Tending to the dream in Joe Firstman’s Garden
Joe Firstman at home in El Porto What is it to be living the dream? The expression typically inspires a no worries, no hardship lifestyle. But that’s not quite it. All that jazz comes after, potential rewards for having worked at the dream. Really living the dream is found in the daily self-application to pursuing the dream. It’s not easy street. It’s solid commitment, blood, sweat, and tears which define the weathered lines and crevices spread across the face of living the dream. When a hotheaded and very green 19-year-old Joe Firstman set out from Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2000 in pursuit of his dream, he was capable of filling whole Hollywood nights with the knowledge of a youth reaching for the stars. “When I got to Hollywood it was a spectacle,” he concedes. “I must have been something to see, because I was as brash and as ignorant and as loud-mouthed, and as passionate as anyone; I could do no wrong. Youth has something to do with that, maybe.” All the same, it seemed he could do no wrong. By 2001 he was named singer-songwriter of the year at the Los Angeles Music Awards, and soon landed a record deal with Atlantic, only two years into his pursuit. After releasing his…
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