Don't forget the little arrows on 'em to tell the bits which way to go.
I'll also be offering my own propriatary technology which filters the datastream to make sure the 1s are all inline with the direction of travel. 1s going through crosswise is the leading cause of signal degradation.
Rigourous highly subjective tests (remember, in Audio World objectivity is a Bad Thing) in my own lab allow me to say that I can say the improvement in all sorts of silly word parameters is astounding. Oh, and "Quantum Flux!"
You can't leave out Quantum Flux Technology if you wish to be taken at all seriously. This High Tech Deep Juju(tm) after all.
I'm working on a series of Internet Ready acoustic treatments for your listening room too, stay tuned to this channel. Oh sure, you thought Digital Ready should cover it. Silly boy. How would I be able to afford a villa in the Cayman Islands if that were the case?
There are some things that are better off not requiring electricity to work if you can avoid it. If the electricity fails, which it does, the thing fails.
I would have thought that a hole in the wall was one of these.
When I was a small child one of my favorite books was "Mei Ling Flies a Kite." It is the story of a young girl who, with her family, makes and flies a dragon kite. I have always loved Chinese dragons, and when I went to the pediatricians always tried to get "The Dragon Room" (He had a Chinese dragon hanging from the ceiling).
The book was illustrated entirely with photographs. I cannot find any reference to it through Google. One of these days I'll have to dig through boxes and see if it's still around.
Interestingly, there was a book published in 2002 with painted illustrations called "Kite Flying," the story of how Mei-Mei and her family make and fly a dragon kite.
You'll love this; I used to work for the Palatino importer. I was the Q/A guy:)
Well Jeezum Crow, ya meet all sorts on this here Slashdot thingy, don'cha?
Better to get the best instrument for the money than an inferior one that has primo strings, etc on it.
Precisely.
At this point I amount to an unofficial Palatino endorser.
The instrument is too good for what I bought it for. I'd hate to see anything happen to it, so I got ahold of an old Steiner copy for that and the Palatino became my stage ax so I could leave the "good" stuff home and not risk it. Funny thing is, even when I'm home all the more valuable old stuff tends to sit in their cases on the shelf and when I want to play I go right for the Palatino most of the time.
Yeah, it's still a bit green, but coming on nicely and I can't wait to hear what it sounds like in 20 years, assuming I make it that long myself. I'm older than a couple of American states as it is and not, as they say, gettin' any younger. When the hell did that happen?
One of the first projects for the cello is possibly going to be recording on a Will Ackerman production. The boys in the group want me in with that and a bit o' Irish flute. No accounting for taste I guess.
There have been months right here in America when I wished I could work less than 27 days, 10-12 hours a day.
Oh, yeah, that's called "February."
Don't forget that America built it's own industrial wealth in the first place with children literally chained to machines. It's easy enough looking down with contempt from the lofty hights acheived by the same methods.
Oh, yeah, and on the broken backs of coolies. They're ancestor worshipers. They haven't forgotten, even if you have.
Palatino VN-850. Current going rate online $240 with shipping (I got a bit of a deal), pretty much everywhere. The one piece back VN-855'll go ya $260. Won't sound any better. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choice.
See comments on the cello above, only substitute Thomastic Dominants for the Helicores if you haven't played before, unless you intend to play oldtimey/bluegrass. For really whiney fiddle sound go with Super Sensitive Red Labels or D'Addario J90s, which'll also save you a few bucks.
Strangely, I've never thought of including a Violin in my list of things that I'd take with me when I go camping or to the beach.
I'm a bit, ummmmmmmmm, "different." There's nothing like sitting on the rock dome of Mt. Pharoh and playing to Schroon Lake far below. I didn't say it was good thing. Just that there's nothing like it. The rest of the world should be greatful for that.
In any event, when one becomes that informal with a violin (banging around? Ack!), isn't one required to start referring to it as a "fiddle"?
The difference between a fiddle and a violin:
It's a fiddle if you're playing it. It's a violin if you're selling it.
