Update

Holey Moley it has been awhile since I blogged.

Excuse the typos, of course.

Maybe that’s a good sign right? Meaning I’m getting away from drowning my homesick sorrows in my daily journal?

I’ll admit, I have been finding more things to do. Here’s a few updates.

1. Globe Radio: After countless Saturdays enjoying and supporting our local artists, I stepped in one night to see our talent was being recorded for Globe Radio’s Acoustic Saturdays. I conversed with Nate about what was going on and eventually sat down with the owner to discuss some radio work. I told him I had 4yrs+ experience and he invited me to come put my voice on the air this last Saturday. I woke up bright and early, ran to Walmart despite my hatred (read about that here), and then gave Nate a call to see where he was at. He was completely asleep, said he stayed up watching a show on lions (idiot), and I drove over to wake him up. We discussed the High Point CD and eventually made our way over to the SLCC campus. That morning we were slated to interview Nick Dibble and Jack Peck with the Bonfire conspiracy. Both local artists, one much more talented then the other. Nick was great. I’m sad to see us lose his talent to Seattle, where he is moving to next week. But we got a great interview out of him and helped him get a few recordings down to take with him. Jack Peck…and his bandits…not so much. 16/17 year old dreamers who need a lot of practice. I asked them about their hopes & dreams for the future, careers…etc. They were set on being rockstars and I was set on getting them off the air. They did bring along a groupie, who read some of his personally written slam poetry. I thoroughly enjoyed it as his writing is incredibly talented. I spoke with him about some of my favorite slam poets, chose some songs for the playlist and I was out the door.

All in all, it rocked. I loved behind the mic again. The owner was really impressed with me and wanted to help me get recording my sets to send out to local stations. I politely confessed my lack of faith in such a dying industry, and he only agreed. Truth is, 4 out of 5 stations are run by an automated program. You may think you are hearing your local DJ, but really you are hearing one man in NYC selling his voice talents to hundreds of stations. With the addition of satellite radio…the day and era of the Disc Jockey is just about dead. In all my protesting against an actual career in the radio biz, he still urged that I get sets recorded to send out as he didn’t want to see “such a natural talent wasted”. I was flattered, and agreed. I’m also in the works of formatting my own show, and will be on live once a week. Cool, aye?

2. Housing: After dashing out the door, I was off to have coffee with a future roommate. Recently, I put an ad on KSL (the Utah craigslist essentially) looking for roommates and houses. I found an awesome roomie named Sarah and we came together in finding Curtis. He’s a fun, mild-mannered guy who was getting ready to rent a townhome. Both Sarah and I hated the place and so now the three of us are banding together to find the perfect 3BD 2BA house. The nice thing about Utah is that most all the houses here are really really really nice. I can rent here, paying only about $50.00-100.00 more, a house 10x nicer then any house I ever rented in Oregon. A majority of the homes were built in the last 5 years as well. I hope to move soon and the second I do, you will have pictures of my beautiful new home. Both Sarah and Curtis rock, so I can’t wait.

3. Unknown Anthem & the music scene: Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time going to shows and checking out more of the talent in UT. A majority of my music time is spent with the guys of Unknown Anthem helping to promote their shows. They had an awesomely successful CD release on Saturday and the after-party was even better. It was little too much fun if you know what I mean.

“Oh just leave me in the grass, the cold feels so good Shaun!

“Shannon, I’m not leaving you in the yard.”

“But Shaun, we camp all in the time in Oregon, it’s just like that!”

“Shannon, get up”

“Party Pooper”

“Look, I’m gunna do the Nixon!”

“Michelle, hold my hand!”

“Don’t worry, I won’t let go”

“insert random quotes and impersonations from Titantic HERE*

Oh and so much more….

They’ve been great welcoming friends to me since I got here, so I do what I can to help promote their band. Not to mention, I love their music. They won Utah Battle of Bands last year and have an awesome show coming up Friday at the Avalon if anyone wants to come!

4.Work: Consumes me. My job gets harder and harder every week. My responsibilities are endless. Ugh.

5.Lovelife: Is…unique. As always. Still yet to find someone who is not a sleezeball, not a pushover, and fits my other silly picky standards. I will admit, I met someone I am maybe kinda sorta interested. I refuse to elaborate as normally the second I get excited about someone/something, it disappears. Just know, there is a boy who makes me smile when I think about him. I found a song the other day that makes me laugh as someone pointed out it fits my picky standards. Pink-Alone & Lonely. Just download and listen to it, it’s the best.

6.Odds&Ends: Thank goodness, Mesa is coming to visit in June. I miss him so much. Saw The Ruins and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Forgetting was good, though I saw too much of the main characters package several times. The Ruins I expected to be scarier but was completely not.