Good Soul Medicine; Or, An Elixir for the Spirit

The weekend... I can't remember the last time I anticipated a weekend with this much excitement. Strangely, it is not a stressful week that has put me in this frame of mind; it's a unmotivated, uneventful one. I feel like I'm stuck in a rut and I need to be refreshed. So JP and I were describing a weekend in such an instance as being the above.

College tour booking is SO SLOW. Nothing booked yet. Granted, there are perhaps two leads I need to follow up on now... but it's discouraging for instance, to send out an entire press kit to a school that personally requested your material, only to receive zero response from them. I'm starting to think about other avenues, other regions besides the midwest to which to market... like, hellooo, the pacific northwest perhaps? Could combine doing a few gigs with visiting a newly born niece or nephew, in say November. ahhh, that would be so awesome. Okay, so now I need to find that motivation and work ethic that I lost under the couch or somewhere.

On the bright side, I have two nice gigs coming up, one in May at the Waltz-Astoria and one in June at good old Bitter End. Prep and promotion for these is certainly more than enough to keep me busy, but if I let college booking slide there will be even less change of making it happen once the gigs have past.

FYI, I posted Neah Bay on myspace. Speaking of the pacific northwest...

Happy weekend to all! Love, Sep10ber

Update. Illuminated with links.

1) Make follow-up calls to colleges (this week) ---sorta; have connected with two schools so far
2) Send JH my CD (this week) ---done
3) Follow up with the BE (this week or next) ---yes!
4) Write two new songs ---two songs half-written, yes!
5) Secure a gig with BDR at either BE or LR --- Bitter End 6/17, wsg Burning Down Rome!
6) Book the first fall tour gig ---...
7) Go to open mic at the W-A ---meeting with the owner tonight
8) Investigate Hostbaby ---...

Inspiration

Something I never would have guessed or imagined: a little Over the Rhine and Sufjan Stevens music sprinkled liberally into a Palm Sunday service makes for an awesome experience.

April To-Do List

1) Make follow-up calls to colleges (this week)

2) Send JH my CD (this week)

3) Follow up with the BE (this week or next)

4) Write two new songs

5) Secure a gig with BDR at either BE or LR

6) Book the first fall tour gig

7) Go to open mic at the W-A

8) Investigate Hostbaby