A violin travels in a "case." A fiddle travels in a "gunny sack."
Nobody cries when you spill beer on a fiddle. Unless it's a Guinness. For the beer.
Palatino VN-850. Greatmusicproductsonline.com has 'em for $540 with US shipping. Don't know 'em. Don't know if I can trust 'em. Price seems awfully low. Instrumentpro.com has 'em for $645. Known trustworthy.
It'll cost you a bit more to have it tweaked, for that price. You'll probably want to replace the bridge right off, or at least I did in the violin. Have the pegs properly fitted by a luthier which'll be about $80, it's fussy hand work with special tools. Save you all sorts of grief tuning. If you haven't played string before get a set of D'Addario Helicore strings for it, $90. For bottom price you don't get the best strings. Better they cut corners there than in the instrument itself. Live with the original strings until you start to sound ok, say at about six months, then swap them out for the Helicores. Have a luthier do this and set your soundpost at the same time.
You won't believe it's the same instrument after this.
If you can find them in a shop in your area sold properly set up from the start that would be the way to go. Higher sticker price, but it'll average out to about the same as buying online and paying to have the setup done. Plus you get to try a couple out to find the one you like. Every string instrument sounds a bit different. They aren't like factory guitars. Ordering can be a bit of a pig in a poke thing.
But then so is finding a shop selling student instruments that really knows how to do a proper setup. 'Fraid I can't help you there.
If things work out well for you let me know sometime. If they don't. ..hey, what the hell you taking advice from some dork on Slashdot for, are you crazy?
To move away from the high tech answers you're already getting I bought a student violin this year, made in China, two hundred bucks. Violin, bow and case. I wanted something I could bang around, take camping or to the beach and not worry about overmuch. Should be junk, right?
It is a better made, and with a little tweaking has turned out to be a better instrument, than my vintage and antique European and American instruments of considerably higher "value." As it plays in it just keeps getting better and better. I'm so impressed I'm planning to add a cello of the same model to my collection.
At a gig a friend asked if he could try it. When he picked it up and started to play his first comment was, "Niiiiiiiice bow!"
Perhaps you have to be a violin player to understand the ramifications of that comment.
It was not too long ago, in historical terms, that China and Japan were known as the source of the finest handmade items in the world. Europeans didn't risk their necks and their investments going all the way to China for junk. Made in China was not merely a mark of something being exotic, but a mark of quality absolutely unobtainable from anywhere else. Quality that you could see and feel.
Japan spent about a century getting beat up. They got over it. China spent about two centuries getting beat up, and beat up rather worse. They're finally starting to get over it.
It's a biiiiiiiiig frickin' dragon that's awakening; and it wants its reputation back.
Despite some of the gameplay shortcomings the plot of the game is top-notch
I'm afraid this is why I don't play many games like this, and will likely skip this one. I pretty much stick to open ended games without even a hint of plot these days. Besides the infinite replay value when a game only has gameplay to fall back on the developers tend to remember to avoid gameplay shortcomings (or at least the good ones do).
Plot can certainly enhance a good game, I'm not agin it (See Grim Fandango), but it cannot make a game. If I want a killer storyline I can always go read some Joseph Conrad or something. If I want a good game I don't want gameplay shortcomings, no matter the plotline.
And this is why it is less damaging to society to have a system in which 10 guilty go free on some "technicality" (like you couldn't prove they did it or something) then to convict a single innocent man.
Of course, as many others have noted he should have let a lawyer do his speaking for him. All of it. From word five.
You see, when the police tell you that you aren't actually a suspect in a crime, they're just required to investigate because someone filed a complaint and they just want to clear it off the books. . .
They are doing something called "lying."
Unfortunately civilzed law is a social contract based on a "trust metric."
More will commit legal crimes that are morally acceptable.
Heretic! If God didn't think slavery was moral he wouldn't have put it in the Bible. All you abolitionists have no sense of law and order. Plus you're God damned.
. ..you might gain customers for your live shows. ..
Works for me. People are actually bootlegging me on their phones now. I think it's fucking fantastic. Can't do that unless you show up.
