back on track

I figured creating this site would help me a lot for the mentor program. I'm supposed to keep track of all my journals, so blogspot does it all for me! Anyone can stay updated about this... and even though i wrote about it a little bit in my other blog, this will be one dedicated to my music goals.

This months goals are to:

-Record
-record
-RECORD SOME MORE

Every time i meet with nuc, which will be twice a week, I hope to accomplish recording one full song until i finish all 12.

Other things I need to start getting together are interviews with people and some type of presskit/bio.

And sometime before november 15th i need to write a really good college essay!

So for an extreme update starting with this weekend: My sister ran a 26.2 mile AIDS marathon today! All her friends came down to see her and slept over last night, so I of course.. put on a little concert in the living room. It was a good time. Two people there bought CDs, which was very encouraging because I didn't really TRY to sell CDs... I mean they asked me for them, which shows some real interest and not just sympathy buys. I went to two concerts this past week. I saw Jamie Cullum at 930 club which was wonderful.. And then I was supposed to see This Day and Age (Great band!) But they didn't show up to this concert, so really I was in a car with 6 people going down to woldorf to see a bunch of random local bands on a thursday night. It was a good time though.

My mentorship is going well. The barn show was 2 weekends ago and we sold over 100 tickets and I performed for a really big group. We raised over 300 dollars for Guatemala! What a huge success. I can't believe it. We might try to get another show in by the end of november, but it will be tough to pull off. We can atleast have one in december. The week following the barn show was spirit week and I didn't see Nuc all week. My cell phone died on monday and i was too busy to notice or think to recharge it! We had already spent over 15 hours the previous week just setting up for the show, so it wasn't too big of a deal. This past week we got a Mac G5 (one of the fastest computers accessible to people) in the barn! I started to learn how to use protools, which is a more complicated recording program that can create better sounding mixes than garage band. This will be my software for the next month as i boldly enter the world of recording, and re-recording, and editing and producing. This could get frustrating but I have to remind myself that people pay hundreds of dollars in recording studios, and i'm getting used to all the hard parts about it for free!

This journal entry should have been made into about 5... But I mean.. I wrote them all at once so there's no use pretending I was on top of things for the past 3 weeks, when i havent been at all! I've gotten so much done with the barn show, and homework assignments, and learning recording technology, going to concerts, etc.. but i havent had a chance to sit down and write it all down! Life is so exciting... I love music.

I love what other musicians contribute to my life, and i feel so blessed to have the ability to have others benefit from my music. It's this giant giving game that feels wonderful. And I always feel like I'm just getting started. (sounds like the start of a college essay!) I'm off.. to practice songs to record tomorrow :)


Jodi