Sarah M Vasquez
Oh man, lots to update…
After taking a month off, I’m now into the third week of summer school. Usually summer school is intense because it’s so fast paced, but it’s actually been pretty awesome. I’m taking Southwest in Films which means I watch westerns every day and write about them. My dad is a huge John Wayne fan so he’s very excited about this. When I asked him tonight if he had “Searchers” and “Red River,” he was down for a movie night. Oh dear.
But no movie night for me as I have some reading to do for my Sociology of Pop Music class. I can’t believe that’s a real class. Basically all I do is read about how pop music plays a role in society (very similar to my pop culture class) and write papers about it. It’s classes like this (which are for my pop culture minor) that make me go “This is college!?!” Needless to say, summer school has been pretty chill… when I don’t take on too much. Whoops.
Here’s are some other great moments as of late:
Here’s the background story: I freaking love Love Monkey. It’s up there with Veronica Mars. This was one of those shows that had me hooked from the first episode because of this quote:
“Because for every bad band you hear on the radio, there are a million worse bands trying to get on the radio. So it’s my job to listen to this crap so you don’t have to.”
Anyone who works in the music business would probably understand.
So in a nutshell, this show is about a 30-something-year-old A&R rep for a small record label trying to find love in New York. It also showed what it was like trying to break a musician in the scene from discovering that artist to releasing the album, etc. Teddy Geiger played Wayne, the musician the A&R rep discovered.
As I mention in the interview with Teddy Geiger, I was hooked to his storyline. Unfortuntely, it was cancelled after three episodes, but then the rest of the eight episodes aired on VH1. Even so, I wish Love Monkey kept going, but it is what it is.
At the ATX Television Festival, they had a panel on Love Monkey with Geiger, actress Judy Greer and creator/executive producer Michael Rauch and of course, I was there. I won’t rehash the entire hour-long panel, but basically they just talked about what it was like to be on the show. Geiger was 15 when he filmed it and going through similar situations with his music career that he said that he wasn’t really acting. Ha.
So the next day, Geiger played a music showcase at the hotel. Afterwards, I gather enough courage to say hello and we ended up having a pretty long conversation about music and the show. He was just so easy to talk to and for someone as awkward as me, I appreciated that. So I asked for an interview.
