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The World According to CarrollLife was a bit stressful yesterday. Had all sorts of problems I dug while attempting to book a gig at the Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games. I know... I said I wasn't doing any more booking, but I had already started communication with Ray, the director, so I was gonna finish it up.
Basically, the problem I started was to email the Nagians and ask them to go ahead and email the festival since they weren't gonna book us. This started an avalanche of emails to them, and I forgot that whole "thinking" thing.
Yeah, I'm pretty impulsive. I mean, Ray was very cool about having us out there in the first place. Said we'd be at the top of his list for next year. I think part of it was that I forgot that they had already booked up all the slots when I contacted him in February. So he was just trying to help us out a wee bit.
Ah well, one day mayhaps I'll learn. I'm getting better...No really. I started using Yahoo Calendar to keep track of my life and things I need to get done, and man, is it working beautifully! It's the perfect thing for me. As much time as I spend online, it works great to have my life and calendar online. So I'm very, very happy about it.
All of a sudden, my mind is much more clear to think about other things. I carry around a print out of things to do, and add stuff to the list later, if need be. I feel like I'm finally getting stuff done, and I can see it happen daily. I love that feeling of accomplishment. Kitty ReportI haven't figured out where the problem arose, but seems one of the kitties had a bladder problem a couple nights ago. Right on my bed. Ugh! Now, comes the joy of figuring out how to clean it and keep them from repeating this problem. Any suggestions would be grand! Musical Planning for Live ShowsYe know, one of the problems with becoming popular, musically, is there are greater demands and expectations. While watching Patrice Pike the other night, I sat there brainstorming and lamenting the fact that we don't play around town more than we do.
I love to play live. It's my biggest motivation for learning new songs and growing musically. Cafe Mundi was a great venue. Sure it wasn't very profitable financially, but man, did I enjoy that a helluva lot. Okay, admittedly, I didn't enjoy playing outside as much as I did inside the venue. Inside, I don't feel like I have to go all out to be heard. Plus, I don't have to worry about breaking quite so many strings.
The biggest problem near the end was that we brought in too many people for that tiny little room. So now we need to find a new venue. Andrew's looking, and we're trying to figure out how to handle it. Hopefully, he'll get something for next month b/c if not, I'm gonna have to go out and play "somewhere" solo.
Actually, I've been planning on going to the South Mall again to practice. And I think next week I will. But nothing quite so organized as "I'll be out on Fridays." Just not quite feeling up to something that organized.
Oh yeah, I was talking about popularity. There's a fine balance between getting paid what you deserve and playing because you love to play.
When it comes to out-of-town gigs, yeah, pretty much, I would usually like to get paid, if at least just to make up for expenses since there's no guarantee we'll earn tips or sell CDs. But I'm still open to all possibilities.
I'd love to head back to the Castle Muskogee in Oklahoma and play there when it starts up next week or two. But it's a 10-12 hour car drive, followed by camping that Andrew doesn't want to do again. It's understandable. And if I was doing music full-time, I might make some adjustments to my plans and stay up there. But I'm not yet.
We just need to start booking gigs with consistency and then mayhaps it'll be a regular plan.
Oh, last night, I got to talking with Bethany, a fellow musician. She was talking about busking. I've been wanting to busk for a long time. But I didn't know any of the laws regarding it, and sometimes, I'm a wuss when it comes to messing with the law.
Well, I got a lot of insight on that. And who knows, maybe I'll look into some of that this summer. I do definitely want to play music much more though, and if it means having a private concert at my apartment, I might just do that.
Okay, I've rambled long enough. Maybe I'll get back to work on that Lewis Carroll-style poem I started this morn. Slainte!
Posted by Marc Gunn on Thursday, April 17, 2003 |
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