August 2010
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lyric littany
Writing music is relatively easy. You follow a set pattern of chords, and while you have choices, the system exists. Not to detract from the art of writing music, but for me, in comparison with writing lyrics, music presents very few problems. Lyrics require an entire skill set that makes me uneasy at best. The issue starts at a very rudimentary level; what do I have to say? The things that...
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gigs?
Playing music is the fun part, and whereas that’s where most of my time and energy are spent, that’s not the part that gets you gigs. I find the process of obtaining a gig somewhere very odd. I either 1) go onto reverbnation.com and send 100 press kits a week (which is a slight exaggeration) to various venues around the northeast, 1:100 of which will write me back; or 2) I find a...
cyber-phoenix
So, I’ve been posting music, poems, and paintings on this blog that inspire me. I write music, and am in the process of becoming disgustingly famous and rich from it. [Which means I work in retail, and jam in my living room by my self most of the time.] After abandoning my blog for a while, I think I’ll get back into it, for any of you who may find me interesting, and chronicle my...