Dave Patten's University of Entertainment

Looking Looking Looking for Help

I'm looking for a young person who is hungry.  I need someone who knows what their skills are and have worked (and yes, that means outside of class...) on them.  Someone who reads ahead in the textbook -- who loves what they do and wants to prove to the world that they're awesome at it.

That's my mentality.  Thus, that is the type of person I want to work with.

I have my team, but our hands are tied.  We need to expand.  And by expand I mean we need 1 to 2 extraordinary individuals to join us.  To ride and fly out with us everywhere we go.  It's our own Taylor Gang if you will.

If you want to join because you just want to meet Meek Mill, Young Chris or DeSean Jackson or Lou Williams or Gillie da Kid or anyone else we work with, you need not contact me.  If you are a film student in film school, but don't have a portfolio of videos I can look at, you need not contact me.  If you don't have a resume already saved as a word document somewhere on your computer, that is a SURE SIGN that you are not fit for this job lol...

On the other hand, if you have great people skills, please contact me.  If you find it extremely easy to talk to girls, or to get what you want (vice versa for women), please contact me I'll put you on the sales team haha I need you!!  I don't want another director -- that's my job, idiot.  I'm looking more for PR and Marketing and Tour Management positions.  If you love business, making money and facilitating then you're probably exactly the person I want to talk to haha so shoot me an email!!

Things are really about to take off.  I'm setting up a legitimate East Coast tour for the spring.  I'm going to be with Meek Mill and Rick Ross and Wale out in LA and down in Miami at least twice before March.  I'm out to LA this weekend to meet with Master P.  Meek and I are about to drop a complete album together.  I'm telling you, it's gametime haha and yeah I know I just name dropped mad people but I'm trying to prove a point.  With success comes scumbags and sheisters out the woodwork.  I don't want to give some established manager 10% of my cash flow, I want to give it to someone I'm friends with, who's been part of the team for the past few years building with me = YOU!!!!!!

Seriously, I do a lot but I can't do it all.  Ricks does a ton but he can't do it all.  Who else is out there looking to team up?

Send me an email, and make sure you mention this blog post so I know.  South9entertainment@gmail.com.  Yes, I read them all.

Miami!!!

Alright this blog is going to be my memior for the week haha so I don't forget this stuff.  Ricks and I are down in Miami filming a music video for Ace Angelo's "Bout Money" track.  Track is crazy get ready for it!!

Everyone was late getting to the airport lol so we missed our flight and hit up a 12pm line down to Fort Lauderdale.  Ricks and I shot some footage for the music video I'm shooting on the side (gotta take advantage of the rediculously awesome opportunity of being in Miami) in the airport during the downtime we had before the next flight.

Angelo rented an SUV when we got into FL.  Our equipment bag was 87lbs haha so the SUV was a good look.  We met up with Status and the girls (Bonita and Diana) at their spot a little north of Miami.

From there it was Ocean Blvd for dinner -- Mojitos and seafood like none other!!  Saw a guy walking around with a lemur on his shoulder, about 10 lamborguinis and another 15 corvettes haha.

Wet Willies bar was right next door so naturally we went there immediately after dinner... had a few of their famous "Superman"'s and then went swimming in the ocean.  It was one of the most fun nights I've ever had.  I'm pretty sure all Status said for a straight two hours was "I'm in Miami bitch!!!!!!!"

Everyone had a bit of a rough morning but we're out and off to grab some food and get to work!  Check in with you tomorrow.

 

Comcast Building Philly

I was hiking around downtown after a meeting with my attorney yesterday and was strolling past the comcast building... it's a pretty awesome building.  I'm not really like an architecture-enthusiast or anything but I can appreciate this one.

It was a really nice day out too :)

photo by dave patten via iphone 3g

Biz Trips to the NY

Turns out Ricks and I need to be in NYC like twice a week lol so we're splitting up the duties.  We have meetings, film festivals to hit and locations to scout. 

It's pretty fun I'm not gonna lie to travel around but it's very time consuming and I need to get to work on my album :/

So this week Ricks is taking the reigns.  I owe him one haha cause I def don't feel like going up I JUST WANT TO RECORD.

Live @ The Bitter End NYC

Played a good show last night at the Bitter End.  Personally I thought it was definitely one of my better shows haha.  Had a good time, met some great people, added some names to the email database (fans +) and enjoyed a single $8 beer.  Only in new york...

Iowa City + Priceline = Money Bags

Maybe I'm just new to using flight and hotel services like priceline or travelocity -- and if that's the case then so be it -- but I was rather pleasantly surprised earlier this afternoon when booking flights for South9 out to Iowa City for the Land Locked Film Festival.  They saved me about $350!!

Inside has been chosen for the festival's music video selection, so Ricks, Josh West and I are all heading out at the end of August to attend the festival.  Networking opportunities such as these cannot be passed up.  I repeat:  CANNOT.

How did Inside get selected?

You can check out the blog post here from when I submitted the film 5 months ago!

I only have $1,000 in the bank right now (don't worry, our money all comes through to us at the beginning of August lol) because we've made a lot of recent investments.  We're moving into new office space at the end of the month as well -- but hell, this opportunity can't be passed up.  Not only can we network, but we're in the spotlight as one of the featured filmmaking squads.

I'm also going to get in touch with the radio stations out there and schedule a radio interview (or two) to hit up for extra press while we're out there.

On top of that, due to flight schedules, we have a lot of extra time on Monday.  Guess what we'll be doing?  Shooting a music video!!!  You got it.  Take advantage of every situation that gets thrown your way.

So if I don't see you at the festival, or if you don't hear me on the radio, or if you don't bump into me on set -- maybe I'll catch you at the bar Friday or Saturday night :)

Zomba Label Group Thursday

I have been summoned to the streets of NYC once again this week to meet with Mr. Jeff Fenster, Senior VP of A&R at Zomba Label Group.  Our meeting is at noon, which means I'm out the door at around 730am.  Just my style :)

As you may have assumed I have indeed been practicing all week, working on both acoustic guitar and piano sets.  The one thing I'd like to point out is with live performances... first off, they are extremely underrated.  I can't tell you how many industry professionals think a live show can be thrown together in like a week.  Absolutely not.  That's like telling someone they need to memorize a 20 page monologue and be able to dramatically perform it perfectly in a week.  Ok, poor metaphor but my point is... it's a lot harder than you'd think.

When I play solo, I play the songs differently than when I perform with Josh West, and I play the songs different from both of those versions when with my whole band.  So essentially, I play each song three different ways, and each set consists of around 25 songs.  So, I have 75 songs backlogged in my head.  Mathematics.

Much to my satisfaction, I am rather well-versed in my acoustic guitar set.  Most of my attention has been on my piano set.  Not too much pressure, it's hard to forget songs you write haha although easy to forget lyrics........... I can't wait for the days when I'm performing sold out shows and forget the words to my own songs meanwhile the audience is singing everything perfectly hahah when I'm laughing hysterically on stage you'll know why.

Fenster, here I come.  NYC I'm walking all over you Thursday.  NJ Transit train passengers, prepare to be bumped into as I barge down the narrow traincar with my gigantic and all-too-heavy guitar case haha

Cheers

VLOG: 530AM

Personally, I was dying haha.  It's tough to stay awake throughout the entire night!  Josh West and I were on the train home from NYC to Philadelphia at 530am.  But the show was great and the performance was fun, so it was worth it.

See the details and hear the performance of Dave Patten live on The Joey Reynolds Show

Just a little video to document the journey:

recorded by Dave Patten via iPhone