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If you haven't heard, Open Office 3.0 is out. If you don't know what that is, its a free word processing program that will do everything that Microsoft Word will, plus ITS FREE! My friend Doug has been a long time advocate of open source software and first turned me onto the idea as he is a Linux user.
Anyway, don't waste your money on those heavy handed and $$ Microsoft programs, you can download many of the equivalent programs for free and just as easily open Microsoft programs. Since I left academia, I get very few Word documents or Excel spreadsheets sent my way. Usually when I do, I open them as Google Docs anyway, but yeah... Open Office: everything you need at a fraction of the memory usage. I used it the other day to work on the T-Model Ford rider.
Also, my friend Ryan pointed me towards LifeHacker, which will keep you up to date on fancy little things to both save you time and make your face time in front of the computer more enjoyable.
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In other news, The .357 String Band arrived home last week from their East Coast tour. They had a few bumps and busts along the way, but overall, managed to pull off a month long tour in markets they had not previously played. I'm here to tell you... that's tough! Those guys are off until the 23rd, when they play 3 Midwest shows and head directly South for dates in AR, TX, LA, AL, FL, GA, SC, TN, NC, VA and then back up to the Midwest and arrive home on 11-23. Five days later, they get on a plane for Europe.
The .357 String Band are working their assess off!
When Jan 10th 2009 gets here, they will have been touring for 5 months straight with less than 3 cumulative weeks off. The plan is to take a full month off in Feb and then head back out in March, April and May for another US tour, primarily out West. Besides Joe Buck, I know of no band touring that hard without record label support. And even then, there are very few. You just flat out have to be hungry, bold and have a threshold for pain to stay on the road that long. Give it up for The .357 String Band!
I will say that we had quite a problem in the NE with the venues not promoting the shows. What's the deal? Quite of a few of these places didn't even bother to the hang posters we sent them. The Northeast is just tough and definitely my least favorite region to book; The bands make considerably less money up there, the shows aren't near as good, the PAs are in bad shape, the soundmen suck, the venues don't feed the bands, there are tolls every other mile.... I could go on. There are some good markets, but the places you have to play in order to get to those markets are what makes it so tough. Yankees....
Joe Buck is currently in the Midwest following the Southeast and East Coast dates. With a handful of exceptions, the shows have been going really well and you can definitely feel the momentum with the audiences. Below is the webisode of Joe Buck TV framed around the Miami gig (and the long ass drive to get there!). Miami.... who would have thought they have punk shows? ) There weren't a hole lot of people there, but for the first time through, there was certainly potential.
Anyway, don't waste your money on those heavy handed and $$ Microsoft programs, you can download many of the equivalent programs for free and just as easily open Microsoft programs. Since I left academia, I get very few Word documents or Excel spreadsheets sent my way. Usually when I do, I open them as Google Docs anyway, but yeah... Open Office: everything you need at a fraction of the memory usage. I used it the other day to work on the T-Model Ford rider.
Also, my friend Ryan pointed me towards LifeHacker, which will keep you up to date on fancy little things to both save you time and make your face time in front of the computer more enjoyable.
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In other news, The .357 String Band arrived home last week from their East Coast tour. They had a few bumps and busts along the way, but overall, managed to pull off a month long tour in markets they had not previously played. I'm here to tell you... that's tough! Those guys are off until the 23rd, when they play 3 Midwest shows and head directly South for dates in AR, TX, LA, AL, FL, GA, SC, TN, NC, VA and then back up to the Midwest and arrive home on 11-23. Five days later, they get on a plane for Europe.
The .357 String Band are working their assess off!
When Jan 10th 2009 gets here, they will have been touring for 5 months straight with less than 3 cumulative weeks off. The plan is to take a full month off in Feb and then head back out in March, April and May for another US tour, primarily out West. Besides Joe Buck, I know of no band touring that hard without record label support. And even then, there are very few. You just flat out have to be hungry, bold and have a threshold for pain to stay on the road that long. Give it up for The .357 String Band!
I will say that we had quite a problem in the NE with the venues not promoting the shows. What's the deal? Quite of a few of these places didn't even bother to the hang posters we sent them. The Northeast is just tough and definitely my least favorite region to book; The bands make considerably less money up there, the shows aren't near as good, the PAs are in bad shape, the soundmen suck, the venues don't feed the bands, there are tolls every other mile.... I could go on. There are some good markets, but the places you have to play in order to get to those markets are what makes it so tough. Yankees....
Joe Buck is currently in the Midwest following the Southeast and East Coast dates. With a handful of exceptions, the shows have been going really well and you can definitely feel the momentum with the audiences. Below is the webisode of Joe Buck TV framed around the Miami gig (and the long ass drive to get there!). Miami.... who would have thought they have punk shows? ) There weren't a hole lot of people there, but for the first time through, there was certainly potential.
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