of December and alternate realities
This has been a busier month than usual, as Decembers are often wont to be. Five gigs on the books, plus at least one rehearsal, plus of course 37.5 hours every week on the daygig. And it's been no picnic there either. There's been a lot of shuffling these days, what with folks getting ready to retire and other folks getting ready to move into their spots--if we were a deck of cards(and who's to say we aren't?)we'd be getting pretty frayed around the edges.
Well I for one have been getting a bit frayed around the edges, whether I exist in card or corporeal form. My gigs covered every weekend, and as the month went, I wished at times that I'd left a free weekend in there as far as booking gigs, a 48-hr period where I could just catch my breath. Some time off.
And that's the problem! Only so much time to work with. If you work a dayjob, chances are you're doing it five days a week, roughly 40 hours per week. That leaves you with two days off every week, and if you have a sideline business like playing gigs, there goes at least one of them. Days, that is.
The actual experience of playing gigs is usually a positive one. I try and accept those gigs I think will be to my liking and avoid those I don't, and am usually okay. My only problem is the time expenditure, the fact that your weekend time is cut into. If you could somehow distill the experience of playing, the joyous interactivity of a good group, and remove the time constraints- the necessity of the event happening at a fixed point in time, You could both "play the gigs" and enjoy your weekend.
Perhaps the gig could itself be a sort of 'virtual reality' you'd experience on your computer or DVD Player, or perhaps the experience would be such that you'd have to enter another dimension to go through it. A nonlinear dimension. Perhaps something entered by a portal not unlike what Kurt Vonnegut Jr described as a Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. This is a funnel, a 'wormhole of the Universe', wherein the great truths reside". And then from there, you'd get the whole experience irrespective of time or space.
And that way, you'd still have your weekends. Makes sense to me anyway..
Well I for one have been getting a bit frayed around the edges, whether I exist in card or corporeal form. My gigs covered every weekend, and as the month went, I wished at times that I'd left a free weekend in there as far as booking gigs, a 48-hr period where I could just catch my breath. Some time off.
And that's the problem! Only so much time to work with. If you work a dayjob, chances are you're doing it five days a week, roughly 40 hours per week. That leaves you with two days off every week, and if you have a sideline business like playing gigs, there goes at least one of them. Days, that is.
The actual experience of playing gigs is usually a positive one. I try and accept those gigs I think will be to my liking and avoid those I don't, and am usually okay. My only problem is the time expenditure, the fact that your weekend time is cut into. If you could somehow distill the experience of playing, the joyous interactivity of a good group, and remove the time constraints- the necessity of the event happening at a fixed point in time, You could both "play the gigs" and enjoy your weekend.
Perhaps the gig could itself be a sort of 'virtual reality' you'd experience on your computer or DVD Player, or perhaps the experience would be such that you'd have to enter another dimension to go through it. A nonlinear dimension. Perhaps something entered by a portal not unlike what Kurt Vonnegut Jr described as a Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. This is a funnel, a 'wormhole of the Universe', wherein the great truths reside". And then from there, you'd get the whole experience irrespective of time or space.
And that way, you'd still have your weekends. Makes sense to me anyway..
posted by Roger U Roundly at 6:13 PM
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