Going West

Anyone reading this blog knows that I love music and that I do not love real estate. This being the case, it’s really about time I made a change. I’ve been trying to find a music job in Washington for almost a year now, and nothing has materialized. As much as I love it here, Washington just isn’t the right place to be.

So.

I’m moving to California. I’m just going to pick up and go. My best friend from home, Jon, has a place near Beverly Hills, and one of his roommates is going to be gone for the summer (probably June and July). The current plan is for me to move my stuff back to Boston at the beginning of June and head to Cali from there. (I wanted to make the trip as long as possible.)

What am I going to do there, you ask? Good question. I’m not entirely sure. Maybe I will get lots of jobs as a studio musican playing the saxophone. Maybe I will get a job in a recording studio. Maybe I will get a desk job at a huge corporation. Maybe I’ll work with stage sound. Maybe I’ll strike it Rich writing jingles for cereal commericials. There’s a lot of possibilities, and I would be more than happy with any of them.

Hey, I’m young and I’ve got a dream, and there’s no better time for me to go and just give it a shot. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Cherry Blossoms!

After work on Friday, Connie, Kyra and I headed down to the tidal basin to see the cherry blossoms. It was bee-oo-tiful.

Thanks to Kyra for playing photographer for the day!

Directivo

So it turns out that my landlord is, in his own words, "Not inclined to let me out of my lease."
"Well," I almost replied, "I'm 'inclined' to punch you in the face, but I'm not going to, am I?"

In order to console myself and make being at home more bearable, I decided to get Directv. One of the main reasons for doing so was to be able to watch the Red Sox this year, and not only the games that FOX5 wants to show plus the occasional ESPN game of the week. Connie wisely pointed out that if I was able to watch the Red Sox, she might never see me again. (Six moooooonths out of every year). So what did I do? I got Tivo, too! This way I can live a semi-normal life and watch baseball when I have spare time! (And fast forward through commercials and manager conferences and crap!)

So on Tuesday, while I watched Scrubs on Connie's Directv, I ordered my programming. 150 channels, every MLB game this season, and, for 90 days, all of the premium movie channels for free! At around 10:15 am on Thursday (well within the 8:00 am to 12:00 pm window they promised) the installer guy showed up and installed everything without incident. Or so Ian tells me, he was gracious enough to be there for the installation.

It's a little pathetic how happy this has made me. I'm giddy. I watched a crappy split-squad Red Sox exhibition game against the Diamondbacks on NESN and I almost wept.

It's slightly overwhelming, in that now I feel like I have some kind of obligation to watch everything that interests me. Which is hard because I have about 150 channels. Any suggestions of cable programs I should catch? It's been a WHILE since I've had any pay channels. I've already watched "The Core" and "Emmanuelle vs. Dracula" so all of you that were going to chime in with those suggestions, you'll have to think of something else.

Whoopeeeee!