CA, party shuffle, and other good times...

So it's been a while since I've felt the motivation to post anything. I don't really have any new fun pictures to post, but I should have some cool stuff next week. This Friday I'll be flying out to San Diego, CA for a corporate gig and it looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

This business is so weird sometimes, even though these corporate gigs are soooo much easier and require half the skills necessary to put on a decent concert, they pay like 2x as much and give the tech staff perks that are better than what most of the bands get in the Christian music industry. Keeping in mind that on this trip I'm just a low-level tech guy, I'll be getting computers connected to projectors, setting up screens, taping cables, etc.., they're putting me up in my own room in a hotel that goes for about $300 a night. Out of discretion I won't give any more specifics about perks or pay, but I just wanted to make the point that it's insane how different this stuff is from the entertainment industry. It also explains a lot about why most of the people I have met who specialize in corporate are so arrogant, they're used to getting treated like rock stars for doing a job that I could train most freshman at Belmont to do in a few hours. Fortunately all the people I have met so far that will be going on this trip seem pretty cool. Hopefully I get some good pics of the city while I'm there and will have lots of fun stories when I get back.

On an unrelated note, I love the Party Shuffle feature in iTunes. You can tell so much about a person's personality by just turning on Party Shuffle in their iTunes and seeing what pops up, even your own! I tend to forget about how much really old school christian rock I own that really shaped my tastes in music growing up. A few minutes ago I was writing with the background music of some Newsboys from the Going Public album, now I'm listening to P.O.D. and it looks like John Mayer is up next, it's just a great thing.

until next time...
dtm