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Thursday, April 15, 2010
well its been a month...
i thought that i might think about doing some form of a recap of the last well....month.
places that i went in the last month: New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania(again), Virgina, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. yeah it was a busy month. a lot of miles but a lot of fun as well. there were many places that i hadn't been to before and didn't know or think that i would see them. most of which is in Florida. such a graet state when its any season other than summer and the months just before and after it.... lol
one of the places that was pretty nice to visit was daytona beach. a great location, not to humid and totally man made and DAYTONA SPEEDWAY!!! WOOOOOT hehehe saddly i didn't get to see inside the track or anything but it was nice to drive by it. the beach was pretty cool.... spring break and all.. fake fake fake oh i mean girls.... right...
we also went to palm beach, orlando, key largo, largo and naples. so all those citys were nice and sunny and such. key largo is a humidity whore! always stupid hot there. wasn't enjoying that one. but the tropical paradise was pleasant to see. most of you are my friends on facebook so you have seen the pictures and all that stuff.
oh oho ho h oh oh i have to tell you, if you ever find yourself in Talahassee, which is a great city, you MUST locate and try a place called "1 Fresh Stir Fry" i was told that there are 3 locations in the city. i swear it was the best non-fancy food i have ever had. and its totally unique in its fashion for how the menu is formed and the food is totally personal. its epic i tell you. EPIC!
so the places before Florida weren't anything lovely for me. didn't enjoy the lack of wilderness.
on that note of nothingness, i will tell you about the end of the tour. YAY!!! we finished the tour in naples, FL in a pretty small and not to amazing venue. nice people but training isn't something that we should have to do for the people that are working at the venues. none the less sometimes it happens.. this was kinda one of them. the LD didn't even work there, the TD was the only one who knew how to do everything so he in turn had to do everything... which really stretches out the setup process a good bit.. heh.
allin all in the end of it we pulled the show off with some insane fog, great lights, and all with very little clear com chatter. once the show was over it was a tear down like normal and then EVERYTHING goes in the truck. thats all the kids stuff and luggage included... oh and the cookers and such itemz. basicly it turns out they put about 2K on my truck!! baaallldaisadasda!
this put me over weight by about 500 pounds. which to me doesn't seem like much and didn't slow me down at all. welllll THE LAW doesn't seem to like that little over weight thing. so the last weight station that i go in in Florida they call me in and lay down a fatty fine on us. about 925$ for being over weight. now im not totally sure how they got he fine amount but they said for every pound over 10K it was .50$ so yeah it was a bit of a process that they went through. now luckily for me none of this has effect on me at all. the company was fined. however now i have to answer to the company about it all..... they aren't trilled at all and tell me to skip EVERY weight station between Florida and the studio.........well jeeze! of course thats what i did... and every station that i passed my heart started to race and i was just hoping that i wouldn't get in any trouble. meanwhile i just kept trucking on and got to cali in 3 days of 10 hour driving and then 4 hours on the 4th day. i felt i made damn good time.
now the next few days were simple, hang out with the kids, return the gear and truck all that. the hardest part was saying goodbye to my sister. who i will most likely never see again. which is really sad because she is so lovely! *****side note: this lemon drop latte is sooo tasty***** i have a few pics of her on my facebook that you can see and whatever else you wish to do.
ok thats all for now. sometime later i will post something on the future of me and the company.
ok thanks for reading this wall of text that is my blog. i dont know how you do it..
<3
Bill.
places that i went in the last month: New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania(again), Virgina, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. yeah it was a busy month. a lot of miles but a lot of fun as well. there were many places that i hadn't been to before and didn't know or think that i would see them. most of which is in Florida. such a graet state when its any season other than summer and the months just before and after it.... lol
one of the places that was pretty nice to visit was daytona beach. a great location, not to humid and totally man made and DAYTONA SPEEDWAY!!! WOOOOOT hehehe saddly i didn't get to see inside the track or anything but it was nice to drive by it. the beach was pretty cool.... spring break and all.. fake fake fake oh i mean girls.... right...
we also went to palm beach, orlando, key largo, largo and naples. so all those citys were nice and sunny and such. key largo is a humidity whore! always stupid hot there. wasn't enjoying that one. but the tropical paradise was pleasant to see. most of you are my friends on facebook so you have seen the pictures and all that stuff.
