"why did i move to southern california..."
well, what the fuck, i'm bored as shit on a friday night so i might as well give y'all
first of all, i graduated about 5 weeks ago. my whole family came down, which was great. all the speakers at the ceremony talked about 9/11, which was not. our key note speaker was dr. harman of harman/kardon audio equipment fame. when the dean couldn't bloody resist cracking a joke about how dr. kardon was "the best speaker of them all ha ha" , i shoulda known what kind of treat we were in for. at any rate, it was great to have all four werners in the same room together (first time since my last graduation that that's happened!), not to mention i got to exercise the parental dining budget to the hilt. yi cuisine, table eight, it was aaaaall good.
so what have i been doing since then, you may ask? pretty much fuck all. ok that's not entirely true. i have practically taken up residence on a couple of dating sites with appallingly little success. i travelled a bit (up to seattle and then to my good friend sonja's wedding in hawaii, where i fell in love with this married chick but that's a story for a different time). oh, and i have also been LOOKING FOR A RECORD LABEL JOB LIKE IT'S GOING OUT OF FASHION. in fact, it probably is out of fashion at this point. ultimately we all know i want to do a&r but at present i'll take just about anything- marketing, promotions, whatever. my boss at KIIS has been doing her best to get the word out and help me out. at this point i've had interview or interview-like experiences at: warner bros., atlantic, interscope, universal/motown and capitol. while they have resulted in making some good contacts and seeing lots of shiny platinum records on lots of brilliantly accented walls, none of them have resulted in an actual damn job offer.
so, while i listlessly wait for SOMETHING (janitor, executive fluffer, anything) to come through for me at a label, i have been doing two other things: working more at KIIS (which has actually been good b/c it keeps my mind off things AND i get to have regular contact with record industry peeps) and applying to temp agencies. i applied at appleone last week and i cannot tell you what a demoralizing experience THAT was. having to take these awful excel and word and typing (!!) tests was bad enough, but they capped it all off with the coup de grace, a 20-minute "appleone is great/don't get us in any insurance trouble" safety video lifted straight out of the troy mcclure archives. for example, did you know that "falling down stairs at work can be both painful and embarassing"? a revelation, to say the least. the worst part is, not even the temp agency has had anything for me as of yet. not even bullshit data entry in pacoima.
so, basically i'm living off of stock which i shouldn't be selling and a little gas money courtesy of my part-time clear channel job. i also decided, perhaps irresponsibly, to break up the monotony of waiting for the proverbial phone to ring by booking another trip to seattle over the long weekend. actually the long week (july 1-9). i rationalized it by saying that my brother will be going up there then (he is), and that my mom is in the middle of two trials and could really use my help (she could!), but the reality is i think i just wanna get out of here and stop feeling sorry for myself for a little bit. i wanna just put some style council on the cd player, drive over to greenlake, people-watch and forget about the mess my mid twenties are turning out to be.
on the plus side, my health has been reasonably good, i have access to a reasonably priced, state-subsidized ppo, they haven't raised rent on our apartment, i finally found a decent pair of shoes and it looks like it's gonna be a good summer for movies (heights, you and me and everyone we know, yes, even march of the penguins). whether i'll be seeing them all or just panhandling outside the theatre remains to be seen.
hope you're well (and from the looks of it, you mostly are!).
first of all, i graduated about 5 weeks ago. my whole family came down, which was great. all the speakers at the ceremony talked about 9/11, which was not. our key note speaker was dr. harman of harman/kardon audio equipment fame. when the dean couldn't bloody resist cracking a joke about how dr. kardon was "the best speaker of them all ha ha" , i shoulda known what kind of treat we were in for. at any rate, it was great to have all four werners in the same room together (first time since my last graduation that that's happened!), not to mention i got to exercise the parental dining budget to the hilt. yi cuisine, table eight, it was aaaaall good.
so what have i been doing since then, you may ask? pretty much fuck all. ok that's not entirely true. i have practically taken up residence on a couple of dating sites with appallingly little success. i travelled a bit (up to seattle and then to my good friend sonja's wedding in hawaii, where i fell in love with this married chick but that's a story for a different time). oh, and i have also been LOOKING FOR A RECORD LABEL JOB LIKE IT'S GOING OUT OF FASHION. in fact, it probably is out of fashion at this point. ultimately we all know i want to do a&r but at present i'll take just about anything- marketing, promotions, whatever. my boss at KIIS has been doing her best to get the word out and help me out. at this point i've had interview or interview-like experiences at: warner bros., atlantic, interscope, universal/motown and capitol. while they have resulted in making some good contacts and seeing lots of shiny platinum records on lots of brilliantly accented walls, none of them have resulted in an actual damn job offer.
so, while i listlessly wait for SOMETHING (janitor, executive fluffer, anything) to come through for me at a label, i have been doing two other things: working more at KIIS (which has actually been good b/c it keeps my mind off things AND i get to have regular contact with record industry peeps) and applying to temp agencies. i applied at appleone last week and i cannot tell you what a demoralizing experience THAT was. having to take these awful excel and word and typing (!!) tests was bad enough, but they capped it all off with the coup de grace, a 20-minute "appleone is great/don't get us in any insurance trouble" safety video lifted straight out of the troy mcclure archives. for example, did you know that "falling down stairs at work can be both painful and embarassing"? a revelation, to say the least. the worst part is, not even the temp agency has had anything for me as of yet. not even bullshit data entry in pacoima.
so, basically i'm living off of stock which i shouldn't be selling and a little gas money courtesy of my part-time clear channel job. i also decided, perhaps irresponsibly, to break up the monotony of waiting for the proverbial phone to ring by booking another trip to seattle over the long weekend. actually the long week (july 1-9). i rationalized it by saying that my brother will be going up there then (he is), and that my mom is in the middle of two trials and could really use my help (she could!), but the reality is i think i just wanna get out of here and stop feeling sorry for myself for a little bit. i wanna just put some style council on the cd player, drive over to greenlake, people-watch and forget about the mess my mid twenties are turning out to be.
on the plus side, my health has been reasonably good, i have access to a reasonably priced, state-subsidized ppo, they haven't raised rent on our apartment, i finally found a decent pair of shoes and it looks like it's gonna be a good summer for movies (heights, you and me and everyone we know, yes, even march of the penguins). whether i'll be seeing them all or just panhandling outside the theatre remains to be seen.
hope you're well (and from the looks of it, you mostly are!).