- If you're reading this - follow this link - Play this song - Its - ah, its perfect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfEIsiXz3g
I'm sure I've missed people. I went back through every day in the blog - tried to come up with all the names - but there's so many - I'm sure I've forgotten some - But I did my best.
These are the thank you's for the month. Without which - I wouldn't have made it.
Tom Jackson - Thanks for buying a CD, and paying double for it
Dominic Maino - I never thanked you for the 20 dollars you put in my pocket.
Mitch - For giving me his entire lunch
Noel Huntzinger - for bring me Orange Juice in the subway.
Filament Theater - for giving me their space to perform my music in
Everyone who came to the concert - for you love - for buying my bread and my CD's
Alex Schulte and John Zulaga for filming my 8 hour day.
Rachel and Jessie Ramirez - letting me sleep on their couch
Julie Ritchey - letting me sleep on her couch and take care of Gizmo
Victoria Alvarez Chacon - letting me sleep on her "Poof" and hug her dogs every morning
Lindsey Dorcus - letting me sleep on her couch and hang with her super wierd lap cat - Henry.
Kelly Hill - For buying a CD
Allyssa Magill and her sister - For donating 75 dollars
Anonymous Donor - for donating 200.00 - and rocking my world
My Parents - For all of the "Brainstorm" Nights
My Brother Eric Westwood - for all of the Facebook comments
All the friends I didn't know that were following the blog
Alex Schulte - for filming and recording my concert
Nathan Scheetz - For believing, or at least pretending to believe that I'd ACTUALLY have the money in his account by the first for the post dated check he wrote me from HIS account that will be cashed on the 1st.
My Brother Doug Westwood - For randomly sending me the Thermal Underwear that I literally wore EVERY DAY that I busked this month, and saved my ass from the cold.
My Sister Tiffany Westwood - For the care package that I lived off of, SOLELY, for the last week
Ashley Spessard - for "All the Tears"
The 20 dollar bill club - For each person who made my day - and dropped 20's
Every person who bought my CD in the subway
Sam Raptis - for meeting me in the subway, coming to my gig, and trying to bring friends
Bernardo Alvarez - for buying my CD, Writing 2 blog posts about me, and supplying my folks with pictures of the concert
Sonny - for buying a CD and the Lollypop
Mike Ward - for hearing me in the subway and coming to my show
Teresa Borowski - for attempting to get me to record music for her on every encounter
Nikki - For the free shot of Whiskey at Macnamara's at the after party of the concert.
Every person that posted a comment on Facebook
Dominick Maino - for winning the - I reposed your posts the most times by about 15X compared to any other person, award.
Molly Bunder - for Bread and Tea
Andrew Marchetti - for lunch at Haba Nero
Mara Dale - For all the rides
Grace Desant - for the Hug.
Julie - for the 10 dollar starbucks card that lasted the whole month
The Cold - Because it spawned a new song - Cold Don't Bother Me
Filbert - For putting up with me being gone for a month
Peter Oyloe for inspiring me with his concert
The guy who gave me a "Box of God's Attention"
Dave - for the 2 Ties
Me - for actually sticking to it - and doing it - all the way to the end.
Whoever stole my guitar - For making me fall in love with Ol' Red again
Darla - The Humidifier who helped nurse my voice back to health
Caleb Woodley - for all the help trying to find a job
Kevo - the transient guy who made my beautiful Poster for the concert
Luther Wirtz and Emily Henniger - For listening to my radio interview
Luther Wirtz - For all the past, present, and future Everquest adventures. AXECAT
Catie Osborn - for following your dreams, and taking risks
Adam Dorcy - for restoring my faith, even momentarily, to the homeless population of Chicago
Haywood - for renaming my song to Georgia
Doug Westwood - Again - the Thermal underwear dude. - It saved my life.
And to Every person that dropped a dollar in my case - THANK YOU.
February - 896 From Tips and CD sales
345 from Donations
210 (Roughly) From concert - Bread sales, ticket sales, flat fee, CD's sold - Thanks again to whoever dropped the 80 dollars in my bread money tin.
total 1451
Hours in subway 47 - This has to be wrong - I must have not recorded solid numbers on the blog. Should be more than this.
Average hourly wage - 19 dollars an hour
High 42, Low -2
Days "Feels Like " was in the Negative - 4 days
Days "Feels Like " was below 20 - 17 days
Best facebook comment thread on a post -
What. A month. Right?
It doesn't seem like it's over. Its surreal. Almost like it never happened. But it did - Its all up here - every day - It really happened and I really did it.
I think that is the thing that is so incredible to me about this. Is that - I did it. I set a goal - and I made it.
I didn't do it alone - See giant, freaking list of thank you's above - but together - We did it. All of you who helped - you helped an artist follow his dreams this month. And me - I followed MY dreams this month.
So - What's next. -
Well - as you know - March is coming. March is next. ha. hahaha.
That's the best part - is that - this doesn't end here. I'll be back out in the subway tomorrow, because - it's my job. That's pretty cool. That's my favorite part. Is telling people that it's my day job. God willing I'll get another one on top of it, but for now - She'll do the job.
Back to whats next -
March is a whole new month - with what will be a whole new set of goals - and I'll fight on through them here - Right here - on this blog, with whoever keeps reading. I'm doing some more thinking on what exactly the Specific goals for March will be - But - it could be a combo of any of the following
-Make 1300-1500 in Tips and CD Sales
- Perform in 2 venues
- Produce a Demo
- Produce a live album
-throw a house concert
- co-ordinate a concert in the subway with a few other street performers
I'll fill you in, in the next few days.
Again - and a thousand times over - I can't thank you all enough for reading this blog this month - I couldn't have done it without you.
All the love - All of it -
Ryan
It doesn't seem like it's over. Its surreal. Almost like it never happened. But it did - Its all up here - every day - It really happened and I really did it.
I think that is the thing that is so incredible to me about this. Is that - I did it. I set a goal - and I made it.
I didn't do it alone - See giant, freaking list of thank you's above - but together - We did it. All of you who helped - you helped an artist follow his dreams this month. And me - I followed MY dreams this month.
So - What's next. -
Well - as you know - March is coming. March is next. ha. hahaha.
That's the best part - is that - this doesn't end here. I'll be back out in the subway tomorrow, because - it's my job. That's pretty cool. That's my favorite part. Is telling people that it's my day job. God willing I'll get another one on top of it, but for now - She'll do the job.
Back to whats next -
March is a whole new month - with what will be a whole new set of goals - and I'll fight on through them here - Right here - on this blog, with whoever keeps reading. I'm doing some more thinking on what exactly the Specific goals for March will be - But - it could be a combo of any of the following
-Make 1300-1500 in Tips and CD Sales
- Perform in 2 venues
- Produce a Demo
- Produce a live album
-throw a house concert
- co-ordinate a concert in the subway with a few other street performers
I'll fill you in, in the next few days.
Again - and a thousand times over - I can't thank you all enough for reading this blog this month - I couldn't have done it without you.
All the love - All of it -
Ryan
