I had a tough weekend between my day job and entertainment industry work. I went to a film audition in Evansville, Indiana for a film called "Daylight". I'm going to be working as audio mixer and gaffer behind the camera and I'm going to compose music for various scenes and make a cameo appearance as an extra. After I got done with the audition, I went to downtown Evansville to see if I could find one of their entertainment newspapers to get a pulse on the city since the last time I was in Evansville, it was a performance at The Funny Bone about 5 years ago. Downtown Evansville was a ghost town on a Sunday. Nothing was open except for the casino. Not drug store, not restaurants, not bars, NOTHING. I know that the recession has hit Louisville badly, but Louisville's recession is NOTHING compared to what Evansville and its surrounding area have been going through.
I was eventually able to find a News 4 U magazine at the casino's hotel lobby. I'm going to launch an Evansville promo campaign for the label's music since I'll be up there repeatedly for the film. Also, I'm thinking about putting together a comedy show that I might want to bring into Evansville. The Funny Bone is gone, but there seems to be a Comedy Caravan up there. I drove back to Louisville, then went straight into the day job, functioning solely on caffeine and sugar. I got home and managed to do a minimal amount of online promotion before passing out from exhaustion.
Earlier this weekend, I made it into Reverb Nation's local Top 100 Hip-Hop chart on just the 6th day of having a profile on there. As of right now, I'm ranked #77 locally (and still climbing). My new goal is to make the local Top 20 in the next week. On Saturday, I attended the CD release party for Eddie & The F*ckMonkys, a band that I used to jam with back in the days at Highlands Tap Room in Louisville. It was great to see that they're still going strong after 10 years. I also ordered business cards and promotional refrigerator magnets for Chamber of Night Records. Today, I'm mostly going to catch up on my reading for this upcoming test. Tomorrow, my main focus will be securing a venue for the record label launch party so I can begin focusing on creating fliers and radio ads for the event. On Wednesday, I'm going to sit down with Fella and officially sign him to the label.
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