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Post 1948, Day 278 of 2017
- 2,470 days since I started this blog -
- 2,470 days since I started this blog -
The way it works with gigs is that a percentage are canceled. It happens because of personnel changes, venue changes, booking errors, illness, sometimes the weather. But it does happen.
It happened an unusual amount in the last few months.
I am in the fortunate position where I do not have to care. In general, a canceled gig means another opportunity for that night. Sometimes an opportunity for another gig, sometimes an opportunity to kick back and do something else I want. But it never means a critical loss of income. For one thing, the pay isn't that good. For another, I do not depend on income from music for anything. Getting paid is just an amazing, if well-deserved, perk of making music. Icing on the cake.
That is probably just as well. You have to be tough, tougher than I feel I am, to make a living as a musician.
And I have never found a comfortable intersection for music and money. The pursuit of one has always negatively impacted the other. I play for the joy of playing. I cannot put a monetary value on it. I play for free - rehearsals, open mics, benefits - much more often than I play for pay, and I'm fine with that. The priority is to play.
There is a downside. I am unfair competition for people who are trying to make a living playing music. I can undercut them in price, and compete with their paying gigs when I play for little or no money, and it is their livelihood. I feel bad about it, and try to balance it by never trying to take anything away from a working musician.
Because I can't stop. Music is my drug, and I'm completely habituated, if not addicted, but I'm probably a music-playing junkie.
For me, it is beneficial, joyful, essential to my happiness and a cornerstone of my lifestyle.
And playing music is in a feedback loop with being grateful.
It happened an unusual amount in the last few months.
I am in the fortunate position where I do not have to care. In general, a canceled gig means another opportunity for that night. Sometimes an opportunity for another gig, sometimes an opportunity to kick back and do something else I want. But it never means a critical loss of income. For one thing, the pay isn't that good. For another, I do not depend on income from music for anything. Getting paid is just an amazing, if well-deserved, perk of making music. Icing on the cake.
That is probably just as well. You have to be tough, tougher than I feel I am, to make a living as a musician.
And I have never found a comfortable intersection for music and money. The pursuit of one has always negatively impacted the other. I play for the joy of playing. I cannot put a monetary value on it. I play for free - rehearsals, open mics, benefits - much more often than I play for pay, and I'm fine with that. The priority is to play.
There is a downside. I am unfair competition for people who are trying to make a living playing music. I can undercut them in price, and compete with their paying gigs when I play for little or no money, and it is their livelihood. I feel bad about it, and try to balance it by never trying to take anything away from a working musician.
Because I can't stop. Music is my drug, and I'm completely habituated, if not addicted, but I'm probably a music-playing junkie.
For me, it is beneficial, joyful, essential to my happiness and a cornerstone of my lifestyle.
And playing music is in a feedback loop with being grateful.
Food and Diet
Today's Weight: 202.7 lbs.
Previous Weight (10/4/17): 203.9 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: - 1.2 lbs.
Diet Comment
This losing begins. I'm trying to get back down under 200 pounds by the time I leave for LA next week.
Food Log
Breakfast
6:00pm:
Lunch
10:45pm: Sausage and cheese.
Dinner
1:35am: Sriracha chicken breast and a chopped salad (cabbage, chard, kale, spinach, walnuts and balsamic vinaigrette) and two squares of 72% cocoa chocolate.
Liquid Intake
6:00pm:
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| Cabbage, chard, kale, spinach, roasted turkey breast, shaved Dubliner cheese, walnuts and balsamic vinaigrette. Not shown: a square of 72% cocoa chocolate. |
10:45pm: Sausage and cheese.
Dinner
1:35am: Sriracha chicken breast and a chopped salad (cabbage, chard, kale, spinach, walnuts and balsamic vinaigrette) and two squares of 72% cocoa chocolate.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 1; Coffee: 0 oz.; Tea: 0 oz.; Water: 54+ oz.; and a shot of Jameson's Irish whiskey
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