"Home is where the heart is"
Is it completely absurd for me to say that I feel like Brentwood TN is my home? We went on a retreat this past weekend to the Smoky Mountains as a get-a-way from music and let me tell you it was SOOO relaxing. I literally stayed in the hot tub all the time, haha. This cabin held 36 people, it had a pinball machine and couple other video games (where the guys spent most of their time!), tv's everywhere, balcony on every story, 2 hot tubs, a movie theater room, and a room with pool table.......pretty awesome place, o and did i mention the view was breathtaking? After being in Nashville for going on 3 months and taking a weekend trip to the Smokies it's pretty safe to say that I would LOVE to live in the mountains someday. I always thought that I would want to live on a beach but, living in the mountains is just incredible. Mountains amaze me, they are one thing in nature that truly takes my breath away. I love sitting on our balcony at our apartment in the morning, drinking my coffee and just look at the sun rise over top the mountains, BEAUTIFUL! But anyways when we came back from our retreat we arrived back at our apartments and I had the weirdest feeling, it was like I was home. Home for me has always been Canton, Ohio but maybe God has something planned for me in the future to be somewhere else.
So continuing an update of my journey here.....Stress level has INCREASED a lot! The first few weeks here was getting to know everyone, get to know the equipment, get to know your music. Now, we should already have a pretty good idea of who we are and what music we produce. The past couple weeks we've been in studio time for literally 24 hours a day. Usually everyday there is one of us students in the studio for every hour of the day. Yes, that means that someone is always stuck with the crappy hours 1am-6am. Try doing your master vocal track at those hours....haha not easy! On top of recording and trying to get our master recordings done for the semester we're preparing for our tour. I'm SOOO excited about our tour. We are planning an 8 day trip up north and doing about 7 shows (i believe). There is talk of them doing like a variety show where there will be more artists showcased but, we still do not know for sure. How they have done it in the past is that only one or two artists will headline and then the other artists will play in the band, be stage hands, back ground vocalists, etc. So we have a tour bus and we load up all of our equipment, lights, etc. and we travel and do an actual tour. I'm super excited about this tour and the opportunities that it's going to bring. Our tour manager is A.J. (who lives in my apartment) and she is going to do a great job at planning this whole thing. And she's working on getting me contacts for every school that we go to so that I can set up a meeting with the school to talk to them about Stealing Hollywood and the possibility of doing an event there. So I can't even imagine the possible doors that this could open with Stealing Hollywood. On another note for Stealing Hollywood, we have the opportunity to host an event at North Dakota State University in November sometime. Details of that are still in the works, but i'm so excited about the word getting out about this!!! So anyways stress level here at the CMC is rising. We were told today, "Well gang, sleep is no more." haha great thing to hear right??
So anyways if anyone reads these here are a few ways you could be praying for me and the kids here:
-SLEEP :-)
-details for tour comes together
-recording goes smoothly
-since stress is rising, just pray that we all still stay cool with each other and don't end up at each others throats!
Thanks!
