it's always happening

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testing test, 1, 2 th-fuck.

this morning i was an hour late for work. my boss wasn't there, but some of my co-workers were. one in particular that i work closely with. he sort of said hi and then snarled at me asking who was going to take care of the sound for tonight's gig. i was caught off guard, my mind blanked and i hesitated, so he kept going. "because one sound guy is off work and the other one has a gig." more snarling! then it came flooding back to me that i had sorted out the replacement sound technician yesterday..huge relief..then the grilling continued "what about the bass amp?" because the our venue doesnt have one and the band playing tonight busted theirs. i had also sorted this out yesterday, the bass amp was ordered and would arrive in time for soundcheck...so things seemed to cool down.

until later, i started getting phonecalls from my boss and the band because the bass amp hadnt shown up. cue me calling all my musician friends to try and find a bass amp. i realised i should have taken the details of who exactly we rented the amp from, but our sound guy always arranges that stuff. next time i know what to do..
8 phone calls later and i knew about all kinds of bass amps that were currently broken, locked up in cellars or in other people's apartments but nobody had one they could get at. i thought my co workers phone was broken so i went online to see if i could reach him that way and shot him a message. he wrote back 1 line saying "no i dont know anyone with a bass amp" just then i called the soundgirl to see if there was any good news, and there was! the bloody piece of equipment had been at the venue all the time, nobody had seen where it had been delivered today. so i typed it out quickly to him that the situation was sorted and then he said "sorry for the sms". he went offline straightaway so i couldnt ask "what text?!" my phone hadnt buzzed with any messages..i checked my phone and realised something was up with my message system so i took out the battery an restarted it. once it was back on tons of messages came on and i braced myself for his. sure enough it finally beeped and his message was basically like, "why arent you there taking care of that situation? i dont have a bass amp, why am i taking care of your show? shit!"

tomorrow is gonna be a great..well i wasnt there tonight because i just wasnt. we dont have to show up for every show that we book, and i had actually been scheduled to work at my second job tonight but it was cancelled at the last minute. the irony is i actually wanted to be at the venue tonight, but once i got home i was so tired i stayed in.

the funny thing is also the two of us have spent the last while shaking our heads at how people tend to treat the two of us like shit, and now it seems like he was just waiting for an excuse to rant at me. well i will find out tomorrow.

2:28 a.m. - Thursday, Jun. 11, 2009

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