Professional Procrastinator

I do what I can to maintain as much of a professional image as possible when dealing with club promoters. But here's the problem with managing myself. I'm a procrastinator. I'm sorry to say it but its true. The real reason people think I'm such a hard and dedicated worker on the business side of the music game is because I do two things to throw them off my trail: I show up on time and I bullshit well. However, on the party side of the game I customarily show up late, then bullshit well.


But I digress, I had an audition at a club in West Hollywood tonight and I counted a total of two things that went wrong. Basically one of them was my bad and the other was my bad by default. When I showed up to the club they had their p.a. set up for a mic but didn't have any guitar cables. Now I should have had a guitar cable in my car but I just forgot to pack one on this trip, plain and simple. So I'll admit to that one. My bad.


After I finished my set (which was pretty much me singing accapella into a mic and playing a guitar no one could hear) I sat down with the club's booking agent and shamefully handed him a burned cd of a bunch of rough drafts of a studio session I did when I lived in Michigan with my contact info and name written out with a sharpy! I did this because I was on the cusp of ordering new business cards and cds after just running out. So technically speaking I can blame this below marginal business front to the companies handling my merch. On the other hand, one could argue that a responsible artist would have pre ordered new stuff before running out of the old stuff. So even though I prefer the former, this one is, by default, my bad too.


Nevertheless all was not lost. Despite all the things that went wrong I still nailed my audition like a champ and can honestly say I gave 110%. So what ever the result, I'm happy with my performance. But I'll find out over the weekend whether or not this club books based on talent or based on professionalism. Mean while, I will try to be more responsible in the future.