First Day at Deep South

Yesterday was my first day at Deep South Entertainment and it was amazing. I felt a little out of place because I showed up in business casual (see earlier post) and it turned out to be a haven of jeans-clad employees and interns, but oh well. Better over dressed than under, though I'm glad I won't have to bring out the satan-heels again for a while. :D

So, I got there at three and met with my supervisor. He set me to work going online to facebook, reverbnation.com and several other sites to makes sure that all of Deep South's events were posted. Then I spent most of the time photoshopping pictures from past events to clean them up.

After that I got assigned my big project. THE big project. The project that will consume the rest of my summer (hopefully). See, the interns pair up and work together to put on a show at the Deep South Bar. We're responsible for contacting the bands, getting them to show up, marketing, and hosting the event at Deep South the Bar. I don't have a partner yet, but I do have a show date: August 19th, 2010. Put it on your calendars!

The next semi-big project that I was assigned was the market research project. Each intern gets three cities to research and find bands to recommend to our supervisor to get signed. My three market areas are San Francisco, Boston, and Charlotte. I'm really excited to start stalking myspace and finding new music.

And now for something completely different:

I'm in the MRC and these two guys (one looks like a death metal fan...long black hair, black t-shirt, etc) are talking about music. Sample of the conversation:

Death Metal Guy: The only lyrics of her's (unknown musician) that I like listening to are the ones about the Devil and Unicorns.
Other Guy: You know- those seem to go pretty hand in hand.
Death Metal Guy: Well...it's not just unicorns. There's trolls and dragons and that sort of shit.


I thought you might enjoy that.