Yevette did say she can sleep through it when I play but pushing that at three in the morning probably won't rate a big score with Dale Carnegie.
Ref: "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - Dale Carnegie
Ed: did you ever read it?
Are you serious? (larfs)
Amazingly enough, talking about Socialism doesn't impress us too much and the Rockhouse just continues blithely along practicing it. I knew the plan for playing during the night was thin but it was important to keep that option open. Nothing is canceled; it's only deferred.
John Lennon advised about plans but I already knew since I've been an exceptional planner in my life and was paid big bucks for it. Maybe you're familiar with Microsoft Project as I did get a bit of a bang out of it since it was a kind of programming after other kinds had become boring to me.
Ed: why not do that now and make the big bucks?
Some things in life you keep while others you experience and later walk away. The biggest lesson from Microsoft Project recapitulates John Lennon although not at all as elegantly: the more complicated the plan, the easier it is to wreck it. You can see examples of that just about everywhere and only the best (e.g. NASA) can pull off the really complicated ones while Congress can't even figure out a budget and the Pentagon can't even figure out a war.
Ed: you're going to play again, aren't you?
Well, I think I've made it clear I'm already playing again, mate (larfs).
Ed: you know what I mean
Sure the objective is to work up a set. That's always the objective. Strength is building despite massive opposition from life but it's surprising how that opposition in some twisted way helps build strength. I won't walk away from Yevette when she's down and she knows it. That makes me feel noble as a motherfucker, man, and, sure, ain't no harm coming to the music from that.
Ed: a gig is still just fantasy
Oh, really. The laptop is less than a meter from my left arm. Pop it open, wake it up, and it will spit out a dozen of my songs without so much as booting it. The audio is already directed out to the mixer. To do a gig in SL, I only need to show up (larfs).
A fantasy is that submarine in the next article and that's not even a good fantasy. At this stage, fantasies aren't much interesting unless there's some chance of making them happen and this one can.
Ed: where?
I'll try again to reach Nad Gough. He's a good man and I've known him for ten years, easy.
Ed: he's mainstream as hell!
In fact, he's not since his interpretations of mainstream songs are not like anything you ever heard before. More importantly, he's as honest as the day is long. He's a good chap and we have been friends for ages but contact is difficult when my hours don't sync with anywhere on the planet as far as I can tell.
Ed: it looks like your hours could work in Mongolia
Thank heavens. I'm sure I would be good with yaks.
Ed: you just say that to flatter Nad
Hmm ... that could have been worded better. The way it goes with Nad is he's like a dandelion when it throws off those seeds and gets love flying around in crazy ways all over the place. Yep, that's what he does. It's been about a year since I heard from him and hopefully he still does his shows once in a while.
Ed: this is a fookin' musical retirement home!
Retirement is when you sit in front of a television, watching the same show over and over and over, and you dribble on yourself while you think about good old days which probably didn't happen. Music never retires. It's good or it sucks and the rules never change.
Pablo Casals went off to practice when he was about ninety and someone asked him why. He said, "I think I'm starting to get it."
Ain't no retirement from or in music; who would want one.
I don't want anything to do with the pay venues as I've seen such small-minded evil coming out of those musical throttlebottoms and it's some sick shit when they pay maybe fifty bucks for a gig or some such and then act like they're Billy Graham at fucking Fillmore West. Screw that. They're not good people and it's best to stay away from them.
Ed: it's the same as money racing with karts?
Yep, bring in the filthy lucre and it gets everything dirty. I've heard so much sodding swill about that you would not even believe and I will not even repeat. I'm tellin' you, mates; it's dirty.
Ed: Bad Silas wasn't dirty?
That's a different kind of dirt and he's really good at it. Bad Silas was running around when I saw Nad the most so that's the one he knows and likely the same with multiple in his audience.
Ed: you look forward to your bad reputation?
Well, I think I fuckin' earned it, fer chrissakes.
Ed: this isn't about music; it's about resurrecting Bad Silas!
Nah, it's really not but Bad Silas was a riot and a measure of notoriety came out of that. Badness sends gig attractiveness through the ceiling in SL. It's not that Bad Silas will do anything ... but he might.
Ed: bullshit! You want to be the SL Porno King!
Relax. I'm already the SL Porno King. How do you think I got to be Bad Silas in the first place? (larfs)
Besides, a man has to be a stud to be attractive when he's young but, at this age, a man only has to be breathing.
Ed: and talk dirty?
Come fly with me, huh? (larfs)
Ed: you're just trolling for femme types?
Nah. Life is complicated enough already. They have to think I might, tho.
Ed: they will see it here and it won't fool them
Bad Silas doesn't fool anyone. It's the same reason children are not interesting. It's too easy to fool them.
The next time you see a gig announcement from the Silas in Second Life, it will be mine.
For the Socialist aspect, playing for the Americas will work since SL time is based in California so that will sync with when Yevette is usually awake. That's usually when I'm asleep because I prefer the deep night but shifting things to play a bit could be cool.
Ed: you looking for a regular gig?
Nooooo. I never wanted to do repeating gigs and that goes back to 2006 when I started in SL. It's almost never a good idea to do that. I have done that periodically for special circumstances but that's not my preference. Repeating things only makes them stiff and boring ... audience poofs ... game over.
Some are good at keeping repeating gigs fresh by bringing a constant influx of new songs along with the familiar but that's really just catering to the need to do repeating gigs. My view is it's always better to set up a one-off show and just blow it the fuck away.
Ed: what if it sucks and people hate it?
