Alright, just finished putting some myspace designs together for my boy Matt Levine, owner of Steelo, partner in the Eldridge and about to be mini-famous with a new show Glam God on VH1 that he’s featured on.
Matt’s one of those people who makes me feel insecure about what I’ve accomplished at my age in life. Along with people like Gable, who was already owning a club when he was 21, Matt had a world renowned clothing line at 25, owns a club now, and one that has 2500 bottles of champagne and celebrity clientele blazzy blah, and seems to be really killing it. Not saying I want to be a fashion designer or club owner but these guys are/were getting it YOUNG, doing it big with what they wanted to do. Something I’m still trying to do, but im just happy I just bought a car lol.
Anyway, I’m also happy my clients are interesting, between the multiple nightclubs, various boutiques, event clients, musical artists etc. at least it’s not boring. Went to the bank today and the same nice woman I see every time I deposit a check recognized me from the two page spread in the Arizona Republic, and I couldn’t walk around with ASU without people asking me if I was from “that band”. Strange times continue.
Got a new song back from the studio, that feeling is crazy when you hear something you created and worked on after it has finally been completed. I go a little insane every time I hear a new Silver Medallion track now, because there’s so much hype and damn near my future riding on how well these sound, so I’m always very concerned about whether or not its gonna go as hard as it did when we were practicing. So far everything is up to par, but pop is a dangerous game, especially when you write all your own material. This last song was like my child, I worked on it FOREVER before we got to do it. Backstory: A gypsy friend of mine played me a song by an artist named Miguel that she really liked and for some reason, although the song was altogether mediocre, it really caught me, and I adopted a style of writing from listening to it that I applied to this song in full.
The pressure to have this material be amazing is starting to get to me, I keep staring at the lyrics of whatever I’m working on like “Is this a hit?” “Is this as good as Gravity?” and I wish I could be more natural in the writing process, everything now is so intricately planned.
