Saturday, March 12, 2005

One sacrifice for the Many... TEN TO MANY!!!

Do you ever have one of those days when you have a billion things to do, and every thing that can go wrong does? Let me tell you a tail! It was a day from hell! but, it has a happy ending!

*All info in stars is something I'm thinking*

7:30: Alarm goes off *Thank god it's Friday, I don't have to go to school until 10:30*
"click"
8:15: Nightmare about some sort of robot snake killing people in assinaboine park:
8:30: *Oh my god! Snakes! ... Oh crap! I have a rehearsal at 9:00 today!*
-Get dressed, no shower, no food, brush teeth go to school.
9:09 no parking in legal places.
9:10: The space was booked, my performers need a new practice space with an organ.
9:20: Practice moved to st jhons colege found.
10:00: Ass Hole administrator power tripping because his life is horrible:
Ass: "What are you guys doing in here?"
Organist "There was an arrangement made, where if I can't use the organ at the school, I can use this one"
Ass: "That must have been under the old administration, things are different now"
Me: *What a fucking loser!*
10:30: Back home, pick up equipment, call craig to make meeting after lunch.
Me: "When can I pick up the CD?"
Craig"Now is good"
Me: "Ok, on my way"
10:40 Craig calls back: "Actually it is going to take about 30 minutes"
Me: "I have a sound check at 11:30 Can I pick it up at 1:30?" Craig: "no."
11:00: at Craig's. CD not ready, he needs to piss around with all sorts of paper work, plus he informs me of changes that need to be done for the graphics.
11:30: Me: *fucking bloody hell! I'm missing orchestration!*
"Craig I have to go"
12:00: Late for sound check: Borisa and company didn't set things up the sound system because they assumed I would do it. Me not being there clearly isn't a good initiative to do it themselves..
12:20: Set up other people's equipment, prepared to record Paul Levaseur's Jury material.
12:30: I'm signing in students at the door, Constantine (Greek conductor) + Musicians walk out on stage before I cue the lights or get into the recording booth. *Jesus Chris! What are those idiots doing!?*
Me: Yelling from the entrance of the hall "Don't start Constantine!!! I'm not even in the booth yet!" Group stands on stage like morons in front of the audience for 3 minutes until I finish signing people in, get the lights and set the levels on the mixer.
1:10: Paul's pieces are done, Now Borissa's stuff.
*I"m going to have to do a sound check in front of the audience! Fuck! How is this possible when i'm a performer?* Plug in all the shit, set the levels mentaly... Right speaker won't work. Oh well. Gotta go anyway... 1 speaker only.
1:30: Performance goes well. Haul away large heavy speakers and equipment. *not my job* clean up stage *not my job* (missed Philosophy class)
2:25: Run to meet Dave, coming out of philosophy so Craig's changes can be made to the album art. Dave didn't go to class. *Fuck!*
3:00: At Dave's House. ring door bell a billion times, bang on door, eventually Dave gets up from his nap.
Dave: WTF!
Me: I need your help!
Dave: I have a calculus exam!
Me: Just change the text and burn the shit! God! *I need some juice*
3:30: polar bear records. Working with graphic designer to fix problems with CD bleed panels.
Talk about album specs, song listings... Flags go up because we don't have a lisense for Ordinary world! *MARK!!!!!!!!!!* Pay 600$ from my credit card for half of CDs.
4:00: Must be home by 4:30 to get dad car... *Rush Hour!! NOOOOOO!*
4:10: Miss turn off route 90.
4:30 in osborne
4:45: get home, scolded for being late.
5:00: I won the CCMW Toronto call for works competition. April 23/24 i'm heading to Toronto to have an electro acoustic piece performed.
5:01: Sleep.

1 Comments:

At Sunday, 13 March, 2005, Blogger Kevin said...

We all can't thank you enough for your hard work! At least it's done right. We'll take care of the rest.

 

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