CMJ WEEK

[carvinkeeper12]

ZOMG IT'S CMJ WEEK!! The festival doesn't officially start until tomorrow...but I'm gonna have a lot of fun going to concerts this week between the festival and TMBG shows.

So far it's looking like:

Wednesday: Margot via CMJ
Thursday: TMBG in Farmingdale, NY (I wish I could also go to my friend's show that's going to include other kids in our department and bands such as Freezepop. It's not an official CMJ thing, but a "CMJ Party")
Friday: NYU Student band showcase via CMJ (I'm assisting my friend with sound since our program is putting this on)
Saturday: TMBG @ (le) Poisson Rouge

Currently we're doing fun perception stuff in my Brain and Behavior lecture. Somehow this week I have to fit in a lab report for last week's lab, lots of reading for Programming and Studio, and my midterm "essay" (3-4 page opinion piece/prediction) for Recorded Music Industry: Past, Present, Future.

I'm going to be exhausted but supremely happy this week. I will not, however, take patnode's suggestion and turn to speed, but rather will probably end up nursing my growing caffeine addiction. Yum, coffee and chocolate and Mountain Dew.

Ooh, now we're talking about one of my vision problems: myopia. Really just eye structure in general and she went over how the lens focuses light at a precise angle and some people can't see the detail in things because they focus too far forward or too far back from the retina. Then we moved on to glaucoma. I wonder if we'll get to binocular vision and depth perception, the other area in which I am lacking...

I think I've said that I've been hanging out with the people next door a lot. They've talked about how I'm now part of their "family", and the fourth roommate of 2613. Also, they're dorks and created a wiki for themselves yesterday. The only pages that have been updated have been Val's (who actually went ahead and made it) and mine. Mine was only updated because Val got mad at me for whining about not being able to edit using Wiki code like you can for TMBW or Wikipedia. Then somehow (it was 4 am by this point, I don't remember everything) we got to talking about Dr. Strangelove and I started reading quotes off of IMDB. Val suggested we re-film it with me as Dr. Strangelove after I said one of his quotes. I guess my German accent is entertaining? It's not good, I can tell you that.

Well, I should probably start paying attention to lecture again. Ooh! It's almost half over!

Comments

[bec-87rb.livejournal.com]

CMJ?

[carvinkeeper12.livejournal.com]

CMJ stands for College Music Journal. They've been around for years, report of the most widely-quoted college charts. Every October they host a week-long festival in New York, similar to SXBW (South by Southwest) in Austin each year. Last year and this year NYU has been hosting all the panels, and in return we are allocated a couple of student band showcases. My program happens to have taken over one, and we also get free badges to access the festival. It's pretty ridiculously expensive otherwise. I think the "student discount" badge for others runs around $235.

That was much more information than you needed.

Whoops.

[carvinkeeper12.livejournal.com]

There wasn't supposed to be an 'of' after 'report' up there.

235 smackers?

[bec-87rb.livejournal.com]

What, are college students made out of gold now? Good job scoring the free badge!

$235 dollars. Damn.

[teddyleevin.livejournal.com]

See you thursday lol.

[bec-87rb.livejournal.com]

ACtually, I was thinking Country Music, too, but couldn't figure out how TMBG fit in there.

[carvinkeeper12.livejournal.com]

Yeah, makes sense, what with the tv channel existing and all.

The Saturday TMBG show used to be a CMJ-affiliated show for a while, but it got taken off the schedule recently. I'm not sure why, just means that my paying for a ticket was a good idea.

Re: 235 smackers?

[carvinkeeper12.livejournal.com]

I don't know the actual price, but that's the "replace your lost badge" price.

My major has some pretty good perks.

[goat-brains.livejournal.com]

Oh I hope you have fun!

but you know I really wish I could see tmbg that many times, I've only seen them once and I'm really not allowed to go to see shows in other states when there's school. I hate how nobody apparently wants to go to Florida and I can tell hardly anyone went.

I also hate how everyone lies, I mean brags about how they did this and that at the show or is apparently a smartass on tmbg, or got this shit from linnell or whatever, they're just normal people god!

And you know what, I already bitched about this sort of thing in my journal and I don't need to again, this journal isn't about me. I feel like an idiot now.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Maybe if all they play is "Lucky Ball & Chain" and "Counterfeit Faker."