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Breakfast…

“Smoking or Non-smoking?”

Smoking indoors…We once again felt as if we had drifted off into some weird parallel universe. We had an awesome breakfast at Perkins however Ed was not happy with the slow service (big shocker there.) Racer X ordered the albatross and I ordered the decimated cadaver. We got more coffee to go and headed to the conference.

The Conference…

We arrived a few hours before registration so we had time to hang out with all the other bands and make some good connections. I handed postcards, stickers and demo’s to anyone who was staff and of course all the hotties. At this point I kind of had a prepared presentation which was professional and friendly. I was finally feeling comfortable in my own skin while talking to cute girls. Then I saw another blonde… Weird cause I’m totally into redheads, but for our trip it was all about the blonde. I approached her and talked about the band, asked about her music and departed before conversation ran out. I felt very good about this. I caught the end of her acoustic performance and really dug her sound and lyrics which I totally ID’d with. I spoke with her a bit afterwards and exchanged more info and went on my merry way. I had a breakthrough; my confidence had returned! I promoted like crazy for the rest of the day and Oren had commented that I had “Conference Fever.” We attended a few lectures hosted by very important people in the business. When it came time for questions, Chris’ hand sprung up and got to ask the first question out of like 80 people. He inquired about the contract that we had been offered by a label and we got some great advice. I made sure I took lots of notes and we all continued to promote the rest of the day. It was truly an awesome experience.

Farewell Harrisburg….

We loaded up and hit the road. To avoid any other snowy incidents Ed drove at a reasonable speed. Craig and I listened to the Heroin Diaries on the way home which totally kicked ass and we stickered as many toll booths as we could with our emblem on the way home. We got back to the house and found that Lee had made all kinds of yummy deserts. I am going to marry her unless one of the other guys beats me to it. The whole trip was amazing. We got a ton accomplished and had so much fun in the process. I can’t wait to hit the road again. As for the albatross…Craig figured 99% of it out. He was able to ascertain that one guy ate a dead bird and the other guy ate a dead man but he couldn’t figure out why….

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