Annoying things.. and GOOD NEWS! :D

Annoying things:

Trinidad sending shit to Guyana to help them out - Anyone find this is sort of like someone whose family is in a shambles trying to give marital advice to someone else? or the owner of a house that's falling apart giving away his tenants' wood and bricks to another house... you see what I'm getting at? We can't fix our own shit, partly due to a lack of resources and we sending shit over to guyana.
Now I'm extremely sympathetic to the situation in Guyana and I do understand that we need to keep good ties and help those in need, but I kinda think that maaaybe we should fix our shit before we try to help anyone else fix theirs.

America's Best Dance Crew - I've been an avid follower of this show since it started. I love dancing in most of its forms, especially hip hop, break dancing etc. My favourite group on the show is Jabbawockeez. I also really like Kabba Modern and realised today that I really liked Live in Colour as well. Tonight they sent home Live n Colour in favour of the all-female group Fysh n Chicks. I strongly disagree with this move as I thought that overall Live n Colour has been a much better group than the f'in Fishies. Apart from that, I felt that Live n Colour really embraced and destroyed (in a good way) tonight's challenge, which the f'in Fishies failed to do so.. so I figure it's just for ratings that this happened and I'm once again reminded why I hate television shows like this. *sigh*

Was reading the papers about the boy that got stabbed in Success Laventille and the school was reported as saying that they have had an 'exemplary' standard of 'discipline' at the school. Now rumours and shit talk aside, I've a friend who works in the school and I hear the stories straight from the horse's mouth. My friend has been threatened by students more times than he can remember and has been in scuffles (against his will) with students on more than one occasion. It's just that these things don't make it to the papers.. which I understand, but still don't sit there and lie to the country when we know better about the discipline in your school. We aren't fools.. well I'm not at least.



Now for the good news:

I got my drum pedal fixed and drummed today for the first time in about a month. Finally used my ipod so I drummed along to favourite songs and what not :D and in the same day..

I GOT A JOB!! YAYY!!!! wait.. actually.. I GOT TWO JOBS!! YAYYYY!! (I'm in denial at how stressed from this shitload of work I'm going to be doing).
The first job is in UWI and is pretty exciting to me. I was actually enthusiastic about the job while hearing the job description during the interview..
The second job is co-hosting a new show that's going to be on a local television channel. I've always wanted to do something like this.. actually pretty much this.. so I'm pretty psyched about it. The only problem is the pilot shooting conflicts with the hours of the UWI job.. but I'm really hoping I can pull some strings and be able to go in a little later. We'll see how that goes. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

I'm not dead

no, I'm very much alive.. just wanted to say that for anyone who cares. Just haven't been feeling particularly blog-y lately for some reason. I feel like I don't have much to write about.. guess that means I've been out of touch with things for a bit.
hey what the ass.. I'm actually blogging about something write now.. this very moment.. well look at that! funny how these things work out.
so yea, I've been out of touch with things for a bit.. haven't been taking on much things external to my personal life and a bit of that is a little TOO personal to write about. Apart from that I'm still currently trying to look for a job.. and trying to figure out what exactly happened to my drum beater cus it's not pulling back after it hits the beater. Need to get one of my drum friends to come check it out for me.
My band took first steps to sign to a new local label - OddSound Entertainment (not to be confused with OddOne Ent. which is a different company but same type of business (music label). We signed a pre-contract merchandising agreement with OddSound so we should be getting our own merch sometime soon! we may need a logo first tho.. ahhh the ever elusive logo that we haven't gotten as YET, after all these years *sigh*. We're getting our own.. get this.. condoms as well. Every band under the label gets their own type of Trojan condom. We get 'twisted pleasure', another band gets 'ultra-sensitive' and another band gets 'magnums'.. now which band you think got the short end of the straw with that one? lol. I feel so... inadequate

so that's that.. two shows are coming up on the same night. I'm pretty turned off by this especially since the promoters whose show was confirmed after the other show are supposed to be supporters of local rock music and bands. That's not support in my opinion. I've supported these promoters before and I'll support them after but I'm not joining them like I had a chance to. I've realised I'd rather be accountable only to myself and no one else.. I really am more of a loner than I previously realised. But yea.. even if I were playing with the second show I'd still be against it.. hell even if it were MY show I'd be against it and move the date (i know this because it's happened with me before).
Incidentally I AM playing for the first show to be confirmed on that date.. it's the label's debut show with the three bands signed to them. It's gonna be a concept show and sounds like it'll be pretty kickass.. which makes me even more angry that another show is happening the same night because I feel like that other show is robbing both these promoters and the people who won't attend of a great experience.

well we'll see how it goes.
I out.