sole representative blogger. Lots of other changes but I’ll leave those as a surprise. Expect the site to reflect said changes on May 23rd.
I’ve gotten a couple jobs since my “I HAVE NO MONEY” blog. However, Catherine and I have had an ongoing conversation about my return to bartending. She’s been opposed to the idea for a lot of reasons. I’ve kind of accepted that the creative industry is a constant up and down – and many creative people live with the reality of bartending/waiting tables/what have you in order to augment their ambitions. So I really don’t have a problem with it. Would I rather not? Absolutely. Am I thankful I don’t have to hum melodies for the Queen to decide my fate? Absolutely. Life’s hard out here for a commercial composer/producer/mixer/general audio music guy.
Hold on, a rare exclusive condo update. I finished the kitchen. It looks great and feels really nice to have something done. The day I finished it, our bathroom starting leaking water from the ceiling. I have a feeling this is how things are going to be.
Work is going okay. I _have_ work, but no one seems to be in a hurry. Never a good thing as I already wait 2-3 months to get paid for jobs once they’re complete. When this is all over, all said and done, I would have had $0 income for a period of 8 months. That’s just insane. I feel a bartending job coming on in my near future.
I’ve also been contemplating my future producing records for other artists. . I don’t think I have one. Not that I’m not good at it, but the label structure crumbling has left me with no where to go, not much to aspire to. And honestly, it’s like 200x as much work for 1/200th of the financial reward. You simply can’t ask bands to compete with HBO. Doesn’t work that way. So, I don’t know. Maybe occasionally, but more than likely not. Jason Bazinet has decided to stop doing SMP - that was what got me thinking about it in the first place.
But not all is bad. Ella is becoming a really amazing little girl right in front of my eyes. I wake up every day looking forward to what she'll do next . .
