With Harry Potter Over...
I can go back to fixing the record label. As each day goes on, I find that good things happen with the people who are really genuine, while simultaneously I keep getting stabbed in the back by people who are lame. I don't know how to really use this kind of knowledge about people with out turning into an asshole.
What I need is for people to do things for themselves, or to take up assignments. Initially everyone is all to eager to do something, they throw them selves on the altar yelling "I can make a poster!" or "I'm such a talented musician!" my favorite is "I'll help you get venues! and advertising and this place and this place and that place!". For all the exclaiming there can be had I think that there are probably four or five people who have genuinely been a help, not only to the label as a whole but also to themselves (which was the entire point of making this organization, btw). And they're all in bands, they all have a huge emotional stake in what happens to the music that they've written. Maybe that's what I should do, have only bands involved! Which sounds all great and dandy but I was trying to avoid the tittle that Shoegazing earned by the end of it's time as "The music scene that celebrates it's self".
As for many of my ambitions for big things, or a complete and devoted community, I think that I have to sign the soul of this idea to the devil of pullman partying. We have to become a music scene that celebrates it's self, and we have to become an intolerable clique, like the drama kids or the cable 8 folks. Soulless. Zombies. It'll be my experiment for the first 28 days of school to see how many "personal" concerts I can get down. How many little get togethers of musical minds and people who want to be producers.
How long will it take for everyone to be dating within our own group? how long will it take to have label only study sessions? how long will it take to have people buying shirts, to prove that they belong to this infamous club of talent? I dunno. But I think that that's the cheapest viral marketing campaign in pullman. It involves no sobering accusations or political newspaper articles. The center of every student institution on campus even the christian cults and crusades, is lust, popularity, and alcohol. I have to control it, keep it within limits, but I can't expect anyone to do anything unless I'm either paying them in money or social status.
And if anyone has something against this, then they have to prove that they are actually important, useful, and helpful. I need someone to prove that Music is more important than the World of Warcraft. Better than nuthouse. More influential than anime, or guitar hero. Because if no one can, then the only other option is to make a Crimson Label WoW guild. or improv music parties.
The Show Must go on!!!!!!! and I can't be the fucking show for ever.
End of my rant.
So say we all.
What I need is for people to do things for themselves, or to take up assignments. Initially everyone is all to eager to do something, they throw them selves on the altar yelling "I can make a poster!" or "I'm such a talented musician!" my favorite is "I'll help you get venues! and advertising and this place and this place and that place!". For all the exclaiming there can be had I think that there are probably four or five people who have genuinely been a help, not only to the label as a whole but also to themselves (which was the entire point of making this organization, btw). And they're all in bands, they all have a huge emotional stake in what happens to the music that they've written. Maybe that's what I should do, have only bands involved! Which sounds all great and dandy but I was trying to avoid the tittle that Shoegazing earned by the end of it's time as "The music scene that celebrates it's self".
As for many of my ambitions for big things, or a complete and devoted community, I think that I have to sign the soul of this idea to the devil of pullman partying. We have to become a music scene that celebrates it's self, and we have to become an intolerable clique, like the drama kids or the cable 8 folks. Soulless. Zombies. It'll be my experiment for the first 28 days of school to see how many "personal" concerts I can get down. How many little get togethers of musical minds and people who want to be producers.
How long will it take for everyone to be dating within our own group? how long will it take to have label only study sessions? how long will it take to have people buying shirts, to prove that they belong to this infamous club of talent? I dunno. But I think that that's the cheapest viral marketing campaign in pullman. It involves no sobering accusations or political newspaper articles. The center of every student institution on campus even the christian cults and crusades, is lust, popularity, and alcohol. I have to control it, keep it within limits, but I can't expect anyone to do anything unless I'm either paying them in money or social status.
And if anyone has something against this, then they have to prove that they are actually important, useful, and helpful. I need someone to prove that Music is more important than the World of Warcraft. Better than nuthouse. More influential than anime, or guitar hero. Because if no one can, then the only other option is to make a Crimson Label WoW guild. or improv music parties.
The Show Must go on!!!!!!! and I can't be the fucking show for ever.
End of my rant.
So say we all.