I have absolutely no problem with them poisoning the p2p stream. I have absolutely no idea where you get the idea that I do. It won't work, but I have no problem with it. It not only isn't my revenue stream, but might even serve to stimulate my revenue stream. I'm not sure that's what HBO has in mind, however. Other than that it doesn't effect me, as I don't use such networks. Wouldn't even know where to find one without doing research.
HBO is not trying to force people to watch the show. They are trying to force people who ALREADY want to watch the show to use the correct way to obtain it.
You've never sold anything for a living, have you?
All I have done is suggest that there might be some better tactic or strategy for HBO to make money.
That is supposed to be their goal. Not preventing downloading.
iTunes, for instance, seems to be making money by encouraging downloading. I have no idea why people will pay an exhorbitant fee for a crippled product, but clearly they are willing to do so if presented the opportunity, despite the presence of the p2p networks.
They get to choose the correct way to obtain it. Why not choose a way that works instead of marrying themselves to a specific technology?
It's fine by me if they don't. I'll just eat their cheese, and by that I don't mean "steal" their programs. I have no interest in their programs, a fact which keeps them up nights. They very much want to, well, shall we say "induce" me to watch their shows. "Force" is such an ugly word that the marketing dept. will only use it internally.
When are they going to sue my birds for listening to music all day? The birds could start mocking the music exactly!
Well, they're already perfectly willing to sue you for whistling a happy tune. It only seems a matter of time before they come after you as guardian ad litem of your bird.
And don't try any of the "public domain" shit. They've jiggered to law to get you for whistling a tune that everyone stipulates was composed by Anon. 400 years ago if they think there's enough money in it.
Dude, spend a few mins and get a webpage or a blog up.
I'm deathly allergic to the idea of being a pundit.
If capitalism is to be described in two words, it should be 'customers = kings'.
When I owned a brick and mortar I had customers who would actually tip me and wouldn't take no for an answer. They'd owe me something like three bucks, give me a twenty and refuse change. I considered my customers as my guests, not a "mark," and treated them as such. They weren't used to that.
I really don't understand the current trend of business managers walking around like jackbooted thugs who think their 'consumers' owe them something. It's all bassackwards. What do they teach kids in school these days? Maybe I should go watch Back to School again. She is perfect!
Of course what I really don't understand is 'consumers' buying into it, and you can see it in some of the responses in this thread, many of which aren't even responsive. You should see their faces light up when you treat them like a king though.
Something else will take up your place.
I haven't been doing much street performing this year in part because I've been thinking about that.
That would require putting up a website and doing promotion and stuff though. I like my quiet, little, semianonymous life where I can go out for a bike ride or work on some project or other in my electronics lab as and when I wish and nobody gives no nevermind to me. Some people came up to me on the street the other day because they'd seen me on television. That sort of thing makes me "itchy."
I don't understand the whole "fame thang" or why anyone would actually want to solicit it.
I do think the "Powered by vi" logo would be cool to have up though. Drives me nuts when I have to change browsers just to read somebody's performance schedule and it's in Flash only.
Sorry, I'm American. Not my fault, really. I learned my language from Victorian and Edwardian Englishmen though. If you watch my posts you'll eventually see all sorts of "proper" spelling creeping in here and there, as well as the archaic.
Sometimes it depends on what I've been reading lately and you'll see distinct shifts in style. I'm afraid that lately it's been American nonfiction and technical manuals.
No, you are the venue owner's customer. He is my customer. He pays me for delivering you to him as his customer. Well, ok, sometimes the taxpayer is my metacustomer, and I guess that would be you, whether you attend or not.
. ..unless you're the guy who was in Times Square this morning in which case you're pretty good. ..
Well, street performing (and basket clubs) is a different thing. Perhaps I confused the issue by closing with that. Generally I work Washington Square Park, it's closer to the Baggot Inn where I've been known to give a song or two or catch a friend's show. If ya ever see a guy skipping down Broadway in a black trench coat, 7 foot long white scarf, safari hat, playing Scottish marchs on a pennywhistle, well, that's probably me. I've never seen anybody else doing it. The way people look at me you'd think they hadn't either. What's wit dat?
