I’m not an expert on booking tours, but I did book one and my band miraculously broke pretty much even on our revenues and expenses. From one musician to another, here are some helpful ideas to consider:

1. How to start booking.

Select the start and end date for your tour and figure out a window of time you’ll be in each city you want to play. ( Read more... )

Do I have to be loud ( Read more... )

Sweet City Action for 7 gigs in 9 days of awesomeness. Please forgive that I'm not LJ cutting these pictures just this once ( Read more... )

My $200 bike was stolen.

The day after I bought it. I didn't even get to ride it out of the parking lot.

With the light mounts and lock. Another $20.

Purple Schwinn aluminum mountain bike, 26'' wheels. I had been saving up for this bike for a long time.

"Despite a storm of protest a zoo in Nuremberg, Germany, has resisted helping an adult polar bear Vilma to rear her baby cubs and officials there think she may have now eaten them."

Sweet City Action debate ( Read more... )

I definitely should stop being so long-winded in some of my informal communication. I could have answered the same thing (exchange with Tyler below) with one sentence for the same end-goal. "Nah, we should keep the pictures up until we get those new ones." hah.

Also, I did the same thing in my Public Speaking class. I started talking about my ( Read more... )

I am watching/have watched Naruto & Naruto Shippuuden, Nodame Cantabile (anime and live action), Fullmetal Alchemist, Evangelion and Wolf's Rain. I suffered through an episode or two of Azumanga Daioh (no offense Collette :P. It just wasn't my thing, heh ( Read more... )

I'm going to skip boring talk about the final i'm taking this evening. on to the good stuff ( Read more... )

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