Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead
Posted on April 26th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:10 am
So, the BCC student newspaper, the Jibsheet, ran a review of Revision4920, a surprisingly glowing review at that, though it’s not the first time I have recieved ink from them, and I suppose it’s the result of people expecting nothing, thus making any achievement seem interesting by comparison. I mean, I listened to an NPR review of Ghostface Killah’s lauded new CD, Fishscale, and the few clips interspersed with the over-intellectualized-though-accurate review are amazing. I might have to get that disc just for the Spongebob Squarepants references, the outstanding production and the raw acuity in the vocal delivery. Anyway, the fellow from the newspaper really dug my CD, and even enjoyed the remixes. Pretty cool deal on the whole, right? It even gets me thinking I could send the CD out to some local newspapers. Maybe Seattle Weekly or something. Just bundle it with a press packet and go.
Meanwhile, I get out of class and their is wrecked car sorta behind my car, partially parking me in but not completely. I try to pull out, but I graze the car to the left of me. I pull back into the park spot, stop, check the damage, freak out, get back in the car, re-adjust the steering and pull out cleanly, and then I’m weighing my options as to what to do next. Do I just leave? No, that’d be a really punk move, and having had my own tail light smashed-in w/o a note by some anonymous nare-do-well, I really grasped what a horrid and mean move that’d be. However, waiting for the person to comeback wasn’t necessarily feasible either, as I had no ETA on the owner of the vehicle I scraped. I check again to see how bad it is. Maybe paint will just rub off? No. It’s not damaged beyond paint rubbing off on the other vehicle, but that paint is definitely on there and it’s not easily removed. It’s not body damage, but still, it’s not easily remedied. I really screwed up. I decide after calling home to leave a note with my contact info, but even that left me feeling like an idiot and a total jerk. I probably should have just left my car at BCC and taken a bus rather than trying to get out.
Basically, any endorphin boost I might have received from that positive review was more than shattered by my own incompetence and ego. Very icarian I guess. If a claim is filed and my rates are bumped, I think I’ll cancel my trips (AX/Comicon and Comiket/Korea) this summer. I can’t justify those trips if my folks are suddenly stuck an extra 1000 bucks a year on insurance. It’d terrible of me to go to LA, San Diego, Tokyo and Korea after forcing the insurance rates up via pure idiocy, especially since my parents are already so nice to me.
I mean, it’s already looking anything beyond AX is out between my budget and my lacking a place to stay in LA for 5 days after AX, and I really hate that fly-in-fly-out stuff. I mean, I guess I have to do AX for Toon Zone cause they need the extra people (maybe Jim should just go for me, I can get him the credentials) but if I do, and the claim is filed, I’m not taking any extra spending money or anything. Just the most barebones, minimal essentials for food (and no eating out – I’ll hit a grocery store for a bag of generic cereal, some cheap bread, a jar of cheap peanut butter and a few gallons of distilled water to which I can add some gatorade mix,) shelter (hotel cost) and airfare (I should look into online deals now if I’m going to do this before the fuel cost makes airfare stupid expensive.)
I guess on the plus side, I’ll be around this summer if everything does fall through. No chance of missing out on the nerdcore documentary interview nor PAX that way.
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