kyoto japan. october 2000 littlekids day
October 21, 2002 3:38pm
So, reading what I wrote last April, I feel kind of funny... I went through a lot of stress towards the end of that last semester of college. I wrote and recorded a full 50minute album with Dave Stevenson and now sell it at ottomen shows and at Vintage Vinyl. I wrote and arranged the song Sea Journey by Chick Corea for a full big band. That was hell. I thought I was gonna die that week. Anyway, it's all over. I'm done with college. Now it's time to be a professional and get a job and make it in the real world.
One step forward for my post college career was the tour I went on with my roommate's band. Shed SHOT. I played Keyboards, drum machine, trombone, melodica, guitar and sang back ups. It was super fun. A very good experience. I met a lot of neat people and realized that I wouldn't mind living that life on the road for awhile. I imagine the more PRO you become and the better of a band you are, the easier it gets. I guess the first step is finding a label that wants to pay us to tour. Instead of us paying ourselves to tour. It was a trip when I came home and people's parents would ask me if I made any money. I'd laugh and tell them we came out with $14 a piece. which is true. We sat in a free hotel room our last night and celebrated our money that would get us through the last day.
Another band i've been playing with that's been getting a good response is the SEX ROBOTS. Supposedly there's a bit of a buzz going around the little punk rock scene in STL about us. good news.
The Ottomen have been doing well. IT's hard for me to get out and give clubs CDs and press kits because I'm in the midst of trying to buy another car, get another job, move and make more ends meet than i possibly can. weeeeee fun.
Hopefully i'll have a job at Whole Foods market by tomorrow. I'll have a 1998 Honda CRV by tomorrow and insurance for it. Insurance payments are almost as high as the payments on the car!!! can't believe it.... geez. oh well. That's what a job's for.
OK well this is enough blahberness for now. OKBYE
My life is about to go through a dratic change. Not that it already did after my life in Japan. I graduate from Webster University this May....geez! what am I gonna DO??!! I have to finish my 40 some odd minute CD -(a sort of senior thesis) and write and arrange a big band score. Then I should be el finito!
First things first, I've gotta decide if I really wanna stay in st.louis or not. My brother tony is waining for the move to LA and beome a rockstar already option. I'll explore that trip this summer after I return from Italy.
I also really wanna go back to Japan. Leaving that country after establishing a pretty solid life there was really hard on me. Somone at school called me a nipponphile the other day. Then she realized I lived there and shut her mouth. (ok i'm gonna puke... i watched a minute of MTv.) I really hope in the next few years I can play in a group that can make good music that people will appreciate for what it is, rather than how we look.
OH well.
Anyway, If I move to LA I'll have a few different places to stay. I don't know but 2 musicians out there that are friends and tour with my idol Mike Watt. Hopefully they'll be really helpful and show me the ropes.
If I move to chicago then I'll have a few friends to stay with temporarily and I'll be able to delve into the music scene quicker because I know people already on the Chicago circuit. My friend said I'd be able to make a good impact on the bass players around town. whoooknows.....???
If I move to New York, I'll be going somewhere I've never been and be in a place where almost all musicians are super duper ridiculous awesome. I'll have a few friends but not people with places to crash..or maybe i'm wrong. but that city seems so cool.... doh.
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