Big hugs and smoochs to everyone for ALL of the B-Day wishes, you rawk!

I turned 36 on 11/08...I'm frick'n old...

So dig this, I was going to drive to Buffalo and shoot the Cult tonight, however opted to pass...let me break it down for ya'...

Generally whatever magazine or paper I'm shooting for will work out all of the details before I arrive @ the venue ie: photo pass, am I shooting with the band before they play or do I need to book some studio time? what are some of the concepts for the shoot etc etc...

So I speak with Cara the bands PR person and she says everything is a go...now even though this was discussed it's always a good idea to triple check details, you don't want to get to a location and no one has a clue who you are...she leaves me Mitch's number and I give him a quick shout just to get the bands set time so I can plan my evening, in my experience some TM's are cool and some are not...fast forward to the afternoon, I get a call from Cara asking me if I called Mitch "The Bitch" (the Cults tour manager) to which I replied yes...

I left him a vm asking for the bands set time, is that a problem?

Cara then says "YOU SHOULD NEVER CALL MITCH because he's very busy and now he's blowing a gasket because you called him...

Jeezus H Christ I just need the bands set time. I'm driving an hour to the gig and want to plan on what time I'm leaving etc etc...

Cara says "Well I just got a very nasty e-mail from him, please don't call him all correspodence should go through me from now on"

No worries, don't get your panties in a bunch hon, so do you know what time the band is going on then!?!

No I don't...

Wow! WTF!

So he's really that busy huh?

Let me see if I understand this...in the time it took him to type up his crybaby bullshit e-mail to you he couldn't have just rung me up and said

"Hey Scott the bands set time is @ 9:30"

Mitch sounds like a douchebag and I'm totally turned off now and don't even want to shoot the band...

Anyways...Tomorrow I'm doing a shoot with the Briggs and on Saturday I'll be shooting Branford Marsalis...

peace
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