Sunday Night Open Thread

[solarbird]

Welcome to Sunday night open thread. Anonymous comments are enabled, but still screened, because fuck spammers. IP logging is disabled until I edit this post to say otherwise re-enabled as of now. Got anything to say? Go!

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[gesundyke]

*leaves you a few individually-wrapped hugs for use whenever*

free hugs!

[solarbird]

aw. thanks ^_^

Stay Away

[(Anonymous)]

Powerful. Just trying to figure it out. Raises lots of issues in my mind. Sometimes people do the best they know how, just don't know much about how to do it.

[(Anonymous)]

Man, I wish my wife still wanted to live with me. She wants me to be one of her best friends without being her husband, because figuring out logistics is too hard without fighting, and she gets angry before we talk now.

This is an announcement:

[cow.livejournal.com]

Cookies are delicious!

Re: This is an announcement:

[solarbird]

YAY!

lol posting to my own open thread

[solarbird]

Unlike most geeks, I'm not actually an introvert. But because of a psychotically abusive childhood, I spent a long time more or less emulating one, behaviourally. Now after enough time in therapy, I'm an adult extrovert without any of the social tools one normally learns growing up to cope with it. This drives me kinda crazy and I'm not sure I'm better off for having figured this out.

Re: lol posting to my own open thread

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

My family actually explicitly TOLD me I was an introvert growing up. Ha ha it was pretty late in life before I figured out that I was actually pretty hardcore get-my-energy-from-other-people extravert and that it's almost physically difficult for me to be alone for long periods of time (The Internet Saved My Life).

I am actually a little jealous of introverts; they're like those cats who don't need anyone and can get through their lives without the constant need for interaction that is always knocking at my door.

Re: lol posting to my own open thread

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

Shoot! I forgot to post this earlier!!! Just saw it on my screen. Ooops. Anyway...

I am, weirdly enough, VERY gregarious and extroverted a lot of the time, and VERY shy & /orintroverted at other times. Sometimes I'm a hermit, sometimes I want crowds.

Also, my social skills seem to vary, as well. Some of it is different audiences, some of it is the being fluent in a comment subset of signals but clueless as to a lot of markers peculiar to individual groups, so it depends on happenstance, but also, my instincts are just better at some times than others. I dunno why.

(and online, ye gods, I'm really groping around in the dark, which is weird, given how much time I spend online. But w/out any body language cues, until I get to know someone, I often have no idea at all which of X number of possible interpretations to put on things. Once people have kept me around and not said "go away!" or "quit annoying the fuck out of me!" for a while I figure I'm doing something right, plus I gradually figure out people's written mannerisms to at least a small degree, but initially, except for rare instances, I'm really, really clueless. And then there are the times I just feel totally alienated from everyone, and so on and so forth unto endless permutations.

Or is all this normal and unexceptional in the entirety? Online, I think most people have some variation on these things but it seems to a much smaller extent. And in person, most people seem not to be like this at all. Which may be because I have a wider pool and find people more similar to my thinking to read online. But that, too, is a guess.

Which would be sort of weird, because I'm much more sure of my readings of people in person and as long as they are people I don't mind being around, I'm much more secure in my dealings with them. Of course, I also much more commonly want to isolate myself from the people I meet in person. So. Round and round it goes.)

[maellenkleth]

Okay, so I've been off the housenet this weekend because DEADLINE, and so...

How did your gig go, already? Setlist?

[solarbird]

The three people who showed up seemed to have a very good time. The barista managing the place that night said it had been really slow all day, and the entire time I was playing only two other people came in, both ordering to go.

[maellenkleth]

Ooh, aiiee, small house. Glad that they enjoyed their personal concert, though.

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better about the lack of audience I have heard of many later-to-be-famous bands experiencing the same thing in their early going. And once I was there when someone who was already famous in SOME places had something similar happen. Backwhen I was in college in Tuscaloosa, AL, Souixsie and the Banshees were booked into a theater in nearby Birmingham, AL w/a capacity of a few thousand. This was sometime in the mid to late 80's, and they were, while not exactly reeling off chart topping hits, reasonably well known in MOST of the country.

I can no longer remember the exact count, but I think around 20 people showed up, probably a little less. I would almost swear it was under two dozen, and I'm pretty sure it was more than one dozen.

Souixsie, was, ah.... incensed? Enraged? Furious? Homicidal? Genuinely murderous towards the people who did show up simply because we were there? Something along those lines.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i think you're great and love you lots :)

[solarbird]

<3 you ^_^

[annathepiper]

SING WITH ME, PEOPLE! SING!

Weeeeeellll General Taylor GAINED THE DAY!

[jeffreycornish.livejournal.com]

I own a dead man's toys.

I was over at Peter Eng's brother's place helping clear out stuff.

The man left behind a cat.

A CAT.

A lovely, friendly, neglected cat.

Just, wow.

So in putting things into boxes Peter's Aunts would ply me with "How about this brass Elephant? Would you like to take it home?" "How about this frozen food?" "How about this...." you get the idea

They are lovely people. His aunts were cracking puns. His mother seemed a bit more reserved.

All in all it was like trying to move a person who had begged for help but not done any prep of packing.

Except we were clearing out the life of another person. Wierd.

I tossed papers into the recycling dumpster. some were just print outs, there were some collected newspapers from 86, and some handwritten stuff. I felt the most funny about tossing those into the skip.

So his words are now gone.

And I have two of his robotech/transformer toys. No one else wanted them, and when I expressed that I had a Jetfire that was broken (damn plastic joints) they said that these should go to someone that cares for them.

I can't give much of a statement on who Gary Eng was, but I do know what he left behind.

[oh6.livejournal.com]

Right now I am listening to Björk's Homogenic and it's just gotten to "Pluto", which is almost the only music I've ever played that bothered my neighbours - the other was when I was playing the opening theme from Vision of Escaflowne loud enough that I could hear it in the shower.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

cflute's concert was amazing. I wish the timing had been such that you could go to it, though of course I understand why you couldn't. I wish the timing had been such that we could go to yours, too, but we'd only just gotten home around 8, and were dead exhausted.

[solarbird]

I'm glad her show went well! I need to pull the recording of mine down and see whether it came out. If it did, I might post some tracks. We'll see!

just curious

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

have you completely given up on posting economic stuff?

Re: just curious

[solarbird]

Economics is a hobby, and has had rather low priority as of late, due to both day job and music stuff. I haven't made a conscious decision not to post about it, no, not at all. But I haven't been keeping up as much (some, but not as much) while I've been working on the album, which puts me about three months behind. If I have a week or so off to catch up, I'll probably post again, but no promises. It just depends upon how busy I am at any given point. Lately: really, really, really busy.

(My arms' sensitivity to typing is being really random lately, too. That's not helping.)

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Open thread! I must post something!

But...

::draws blank::

!!!!

Okay, you weren't asking for questions and you just said your arms are hurting, so probably shouldn't ask questions, so never mind that. Or that. Huh.

What is with all my blank drawing lately? I should be drawing mandelas instead, or illustrations, or surreal doorways that let in magic, or something.

I do agree w/the people up above who said you rock, tho. =)

[solarbird]

aw, thanks. ^_^

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I am really kind of sickeningly worried about my husband and about the minor and major surgeries that are to come. I'm worried that the doctors are wrong and that he doesn't have what they think he has, and that we get to start to play "run through the gamut of MDs" all over again.

[solarbird]

Agh! I'm sorry. Good luck.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's safe saying this here because I'm downplaying it on my journal, and I'm not even allowed to *mention* it on FB, and we just don't have many friends in common who might see it.

It's a relief getting it out, though.

*breathe*