It's been a busy week.
But a fun one.
Indeed, it's important to be in a job you love and are happy in.
Even if it pays like shit.
I mean, a degree holder earning $5/hour?
You seriously kidding me!?
But I enjoy it,
working at a bakery.
It's small, quaint, and my bosses are more like friends than higher-ups.
It's a really chill place, and everyone seems so close-knitted.
Like a family.
Of course I'm also working on my music,
teaching piano on Sats (and hopefully on a weeknight).
Forming an acoustic duo with Jay (and looking to gig sometime soon).
Oh yea.
Recorded a new song yesterday.
It's an instrumental.
It's for a children outdoor adventure video thing ya know...
Instructions were:
- Make it sound like a kids' song.
- About 2 min long.
- Can be looped easily.
- If possible, submit by yesterday. If not, latest by today.
It was meant to be a favor, but my friend managed to get her company to pay me.
$50.
Seriously!?
In all honesty, I'd rather do it for free.
As a favor.
Accepting that $50 is like, prostituting my song, my craft, and my dignity as a musician.
But I did accept it.
Why?
I guess the main reason is my brother.
Yesterday's recording session I had no choice but to call my brother in on guitar and bass.
And I was thinking that it would be a good experience for him since he's so young and inexperienced.
It would give him some recording experience (and understand just how sensitive mics really are),
and also he'd also feel how it is like to earn money by his own means (even though it really was just to help me out).
Really, the $50 is more for my brother than for me.
I may be poor and almost broke,
but I'm not so hard up as to prostitute my own work.
As I said (on my facebook),
you pay me peanuts, I give you crap-shit.
Too bad the end result was still worth than $50.
I guess the OCD in me worked up and my musician pride didn't allow me to cut too much slack in my work.
But at least my brother had fun.
So did I.
4 hours of hearing that song on loop is enough to drive any person insane.
So yes, I probably am on the verge of being sent to the mental asylum.
So is my brother.
He's apparently still very hooked onto his guitar parts (he recorded 3 guitar parts - 1 rhythm, 2 riffs) and he cannot (and I mean CANNOT) stop humming or playing that since yesterday *pulls my hair out*
The link of the track can be found at the top of the sidebar (or the top of this post), so please do check [Stardust] (nicknamed "the $50 song" since I'm only paid $50 for it) out.
Don't worry, it's not looped so you won't go insane.
