blog
May 2007
YOU:
-MUST be between 18 - 26 years old (one year difference ok)
-MUST have own pro gear (including knowledge of own gear)
-MUST have great rhythm and be able to play to a click
-MUST be willing to wear in-ear monitors
-MUST be agreeable, open to criticism, professional, sense of humor
-MUST be able to rehearse at least 5 days a week, 2 - 3 hours
-MUST have some kind of transportation
-MUST be able to dedicate ENTIRE existence to band life. THE BAND must come first over everything. this...
has just the right amount of catch in it
and i sing really well
for like 5 hours
(recording vocals yesterday)
i enjoy hot soup on a windy day.
8:00am - wake up, shower, get dressed
9:00am - catch bart train to shitty day job
9:45am - breakfast (coffee, energy bar, oj)
9:55am - walk 1 mile to shitty day job
10:00am-2:30pm - work at shitty day job
2:30pm - lunch (coffee, water, yogurt, energy bar)
3:00pm-5:30pm - work at shitty day job
5:45pm - walk 1 mile back to bart train
7:00pm - arrive home
7:15pm - dinner (burrito, water)
7:30pm-12:00am - work in studio / rehearse
12:00am-1:00am - work out
1:00am-2:00am - lay in bed, attempt to...
The deal is it's always good to have a backup plan. An alternate means.
A plan B.
One needs to be able to support oneself, after all.
If the band thing doesn't work.
Yeah, I play in a band. That's what I want to do.
Lights, stages, fans. That's what I want. That's for me. The deal is, I've known that that's what I've wanted since the first time I picked up a guitar, at age 13.
But I'm not there yet, and there's no guarantee that I'll...
i ride bart alot
(in the bay area there is a network of trains called the bay area rapid transit)
it is often very crowded, and there are no seats, so i stand.
if it is crowded and i am sitting and a woman gets on the train, i always offer my seat to her.
many men do not.
if you are a healthy man and a woman, elderly person, disabled person, or child gets on the bart train and you do not offer her/him your seat.... shame on fucking you dude.
i stand and look at dickwads sitting on their...
i fucking hate people who can't keep their goddamn kids quite on the train.
hahahha