Saturday, November 19, 2005

I'll sleep when I'm dead


Does this man look homeless? How about someone who has worked ten to twelve hours a day without a day off for going on three weeks? Yesterday I was looking for the club I was going to be working at, and I turned toward this hipster guy who was crossing the street to ask if he knew.
“Hey…” I said, as I walked up to him.
“I don’t have any change man.”
“No, can you tell me how to find the Barracuda.” (Obviously I don’t get out much there were over 2,000 people there that night.)
“Uh, yeah I’m working there myself.”

So after the Coors “titties and beer” gig yesterday I have a little time off. The 1st of the month was the Rolling Stones but most of the month I worked for Acme Scenic out at the Nike headquarters for their fall sales meetings. I have mixed feelings about working for big heartless corporations but they’re paying union scale and I’ve gotta pay the bills, so what am I gonna do? Plus the people are really great to work with.

The rest of the crew and I brought our instruments and had a great jam session while we were on fire-watch. The six of us Pete, Andrew, Joe, Brandon, Steve and myself are all musicians of one sort or another (along with 99 percent of stagehands in general). Half of us being headbangers the other half of us more on the hippie side, we called it Heavy Metal Bongo Sacrifice. Even Hunter and Tony from Acme were in on the jam.

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