As for my talent, well, there's this guy living in a garage doorway on West 52nd. I see him when I park at DeWitt Clinton Park and hoof it down to The Village (hey, it takes all kinds; and it gives me a chance to check out the music shops along the way). I was walking back to my car at about 2 A.M. once, not carrying any instruments or anything, as I went past he pointed to me, turned to some buddy who was visiting him and said, "You should hear that motherfucker. He plays real good."
I have no idea where he might have heard me. I've never seen him anywhere but in that doorway.
I like street performing. It's direct. Just me an' you. I never solicit. If you feel like tossing in, fine. If you don't, well, that's fine too. If you take out I might get a bit piqued. No asshole club owners to deal with, no tickets to sell, no agents, managers, whatever. Just go out and play when and where I feel like it. I generally manage decent money. I wish I'd gotten around to doing more of it this year, but it's been awhile since I've relied on it for my living.
In any case you didn't see me today/yesterday/whatever as I'm upstate at the moment. I'm from The City (East Harlem boy). Usually as from it as I can get. I like trees and streams and shit. Lots of twisty little two laners to bicycle on. It has a way of sucking you in though, especially if you have relatives there.
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Let me take the liberty of rephrasing your post in simple terms they might understand:
Dear Warner,
*F*U*C*K*Y*O*U*!*
Sincerly,
KFG
Don't forget the little arrows on 'em to tell the bits which way to go.
I'll also be offering my own propriatary technology which filters the datastream to make sure the 1s are all inline with the direction of travel. 1s going through crosswise is the leading cause of signal degradation.
Rigourous highly subjective tests (remember, in Audio World objectivity is a Bad Thing) in my own lab allow me to say that I can say the improvement in all sorts of silly word parameters is astounding. Oh, and "Quantum Flux!"
You can't leave out Quantum Flux Technology if you wish to be taken at all seriously. This High Tech Deep Juju(tm) after all.
I'm working on a series of Internet Ready acoustic treatments for your listening room too, stay tuned to this channel. Oh sure, you thought Digital Ready should cover it. Silly boy. How would I be able to afford a villa in the Cayman Islands if that were the case?
KFG
Yeah, because the last thing this world needs is an abscence of nuclear explosions.
I guess I should point out, however, that putting a rocket into orbit is in many respects harder than putting one on the ground.
KFG
There are some things that are better off not requiring electricity to work if you can avoid it. If the electricity fails, which it does, the thing fails.
I would have thought that a hole in the wall was one of these.
KFG
When I was a small child one of my favorite books was "Mei Ling Flies a Kite." It is the story of a young girl who, with her family, makes and flies a dragon kite. I have always loved Chinese dragons, and when I went to the pediatricians always tried to get "The Dragon Room" (He had a Chinese dragon hanging from the ceiling).
The book was illustrated entirely with photographs. I cannot find any reference to it through Google. One of these days I'll have to dig through boxes and see if it's still around.
Interestingly, there was a book published in 2002 with painted illustrations called "Kite Flying," the story of how Mei-Mei and her family make and fly a dragon kite.
Go figure.
KFG
You'll love this; I used to work for the Palatino importer. I was the Q/A guy :)
Well Jeezum Crow, ya meet all sorts on this here Slashdot thingy, don'cha?
Better to get the best instrument for the money than an inferior one that has primo strings, etc on it.
Precisely.
At this point I amount to an unofficial Palatino endorser.
The instrument is too good for what I bought it for. I'd hate to see anything happen to it, so I got ahold of an old Steiner copy for that and the Palatino became my stage ax so I could leave the "good" stuff home and not risk it. Funny thing is, even when I'm home all the more valuable old stuff tends to sit in their cases on the shelf and when I want to play I go right for the Palatino most of the time.
