wow i'm tired

[solarbird]

They like me, those people in the Kirk land, take-off-your-shirt land. But omg I'm tired. One person had a request for a song I'd never heard of. Another one leaned in to try to look at my sheet music (actually just notes) for "Life in the Underground (The Militant's Song)."

Also, westrider came by and said hi. ^_^

eta: broke 1 string (nbd), tore up all the new green pics. Dammit. Finished one song with a broken pick, which was kinda cool. Crowd didn't seem to notice.

Comments

[maellenkleth]

well, given your playing style, which could best be described as "nonlinear and highly kinetic", yes, you would go through picks quite quickly. Just saying... ^_^

Would those steel fingernail extension that some banjo players use (am thinking here of our old buddy Tom Hanway in particular) be helpful, or would they damage your instrument too much?

Here, have a small raven to start the day.

[solarbird]

...nonlinear? How do you mean that? I mean, I'm pretty sure you don't mean it in the Seattle-area tech culture way (where it's disparaging in a way indicating randomness leading to nonsense, similar to "flying off the tracks" - "her thinking got pretty nonlinear at that point," et al) but I don't know how you actually do mean it.

Highly kinetic, I can support.

The steel fingernail thing would involve learning strumming over again, but I could do that; the problem is I'd shred strings (and possibly instrument) in short order. Plus I dislike the feel of the harder/stiffer/thicker picks. (Gosh! Lesbian subtext much?)

[maellenkleth]

har. ^_^

okay, non-linear: in the sense that what we have heard of your playing has made abrupt and non-predictable transitions of energetic state -- cannot predict the next 8 bars based on the past 16 bars (which to us Baroque keyboardists is a normal way of approaching music). So 'non-linear' here not at all meant on the pejorative sense of 'she went 'splody on us in her music).

of course maybe what we heard was you noodling around and experimenting, in which case could well grok a certain absence of linearity. Was not kidding when asking about recordings. Srsly.

point taken that you might harm the instrument. strings are cheapo, comparatively.

subtext? won't even go there, kids might be present and the Sarf (let alone verkrampties like King George the Junior) might not approve of such wicked and iniquitous thoughts.

here, feed the raven some macaroni....

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

That's not a Seattle-area thing in my experience, it's a tech culture/geek culture thing. To me, "non-linear" is not inherently positive or negative and I think the fact that it is used that way reflects poorly on the people who use it that way.

[solarbird]

Well, I said "Seattle-area geek culture," primarily because I've only encountered it personally in geek culture in the Seattle area. (And I think you're overreading it - it's just a replacement for the word "random," really, in the sense of that old New Yorker cartoon with the mathematical step, "And then a miracle occurred.")