Auggie style

How do you get ready for the big thang?

    How do you warm up on game day?

This is how Agustin does it.  

Flam, triple paradiddle, crash. The Madison Scouts would be proud.

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how do you get ready to be at your best?

Today, it starts FOR REAL. Agustin, Alissa & I go into the studio to make our first band EP.

We've spent so much time preparing for this -- picking a studio, a producer, losing sleep over how to raise money, writing / re-writing / arranging songs, arguing about songs, declaring our love for songs.

And now, in just over a week, we'll be DONE.

This is awesome, but it also makes me feel the realness of what's at stake.

     That's only a little bit of time to spend a lot of money and make something which I quite literally hope will transform my career -- will put this band on the map.

So in between sleeping 10 hours a night all weekend or downing Whole Foods smoothies and practicing, I've been wondering:

       WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO GET READY?

       What do you do -- not just in music, but in sports, board meetings, in LIFE -- to know you'll be at your creative and physical best when it counts???

       Pls pls send me your comments! We'll try some of these ideas.

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... and the winning puppet is....

....DRUM ROLL PLEASE......

Once again, kudos to Sarah Danko at Archimedes Media Lab for giving birth to such a lovable lil' lady.

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