Weekend of Schmoozing

Please forgive my absence from the blog these past few days - it has been a rather busy time. Well, I've made sure to take some leisurely breaks (mostly reading Jose Canseco's Juiced, but much of my time has been spent editing the next episode of The Passionistas, getting the earlier episodes looking good and uploaded to MySpace, and going out to shows and networking events. On Thursday, I went and saw Furniture on Fire over at the Edinburgh Castle, which really is a nice, intimate place to see a show. They have a little stage area upstairs, set aside from the bar. Furniture on Fire played loud and they kind of remind me of early Radiohead - when they were a guitar band.

Saturday was my day to stick around the house - taking those leisurely breaks in between editing and upload sessions. As usual, the video started to take shape after I'd "slept on" the first draft, and all of a sudden it was clear what changes I needed to make and what my narration should say. On Sunday afternoon, I headed over to the Mariposa Hunter's Point Yacht Club for a party in honor of IODA, our digital distribution company. It was just an absolutely gorgeous day. I was using the occasion to debut my new "moo" business cards - they're about a third the size of regular business cards with a full color Passionistas picture on one side, and my info on the other. I was told they were cool.

Afterwards, I ventured out to the Make Out Room to see Rademacher, whom I'd been eager to hear again since we played with them in Sacramento back in June. We'd traded CDs around that time, and I've been playing their EP rather extensively. I showed up just in time and was impressed with the crowd they had brought out. The band sounded great as well, and I chatted with them a bit afterwards, and hopefully we can set up a show with them sometime in the near future.

MP3 - "You're Never Gonna Hear From Me," Rademacher (from Heart Machine EP)

I returned home just a little after midnight and quickly fell asleep. Schmoozing is exhausting.