This one is about me I guess

So how about some info about me?

I'm gonna try to blog daily for the first little while to just get into the habit of blogging, Hopefully I can write something interesting everyday. I've way to many blogs with just one entry, and I don't want to be one of those who makes and entry and forget that they have a blog. So here goes...

I listen to indie rock, this past Canadian long Thanksgiving weekend, I attend two concerts. I saw Jenny Lewis and Watson Twins on Saturday night (more on that in just a second) and Sloan with Walter Ostanek (the king of Polka) at Rocktoberfest in Kitchener, one of the festivities going on this week for Octoberfest.

Jenny Lewis, for those of you who don't know is the lead singer for the band Rilo Kiley, and also does back up vocals for The Postal Service. She was also a child actress, and I've had a crush on her since my prepubescent teen years from watching The Wizard. Any ways, I've met her four times now. First at a Rilo Kiley show from a few years back at Lee's Palace, there was hardly anybody there, so I bought a cd off her and had her sign it, talked for a bit, then two other times at CFNY a local crappy "new rock" station that doesn't even really play their music. The second time at the radio station, I think she remembered me, since she said "hi" to me first in a different way then how she was talking to the other fans. Then this past Saturday, after the show.
The show was a St. Paul's church, thought it was weird that the concert was in a church, but what a surprise, it was really nice and intimate, and a good view of the show from almost everywhere. After the show, my friend Jorge and I went to get sushi for dinner, afterward walking back to the subway, we saw her and her band packing up the bus. I asked for an autograph, but neither her or I had a pen so we were out of luck. Then I thought how about a picture? But by then a group of teenage girls who were watching and trying to get the nerves to talk to her, unlike me who walks up and just starting talking to her, started to talk to her. They pulled out a huge Polaroid camera and she declined to have her picture taken with them, so overhearing that we just left. I did take pictures of the concert, but out of respect for her privacy I won't post any up.

Another thing that I do is, I bootleg concerts. I don't sell them or trade them, so don't even ask. I keep these for my own personal records. I don't let them out because I respect the artists wishes of having something they have not approved out. If they have an open tapping policy, then I'll freely give it away to other fans.

I also ride a 1978 Vespa scooter. This is my second scooter. The first one got boring since it was so slow, so now I have a faster and bigger one. I had always wanted one since I was 16, in 2000, I had some money put away and I finally got one. If you want something that's cheap on gas and doens't need much maintenance look elsewhere, vintage scooters aren't for people who are not handy. Try a new scooter if you want something that's virtually maintainence free and good on gas.

I have other interest as well. But I won't digress into that.

I'm starting a new venture right now, which is also the reason why I started this blog. Sort of like a personal online thing to keep a records of my thoughts about this venture. Well the business idea (drum roll please) Wedding Photojournalist. I know, the market is flooded with pros and amateurs. Well I'm different. I'm emphasizing my skills that I learn as a graphic designer. So Photography + Graphic Design = one really nice wedding album. After years of doing commercial photography, and try to make it as an art director, I found a way to use both my skills into one really great outlet of shooting and designing fabulous wedding albums for couples. So no, I won't just put your pictures in a album or give a cd and call it day. I want to make something that clients will go crazy for, for the rest of their lives.

I promise to post some pictures up eventually