HOW TO BE A MICROWAVE RECORDS

Today its really been hitting me the fact that I’ll no longer be living at The Vermont House. I’ve been quite depressed this morning as I think about what I’m leaving behind. You know what they say, “You don’t know what you have until its gone.”

Honestly, I wish we hadn’t had this last show on Saturday. It was successful. we had a great lineup and a great turnout. All went smoothly, but it made me even more bummed out to be pulling the plug on this little operation. It had to happen sometime I guess. Aside from the financial (lack of roommates) situation that sort of forced me to move out at this particular time, I knew I had wanted to get out of the house for sometime now. I was just waiting for the right time. I had told myself that I would move out when we finished recording this next HST album we’ve been working on. We haven’t finished it yet. It’s almost done, but still this move came about a little prematurely. It just got kind of hard to keep finding new roommates every other month, and when Scott, Brandi and David moved out, I didn’t quite do my job at finding others to move in and replace them, and I suppose that’s partly because I wasn’t exactly dying to live here anymore. I’m about to be 25 years old, I’ve been here for a little over 3 years, and I just feel like its an appropriate time for me to move on and concentrate on other things. Still, I’m going to miss it. I already do.

I want to thank my former roommates Scott, Isaac, Josh, Lis, and Megan for helping out, organizing shows, putting their stamp on the Vermont House lifestyle and for just being inspirational people. Also, I’d like to thank the bands that lugged all of their equipment up that flight of stairs and played in the living room. Especially you regulars. There are way too many to name. You know who you are. Thanks to all the other promoters who organized shows here with us too. I’d even like to thank the people who stole things and tagged on our walls. Don’t get me wrong, you’re jerks for doing that, but I want to appreciate the house for the experience it was, with all its charms and flaws, and that was a part of it, so uh yeah, thanks. Basically, thanks to anyone who came through the house in the last 3 years. You made it.

Well, I guess I’ve said what I wanted to say. It was what it was and so it goes… to where? I don’t know yet. I am a little uncertain about the future. I’m just going to focus on finishing the HST album in this next month and go from there. I feel a little better after writing this. Thanks for the memories everybody. Lets keep making them. Here’s to a new decade…

well, i am about to move out of vermont and tonite is the last show we’ll be having over here. kinda sad, but hopeful for the future. the last few years have had their ups and downs, and there is no doubt that the my time here at the house was a critical part of my life. i wont get all nostalgic about everything.. yet. but it does feel like the end of something that was important to me and so it at least deserves a blog entry, right?

this isn’t the end of how to be a microwave. just the end of vermont house shows. no biggie. we’re moving on. the music prevails. and so it goes etc. etc.

all that being said, i feel this would be an appropriate time to show everyone the summer school project that spawned the name of our record label. i thought it was gone, but i just found it. thanks google.

http://csssadigitalmedia.com/2003/dustin/index.html

its a conceptual piece on hype. i was 17, cut me some slack. i’ll explain later.

-dustin