I've been doing a lot of studio work lately and I figured it would be good to put myself through the process, as it were. So I grabbed my gear, went into my parking garage and played for about an hour...
@draxxx: Well, I'm sure the one thing anonymous internet trolls have in common is their beautiful, perfect skin. But I think any of us who are over 25 and not a celebrity are invisible to a large portion of today's youth. Usually we have to offer them candy from unmarked vans before they notice us enough to call us old.
@alexwilson Oh, god. I have had bouts of numb ring/pinky finger stuff off and on since the beginning of the year. It's even bothering me right now (though it might be as likely to be psychosomatic at the moment, what w/ the panic setting in after reading your account). I'll have to try the kneepads idea until I can get to the doctor again. Very true about the "wait and see" approach GPs have, by the way.
The faraway look in this is because I can't see shit w/out the glasses.
This week and the next, I'm a rigger/light tech/whatever is needed on an alternative version of Othello. We've completely re-arranged the room, laid softer floor (the room is a concrete blackbox), built a huge truss grid and kind of stolen most of the lamps the house has got to offer. Which means the people doing light on concerts in other rooms the next two weeks are going to want to kill us.
So, my day since Sunday and until Friday: work at 1pm, done at 11ish, have three beers and get pretty drunk from them. Saturday: Premiere and afterparty. Will be drunk. All of next week: work during show, have three beers, get drunk.
I just had three beers and I'm totally there.
Last night I left early and went to sleep at 9pm and slept for 17 hours without waking up, and I had this dream where I went to boarding school at a boy scout camp and it was after the apocalypse and I had to sell all my suitcases (i had a lot) to have enough money to pay Warren Ellis to sleep with me.
Sometimes I suspect my brain has me taking drugs while I'm asleep.