Chapter 3, Odd Jobs

Brianna would prove to be Blue's first love. She also became the first woman to break his heart. She ended up sleeping with a friend of a friend who was really cool and she was quite sure that Blue would like him.

Blue never bothered to find out. In fact, he moved as far away as possible in an easterly direction without falling into the ocean. Blue loved Boston. He did what any young enterprising rising star of art would do. He worked in a frame shop/gallery and a restaurant and spent his money on all the wrong things. He confused his social life with art and dabbled in too many disciplines for any self respecting gallery to accept him. He was an artist. Like any good artist, Blue surrounded himself with other artists, his friend Billy eventually joined him in Boston where they shared an apartment with two musicians. Billy and Blue had a few shows together. At one show they made a collaborative work, casting each others faces and making hand-made paper likenesses which each decorated of the other. Then they painted each others faces and sat in front of the art. Billy spent most of the night making fun of the people who struggled to get the concept while Blue fantasized that some high-powered agent would come in and recognize that he and Billy were the next Rauschenberg and Johns.

Blue was always trying to play music but wasn't very good at it. All of his roommates were.So Blue became a roadie. The great thing about being a roadie was that you got in to all of the shows for free and you got to travel.