Thursday, March 23, 2006
Not much new to report. Still laid up with my broken toe. Today I walked
the one and a half blocks to the post office and back and by the time
I returned home my toe was throbbing. I know I’m rushing things
but I’m getting stir-crazy being inside all these days.
My friend SLE dropped by the day before yesterday and brought some groceries,
so at least I’m not starving. I baked about four-dozen cookies last
night and by day’s end today I’ve eaten about two-thirds of
them. If I hadn’t given a dozen or so to my neighbor, I’d
have eaten those as well.
I had a telephone interview with Entertainment Tonight, NBC this evening.
They’re putting out a new magazine and wanted to interview me as
one of the featured artists, so at least something exciting happened this
week. I’ll be so happy when I can go out again and perform. Not
that I can’t perform with a broken toe; it’s just the getting
there and back that’s the challenge. And having to keep the foot
elevated. Walking up and down the subway steps is out of the question
as is driving a stick shift, which requires both feet.
Taking a taxi is out as well, since I’m overdrawn at the bank and
things are looking a bit bleak right now financially. But I know that
it’s just a matter of time before that situation gets straightened
out. One of the drawbacks of being an independent artist: No sick days
or time off with pay.
I’ve started on a couple of new songs. GFA (my intern/guitarist)
is out of town for the weekend but he’s coming by on Tuesday and
in addition to doing some office stuff, he’s also going to lay down
some guitar on the new songs.
I’m hoping that by week’s end next week my toe will have healed
enough so that I’ll at least be able to get together with the trio
of musicians who may well be my new band. I spoke with one of the guys
and he said they all love the songs and are learning them and will be
ready whenever I am. It’ll be nice not to have to play guitar for
every song. Sometimes I just want to sing and not have to think about
what my fingers are doing.
I had to move the car this morning for alternate side parking and it was
so hard to just drive it around the corner, park it and get out and return
home. Every ounce of my being wanted to just rev the engine and go driving.
Anywhere would have been fine. But I’m going for complete victory
here, not just a temporary lapse in the fight. So I resisted the urge
and here I sit, foot elevated, for the eleventh day. It’s hard to
believe that this coming Sunday will be two weeks since I broke my toe.
That means that I’m halfway there, since I plan to be completely
healed after a four-week convalescence.
I spent some time online researching CD duplication places and comparing
prices because the CD burner died in my G4. I guess I worked that poor
burner into the ground. So far, the best deal I’ve found is a place
in New Jersey that does 500 CDs for $599. That includes analog mastering,
on disc label burning, CD inserts, shrink-wrapping, the whole nine yards.
Now all I have to do is come up with six hundred bucks…!
I found a person in Queens who can take all of the footage that I have on DVD and convert it to files that I can import into iMovie and edit into a presentable collage to send out as part of my kit. I’m just waiting to get the DVD of the footage from Philly from DVC. I haven’t spoken with him in a while. I think he’s spending quality time with his girlfriend. One of these days I’ll be able to say that about someone but right now, music is the love of my life.
More soon...
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Guero's - I just got in from Guero’s. What a night. First off, it turns out they didn’t have a PA system, an amp, a microphone or microphone stand so I had to pack up all that stuff and take it with me. I lugged it all a block and a half to where I’d parked my car Monday evening and when I got to the parking spot where I’d left my car, my car was nowhere to be found. More...
MTV Comes - The MTV folks came and went Monday. It was all quite fun. I was up and dressed by the time they arrived at 9:00 AM. “We have to film the entire day,” they said and they made me put my pajamas back on and get back into bed. Then they filmed me getting out of bed, going into the kitchen and having my first glass of water for the day. They wanted to film that twice so I had to drink two large glasses of water before it was all said and done. More...
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