Every day I wake up and no one asks me, Axeman surdo, where can I follow you? Every day I would have said, Bitch, there is not a single goddamn form of social media I would ever want you to waste your time looking at. But podcasts... You know what it is about podcasts? It's that you don't have to look at it. I'm so sick of having to look at things all the fucking time. So instead of your normal band Instagram, like everyone has, which is just a giant circle jerk of bands jerking off other bands for shows that are only attended by other bands. Here's a podcast where I'm just going to tell you about what's going on with me. You never have to look at anything. You can do it while washing the dishes. Yeah, so like think about that bump on the back of your neck that gets getting bigger and bigger because you look down at a phone constantly or you're looking down at a screen or you're looking across the room at a screen. Too many screens. So I know you probably needed to use a screen to access this podcast, but that's not the point. So for those of you who don't know who I am, my name is Alexander Nicholas Serdu, but I go as Axeman because I used to be an axe throwing coach among other things. I am a Chicagoland musician, piano tuner, designer, composer, producer, whatever. It's all about having a creative lifestyle and doing as many things myself as I can. Oh, yeah. I also play bass in Chicago's worst punk band. Anything is everything. I just got back from tour. Well, I had to drop out. Here's a funny story. Here's one of my first anecdotes. So I actually, let's start back. Start at the beginning of the summer. I was so through with society and I was getting super fed up with music videos. I keep having to make music videos. And so I'm also the I've been the video editor of Smooth Tuba Tuesday with Tuba Extraordinaire Mike Frazier. I've been I've kind of gotten a niche for making shitty green screen music videos. And so I started this project with Ricky Lyon tones and everything was just it was ramping up right before I had a vacation and I eventually just quit everything and I said fuck it. I'm not doing video anymore. I hate watching music videos. I don't know why you guys like them. The best part about music is that you don't have to look at it. And so I don't know why you want to fake acting story that probably doesn't even actually reflect the song. Like instead of just looking at whatever you want and listen to music. But this year we had the Canadian wildfires coming through right as we were trying to get around Lake Michigan ended up running back to Chicago to try and escape the air quality, but it just followed us there and so I spent a week inside before going on tour with anything is everything now three days into tour with this band. I have a tooth die or I don't know. I get some kind of disturbance in my mouth and I start to have an abscess form in between Saratoga Springs and Boston. So every so so I get I call up my childhood doctor or sorry my childhood dentist and I get antibiotics sent to Boston at the CVS next to the venue and I start a antibiotics plan and I schedule an appointment to see an endodontist in Maryland while in the middle of tour. We've got a few days break so proceed to be sick basically for a week and then I go to endodontist and I actually my mouth had been healing up at that point and they say I don't see anything. So there's nothing to do. But as soon as I leave go camping and I spent sleep outside in the smoke at night and I go swimming in the Chesapeake Bay and I get this gnarly mouth infection like popping it like comes back the next day full force and I have to get more antibiotics sent to me. I feel like shit. I feel so sick and I'm just draining pus and stuff from my mouth constantly.