Yeah, it's still a bit green, but coming on nicely and I can't wait to hear what it sounds like in 20 years, assuming I make it that long myself. I'm older than a couple of American states as it is and not, as they say, gettin' any younger. When the hell did that happen?
One of the first projects for the cello is possibly going to be recording on a Will Ackerman production. The boys in the group want me in with that and a bit o' Irish flute. No accounting for taste I guess.
KFG
There have been months right here in America when I wished I could work less than 27 days, 10-12 hours a day.
Oh, yeah, that's called "February."
Don't forget that America built it's own industrial wealth in the first place with children literally chained to machines. It's easy enough looking down with contempt from the lofty hights acheived by the same methods.
Oh, yeah, and on the broken backs of coolies. They're ancestor worshipers. They haven't forgotten, even if you have.
Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
To the Person Sitting in Darkness
Payback's gonna be a bitch. I'm not looking forward to it, but I can't honestly say we don't have it coming.
KFG
Palatino VN-850. Current going rate online $240 with shipping (I got a bit of a deal), pretty much everywhere. The one piece back VN-855'll go ya $260. Won't sound any better. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choice.
See comments on the cello above, only substitute Thomastic Dominants for the Helicores if you haven't played before, unless you intend to play oldtimey/bluegrass. For really whiney fiddle sound go with Super Sensitive Red Labels or D'Addario J90s, which'll also save you a few bucks.
KFG
. . .what was that word again?
:)
Japan?
Maybe I'm thinking of something different.
KFG
Strangely, I've never thought of including a Violin in my list of things that I'd take with me when I go camping or to the beach.
I'm a bit, ummmmmmmmm, "different." There's nothing like sitting on the rock dome of Mt. Pharoh and playing to Schroon Lake far below. I didn't say it was good thing. Just that there's nothing like it. The rest of the world should be greatful for that.
In any event, when one becomes that informal with a violin (banging around? Ack!), isn't one required to start referring to it as a "fiddle"?
The difference between a fiddle and a violin:
It's a fiddle if you're playing it. It's a violin if you're selling it.
A violin travels in a "case." A fiddle travels in a "gunny sack."
Nobody cries when you spill beer on a fiddle. Unless it's a Guinness. For the beer.
KFG
Palatino VN-850. Greatmusicproductsonline.com has 'em for $540 with US shipping. Don't know 'em. Don't know if I can trust 'em. Price seems awfully low. Instrumentpro.com has 'em for $645. Known trustworthy.
.hey, what the hell you taking advice from some dork on Slashdot for, are you crazy?
It'll cost you a bit more to have it tweaked, for that price. You'll probably want to replace the bridge right off, or at least I did in the violin. Have the pegs properly fitted by a luthier which'll be about $80, it's fussy hand work with special tools. Save you all sorts of grief tuning. If you haven't played string before get a set of D'Addario Helicore strings for it, $90. For bottom price you don't get the best strings. Better they cut corners there than in the instrument itself. Live with the original strings until you start to sound ok, say at about six months, then swap them out for the Helicores. Have a luthier do this and set your soundpost at the same time.
You won't believe it's the same instrument after this.
If you can find them in a shop in your area sold properly set up from the start that would be the way to go. Higher sticker price, but it'll average out to about the same as buying online and paying to have the setup done. Plus you get to try a couple out to find the one you like. Every string instrument sounds a bit different. They aren't like factory guitars. Ordering can be a bit of a pig in a poke thing.
But then so is finding a shop selling student instruments that really knows how to do a proper setup. 'Fraid I can't help you there.
If things work out well for you let me know sometime. If they don't. .
KFG
To move away from the high tech answers you're already getting I bought a student violin this year, made in China, two hundred bucks. Violin, bow and case. I wanted something I could bang around, take camping or to the beach and not worry about overmuch. Should be junk, right?
It is a better made, and with a little tweaking has turned out to be a better instrument, than my vintage and antique European and American instruments of considerably higher "value." As it plays in it just keeps getting better and better. I'm so impressed I'm planning to add a cello of the same model to my collection.
