The title of this entry is a bastardized pronunciation of 三十六歳 (san-juu-roku-sai), my age (36) in Japanese. So what did I do to commemorate the event? Many things, most of which you wouldn't really associate with a birthday celebration, per se:
- Watched Battlestar Galactica with Double-A, eating a pizza dinner with alcohol. I've been pretty good about watching what I eat in the last eight months, and pizza is something in which I indulge maybe once a month, every other month if I'm really zealous. But for the birthday, I wanted meat and cheese and sauce and crust. I wanted a diet killer. And Friday is Battlestar Galactica night anyway, so why not bring the two together? Of course, throw in some beer and ready-made margaritas into the mix. The episode itself wasn't particularly engaging. I'm so not into Baltar Christ Superstar, and Tigh's hallucinations with Caprica Six were just skeeeeeeevyyyy. Oh, but the pizza was good.
- Applied for membership to ASCAP. I signed up as both a songwriter and a publisher. I don't picture myself handling the rights of other people's music, so signing up as a publisher is probably not necessary. But for the time being, I'd like the entity handling the rights of my works to be owned by, well, me.
- Registered DBAs for Eponymous 4 and Observant Records with the Travis Country Clerk's Office. I don't think I really needed to register Eponymous 4 as a DBA, but it doesn't hurt. And Observant Records? Well, I guess I made my first step to being a sleazy record company executive.
- Opened business accounts with my credit union for Eponymous 4 and Observant Records. Rather than pay for everything out of my personal accounts, I can pay music-related expenses from these accounts. When ASCAP gets back to me about my choice for publishing company name, I'm most likely going to set up a DBA and account for that entity as well.
- Signed up for CD Baby. And all the other steps pretty much lead to this one. I'm going to try my hand at releasing something on CD Baby — just to see how it all works. If I'm encouraged by the results, I may go further.
In other words, yesterday was not just my birthday — it was the birthdate of Eponymous 4 as an actual business endeavor. I don't know whether all this effort is for naught, but I won't really find out till I give it the proverbial shot.