The Poor House

Apparently, that's where I could wind up if I continue on this path I'm on trying to make a career as an independent artist. There's a really great article (which I found on the ever enlightening spinme.com) in which ten very successful and touring musicians are interviewed about how they manage to balance their life with their music career. Long story short, just about all of them have other sources of income or other jobs ... they have to because they could not survive on music alone. I have to ask myself what measures success? How will I know when I am successful? When I can quit my day job and just work for myself? When I stop losing money on music and actually start making a little? Or am I successful everytime somebody buys my CD and really enjoys it? I don't know. The article wasn't very inspiring to me, though I think that was the intent To me, what it said was that even the most successful indie artists can't support themselves solely through their art. So, I have to ask myself, what am I gonna do? I can't work a dead end job all my life. The time has come for me to start thinking seriously about what my fiscal career will be, because obviously my music career isn't going to support me, even if I attain the level of success that the artists who were interviewed have attained after years in the business. I wonder if it's too late 2 be a porn star! (joking, people, joking ... kind of) Hey, it worked for Paris Hilton!

Anyhoo, I'll have to ponder these heavy issues tomorrow. I've made more corrections to the new website, which will launch this week hopefully, and my lil' ass is tired.

One sheep, 2 sheep, 3 sheep ...zzzzzzzzzzzz