Many people have romantic ideas about being an artist. Those ideas go out the window quickly when you do it as a career and you get to draft 10 of that song or the seventeenth sketch for that painting and what really separates the weekend warrior from the lifer is not only does the lifer embrace the constant scrap and hussle of being a professional artist, but he also has the arrogance to think that somehow the whole world should revolve around his creations and work. But it is always a scrappy life, no matter how you slice it. And you gotta know how to keep your books organized and how to get to places early, at all times. Right behind you are a bunch of people who want your job. Some of them have a clue what your job is but most don't. But still it is an amazing life and when you're obsessed you just have to do it....

Tuesday, August 2nd 2011