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Just a quick update on the audition front. The guys from the band want to have me back. It's unclear as to whether I'm "the guy" or if it's a second audition (i.e. a call back). Either way it definitely feels good to have gotten a call back. It's been a while since I actually had to go through an audition process, (since undergrad to be exact). As this is my first audition in a while I wouldn't have felt too bad about it had I not gotten a call but it's that much more pleasant to have been chosen on my first audition (especially with such short notice). I had a bass audition in Boston that I showed up to pretty well unprepared. I was a bit 'too big for my britches,' at the time and figured I could swagger in with only a few hours of practice and get the call, obviously that wasn't the case. I prepared much more completely this time and it seems that it paid off. It would start to feel futile if I put in a bunch of work and were still getting turned down.

If you had asked me one or two years ago if I'd be making a living solely in music, I'd have spit in your face, kicked you in the nuts, and then gone home and cried into my pillow. Now it seems that might have been an unnecessary reaction.