{"id":53,"date":"2008-04-25T23:09:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T23:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/vexvox\/2008\/04\/25\/sign_jew_rock_sigh\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T23:09:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T23:09:16","slug":"sign_jew_rock_sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/2008\/04\/25\/sign_jew_rock_sigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign. Jew. Rock. Sigh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this entry is a bastardized pronunciation of \u4e09\u5341\u516d\u6b73 (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&#039;t really associate with a birthday celebration, per se:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Watched <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> with Double-A, eating a pizza dinner with alcohol.<\/strong> I&#039;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&#039;m really zealous. But for the birthday, I wanted meat and cheese and sauce and crust. I wanted a diet killer. And Friday is <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> 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&#039;t particularly engaging. I&#039;m so not into Baltar Christ Superstar, and Tigh&#039;s hallucinations with Caprica Six were just skeeeeeeevyyyy. Oh, but the pizza was good.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Applied for membership to ASCAP.<\/strong> I signed up as both a songwriter and a publisher. I don&#039;t picture myself handling the rights of other people&#039;s music, so signing up as a publisher is probably not necessary. But for the time being, I&#039;d like the entity handling the rights of my works to be owned by, well, me.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Registered DBAs for Eponymous 4 and Observant Records with the Travis Country Clerk&#039;s Office.<\/strong> I don&#039;t think I really needed to register Eponymous 4 as a DBA, but it doesn&#039;t hurt. And Observant Records? Well, I guess I made my first step to being a sleazy record company executive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Opened business accounts with my credit union for Eponymous 4 and Observant Records.<\/strong> 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&#039;m most likely going to set up a DBA and account for that entity as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Signed up for CD Baby.<\/strong> And all the other steps pretty much lead to this one. I&#039;m going to try my hand at releasing something on CD Baby &#8212; just to see how it all works. If I&#039;m encouraged by the results, I may go further.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, yesterday was not just my birthday &#8212; it was the birthdate of Eponymous 4 as an actual business endeavor. I don&#039;t know whether all this effort is for naught, but I won&#039;t really find out till I give it the proverbial shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this entry is a bastardized pronunciation of \u4e09\u5341\u516d\u6b73 (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&#039;t really associate with a birthday celebration, per se: Watched Battlestar Galactica with Double-A, eating a pizza dinner with alcohol. I&#039;ve been pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkgj-R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}