The last post proper

At around 100 view of our video is, I would say, peaking at the point in which all the people I have contacted have seen it. If I were a performing act, I could expect that for every gig I did that number would increase, then once it had reached a critical point it would become large enough to catch passing internet trade. Like the old you need to have money to make money, to get views, you better have some views brother. 

How do I feel about the end of this lecture series? Lets just say there is no six more weeks of winter for me. I will be there for the 3rd year series held in the Rogers room (I think I might make a plaque) bith brass knobs on (the plaque that is). 

I can and have taken so much from the past weeks, I think I might even break it down and say a little but about how each area has inspired and informed.

Careers.

I don't know why but I always have said "when I'm rich I will...". I can't say I ever had a stratergy to get said wealth but I'm certainly sure it didn't involve working long hours every day for years and years before you get anywhere like so many bands and lower level industry people have to. But you know what, I'm ready for it. I've started to really beleive that although that which you desire might seem really far away, and it always is, the way to get there is to start walking now. And you know what else, I'm not thinking about the rediculous "when I'm rich" senario, I want to work hard and see what I can get done. I'm coming around to the idea that those who create the greatest stuff are creating all the time, not to reach a specific goal. I'm want to be like that. 

I can't imagine I will ever be a portfolio musician, I'm not a good enough performer nor do I really enjoy performing but I would really really love to be a promoter, venue type person or something involving promotion. 

Legal

Self-post your music. Done. 

Visibility

Regularly updated websites and blogs are the king of promotion. I think that blogs are the way forward since you can use them to host content, are simple and very easy to update which is the big thing. Oh and a myspace. And a youtube account. The trick is to be there should somebody want to find out about you. I really love this stuff anyway so to hear that engaging in the ownernism that is blogging is actually good for your vision is great. 

Professionalism

I have a suit. I think that a t-shirt with a tie looks kinda cool. But professionalism is so much more than that; it is being pleasent. Punctuallity is a given but being nice?, who'd have thought it. 

Hard Work

This is the daddy. This is not only doing what needs to be done, and then doing it the next day and the next, it is also making work for yourself. This is the thing that has really stuck with me, that the work that is asked of me isn't half of the work that has to be done. For example, just because I have finished my assignments doesn't mean I shouldn't be writing a new blog, composing, doing piano exercises or writing the next email send-out. Or looking into what possible venues would be right for said event and getting information together. Then getting back-up information together. I have a cool idea that I am going to see through (I hope); make a 'rubber' business plan than I can add things to, but never take away from (i.e miss a personal deadline), this way I will never not have some work to do and hopefully, sometimes too much to do. 

Listen to me planning too much work, blogging, wrapping white blue-tack around my thumb, why I'm halfway there already. In fact, I'm already think about something. Imagine an events organiser for all the lower level venues in a town. Woudn't that be really smart? So I represent maybe the twenty or so smaller Norwich venues that have live music. I'm not sure how I would be paid though. Alas. 

But look Rick, look. I'm thinking. 

Bye.