oh oho ho h oh oh i have to tell you, if you ever find yourself in Talahassee, which is a great city, you MUST locate and try a place called "1 Fresh Stir Fry" i was told that there are 3 locations in the city. i swear it was the best non-fancy food i have ever had. and its totally unique in its fashion for how the menu is formed and the food is totally personal. its epic i tell you. EPIC!
so the places before Florida weren't anything lovely for me. didn't enjoy the lack of wilderness.
on that note of nothingness, i will tell you about the end of the tour. YAY!!! we finished the tour in naples, FL in a pretty small and not to amazing venue. nice people but training isn't something that we should have to do for the people that are working at the venues. none the less sometimes it happens.. this was kinda one of them. the LD didn't even work there, the TD was the only one who knew how to do everything so he in turn had to do everything... which really stretches out the setup process a good bit.. heh.
allin all in the end of it we pulled the show off with some insane fog, great lights, and all with very little clear com chatter. once the show was over it was a tear down like normal and then EVERYTHING goes in the truck. thats all the kids stuff and luggage included... oh and the cookers and such itemz. basicly it turns out they put about 2K on my truck!! baaallldaisadasda!
this put me over weight by about 500 pounds. which to me doesn't seem like much and didn't slow me down at all. welllll THE LAW doesn't seem to like that little over weight thing. so the last weight station that i go in in Florida they call me in and lay down a fatty fine on us. about 925$ for being over weight. now im not totally sure how they got he fine amount but they said for every pound over 10K it was .50$ so yeah it was a bit of a process that they went through. now luckily for me none of this has effect on me at all. the company was fined. however now i have to answer to the company about it all..... they aren't trilled at all and tell me to skip EVERY weight station between Florida and the studio.........well jeeze! of course thats what i did... and every station that i passed my heart started to race and i was just hoping that i wouldn't get in any trouble. meanwhile i just kept trucking on and got to cali in 3 days of 10 hour driving and then 4 hours on the 4th day. i felt i made damn good time.
now the next few days were simple, hang out with the kids, return the gear and truck all that. the hardest part was saying goodbye to my sister. who i will most likely never see again. which is really sad because she is so lovely! *****side note: this lemon drop latte is sooo tasty***** i have a few pics of her on my facebook that you can see and whatever else you wish to do.
ok thats all for now. sometime later i will post something on the future of me and the company.
ok thanks for reading this wall of text that is my blog. i dont know how you do it..
<3
Bill.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
picsasss
This is Kaka
and they put my hair up.... this is the only way i am attractive i hear....
This happens to be my new USB drive
The Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pa
i cant remember why now, but for some reason Always Open seemed funny at the time
Best Catering ever.
if you look closely you can see the horse and buggy in a Amish townThursday, March 4, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
i dont know what to say
ummm sooo this is the life i guess? idk...
left where ever it was that i was at.... went somewhere different then i life there to and now im here. to be frank.. lol
so i have traveled to Maryland, New Jersey, and now Pennsylvania.
The last few shows have been going very well. getting some great houses some awesome people and all sorts of great things.
*note* humor in NJ is messed up. as are the accents*
Well today was not one of those days that things were all great and groovy. this was in fact a venue that was rather resistant and rude. Today we found ourselves in Princeton, NJ in a very old house. rather small and such but still a cool old space.
our crew today was made up of people close to my age, staff not students, and some elder guys that have been there awhile.
so the day started off like any other we show up, say hello check out the stage and start moving some stuff in. i treated everyone kindly like i always do, helping in the cases and such, then i go on stage and ask just a few questions to Steve just because i wasn't sure of the answer. it had to do with the house gear. i ask the question and the house TD (technical Director) answers back to me that "we have been doing this show for over 20 years, we know what there are doing". now i don't know if there was something that i said that made him respond in that nature or what but i just went with it. then i see we are setting up our band right next to the rail position, the place where people pull the ropes to make things fly in and out. now normally we ask the rail person if they have access to a double muff headset( just a large pair of headphones. the normal ones only have one speaking thing...*muff*) *note i asked the guy running the rail this question.* i get in response from their TD "look we have it under control just don't worry about it" i was a bit taken back by this. well come to find out that pretty much sets the tone for the entire day. for first 10 minutes ruins the day with the stage crew.
now i will say there were a few times that i did get a little annoyed with them but it was more or less a build up from them just being assholes to me. never listening to what i was telling people to do, or just flat out ignoring me and being pissy.
