Day 9: It's a beautiful rain...

Yesterday, I played in front of Au Bon Pain for about two and a half hours. It was a perfect day - overcast, warm but not too hot, and mostly dry. I say mostly, because around 4:45 (just over 2 hours after I started playing), it started drizzling. I continued to play, as I was having quite a bit of fun, and there wasn't too much rain, but after a while, it got heavier, and I stopped after finishing a version of Bush's "Alien" (which includes the line I used for the title). I met several other musicians who stopped to say hello, but overall, had very few of my "interesting moments."

I made about $30, which was a pretty good sum, given the soggy weather at the end. In any case, I look forward to playing more as school wraps up.

Day 5: This is what they call "average"

Today was a fairly average day of busking for me. Of course, what that means is people heckling me, giving me weird looks, buying me bottles of water randomly, and giving me $20 bills.

I started right after school, and was set up by 3 PM. Right off the bat, someone (I didn't see who) gave me a $20 bill for playing "High and Dry" by Radiohead. Or at least I think that's why. It could have just been a parent who saw a kid and said "that could be my son," or it could have been someone I know. In other notes, a really nice guy bought me a bottle of water, unprompted, because he saw that I was sweating and starting to lose my voice. A couple of people heckled me, singing along mockingly when I was playing "Glycerine," by Bush, and "Day I Die," by Story of the Year (both were radio hits a while back). I've noticed it's always overly muscled college students (always guys) who do this sort of heckling, though I have no idea why that is.

Somewhere along the way, someone else gave me a $20 bill, bringing today's total to about $55 for two hours - not bad at all.