Start Spreadin' the News...
Ok, I started writing this huge entry about how I haven't set any wacky "by the time I'm 30" goals, nor did I have any by 25 ones, but now I have ONE goal for 30 and it's simple (which is why I'm rewriting it in about 1/20th as many words). I have a secret no one knows. I've told it to people but no one KNOWS it. It's music. It's the music inside that I haven't yet been able to properly execute such that people hear it and go "Yes. Yes, I see." and then their heads explode. I WANT EXPLODED HEADS. *ahem* sorry. Anyway, that takes care of that so on to the other point of business.
Fuck Wisconsin. Yeah. I said it. Growing up in Milwaukee I was never one of the whiny "this town sucks, I need to get out of here, there's nothing to do" shmucks. Because it's not true. Milwaukee's a pretty snazzy city when you get down to it. It's just the rest of Wisconsin that doesn't do it for me. Maybe it's the increase in gigs at sad little middle-of-nowhere dive bars, where blue collar 30 somethings who I subconciously impart with a southern accent come up to me and say "Man, you guys are awesome. You sound just like Iron Maiden and all that metal in the 80s." NO! FUCK YOU! Oh, wait, that was a compliment? Don't get me wrong. Iron Maiden rules. THEY RULE. But to sound like them is to fail. FAIL MISERABLY. Only Iron Maiden gets to be Iron Maiden.
So what am I saying? This isn't turning out THAT much more succinct but here goes... I need to live outside of Wisconsin at some point in my life, preferably in a LARGER metropolitan area. No, you don't need to "move to make it" but YES there are more opportunities in certain cities. There's just stuff going on that isn't going on most places. And the audience is larger and more diverse.
So here's the deal. At some undisclosed point in my life, when circumstance dictates it is prudent, I am going to move to New York (Yes, City, but no obviously I won't live in central Manhattan, I know all the cold hard cost-of-living facts, so just skip the lecture). I have family out there, who know people, and it's just an unbelievably awesome city. I'm not moving right now, obviously. Mainly because of Mirror Black and my lease. But as the song goes "It's only a matter of time."
Fuck Wisconsin. Yeah. I said it. Growing up in Milwaukee I was never one of the whiny "this town sucks, I need to get out of here, there's nothing to do" shmucks. Because it's not true. Milwaukee's a pretty snazzy city when you get down to it. It's just the rest of Wisconsin that doesn't do it for me. Maybe it's the increase in gigs at sad little middle-of-nowhere dive bars, where blue collar 30 somethings who I subconciously impart with a southern accent come up to me and say "Man, you guys are awesome. You sound just like Iron Maiden and all that metal in the 80s." NO! FUCK YOU! Oh, wait, that was a compliment? Don't get me wrong. Iron Maiden rules. THEY RULE. But to sound like them is to fail. FAIL MISERABLY. Only Iron Maiden gets to be Iron Maiden.
So what am I saying? This isn't turning out THAT much more succinct but here goes... I need to live outside of Wisconsin at some point in my life, preferably in a LARGER metropolitan area. No, you don't need to "move to make it" but YES there are more opportunities in certain cities. There's just stuff going on that isn't going on most places. And the audience is larger and more diverse.
So here's the deal. At some undisclosed point in my life, when circumstance dictates it is prudent, I am going to move to New York (Yes, City, but no obviously I won't live in central Manhattan, I know all the cold hard cost-of-living facts, so just skip the lecture). I have family out there, who know people, and it's just an unbelievably awesome city. I'm not moving right now, obviously. Mainly because of Mirror Black and my lease. But as the song goes "It's only a matter of time."
1 Comments:
Hey Matt,
Got curious and looked at your website. nice graphics! Someday when I bring my headphones to the library I will listed to your music. Good to see you are doing soemthing you like.
Don't come to LA -- it's not that great. That's all I have to say.
Ciao!
-Michelle (from high school)
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