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Well, I just got back from a small tour to Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Provo. The shows were successful, but the car rides in each direction were less than desirable. I figured that in the last five days I drove about 1600 miles. Crazy. And most likely there will be many more of those in the future.

As far as my life insurance website goes, there is still a lot that I need to do. Anyway, I’ll update you all later.

Friday night was my CD release show and it was amazing. I had a great group of fans that came and we all had a lot of fun. It was a dream come true to finally have my CD come out. If any of you are interested in listening to the music, check it out at www.myspace.com/jonpinney.

And as far as life insurance is concerned, if you are interested in seeing current life insurance rates, check it out at Wholesale Insurance. They keep a current database of all of the different rates from all of the different life insurance companies.

Well, today has been super exciting. My cds finally arrived, all 1000 of them. They look pretty good too. I can’t wait for my cd release show this Friday. It’s gonna be awesome. :)

Well, I think the most difficult thing about starting a business can be summed up into the following three items:

1. Money. You have to have money to start a business. Without it, it’s very difficult to get anything going. Right now I’m hoping that all of the money I have put into the album will end up generating not only what I put in (or in other words recouping my expenses) but more as well, so that I can also make a profit. But without that money up front, then I never would’ve had the resources necessary to get going. Luckily I was able to fund everything myself, otherwise I would’ve had to borrow the money, which would’ve put even more stress on me (because then I’d really be stressing about recouping their monies).

2. Planning. This is probably the thing I am worst at. I know how to spend money (and to some degree generate money), but I am not that good at planning things out. My brain has a hard time focusing on what needs to get done. For example, right now I’m writing this blog, but if I was really planning things out well, I’d know exactly what I’d need to do next. Which I don’t. So I’ll have to sit there and figure it out. But if I had planned out my day to begin with, then I’d have a to do list and just work down it. That’s always the best way for me to get things done. Probably the next thing I’ll do is write a new page about life insurance quotes for the website I work with.

3. Sleeping. The final thing that is the hardest for me right now is getting enough sleep and making sure the sleep I get is good sleep. I’ve been so exhausted lately and I’m always thinking of what needs to be done and how to get it done. If I was a better planner and had an inexhaustible amount of funds, sleeping would be easy.

Sometimes I feel like I’m working myself to death. And sometimes I feel like I’m playing myself to death. I do a lot of both. Probably I play more than I should, but I’m young and I want to enjoy life. The only problem is when I play so much I don’t get anything done on the work side of things. Which is why I’m so exhausted today. Yesterday I was out playing till two in the morning. When I got home, I felt bad that I didn’t get as much done during the day, so I went to work. About four in the morning I stopped. It’s crazy staying up that late. I don’t suggest it. But I did get a lot done, thankfully. Anyway, I’ve got to move on to the next task. I’ll talk to you all later.

Only a couple weeks now and my cd will officially be available. I can’t wait. Or I guess I can, seeing as how I’ve waited for years now. But whatever. This time it’s actually happening, and I’m super excited about it. I spoke with a friend yesterday on the phone, someone who’s known me forever, and we were talking about the cd. He’s way excited, especially since he knows how important it is to me. Anyway, I’ll keep you updated on everything. As for now, I’m just waiting for the cds to be made and then shipped to me.

Right this very minute I’m working. I’m trying to figure out how to make our company rank higher for the keyword term life insurance. We’ve fallen out of the first position, and I really want to get us back up to the top. I think we get the most amount of people applying with us when we are at the top position for each keyword. Anyway, I’ve got a meeting I have to run off to, so I will talk to you later.

So here I am, and I’m almost done with the album. Just a few tweeks to the artwork on the album itself, and then a couple changes to a mix or two, and then I have to get those remixed tracks mastered again. But I think it’s turning out to be a really good product. There are definitely things that I would’ve done a little differently, or added to, if I had more time and resources, but the fact is I just am running out of both. So this is the product. I hope people like it. It will be out June 20th, and I hope everyone will get a copy of it.

Well, interesting title, I know. Anyway, I was at the studio again today. It was good. I think I’m done with 5 of the 10 songs that are going to be on the album. I can’t wait to finish with them all. And I can’t wait to not be so overwhelmed with everything that I need to get done.

And in case you were wondering, term life insurance is an excellent way to protect your family in the case of your untimely passing (and now is an excellent time to get it because term life insurance rates are so low). Now obviously no one wants to die. But not being prepared for something that could happen is not always the smart way to do things. So I would suggest getting term life insurance (or some type of life insurance) so that your loved ones are protected.

Well I did go see a movie last night. I saw Iron Man. I really wasn’t expecting it to be that good, and that’s probably why I thought it was amazing. Really a must see movie if you like excitement, fighting, explosions, a good story line, and humor. It was really good. Robert Downey, Jr. surprised me (cause I actually liked him in the part of Tony Stark), and I didn’t know Gwyneth Paltrow was going to be in the movie. She was very likable as Pepper Potts. Overall I give it two thumbs up and four stars. If you can, go see this movie, cause it’s really good.

As far as music and life insurance goes, not much is happening. Well I guess I’m actually at the office right now. We had a meeting to discuss what we can do at Wholesale Insurance to make it better. I would love it if more people were coming to our site to see current life insurance rates, and then if they applied online that would be even better. I’m trying to make the site the best that it can possibly be so that applying for life insurance is an easy, stress-free, and hassle-free event. Cause really it can be. And at Wholesale Insurance, it is.

And for music, I’m not in the studio today, but I’ll probably be there tomorrow. In a few hours I’ll be singing at the wedding of a friend of mine’s sister. Should be fun. I’m going to be singing and playing my keyboard. I’m looking outside right now and it looks like it’s going to be a nice evening. Not too hot, and not too much sun. That will make it even better for me, since I’ll probably be sitting in the sun, in a suit, playing the piano, and singing. Anyway, I’ll let you know how it goes.

Well, I told you I’d tell you how the studio went tonight. Let’s just say I’m here right now and I’m ready to break something. Lots of somethings would be nice.

I just don’t know how much more I can take of this. I am so frustrated that my voice isn’t working. I can’t sing on pitch, and I can’t focus on putting in emotion cause I’m so focused on singing the right notes. I really don’t know what to do. I seriously wanna hurt something, or yell really loud. Maybe even scream. But, I probably won’t. Instead I’ll just tell you about how I’d like to do those things. Hopefully that will take some of the stress away. I think I might go see a movie now. Talk to you later.