Ate Chinese last week with Kim, it was my go to restaurant for the better portion of 2008, but back to back bad General Tsao’s had cooled my desire for Young’s Kitchen. Needless to say the MSG craving came calling, and I found myself ordering Kim’s chicken and broccoli, and my General Tsao’s. It was redemption time and Young’s Kitchen had to step up to the plate. True to memory from meals past, the General was in rare form, and delivered completely. After finishing our feast it was time for the fortune cookies. Generally I end up with fortunes like, ‘You have a good heart’ or ‘you like to travel’, very general nondescript statements as opposed to actual foresight into your future. I think last week I hit the jackpot of fortunes; ‘You shall become a great community leader’. Holy shit! Not only does actually reek of being a legit fortune, but it succeeded in ratcheting up the pressure on my professional career. Can’t complain though, it could have been ‘you be the village idiot’!
Work has been crazy, between the general business of payroll, bill paying, marketing, content development, managing HR situations, accounting, design, development, meetings, staffing, budgeting, adding strategic partners, more meetings, and breathing, I’ve found myself delving into my iPod, to stay focused throughout the day. With the high usage time be logged on my iPod (actually my iPhone), I’ve been finding my 5K plus library of music a little monotonous the past two weeks. This has sent me on a hunt during the evenings for albums tolerable from start to finish. This has always been my watermark for what would be considered a good album. Playability. Can you start on track one, and let it roll uninterrupted until conclusion. My search has led me to the far reaches of the music spectrum, from Q-Tip to Social Distortion to Howie Day (pretentious little bastard).
This week I’ve settled into a little folksy funk, listening to a lot of Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s and Ray Montagne. Both of which are completely unique sounds in the their own rights. I would highly recommend all albums from either artisit. Also, check out Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s video for Tall as Cliffs here. Too funny not to mention.
The funny thing about both of those artists is that they were referenced in the Genuis bar inside iTunes, based on some of the artists already in my library. I thought it was pretty cool that I actually enjoyed suggestions made by a program. Technology! Cool! wOOt!
When I found Margot, that actually lead back to the other end of spectrum in terms of more Poppy Punk sounds. Check out Dear in Head Lights as well as Weatherbox. Weatherbox is by far the more polished of the two, a San Diego band with a unique harder sound, but very digest-able riffs and hooks in pretty much every song. Sorry no home page, but if you still check them out at there label here.
Enough about the music, a quick business leak. We have some really cool shit in the pipe, so to speak for 2009. We really are going to shift the focus to the event side of what we do. There is a huge need in most markets for what we are developing, and I am truly excited about what we are working on. With that being said, I’ll be leaning on all of you for a little help and support in the early stages. From Emailing your friends, to re-post on Facebook, ect, all of that stuff when the time is right would be of huge benefit and support, so be sure to check back here from time to time, and I’ll keep leaking stuff as we get it going. Trust me it’s going to be HUGE!
Talk to you soon!
