As of March 31st, I am now officially an unemployed bum a professional musician. We got a few months of severance pay, so I figure I can take these months and spend a fulltime dayjob's worth of effort in the studio, learning how to translate the ideas in my head and in my sequencers into finished, polished, sale-worthy recordings. Ideally, I'd like to start shopping some tracks around to labels, but with the way vinyl has been going lately, I'm wondering if it's better to put that time into developing a netlabel.
Regardless, since work technically tapered off a couple of weeks ago, I've been spending a lot of time in the studio already, and have been inviting folks over to hang out...
After just over a year on MySpace, my "Friends" list has now grown to over 500 people.
I guess that's a milestone. I'm kinda failing to see the point of the whole 'huge friends list' thing - I mean, it's one thing to collect experiences in life, collect stories, collect acquaintances... but what kind of bragging rights do you get from having a huge list of "MySpace Friends"?
I figured it was time for my website to join the current decade - my old site was using code from the HTTP 1.0 spec, which, while kitschy, ironic and viewable from 'lynx', wasn't really earning me any geek points. Ok, so Google loved it. Hopefully Google loves this new site too.
If you spot any bugs, please let me know about them!
Erin took some updated shots of my studio this week, showcasing the current iteration. Frankly, not that much has changed in the last year - the studio remains my favourite place in the world to hang out, chill, listen to and create music.
I can't believe it's already 2007 - the world just keeps whipping past, faster and faster every year.
