I always considered 2 and its multiples to have a strange relevance in my life, I always stop reading books at page 222 without any prior knowledge of stopping there, just look down and thats the number, and I always seem to remember strange things happening at that time.
So anyway, when I plugged my phone in to charge this morning (sorry those of you I said I'd get into the club last night) it was 4:44 Monday morning, after a brutal weekend.
This weekend destroyed everything from The Union's monetary situation to my work out plan, with everything in between experiencing some fun changes as well. It ended on an up note, I had a good concert photo shoot and we threw one impressively successful club night at 6. I don't know why we ended up going into event promotions, I never regarded it as my thing, but I've found that trying to get design jobs its better to be in on the whole process and ensure you're employed then to try and freelance out to various promotion firms. I don't even want to talk of the bad, just to move forward.
Several more photo shoots this week, so I'll have good pics to post for shots of another Man Up Concert, shots for Preach, myspace banners, a logo for an eyelash extension company and other various works that get accomplished.
In the next week I have to get myself organized so that I can decide what business stays where, as in I probably won't be brining dj equipment to NY, and where things like light kits are best kept between phoenix, vegas and ny, and then work on contacting everyone in every state to begin to keep my schedule organized to travel in between and make sure business runs. At the same time I have to begin to put extensive work into revised UF and Union business plans, as after our current set of mistakes and successes we now have the systems, organization, knowledge of roles, and proof of which avenues we are pursuing are successful in what ways to write a plan on how we're going to move forward and what moneys we need to that. Finally having this data we can expand on our previous plans to narrow our business to our more effective facets, and cut the fat or whats holding us back.
I keep thinking of my recently deceased friend Jason and how none of this would have existed if he hadn't kept pushing me to organize, to lead, to network and to utilize technology to keep on top of the game. I wish I had a chance to give him the guidance he gave to me, my only contribution was to continually tell him to stop school and go do what he wanted to do (write novels/films and smoke cigarettes somewhere in Berkeley/NY or related) because if he didn't do it now he'd never be happy. If only I'd made a better argument.
At least the music keeps getting better and better. I've started dreaming again, and now its about forgetting this ridiculous business and just creating as much as possible and as truly as possible, the original goal before this intense pressure for a sustainable monetary situation began.
Another week begins.