the big confrontation came just before the show started when i was attempting to page the curtain for the band as i do in EVERY theatre that we have been in thus far. mind you that's about 40 by now. all you do is grab lightly on two points of the curtain and pull towards you. making sure not to show the backstage. now while i am doing this the TD comes over to me and says "no i will do it" I'm like "ok that's fine" and then he grabs the opening of the curtain and just opens it... i was a lil irritated by this and said " that's not paging that's opening" he gets pissed off and says " alright you and me are having a talk right now!" i tell him after i send the band we can talk.
so he takes me to the side and tells me i have been rude and disrespectful to his crew, giving all of them an attitude and treating them like they don't know what they are doing. He tells me that i need to give more respect to everyone because this is their house and i am simply a guest or something to that extent. next he tells me that if i want to page the curtain i need to talk to him, if i want something done i have to talk to him to get it done. i cant just ask one of his crew..... this place isn't even a freaking union!!!! but i guess its still Princeton. lol
my response was that i was sorry for talking rude to him and that i don't know why his crew feels the way i do, i have meant no disrespect and they have done a fine job. they simply just refuse to listen to what i say or need to have happen. the only people that have been pleasant to work with was the LD (lighting Director) and the Sound crew. everyone else was very unpleasant.
Next he also says that i was out of line telling his crew that they could have some of the meat and other stuff that is downstairs. saying that "the venue pays for the talent to have lunch, not to feed us. " my response was " alright, well there is quite a bit of stuff and its tasty so if you would like some then its cool" he says back, " no we will not touch the food, the venue doesn't waste money to feed us." now im pretty confused. if the food isn't theirs then it is ours. if it ours then we dictate what happens with it. so if I tell someone they can have some then it is outside the venues slap on the hand... right? i mean we gave someone a sandwich and she said that she would get in trouble if she is seen with it.....
im like WTF MATE????
idk the venue was super small. i thought it was going to be larger.. oh well. but all in all a good show when it came down to it. honestly don't care to go back to Princeton... and no i didn't get any pics... im lame.
night night..
ohhh im in king of Prussia, Pa right now. woot. shopping at the mall tomorrow. and when i shopping i mean no buying anything.
nuan jing doing the nose balance
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
NJPAC
NJPAC
bridge into Jersey... maybe
left where ever it was that i was at.... went somewhere different then i life there to and now im here. to be frank.. lol
so i have traveled to Maryland, New Jersey, and now Pennsylvania.
The last few shows have been going very well. getting some great houses some awesome people and all sorts of great things.
*note* humor in NJ is messed up. as are the accents*
Well today was not one of those days that things were all great and groovy. this was in fact a venue that was rather resistant and rude. Today we found ourselves in Princeton, NJ in a very old house. rather small and such but still a cool old space.
our crew today was made up of people close to my age, staff not students, and some elder guys that have been there awhile.
so the day started off like any other we show up, say hello check out the stage and start moving some stuff in. i treated everyone kindly like i always do, helping in the cases and such, then i go on stage and ask just a few questions to Steve just because i wasn't sure of the answer. it had to do with the house gear. i ask the question and the house TD (technical Director) answers back to me that "we have been doing this show for over 20 years, we know what there are doing". now i don't know if there was something that i said that made him respond in that nature or what but i just went with it. then i see we are setting up our band right next to the rail position, the place where people pull the ropes to make things fly in and out. now normally we ask the rail person if they have access to a double muff headset( just a large pair of headphones. the normal ones only have one speaking thing...*muff*) *note i asked the guy running the rail this question.* i get in response from their TD "look we have it under control just don't worry about it" i was a bit taken back by this. well come to find out that pretty much sets the tone for the entire day. for first 10 minutes ruins the day with the stage crew.
now i will say there were a few times that i did get a little annoyed with them but it was more or less a build up from them just being assholes to me. never listening to what i was telling people to do, or just flat out ignoring me and being pissy.
the big confrontation came just before the show started when i was attempting to page the curtain for the band as i do in EVERY theatre that we have been in thus far. mind you that's about 40 by now. all you do is grab lightly on two points of the curtain and pull towards you. making sure not to show the backstage. now while i am doing this the TD comes over to me and says "no i will do it" I'm like "ok that's fine" and then he grabs the opening of the curtain and just opens it... i was a lil irritated by this and said " that's not paging that's opening" he gets pissed off and says " alright you and me are having a talk right now!" i tell him after i send the band we can talk.
so he takes me to the side and tells me i have been rude and disrespectful to his crew, giving all of them an attitude and treating them like they don't know what they are doing. He tells me that i need to give more respect to everyone because this is their house and i am simply a guest or something to that extent. next he tells me that if i want to page the curtain i need to talk to him, if i want something done i have to talk to him to get it done. i cant just ask one of his crew..... this place isn't even a freaking union!!!! but i guess its still Princeton. lol
my response was that i was sorry for talking rude to him and that i don't know why his crew feels the way i do, i have meant no disrespect and they have done a fine job. they simply just refuse to listen to what i say or need to have happen. the only people that have been pleasant to work with was the LD (lighting Director) and the Sound crew. everyone else was very unpleasant.
