Saturdayyyy (Patreon)

Hey gang,

Time for an update! Loads of stuff going on at the moment, hard for me to keep yall up to speed. Lemme list:

- Finalizing the music course 🎵 - the deadline is looming tomorrow, and we're rendering 20 hours+ of course, running into issues constantly, crashing programs etc. But it's close. Can't wait until it's out there!

- Renewing visa 🌎 - I've officially been in the US for 3 years since I first submitted for a Visa (though it was delayed because of covid so I've really only been here for 2 years). This is always a really stressful process with loads of paperwork. I definitely want to stay in the US, loads of opportunities, cool people, amazing weather... What's not to like?? (A few things, of course lol. But mostly it's good

- Planning music video for "So Selfish" 📽 - currently sorting that out with a director. It's hard to really encapsulate what you want from a music video: Should it show the essence of the song? Should it have a story or mainly eye-catching visuals? Dark feel, vibrant feel or both? It's a lot to think about. I'm also having the mix/master redone (again) because it doesn't feel entirely right. I might end up going with my original mix. I have 3 new versions on my todo list to feedback 😅

- Planning, filming, editing & uploading rolling content 📷 - I've decided to try and release a video every Friday, to not entirely fall of the grid on youtube. When I'm busy, it will likely be commentary stuff. But I want to make a higher % of them be creative based as we go along. I'm having August help me with the planning of these, I film on twitch stream, and then I edit the basics myself, then send to another editor for funny edits, zooms etc.

On top of these things there's all kinds of admin and minutia 🖥, communication with sponsors and potential sponsors📩, stuff like that the discord server potentially losing it's partner status because I haven't been able to promote it as much💿, the merch people want me to push the merch more👕... There's a lot, and I'd lie if I said it's not stressful.  I've been tensing up a lot recently from overwhelm, trying to take some ibuprofen and use a heating pad on my back, but still it's a lot. Even writing out some of this stuff here kinda had my heartrate racing lol.

Gonna keep working through this weekend, and I'll make sure to post some interesting things for ya when I get the chance!

The plan is to be less diversified in what I'm doing as soon as the course & visa stuff are taken care of.

What are you guys up to??

Joel