What is it like to perform in the subway for a living?

Almost everyday I pack up my guitar and cross the Hudson river from my quiet home in East Orange, NJ to go to NYC. For this is the way I make my living-- saying goodbye to the sun and fresh air and heading to the complex transportation dungeon known as the subway. There is not one day when I know what to expect, and there is not one dollar I earn that doesn't have it's own story.

Today I decided here on that I'll recall the morality that I learned in preschool--that sharing is indeed caring. So far my fans, close friends, and family have all had to catch me at some point to hear the latest story from what happened down in the subway last time I went (and questions about the subway performing in general), and I'm always willing to share. But why not give everyone the chance to read about these plot twisting eye popping journeys in the comfort of their own homes? I share because I care, but Isn't sharing much more caring when you actually deliver what you're sharing to the person's house? There's not a greater way to care!

I'm glad to have been gifted a netbook from Verizon. It's smooth, shiny, and black, and it fits right in my guitar case and is ready to be pulled out and turned on (tee-hee to dirty thoughts). This is my weapon of choice to pen the randomness of my latest subway play day for you to read. So, when on the train back home, instead of starting up conversations that are doomed to be interrupted by my having to get off the train at my stop, why not start a conversation with you right here that will potentially last for ever?

That's right. Don't forget the conversation aspect. Ask me questions. I'll answer. Make comments. I'll laugh, cry, stomp in anger, whatever the reaction is you're trying to make me have I promise I will have the exact opposite.

"But hold on Guitaro," you say. "What about allllllll the AMAZING adventures you had for the PAST YEAR from *BEFORE* you started the blogs?" Well, you'll be pleased to know that all the best subway drunks, subway fights, subway costumes, seductive subway girls, biggest subway tips, and way way more from the past will be featured in blogs with the [Flashback] tag in the title.

Also, tune in to my YouTube channel which is kind of a blog but not really. It's a series of videos with my live performances, desktop cover songs, and the G5 Subway show (a show about other subway performers I meet).

www.youtube.com/guitaro5000

For your further stalking pleasure, here I am on Facebook.

www.facebook.com/guitaro5000