At a gig a friend asked if he could try it. When he picked it up and started to play his first comment was, "Niiiiiiiice bow!"
Perhaps you have to be a violin player to understand the ramifications of that comment.
It was not too long ago, in historical terms, that China and Japan were known as the source of the finest handmade items in the world. Europeans didn't risk their necks and their investments going all the way to China for junk. Made in China was not merely a mark of something being exotic, but a mark of quality absolutely unobtainable from anywhere else. Quality that you could see and feel.
Japan spent about a century getting beat up. They got over it. China spent about two centuries getting beat up, and beat up rather worse. They're finally starting to get over it.
It's a biiiiiiiiig frickin' dragon that's awakening; and it wants its reputation back.
KFG
... Those weren't "Chords" that you were admiring.
Chord n. A line segment that joins two points on a curve.
KFG
When the judge says so.
KFG
Despite some of the gameplay shortcomings the plot of the game is top-notch
I'm afraid this is why I don't play many games like this, and will likely skip this one. I pretty much stick to open ended games without even a hint of plot these days. Besides the infinite replay value when a game only has gameplay to fall back on the developers tend to remember to avoid gameplay shortcomings (or at least the good ones do).
Plot can certainly enhance a good game, I'm not agin it (See Grim Fandango), but it cannot make a game. If I want a killer storyline I can always go read some Joseph Conrad or something. If I want a good game I don't want gameplay shortcomings, no matter the plotline.
KFG
And this is why it is less damaging to society to have a system in which 10 guilty go free on some "technicality" (like you couldn't prove they did it or something) then to convict a single innocent man.
Of course, as many others have noted he should have let a lawyer do his speaking for him. All of it. From word five.
You see, when the police tell you that you aren't actually a suspect in a crime, they're just required to investigate because someone filed a complaint and they just want to clear it off the books. . .
They are doing something called "lying."
Unfortunately civilzed law is a social contract based on a "trust metric."
KFG
More will commit legal crimes that are morally acceptable.
.you might gain customers for your live shows. . .
Heretic! If God didn't think slavery was moral he wouldn't have put it in the Bible. All you abolitionists have no sense of law and order. Plus you're God damned.
. .
Works for me. People are actually bootlegging me on their phones now. I think it's fucking fantastic. Can't do that unless you show up.
KFG
What is your problem with this, exactly?
I have absolutely no problem with them poisoning the p2p stream. I have absolutely no idea where you get the idea that I do. It won't work, but I have no problem with it. It not only isn't my revenue stream, but might even serve to stimulate my revenue stream. I'm not sure that's what HBO has in mind, however. Other than that it doesn't effect me, as I don't use such networks. Wouldn't even know where to find one without doing research.
HBO is not trying to force people to watch the show. They are trying to force people who ALREADY want to watch the show to use the correct way to obtain it.
You've never sold anything for a living, have you?
All I have done is suggest that there might be some better tactic or strategy for HBO to make money.
That is supposed to be their goal. Not preventing downloading.
iTunes, for instance, seems to be making money by encouraging downloading. I have no idea why people will pay an exhorbitant fee for a crippled product, but clearly they are willing to do so if presented the opportunity, despite the presence of the p2p networks.
They get to choose the correct way to obtain it. Why not choose a way that works instead of marrying themselves to a specific technology?
It's fine by me if they don't. I'll just eat their cheese, and by that I don't mean "steal" their programs. I have no interest in their programs, a fact which keeps them up nights. They very much want to, well, shall we say "induce" me to watch their shows. "Force" is such an ugly word that the marketing dept. will only use it internally.
I mean I'll "steal" their customers.
A fact which should keep them up nights.
KFG
When are they going to sue my birds for listening to music all day? The birds could start mocking the music exactly!
Well, they're already perfectly willing to sue you for whistling a happy tune. It only seems a matter of time before they come after you as guardian ad litem of your bird.
And don't try any of the "public domain" shit. They've jiggered to law to get you for whistling a tune that everyone stipulates was composed by Anon. 400 years ago if they think there's enough money in it.
And your little bird too.