Next he also says that i was out of line telling his crew that they could have some of the meat and other stuff that is downstairs. saying that "the venue pays for the talent to have lunch, not to feed us. " my response was " alright, well there is quite a bit of stuff and its tasty so if you would like some then its cool" he says back, " no we will not touch the food, the venue doesn't waste money to feed us." now im pretty confused. if the food isn't theirs then it is ours. if it ours then we dictate what happens with it. so if I tell someone they can have some then it is outside the venues slap on the hand... right? i mean we gave someone a sandwich and she said that she would get in trouble if she is seen with it.....
im like WTF MATE????
idk the venue was super small. i thought it was going to be larger.. oh well. but all in all a good show when it came down to it. honestly don't care to go back to Princeton... and no i didn't get any pics... im lame.
night night..
ohhh im in king of Prussia, Pa right now. woot. shopping at the mall tomorrow. and when i shopping i mean no buying anything.
nuan jing doing the nose balance
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
NJPAC
NJPAC
bridge into Jersey... maybeThursday, February 25, 2010
To The People Who Read My Words
Hey world, I'm Keenan.
Hi Keenan!
ummm Hi.....
So im here today to admit i have a problem.
Ok Keenan tell us whats wrong.
ummmm alright, well my problem is
IMMM BOOORRREEEEDDDD
ugg
So here i am in a crappy little motel, in a crappy little town, in this rather nice state, with a rather large amount of hills..... pain in the butt to drive in really... and i have nothing to do because i am in a room without a view... lol jk. i wish i was close to someone that i knew.. blah
So a few things that have been going on recently are as follows:
Am now in a very limited contact with a friend thati care dearly for.
Had some pretty decent shows with like no issues.
Oh OH OH found some good beer in ohio....i know i didnt think it could happen either. its from Great Lakes Brewing Co. called Eliot Ness. its really yummy. oh and then today i had some.... decent brew. nothing all to grand though from the Dogfish head brewing..
Oh i have had my own room a boat load of times on this tour, which is also really contributing to the boredom.. hermm
So now i find myself in Gaithersburg, MD.... yeah i thought the same thing too.. weird name. oh well. so tomorrow we are going to the strathmore center. a beautiful hall. i might post some pictures.
well if i had anything else to say..... i forgot it.
thats how it is folks.
PEACE
PICTURESSSS
this is in Columbus, Ohio
The Overture Theatre. Madison, Wisconson
A fat Ruben in Maryland.
Crossing over to West Virgina.... i think
Hi Keenan!
ummm Hi.....
So im here today to admit i have a problem.
Ok Keenan tell us whats wrong.
ummmm alright, well my problem is
IMMM BOOORRREEEEDDDD
ugg
So here i am in a crappy little motel, in a crappy little town, in this rather nice state, with a rather large amount of hills..... pain in the butt to drive in really... and i have nothing to do because i am in a room without a view... lol jk. i wish i was close to someone that i knew.. blah
So a few things that have been going on recently are as follows:
Am now in a very limited contact with a friend thati care dearly for.
Had some pretty decent shows with like no issues.
Oh OH OH found some good beer in ohio....i know i didnt think it could happen either. its from Great Lakes Brewing Co. called Eliot Ness. its really yummy. oh and then today i had some.... decent brew. nothing all to grand though from the Dogfish head brewing..
Oh i have had my own room a boat load of times on this tour, which is also really contributing to the boredom.. hermm
So now i find myself in Gaithersburg, MD.... yeah i thought the same thing too.. weird name. oh well. so tomorrow we are going to the strathmore center. a beautiful hall. i might post some pictures.
well if i had anything else to say..... i forgot it.
thats how it is folks.
PEACE
PICTURESSSS
this is in Columbus, Ohio
The Overture Theatre. Madison, Wisconson
A fat Ruben in Maryland.
Crossing over to West Virgina.... i think
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