You know, I honestly thought that when I quit my job I would have free time. I suppose I should be glad to have genuine things making me busy, but very little of it is anything that is making me money, so in that sense it’s not good. While I had the job the mentality it put me in made it difficult to get other things done. So now I have a 3 month backlog of things to go through and try to get reorganized. Plus I have been getting press kits together and out to book for September around the release of the CD. The house is a mess, including all of my work stuff (and now, when I say work stuff, I mean my stuff, music and design) and so I am spending a lot of time trying to put things in some sort of order so I can feel like I know where I am and what I’m doing.
A little obsessive compulsive? Yeah, I’ve started to realize that. But I don’t feel like I can straighten out my head until everything around me is at least somewhat organized. Somewhere in all that I also need to get more work booked, before my cushion of money dries up.
Anyway, the highlights right now:
I went out to Ryan’s studio to do three songs. Just very basic me-and-the-acoustic-guitar versions so that I have something I can send to acoustic clubs rather than the full-blown versions. The studio he’s put together is really amazing; I honestly don’t know how he’s managed to cram that much amazing equipment into one place. Got it done in short order and once again feel the need to express my gratitude for fitting me in to get it done. I had been listening to board tapes from old Eddie’s Attic shows and just couldn’t find anything I wanted going out in a press kit. So he was a lifesaver, and all is well.
I signed the contract. I am now officially a Daemon recording artist, or more specifically, my CD is now officially licensed by Daemon Records for release in the US and overseas (they just recently signed a deal for European and Australian distribution). They still seem very excited about things. Late at night, when I’m really tired, I allow myself to hope they’re right.
The current list of cities I’m trying to book is: Athens, GA; Knoxville, TN; Nashville, TN; Asheville, NC; and Charlotte, NC. Another batch will probably go out in the next week or so, expanding the area. I’ll keep the out-of-towners updated.
I’m not gone. Not even a little. Actually, I’m suffering from the opposite, I feel like I’m too many places at once, and it’s very difficult to focus and get things done, even though it seems I’m working and doing all the time. Every day I make a list of things to do. Every day I mark a bunch off, and remember another batch. So every day my list seems to get longer rather than shorter. Somewhere along the way I know I’ll get above water. If anyone is feeling neglected please bear with me. My life is in a very odd place, and it’s not a place I have ever been in many ways. So it’s taking some getting used to, and it’s taking a lot more time than I thought just to try to get ahold of it.
Still to come (this is just the big list, not the infinite list of details):
– settling the issue of a band that will tour.
– International Pop Overthrow on July 27 (and I get to see Scott, plus any other west-coasters with time on their hands)
– start calling in support of the kits I’m sending out now
– finding freelance work
– living life at a normal speed
– poster design is due next week for the CD
– new website
– rehearse the Million Box and figure out the plan for the CD release party
– release the CD in September