I think I've been going about things very very wrong. I blame bad advice, too many music blogs about how the internet is changing the music biz and not having enough mullah. I need some mullah to progress with my new stratedgy, which is go out more and meet all the fun musicians, promoters, bar owners, tour guides, garbage collectors, librarians, polliticians (I introduced the band to the Mayor of Edson when we played there. We tried to get him to wear a "mutha fuckin fab" pin... no dice, it was election time) anybody. I'm sick of sitting in my office by myself "promoting" myself. It's not working! You know what worked for me in college? Being a drunken buffoon. Everyone wanted to hang out with me. It's in my soul, that's what I really want to do, and it's not the first or last time I've said this next tasty bit of advice: I do all my business over jager. All of it! It's "networking". But seriously, it is.
I know right? You think I'd be fucking famous by now, I drink that shit (and puke it back up the next morning) like it's going out of style! (which, it is not, or ever will)
It's my new PLAN. The PLAN is to get alittle more work (like a little bit of a dayjob) and some more students, and always more gigs, if you'll let me! (please let me play in your club! I swear we put on a good show!) <- (my new presskit should just be a video of me on my knees begging "please book me!" would it work?)
And I'll pay my bills (kinda) and just go out more to more places with my buddies and meet their buddies and know everyone in my industry. That was game plan in college, not practicing or emailing people, and it was working a fuck of alot better than what ever it is I'm doing now...
Anyway. I'm starting this PLAN, and I'm putting it into action this saturday at the Jasper Place Curling Club. It's the 2011 Canadian Wheelchair Curling Championship, and we're booked to play a full rockin' three sets. Got some new friends in the backline for this show, Josh and Nigel, and you've gotta meet 'em. So come on down! It's $5 at the door if you didn't go to the tourney, which you can! Go! I bet it'll be an adventure! But also come to our show, we're super stoked, and I will be a "networking" machine. aka: drunk as shit.
heart tiff
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