More various updates
Monday, 23 October 2006 10:07There’s been a mix of frustration and excellent successes lately.
Frustration: my social life seems a little jinxed. Two weekends in a row now, I have had dates cancelled on me. To be fair, I cancelled this last weekend because I didn’t want to risk getting sick. But still,…
Work, also, has been mixed, but much more positive.
Last week, hours and hours in the studio gave me more or less the same as what I had before.
But this week, I actually have something to show for it. It’s a guitar track for Rhianon, and hopefully Renee will like it.
( an unforeseen advance for the studio )
Also, there’s some setlists:
( ”setlists” )
New Deal last Thursday went very well once folks showed up. It was, however rather discouraging when the first batch of customers finished their meals and cleared out before anyone else (except Sonya) showed up. To be fair, this happened in the main room too, sometimes, but it feels more isolated in the back. Also, I was worried because Richard, the booking guy had shown up and I really don't like to have an empty room when he does. Fortunately, he came just as things were turning around. The usual gang did show up, but just before they did this couple and their daughter (The birthday girl) came in, apparently at their daughter’s behest. It’s a joy to play to people dancing, even if they’re small. I wish more people danced when I play, and if more people come now that I’m in the big room they can. I suspect some Faerie intervention here.
One thing I’m really liking about all of my gigs is my new Hot Spot monitor. It REALLY helps me hear well and I’m especially hearing my voice better than I ever have. Headphones make me hear things flat somehow, but with that monitor nice and close, and the tuner working better than before, I’m singing better at my gigs than I ever have, and that is and will be all the difference.
And of course, alot of credit is due to Cindy, my voice coach.
Sadly, Sunday, the 14th was the last of the Clipper City gigs. Until next year. But, if a recent phone call is to be trusted, they have no plans on having this be my last gig for them. No details yet, but …
I also got a phone call out of the blue from an acquaintance who wanted to buy three (3!!) CDs!!
On the political front, following more links in![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
twistedchick’s free speech zone, are just keeping me as pissed off as I can be. The “Dominionist” sectors of Evangelical Christianity are just ugly and dangerous, and what’s more, they opitimise the type of cruelty and oppression that I’ve spent my life fighting. It saddens me to realise that my Dad was a rank amateur.
And that's eerily linked to something on my mind lately.
I’m beginning to wonder about something that’s been bugging me. I’ve mentioned before that _Dawn Of The Dead_ type “flesh eating zombie/ghoul” movies really bug me. Quite frankly, they bug me enough to sometimes have me dreaming about them when asleep and then, when I wake up intellectually exercising about what I’d do if the scenario happened for real. Of course books like Max Brooks’ _ Zombie Surviaval Guide_ don’t help one bit (Thank you Steve)
Ok. So I have this paranoid fantasy/phobia. At least it’s about stuff that’s really not gonna happen.
And yet, I’m seriously bugged and creeped out by the Undead. I’ve come to understand what my vampire repulsion was all about and what levels it’s resonating with me and where it comes from.
But what’s with the Zombies? I was wondering if my fear of them could perhaps be a metaphor for something. Another recent dream and some of the stuff that I read on one of those links has me thinking that maybe it’s coming from the part of my mind that gets angry and fearful about the brainwashed people (zombies) that Fundamentalist Cults are creating and setting loose on the world with nothing left in their brains but a hateful drive to see the “living” (outsiders ) as nothing but a threat or a resource that must be fed upon and destroyed in the process. The "flesh-eating" ghoul archetype is widely acknowledged as hungering for the flesh of the living, but actually neither needing nor drawing any sustenance from it. They don't starve to death if they don't eat. They don't attack each other, or eat those not killed by them. So their hunger must come from some other motivation to crave what they don't have that we do. That must be our life itself, just as with a vampire. But unlike vampires, who will often keep a victim somewhat alive to keep feeding on them, they are so blinded by their (it can't be hunger) covetousness/rage, that they can and will feed it by destroying us. A world without food doesn't seem to affect them one way or another, but any living person brings on their hunger and a relentless pursuit.
It's a powerful archetype, and it's got to be in our heads for a reason.
And they're always portrayed with grey faces (Greyface?).
Hmm.
And as if I didn’t have enough to be pissed off about, last night we went and saw _Who Killed The Electric Car?_ . Man, it’s like every single damn good idea that anyone ever has just needs to be killed by Conservative politics and corporate greed.
I wonder tho- would GM have the gall to go and discontinue this car and then sue if someone went and duplicated their technology by raiding their patent specs? THAT would be a really twisted court case. They probably would win, but it would be worth it just to make them twitch and froth.
