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Hey, back from Conflikt! They were in a new hotel this year, and the social flow of the convention really benefitted from the new room geometry. Thanks to Dave “Salad of Doom” Tinney, I gained like three pounds despite not eating out once, and it is a damned good thing he’s not cooking for me regularly, that’s all I can say.<\/p>\n

What kind of convention is it? It’s the kind of convention where I end up doing excerpts from musical theatre at 1am Monday morning, that’s what kind. (I still have glitter stands in my hair, but that’s okay<\/em>.)<\/p>\n


Not that late yet<\/b>, but pretty damn late<\/i>
photo jen_kalea<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also the kind where I got to catch up with a bunch of people I don’t see very often, like Allegra and John and Heather and Ben<\/a> and Shaddyr and all these people I’ve now met a few times at events and really like! but whose names are right now just gone<\/em>, like Guitar Player With Memory Issues Like Mine, and Not Sue But Reminds Me Of Her from Georgia, and like the solo I was going to play on stage on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

…which was actually kind of funny; I joined an instaband to play a Blind Lemming Chiffon comedy song about Thing from The Addams Family<\/i>, and his unhappiness about his career. They wanted a zouk solo, which I never do because I’m normally playing out alone, so I stole one of Tom Schultz’s guitar solos from “Peace of Mind,” which is a song about careerism<\/em>, and the kind of joke only people at conventions like this would get.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m up there, and the bridge comes around, and I hit the first note…<\/p>\n

…and it is gone<\/em>. The whole solo is out of my brain<\/em>. BYE! So I go, “uh” and just start improvising in key, in the right rhythm. “Is this it? Nope. Is this it? Nope. Is it comin’ back? … … … Nope! Have I played enough notes yet? … Yes! Outro!” And we’re into verse three.<\/p>\n

So that was kind of hilarious, but to the wrong people, namely, us<\/em>. The audience didn’t know anything was wrong, they even thought it was kinda cool.<\/p>\n

But hey, I survived my first on-stage zouk solo. Everybody wins! XD<\/p>\n

Anyway, that was fun. And both exhausting and energising, so I’m wiped out, but in that good kind of way. But now, back to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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