That's why they call it the bluez (larfs).
Ref: "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - Dale Carnegie
Ed: did you ever read it?
Are you serious? (larfs)
Amazingly enough, talking about Socialism doesn't impress us too much and the Rockhouse just continues blithely along practicing it. I knew the plan for playing during the night was thin but it was important to keep that option open. Nothing is canceled; it's only deferred.
John Lennon advised about plans but I already knew since I've been an exceptional planner in my life and was paid big bucks for it. Maybe you're familiar with Microsoft Project as I did get a bit of a bang out of it since it was a kind of programming after other kinds had become boring to me.
Ed: why not do that now and make the big bucks?
Some things in life you keep while others you experience and later walk away. The biggest lesson from Microsoft Project recapitulates John Lennon although not at all as elegantly: the more complicated the plan, the easier it is to wreck it. You can see examples of that just about everywhere and only the best (e.g. NASA) can pull off the really complicated ones while Congress can't even figure out a budget and the Pentagon can't even figure out a war.
Ed: you're going to play again, aren't you?
Well, I think I've made it clear I'm already playing again, mate (larfs).
Ed: you know what I mean
Sure the objective is to work up a set. That's always the objective. Strength is building despite massive opposition from life but it's surprising how that opposition in some twisted way helps build strength. I won't walk away from Yevette when she's down and she knows it. That makes me feel noble as a motherfucker, man, and, sure, ain't no harm coming to the music from that.
Ed: a gig is still just fantasy
Oh, really. The laptop is less than a meter from my left arm. Pop it open, wake it up, and it will spit out a dozen of my songs without so much as booting it. The audio is already directed out to the mixer. To do a gig in SL, I only need to show up (larfs).
A fantasy is that submarine in the next article and that's not even a good fantasy. At this stage, fantasies aren't much interesting unless there's some chance of making them happen and this one can.
Ed: where?
I'll try again to reach Nad Gough. He's a good man and I've known him for ten years, easy.
Ed: he's mainstream as hell!
In fact, he's not since his interpretations of mainstream songs are not like anything you ever heard before. More importantly, he's as honest as the day is long. He's a good chap and we have been friends for ages but contact is difficult when my hours don't sync with anywhere on the planet as far as I can tell.
Ed: it looks like your hours could work in Mongolia
Thank heavens. I'm sure I would be good with yaks.
Ed: you just say that to flatter Nad
Hmm ... that could have been worded better. The way it goes with Nad is he's like a dandelion when it throws off those seeds and gets love flying around in crazy ways all over the place. Yep, that's what he does. It's been about a year since I heard from him and hopefully he still does his shows once in a while.
Ed: this is a fookin' musical retirement home!
Retirement is when you sit in front of a television, watching the same show over and over and over, and you dribble on yourself while you think about good old days which probably didn't happen. Music never retires. It's good or it sucks and the rules never change.
Pablo Casals went off to practice when he was about ninety and someone asked him why. He said, "I think I'm starting to get it."
Ain't no retirement from or in music; who would want one.
I don't want anything to do with the pay venues as I've seen such small-minded evil coming out of those musical throttlebottoms and it's some sick shit when they pay maybe fifty bucks for a gig or some such and then act like they're Billy Graham at fucking Fillmore West. Screw that. They're not good people and it's best to stay away from them.
Ed: it's the same as money racing with karts?
Yep, bring in the filthy lucre and it gets everything dirty. I've heard so much sodding swill about that you would not even believe and I will not even repeat. I'm tellin' you, mates; it's dirty.
Ed: Bad Silas wasn't dirty?
That's a different kind of dirt and he's really good at it. Bad Silas was running around when I saw Nad the most so that's the one he knows and likely the same with multiple in his audience.
Ed: you look forward to your bad reputation?
Well, I think I fuckin' earned it, fer chrissakes.
Ed: this isn't about music; it's about resurrecting Bad Silas!
Nah, it's really not but Bad Silas was a riot and a measure of notoriety came out of that. Badness sends gig attractiveness through the ceiling in SL. It's not that Bad Silas will do anything ... but he might.
Ed: bullshit! You want to be the SL Porno King!
Relax. I'm already the SL Porno King. How do you think I got to be Bad Silas in the first place? (larfs)
Besides, a man has to be a stud to be attractive when he's young but, at this age, a man only has to be breathing.
Ed: and talk dirty?
Come fly with me, huh? (larfs)
Ed: you're just trolling for femme types?
Nah. Life is complicated enough already. They have to think I might, tho.
Ed: they will see it here and it won't fool them
Bad Silas doesn't fool anyone. It's the same reason children are not interesting. It's too easy to fool them.
The next time you see a gig announcement from the Silas in Second Life, it will be mine.
For the Socialist aspect, playing for the Americas will work since SL time is based in California so that will sync with when Yevette is usually awake. That's usually when I'm asleep because I prefer the deep night but shifting things to play a bit could be cool.
Ed: you looking for a regular gig?
Nooooo. I never wanted to do repeating gigs and that goes back to 2006 when I started in SL. It's almost never a good idea to do that. I have done that periodically for special circumstances but that's not my preference. Repeating things only makes them stiff and boring ... audience poofs ... game over.
Some are good at keeping repeating gigs fresh by bringing a constant influx of new songs along with the familiar but that's really just catering to the need to do repeating gigs. My view is it's always better to set up a one-off show and just blow it the fuck away.
Ed: what if it sucks and people hate it?
That's why they call it the bluez (larfs).
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