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This week: music instead of comedy

So I'm waiting to get sleepy again after having some chamomile tea.  While I'm waiting I've been reading and kinda strumming my guitar a little.  I think that I'm going to do the Burlap and Bean open mic again this week before I head to Maine.  I wasn't going to do it and instead I was going to skip it and sort/pack.

I think I'm just going to go and do it and play music anyways.  But my plan is to come straight home, get my gear and be one of the first on the list so I can get an early spot.  I'll just eat there and I'll just play my two songs and then come home and pack.

I think that I'm definitely better at the whole music thing and comedy needs work.  But hey I might rework my jokes and maybe give the comedy another go after I get back from camp.

Playing open mics is  turning out to be a good way to network and meet new people who are also doing music stuff.  Then we can swap ideas and info.  It's fun and I enjoy it.  I think it's just what I'm going to focus on for now along with recording and always getting new material up on my site.  So that's my plan for thursday night for Burlap open mic.

Tonight I went through my site and consolidated some more pages.  I also put a link to CD Baby to purchase my song "A Place That Fits" with my other social networking sites.  I need to go through all my other social networking sites and do some updating.  I need to add new material to those and make sure things are all good and up to date on those sites.

I really like the new front page "portal" looking thing.  At  work we have this "portal" that students go into.  It has all the good stuff they need right in one place.  So I definitely want to make my site more like that with the whole "all the good" stuff right in that one place and then all the other stuff easy to find and get to.  I want to make it so that for any new fans at open mics my music and website can be approached with ease.  I also decided to take the kennywestmusic.com link and redirect it to umm... well... my music page!  I dissolved the EPK page.  Basically I wasn't using it because i'm not currently booking any shows.  So instead now when I tell people at open mics hey check out kennywestmusic.com it actually goes to my music.  I need to focus on getting more fans and THEN focus on playing shows.

I think my next step is to get little business cards made up to hand out.  I had some peeps come up on monday after I played and ask if they could buy my music on iTunes.  It was cool!  I told them to check out my site for now but that at least one song should be on iTunes soon.  I haven't looked yet but I'm guessing my one song should be up very soon on iTunes.  It might actually be up already.  I'll have to double check and see.

Ok well I'm all kinds of sleepy now so I'm going to head to bed.