Song Contest update
Hey peeps
I advanced again tonight, in the Williamsburg (Brooklyn neighborhood) live song contest.
It started with 700 submissions. They narrowed those to 150 (!) and had all 150 songwriters play over the course of 6 days (25 per night) in various Brooklyn venues. 3 songwriters were chosen from each of those nights, making for 18 semi-finalists. half of those were chosen to advance to play the final round tomorrow (Saturday) night.

So, I am now in the Top 9. We played the song we submitted for the contest during both the preliminaries (quarter-finals? Mad 150?) and the semi-finals. Saturday we get to play 2 songs (one of them has to be that same song).

I've been mildly annoyed by the commute form Central NJ into Brooklyn (about 90 miles), but i knew the deal when I submitted to the contest, so I can't really complain. But I was really, really suprised to hear tonight that someone flew in from Oregon and another person from IRELAND to participate. You know, only the top 3 win any money!