so today i've met with an old friend of mine, who turns out to be a pretty talented composer and pianist - i was pretty amazed by some of the music he wrote, even though i'm not really into these things. long story short, i happen to know a lawyer who used to handle the first America Got Talent esque show in Russia, although it was quite a bit different (they picked a group of people and tried to make pop stars out of them), but the gist was the same, and i'm going to approach him with a couple of this guy's records to see if we can actually work something out and talk to some Russian showbiz big shots.

of course that friend of mine needs to polish a lot of things in his works and so on, but i feel he's got quite a bit of talent, and if things go right, i hope i won't need to grind nl-whatever ever again.

so, wish me luck!