Okay… So I lied about the “those days of 4 hours sleep are over.” *Sigh*. Tonight will be one of them. Thank goodness for the alert feeling of melatonin. I remember taking serious advantage of that when I worked the 4am shift.

So what’s been up with Stu anyway? In summary: Work, Car, Phone, KROQ Weenie Roast w/ Maureen & WESTof1 PRODUCTIONS! I’ll start with the latter.

I’m excited to introduce our company – WESTof1 PRODUCTIONS

We spent some time getting the website up and running and now its ready to rock. Using our combined past experiences we have a decent portfolio and are ready to start bringing in some new clients, the good news is we’ve already had some successful video shoots!!

Booyah!

My client list has picked up again and now I am cramming work in each week so that I can make an extra buck or two. I am currently juggling 7 projects but wish to focus most of energy on one in particular of the likes I cannot discuss. Exciting projects though, looking forward to displaying them and hopefully continuing to be involved in the future. I am finding it semi enjoyable to… stay up and code basic websites– what happened?!?!? Oh well… It is also mostly web work but some graphic work too– I am pretty much starting my own business and helping start two businesses on the side. I’m really hoping that one of my leads will bring me the amount of work he is promising… If you know anyone who needs a website, graphics, or multimedia- you know who to call– and its not the ghostbusters.

Unfortunately– With all this focus on work I haven’t had any time to devote to music and the music video. So much for a 1-2 month deadline, and I knew this would happen too. Thats why I was so pressed to get the music video done in the first place so I could actually get it finished! Now half the clips are sitting on the external drive gathering dust while I try to sort out my financial situation which could only be stable 5-6 months down the road if that. Life caught up and reality set in– I just don’t have the time right now to devote as much as I wish I could to my music. Its my top priority to get out of this poor financial situation and unfortunately the reality is that I cannot spend as much time (if any) on what I love to do. *another sigh*.

My car’s allotted mileage has run out– so now its going to cost .15 a mile. I’ll probably get it up to 500 over so that will be around $75. The lease will be ending in a month- so thats not too bad, a small price to pay for the huge return on fun– it sort of reminds me of that “surprise! you went over the text-message limit!”.

I’m really sad about the lease ending though. My parents helped me pay for it a few months- to my dismay as I was hoping it would be my first car I entirely paid for. Perhaps I can pay them back if things work out. I’m going to miss it terribly, its been one hell of a fun car to drive. *final sigh*

Some good news… I got a new phone– my old Helio Ocean (as awesome as it was), couldn’t receive calls anymore. I decided to save $20 a month with a new G1. This thing is NUTS. I’m going to post some app reviews on this blog soon. I’ll be writing a post soon about the best and most useful apps- or at least my favorites.

I was super lucky to have the opportunity to witness the KROQ Weenie Roast Y Fiesta 2009 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater @ Irvine, CA– thanks to the wonderful, Maureen. Weezer put on a great show as did Jimmy Eat World, Cage the Elephant, and Silversun Pickups- finally a good performance by Rancid and Travis Barker with DJ AM bringing some Electronic awesomeness to the mainstream (I hope.) It was an extremely memorable day not only because of the music, but the exceptional company as well. Thanks Maureen!

So that’s what’s been up. Oh yeah I went to vegas thanks to my friends to celebrate their birthdays… but… I can’t really talk about that. What did I do for my 25th birthday anyway?? Sad I can’t remember. Oh well- guess vegas was my birthday gift too.

I’d better get some sleep so I can be semi-alert for my client meeting at 10am. Expect some G1 app reviews soon and hopefully some good news on all fronts – especially music.

Yes, I didn’t post anything on April 1st because I was too busy. I am stayin’ alive (barely) by scratching and finding new contracts, seems to always be a source of income- even though most of the contracts I’ve been getting lately range from as little as $25 to $75. (These are a lot more common, like once every two weeks.) I’ve been doing contract work for 8 years here and there, mostly small jobs like logo designs, banners, a small website here and there, a video project or other multimedia project here and there… But now is the most difficult period yet to find new contracts. I love how most of my Blog posts are when I don’t actually have time and end up posting at 2:30 AM instead of SLEEPING. I used to get by on 4 hours of sleep– but those days are OVER!

The good news?

After injuries, tears, laughing and cheers, Filming for “Glow” is complete, and editing has begun. It took 6 days to film, approximately 4 hours each day. Saturday was the longest with about 6-8 hours of filming. Starting in the morning and finishing a shot up on “Turtle Hill” (on the appropriate ’starcrest’ street). The first few nights involved getting used to the using equipment and lighting, resolving snags/complications/missing equipment, and getting used to set-up times. Working with such a low budged forced us to…

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