{"id":1675,"date":"2012-02-06T00:54:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T08:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2012-02-06T00:54:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T08:54:37","slug":"i-kind-of-took-the-weekend-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/i-kind-of-took-the-weekend-off\/","title":{"rendered":"i kind of took the weekend off"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, yeah! I kinda took the weekend off. It was nice! I played Skyrim, organised old fanac artefacts<\/a>, and made many horrible noises on the viLOLin, the violin I mentioned in Friday’s post about how to build your kit for cheap<\/a>. That was fun. ^_^<\/p>\n

But me being lazy? Not what this blog is about! So: right now, I need people who will host house concerts. I know, I know, scary, too hard, frightening, run away! But I swear to you, they’re really not difficult to host! It’s like a friends party at your house, but with live entertainment. The host provides a space and their friends as an audience, and I show up and set up the PA and do my thing.<\/p>\n

This video is from a house concert. It has a lot more talk with it than other videos, so you have context, and can get an idea of the atmosphere. People are relaxed and having a good time:<\/p>\n

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Heather Dale has a big writeup about house concerts on her website. It’s kind of a how-to guide. If you have any willingness to consider this at all, I hope you’ll read that and talk to me. I also hope people who have hosted house shows (me or other people) will vouch for it not actually being scary.<\/p>\n

I’m finding I get a lot better as I get more opportunities to play out. House concerts definitely<\/em> count. And it’s also something different<\/em>, which is important.<\/p>\n

See, I’m kind of a neophile<\/a>, for better and worse. Coming out of software development, that sounds like one of those bullshit self-aggrandising lines, where it’s all “OMG AWESOME TECHLUST LOLOLOL,” but there’s a real “for worse” part, and the “for worse” part is kicking my ass. I used to play five or six hours a day. I don’t, now; it’s a couple of hours most days, and five-six hour days are very rare. That’s part of what has me poking around at the viLOLin: it’s something different<\/em>. No matter how much I like something – and I really do<\/em> still love this – the repetition starts to get to me.<\/p>\n

Live shows help a lot<\/em>. It’s just easier for me to put in repetitive work if I know I have a deadline, a show, a goal, a thing<\/em>, whatever it might be. It feels so much less masturbatory. Not to mention the good parts about meeting people and performing and going places and doing things; all of that is awesome! But the big help is just having this work be for a reason<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I mean, if I’m trying to make up for all my lost time, I’d think I need to be at that five to six hours a day level, at a minimum. I’ve read about musicians who just go all day, particularly classical artists, and that’s the kind of quality goal I tend to have for myself. But for me, that much repetition – particularly without a specific goal – is a one-way ticket to burnout city. I’ve been there. I had a house<\/em> there. It sucked.<\/p>\n

So, please. Consider it, and talk to me. Heather’s page on house concerts is under “how to help” on her website, and that’s what I’m asking for here.<\/p>\n

Which all turned out to be a pretty damned long blog post given that I didn’t have anything to write about an hour ago.<\/p>\n

And how was your<\/em> weekend? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, yeah! I kinda took the weekend off. It was nice! I played Skyrim, organised old fanac artefacts, and made many horrible noises on the viLOLin, the violin I mentioned in Friday’s post about how to build your kit for cheap. That was fun. ^_^ But me being lazy? Not what this blog is about! [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}