Having just graduated from USC with a minor in Songwriting, I feel compelled to showcase what it is I have been working on for the past four years. I don't have a Bandcamp, Facebook band page, SoundCloud, or, dare I say, MySpace platform with which to share my music yet, so this page will have to do for now. I don't see Grammys in my future, but I hope you enjoy some of the stuff I post here.
For my final semester of Songwriting, I had the privilege of performing one of my original songs with the Derik Nelson Band. For those of you who don't know them, they are a phenomenal group of musicians in LA and some of the nicest guys around. Our assignment was to write charts for the band, and we were then given one short rehearsal slot the day of our final performance. Huge thanks to them for fulfilling my longtime dream of playing my songs with a full band! To watch the video just click on THIS LINK.
Thanks for your support, and let me know what you think!
It's a bit discouraging to start a blog, when you think about it in terms of viewership. When no one knows you have a blog, no one knows to read your blog. The good news about this is that it gives me some time to tinker with names and such. Today I made what will hopefully but unlikely be my last name change for this blog URL.
A little fact about me: I enjoy puns. So when it comes to naming blogs, social media profiles, or essay titles, I relish in the opportunity to craft play on words. Originally I was going to make this blog entirely devoted to my music, in which case "andthegrahammygoesto.blogspot.com" would have been apt. However, as my scope of interests has broadened, so too must the title change to reflect those interests.
I am proud, yet slightly embarrassed at the same time, to explain the nerdy conception behind the name GrahamPositive. As an aspiring pre-dental student, it was difficult not to try incorporating a biology reference here. Essentially, bacteria can be classified as gram-negative or gram-positive according to how they stain and appear under a microscope. Although this is a huge generalization, gram-negative bacteria are the scarier guys due to their resistance to antibiotics, while gram-positive infections are easier to treat. For those interested in learning more, I say to you as I say unto my mother: "Google it." And by "it," I mean "gram staining." Beyond that dorky connection, this is a lifestyle blog, and I felt positivity suited the optimistic tone of my mission statement. So, voilà, there you have it!
Making good on my promise to introduce you to my father, I present to you the full-length feature film from which last week's teaser trailer photo came. My dad, Ron, and I crunched the numbers (and by crunched the numbers I mean multiplied 45 years by 365 days/year—real sophisticated arithmetic there), and he has gone roughly 16,425 continuous days without any semblance of regular exercise. With that staggering figure in mind, enjoy the following video:
