Musicians, I am very excited to announce that you can now submit your music online for consideration for airplay on Electric Effect and/or a review in Eclectric Ink. Just click on “Submit Music” above and fill out the form.

If you are not a musician, but you know of one that I should feature, please direct them to this site.

There are still a few small kinks to be worked out, and some more very exciting changes in development, but here’s the start to a whole new era of D*J*E Entertainment. I’m happy that you are here to share it with me.

I’d also love to hear your comments on the new design - so please leave a comment!

Since the last post, I had a whirlwind of a birthday celebration, which involved a week straight of non-stop partying. It was electric! My friend Rebekah Chesnes flew into LA and we painted the town with theatre, food, music and dancing!

School is now back in full swing and it is busier than ever. This semester I’m taking Constitutional Law, Evidence, Federal Income Tax, and Music Industry Contracts. Obviously, Music Industry Contracts is my favorite class. Classwork and studying has been constant, and while the material we cover in second year is harder than the first year material, it seems easier because we have gotten the hang of how law school works. I’ve also found we don’t go over cases as dilligently as in first year and some of my classes rely less on the Socratic Method (where the professor calls on specific students to explain a case).

I also got my grades from my summer classes and they both are great. I’m very happy with the outcome.

Aside from just classes, I have been working hard as the President of my school’s Entertainment and Sports Law Society. We have a TON of events planned for this year and have lined up a lot of great speakers. Most of our meetings involve a panel of speakers which I think will be really fun and informative for the students.

Our first meeting was a smash! We had Donald Passman speak, who is a very well known music industry attorney and is responsible for some of the biggest deals the industry has ever seen. I think the success of this meeting will really help to set the tone for a great year.

In addition to all the busy school stuff, I have found some time to go out and pursue my other interests, like Electric Effect. I’ve been out doing some swing dancing which has been great fun and gotten to see some live music - namely one great indie artist that I’ll be speaking about more in the near future.

I did have one completely infuriating incident occur earlier this week. I was supposed to do a photoshoot this weekend. I have known the photographer for a while and he was supposedly a friend of mine. Everyone was trading services on the shoot - someone was donating use of the location, the photographer was supposed to donate his time to take photos (for which he would get to use the photos in his portfolio), and I would get to use the pictures on my website.

I confirmed the date and time with the photographer and then called the person donating the location to confirm the time and date with him. I then called the photographer back to let him know everything was set for the shoot. He then informs me that in the last five minutes “something else came up.” What was that something else? It was another photoshoot.

So this “professional” photographer cancelled on me at the last minute to take another shoot. If that wasn’t bad enough, he did not understand that what he did was wrong. His response was “Sorry, these things happen. Go on Craigslist to find someone else.” After trying to make him see that what he did was unprofessional, inconsiderate, and self-centered, he still did not understand the consequences of his actions. Those consequences being that the entire shoot was cancelled (and so far not rescheduled) because of him.