The "book me a job & I'll buy you dinner" contest

[othniel77.livejournal.com]

As someone who lives by The Opportunist Creed ("Use what you can to get what you want"), I'm throwing this out there for the hail of it.

Here's my resume. If you're someone who has connections in the Boston-area radio/entertainment industry, and can print this off and throw this in your contact person/HR director's mailbox, and it ends up netting me employment, I buy you dinner @ the restaurant of your choice. Here goes:




Anderson Mar
Dark Sky Productions
215 Chelmsford Street #7
Chelmsford, Massachusetts 02148
Email :Othniel77@yahoo.com
Phone 617-605-6758


Objective:
Securing employment in the one of my two sectors of expertise: radio broadcasting or live entertainment venue management and booking.



Work Experience

10/2006 - Present

Booking Agent/Entertainment Manager
Subsidiary booker (2003-2006)
The Skybar
518 Somerville Avenue
Somerville, MA 02143
http://www.skybar.us
617-623-5223

• Coordinated band booking and calendar management for over 320 musical acts per month
• Handled all press releases and media promotion for the venue
• Club staffing and training
• Equipment purchasing and upgrades
• Artist compensation


6/1993 - Present

Owner/CEO
Dark Sky Productions
215 Chelmsford Street Suite #7
Chelmsford, MA 02143
617-605-6758

• Owner/manager of artist management and production company
• Artist booking and promotion for 17 regional bands and solo artists
• Co-organizer of the annual New England Punk, Goth, & Metal Festival in Massachusetts
• Co-organizer of the Annual New England Darksidewalkers' Ball, 1998-Present, Arlington, MA
• Co-organizer of the Annual MASS MORGUE Halloween Event, 2004-Present, Somerville, MA
• Runs approximately 11% of the Boston underground music scene
• Freelance rock journalism for publications such as MK ULTRA Magazine and The 1/2 Creeper


1995-2000

Citadel Broadcasting (formerly known as Fuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting, and before that, Barnstable/Atlantic-Morris Broadcasting)
One City Center
Portland, ME 04101
207-774-6364
Supervisor: Tim Moore

• Traffic Assistant/Clerical Support - WJBQ/WHOM/WJAB (1999-2000)
• Board Operator - WJBQ/WJAB(1995-2000)
• Traffic Assistant - WCYY/WBLM (1996-1997)
• Technical Producer/Overnights/Morning News Prep/New Employee Trainer - WJBQ/WJAB (1995-2000)


1995-1996

Announcer/Producer - WLOB-AM
Carter Broadcasting
779 Warren Avenue
Portland, ME 04103
207-775-1310
Supervisor: Richard Ringenback


1994-1995

Afternoon Drive Announcer & Live DJ for Monthly "Skate Night" event
WFST Radio/Northern Broadcasting
PO Box 600
Caribou, ME 04736
(207) 492-6000
Supervisor: Jon Stephenson


1993-1994

Announcer/Technical Producer for Foreign Language Programming
WWWG-AM/Brandon Radio Group
1840 Winton Road South
Rochester, NY 14618
Phone: (585) 461-9212
Supervisors: Chris Scribani & Peter Quartieri


1989-1992

General Manager/Program Director (1990-1992)
Announcer (1989-1992)
WUFK-FM Radio
25 Pleasant Street
Fort Kent, ME 04743

• Hiring, training, and performance assessment of a staff of 28 employees
• Development of specialty programming
• Fundraising and promotions
• Equipment Purchase and maintenance




Education:

WCM
Fresno, CA
Certificate of Ordination, August 1995

University of Maine at Fort Kent
Bachelor of Arts in European History, December 1992

Comments

[thebinturong.livejournal.com]

Against my better judgment, I will play devil's advocate.

I'm all for people not dying in a horrible and preventable fire, but it's a leap of faith to believe that the code violations in the skybar are so dire that you place yourself in danger simply by going there. Fire code around Boston has always been fairly pedantic, post Coconut Grove. I'm sure alot of us have spent time enclosed in hellish boxes of potential death in the name of entertainment without getting disgruntled. Then again I don't know for sure, were the walls of the skybar lined with explosive foam or something like that? Or was he just not prepared to pump 100 gallons of water per minute into the club in case the alarm went off?

I also can't really blame the skybar for balking at the cost of upgrading something they won't get a return on. Running a club is charity work, and people do it because they feel the need. If he feels his calling is to dig deeper in to the Chinese take out business, so be it.

And if the place has really been on the market for a couple of years, either some people have been putting alot of time into building up the club have been strung along or they shouldn't be surprised that it will be coming to an end. Showbiz was built by arrogant, naive, idealistic people. On the other hand its easy to be a consumer of scenes who expresses disappointment that it's not up to par. There are not many people who can deal with being a promoter in this town, because its a very hostile environment if you're not working for, say, oh I don't want to name names but his initials used to be D on "I picked up Led Zeppelin at Logan Airport" Law.

The responses in some of the other threads kind of remind me 4 years ago "well OF COURSE Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction ya dumb bitches, duhhhh." There's just no need to recall 9/11, the holocaust, Christ dying on the cross for your sins, whatever.