ahmet ertegun

love this picture. ahmet ertegun started atlantic and discovered artists like, you know, ray charles, aretha franklin, and led zeppelin. good god! pipe and i watched 'tom down and the language of music' a couple of times to get cameos of him - dowd was his brilliant, genius sound engineer. so much young talent, and they floated the start of the company with a small loan from a dentist. gotta love.



so after a long talk with mumsy last night, i'm off to drink coffee and look for [another] job. i work at the restaurant, and just got a funny little money-maker at "the tattoo removal shop" (and, weird, smearing clear goo on other people's semi-permanent mistakes is most likely not the final ticket but do those patients usually have stories.) here's to luck and someone hopefully being perceptive and receptive to my resumes in this town.

i've got the two big(ger) things done in that my financial aid packet is done/turned-in/outta my hands/kaput and my 401k has been rolled over, so now it's onto more and more adult, responsible stuff that actually makes me feel pretty good to have locked down when it's all said and done.