KFG
I'll admit that I download copies of programs that I haven't paid for and such. . .
Interesting. I do not.
KFG
The show is episodic. I said nothing about being given your fill for free.
KFG
dude, your just a fucking idiot....
Well, little idiots have to come from somewhere, don't they?
KFG
Dude, spend a few mins and get a webpage or a blog up.
I'm deathly allergic to the idea of being a pundit.
If capitalism is to be described in two words, it should be 'customers = kings'.
When I owned a brick and mortar I had customers who would actually tip me and wouldn't take no for an answer. They'd owe me something like three bucks, give me a twenty and refuse change. I considered my customers as my guests, not a "mark," and treated them as such. They weren't used to that.
I really don't understand the current trend of business managers walking around like jackbooted thugs who think their 'consumers' owe them something. It's all bassackwards. What do they teach kids in school these days? Maybe I should go watch Back to School again. She is perfect!
Of course what I really don't understand is 'consumers' buying into it, and you can see it in some of the responses in this thread, many of which aren't even responsive. You should see their faces light up when you treat them like a king though.
Something else will take up your place.
I haven't been doing much street performing this year in part because I've been thinking about that.
That would require putting up a website and doing promotion and stuff though. I like my quiet, little, semianonymous life where I can go out for a bike ride or work on some project or other in my electronics lab as and when I wish and nobody gives no nevermind to me. Some people came up to me on the street the other day because they'd seen me on television. That sort of thing makes me "itchy."
I don't understand the whole "fame thang" or why anyone would actually want to solicit it.
I do think the "Powered by vi" logo would be cool to have up though. Drives me nuts when I have to change browsers just to read somebody's performance schedule and it's in Flash only.
KFG
Sorry, I'm American. Not my fault, really. I learned my language from Victorian and Edwardian Englishmen though. If you watch my posts you'll eventually see all sorts of "proper" spelling creeping in here and there, as well as the archaic.
Sometimes it depends on what I've been reading lately and you'll see distinct shifts in style. I'm afraid that lately it's been American nonfiction and technical manuals.
KFG
No, I'm your customer.
.unless you're the guy who was in Times Square this morning in which case you're pretty good. . .
No, you are the venue owner's customer. He is my customer. He pays me for delivering you to him as his customer. Well, ok, sometimes the taxpayer is my metacustomer, and I guess that would be you, whether you attend or not.
. .
Well, street performing (and basket clubs) is a different thing. Perhaps I confused the issue by closing with that. Generally I work Washington Square Park, it's closer to the Baggot Inn where I've been known to give a song or two or catch a friend's show. If ya ever see a guy skipping down Broadway in a black trench coat, 7 foot long white scarf, safari hat, playing Scottish marchs on a pennywhistle, well, that's probably me. I've never seen anybody else doing it. The way people look at me you'd think they hadn't either. What's wit dat?
As for my talent, well, there's this guy living in a garage doorway on West 52nd. I see him when I park at DeWitt Clinton Park and hoof it down to The Village (hey, it takes all kinds; and it gives me a chance to check out the music shops along the way). I was walking back to my car at about 2 A.M. once, not carrying any instruments or anything, as I went past he pointed to me, turned to some buddy who was visiting him and said, "You should hear that motherfucker. He plays real good."
I have no idea where he might have heard me. I've never seen him anywhere but in that doorway.
I like street performing. It's direct. Just me an' you. I never solicit. If you feel like tossing in, fine. If you don't, well, that's fine too. If you take out I might get a bit piqued. No asshole club owners to deal with, no tickets to sell, no agents, managers, whatever. Just go out and play when and where I feel like it. I generally manage decent money. I wish I'd gotten around to doing more of it this year, but it's been awhile since I've relied on it for my living.
In any case you didn't see me today/yesterday/whatever as I'm upstate at the moment. I'm from The City (East Harlem boy). Usually as from it as I can get. I like trees and streams and shit. Lots of twisty little two laners to bicycle on. It has a way of sucking you in though, especially if you have relatives there.
KFG