If you're an aspiring musician, you'll want to tune into this post...
What happens when you're in a band at Penn and graduate ...and now only 2 of the members want to embark on a music career full-time? You embark on your journey in front of all of Penn to watch and learn from in
a new exclusive DT monthly video series called "Real Jobs Aren't My Forte".
First, to give you some background, at Penn,
Ben Naecker (C'09, Water Polo) (guitars, cowbells) and
Blake West (W'09, Jazz Combos) (keyboards, pyrotechnics) were part of the band
Satellite Heights which was composed of four Penn musicians, and a non-Penn singer who lived in the area. It was a progressive, modern rock outfit that recorded one album in Brooklyn in the fall of '08. That album was called Launch Sequence, and was released on iTunes in March of '09. All have graduated and the band is now defunct. Ben and Blake now prepare for their move into Austin's music scene.
This new DT Vlog will document the life of Penn graduates who go on to become musicians, so that others can learn from their experiences. Ben and Blake will be getting into all the gory details that they can once a month on DT in a 3 minute post.
- Where is the money to live coming from?
- Teaching lessons? Gigging? Working at starbucks?
- And how did they acquire the students, or the gig, or the job?
- Are they taking showers in the dark just to save on the electricity bill?
- Are they eating cereal sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner cause they can't afford real food?
- Is the myth that rock musicians end up with a lot of girls really true?
- And any other things they wish they would have known before they started.
Watch
Episode 1: "Don't Panic" above ...where Ben and Blake explain who they are, why they're moving to Austin and
why you shouldn't panic if you too are embarking on this music journey.
Other compelling Penn Vlogs
HERE
Other Penn musicians
HERE
More DT stories about
alumni working together HERE
A bit of Penn campus news for everyone..
A semi-NSFW cover of the Talking Heads Song "This Must Be the Place" laid over shot-by-shot re-enactments from American Psycho. ...Tell me that the star of this video, Miles Fisher (Harvard alum), doesn't look like Tom Cruise?!
The Time of My Life (per Allison) is about an unhappy housewife who has been “whisked seven years back, back to her old life, her old self, back to the moments in which she made decisions that charted her future course. And now that she’s back, she’s faced with the same roadblocks and obstacles, only this time, armed with hindsight, she can choose a different path and finally lay to rest all of her "what ifs.”
But after an ethereal massage in which her therapist releases her blocked chi, she wakes up to discover that she’s been whisked seven years back, back to her old life, her old self, back to the moments in which she made decisions that charted her future course. And now that she’s back, she’s faced with the same roadblocks and obstacles, only this time, armed with hindsight, she can choose a different path and finally lay to rest all of her "what ifs."
Much more than a story about a real life desperate housewife. Instead, it speaks to so many of our tiny, lingering doubts, the same doubts that send us googling old friends and exes or wistfully pulling out pictures of days gone by. And through Jillian’s journey, in which she rediscovers the mother who abandoned her, reacquaints herself with the strengths she once deemed important, and may literally rewrite her future, we all get a chance to peek inside the windows of our own "what ifs," and consider if the path we took was the one that has granted us the most happiness.”
Read Allison's insider's advice on how to become a published novelist