I'm watching the replay of American Idol right now. Hahaha, I usually catch the 11:30 pm replay instead of the earlier evening telecast because I'm always in front of the PC during that time.

Ever since I phased out of my Broadway phase last year (heck, exactly last year, hahaha), I opened up my ears to other music. I felt so deprived at first, because I had no idea what's the trend. But then I managed to go with the flow. Now I've finally broadened my horizons. None of that hard rock music, though. I had too much exposure to that in the span of a few weeks when I was with Maui and that darn rock opera. Hard rock really isn't my thing.

Then there was the groupie phase. It was quite the experience. It really helped me get exposed to more music. Well, mostly acoustic and all that other stuff, but at least I listened more. Soon my mp3 player full of Broadway musical songs were seldom listened to, and I returned to my CD player, listening to acoustic (during the peak of its trend) artists, and wearing out the CD of this one band's album (need I mention the group's name?).

I was chatting with my friend Bunny last night...

Bunny: i have an article about about the difference between fan, groupie and band-aid though
Bunny: it may help
Me: oooh, you do? coolness
Bunny: it's a bit youngish in perspective though...if you don't mind my saying.
Me: it's okie
Bunny: yeah.
Me: wait, what's a band-aid?
Me: is that like a PA or roadie?
Bunny: no...no...you see;
Bunny: a "fan" likes the music, buys the cds, watches the videos, buys the merch....purely arm's length support
Bunny: a "groupie" is like you say, superficial, they "claim to like the band and they do
Bunny: though more or less the rep is not too pleasing and they tend to only like the bands as the "trend" says.
Bunny: "band-aid" are people who know the band, help with the promotion, understand the music etc, etc.
Me: i see...
Bunny: i say you may be more of a band-aid in that case, rather then groupie.
Bunny: ah okie...i get it
Me: i'd love to read the article though
Bunny: all right, i'll search for it
Me: hahaha, to use those terms...in my time, there used to be more band-aids. now all i see are groupies
Bunny: i'm admittantly a mere fan. i don't have time to be band-aid
Me: hahaha, true, a lot of time is poured out nga
Bunny: yep...i wish i had time to band aid, hehehe
Me: funny nga eh. people used to call me by my forum nick, tymeless, yet i found so much time to go out and attend the gigs and rackets and stuff
Bunny: hehehe
Me: if you were a band-aid, what band in particular would you stick to?
Bunny: Urban Dub, Kjwan, Sandwich.. Pinas...kasi I already know the people there eh. La lang akong time nag cultivate.
Me: coolness, that would be fun
Bunny: i know! hehe

Then we started talking about...what if I try to manage a band or something? Nyak, I'll probably mess up. Plus I have this tendency to get anti-social when I'm around strangers. It would be cool though. Imagine all the people I could meet.

I just found out today that my friend Chevy has become an "assistant manager of sorts" to the acoustic band After Eve. Coolness. It made me think about it more.

Right...

Then again, I have to graduate first. Ahahahaha...

Maybe I should just stick to stage management, ehehehe...