Happy holiday season friends...It's been a while. Sorry I missed Ben and Josh's visit to the NY. I would have loved to see you two. Josh, thank you for bringing me to NYC my very first time, I am forever in your debt!
So after 3.5 months in New York I am working at Virgin...yeay! -riiiight...on a brighter note I am going to be working at a studio in soho after the new year.
www.grasshutproductions.com
I will be doing sound engineering and part of the production team. This will be project based so I will have to keep another job - damn!
Sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed in Baton Rouge at my nice high paying corporate job, then I get flashbacks of my xboss on one of his tyrades about cultures he has never experienced and the hordes of homogeneous abercrombie &feltch fodder. Needless to say it is refreshing to be in a diverse population.
In the sphere of music, NYC is more than I ever imagined. Working at virgin, I see all the heads come in for plastic crack. I must add that this crack generates 1 store $230K per day on average. Virgin sees more than $1.5M through the registers weekly. In dance music, I am seeing the trends, the commercial cheese of course is selling like crazy. Outkast is truly cross cultural now, everyone buys their album, old, young, purple, orange... they did it and thats the key to selling records...
I hope every one has a good and safe xmas.
ed [email] said at 2:23 AM 12-23-2003: I really didn't/don't know. I haven't listened to the radio (other than "The Sunday Blues with Dar") for years. Yeah, that means the only new music I hear is on Launchcast, and I have banned rap/hip-hop from my station. I just can't take it. If that makes me old...
Randy [ url ] said at 11:21 AM 12-22-2003: You might actually like Outkast, Ed. In fact, I'll bet you anything you've heard one of their songs and just didn't know it was them... You can't really escape "Hey Ya" these days.
ed [email] said at 2:24 AM 12-23-2003: I'd take that bet. And double it. I haven't listened to commercial radio (in any form) for at least three years.
Daniel said at 12:15 AM 12-23-2003: May I please know what they pay at virgin? I quit my regular job (since I hate working) and now make a few bucks as a messenger. Actually I'm making about 325-450 a week. Could I beat that at a place like Virgin?