Frustration: my social life seems a little jinxed. Two weekends in a row now, I have had dates cancelled on me. To be fair, I cancelled this last weekend because I didn’t want to risk getting sick. But still,…
Work, also, has been mixed, but much more positive.
Last week, hours and hours in the studio gave me more or less the same as what I had before.
But this week, I actually have something to show for it. It’s a guitar track for Rhianon, and hopefully Renee will like it.
( an unforeseen advance for the studio )Also, there’s some setlists:
( ”setlists” )New Deal last Thursday went very well once folks showed up. It was, however rather discouraging when the first batch of customers finished their meals and cleared out before anyone else (except Sonya) showed up. To be fair, this happened in the main room too, sometimes, but it feels more isolated in the back. Also, I was worried because Richard, the booking guy had shown up and I really don't like to have an empty room when he does. Fortunately, he came just as things were turning around. The usual gang did show up, but just before they did this couple and their daughter (The birthday girl) came in, apparently at their daughter’s behest. It’s a joy to play to people dancing, even if they’re small. I wish more people danced when I play, and if more people come now that I’m in the big room they can. I suspect some Faerie intervention here.
One thing I’m really liking about all of my gigs is my new Hot Spot monitor. It REALLY helps me hear well and I’m especially hearing my voice better than I ever have. Headphones make me hear things flat somehow, but with that monitor nice and close, and the tuner working better than before, I’m singing better at my gigs than I ever have, and that is and will be all the difference.
And of course, alot of credit is due to Cindy, my voice coach.
Sadly, Sunday, the 14th was the last of the Clipper City gigs. Until next year. But, if a recent phone call is to be trusted, they have no plans on having this be my last gig for them. No details yet, but …
I also got a phone call out of the blue from an acquaintance who wanted to buy three (3!!) CDs!!
On the political front, following more links in
twistedchick’s free speech zone, are just keeping me as pissed off as I can be. The “Dominionist” sectors of Evangelical Christianity are just ugly and dangerous, and what’s more, they opitimise the type of cruelty and oppression that I’ve spent my life fighting. It saddens me to realise that my Dad was a rank amateur.And that's eerily linked to something on my mind lately.
I’m beginning to wonder about something that’s been bugging me. I’ve mentioned before that _Dawn Of The Dead_ type “flesh eating zombie/ghoul” movies really bug me. Quite frankly, they bug me enough to sometimes have me dreaming about them when asleep and then, when I wake up intellectually exercising about what I’d do if the scenario happened for real. Of course books like Max Brooks’ _ Zombie Surviaval Guide_ don’t help one bit (Thank you Steve)
Ok. So I have this paranoid fantasy/phobia. At least it’s about stuff that’s really not gonna happen.
And yet, I’m seriously bugged and creeped out by the Undead. I’ve come to understand what my vampire repulsion was all about and what levels it’s resonating with me and where it comes from.
But what’s with the Zombies? I was wondering if my fear of them could perhaps be a metaphor for something. Another recent dream and some of the stuff that I read on one of those links has me thinking that maybe it’s coming from the part of my mind that gets angry and fearful about the brainwashed people (zombies) that Fundamentalist Cults are creating and setting loose on the world with nothing left in their brains but a hateful drive to see the “living” (outsiders ) as nothing but a threat or a resource that must be fed upon and destroyed in the process. The "flesh-eating" ghoul archetype is widely acknowledged as hungering for the flesh of the living, but actually neither needing nor drawing any sustenance from it. They don't starve to death if they don't eat. They don't attack each other, or eat those not killed by them. So their hunger must come from some other motivation to crave what they don't have that we do. That must be our life itself, just as with a vampire. But unlike vampires, who will often keep a victim somewhat alive to keep feeding on them, they are so blinded by their (it can't be hunger) covetousness/rage, that they can and will feed it by destroying us. A world without food doesn't seem to affect them one way or another, but any living person brings on their hunger and a relentless pursuit.
It's a powerful archetype, and it's got to be in our heads for a reason.
And they're always portrayed with grey faces (Greyface?).
Hmm.
And as if I didn’t have enough to be pissed off about, last night we went and saw _Who Killed The Electric Car?_ . Man, it’s like every single damn good idea that anyone ever has just needs to be killed by Conservative politics and corporate greed.
I wonder tho- would GM have the gall to go and discontinue this car and then sue if someone went and duplicated their technology by raiding their patent specs? THAT would be a really twisted court case. They probably would win, but it would be worth it just to make them twitch and froth.
