tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post4535186691844030153..comments2024-01-12T07:22:33.175-08:00Comments on The Fabulous Lorraine and Fiends: Music at a DistanceFabulousLorrainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889080113368458412noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-44194190330027594882008-10-07T21:39:00.000-07:002008-10-07T21:39:00.000-07:00We will create for you Jess...(Cue SKullcrusher Mo...We will create for you Jess...(Cue SKullcrusher Mountain)<BR/><BR/>Dan, are you SURE in can't go back further than when it was created? Perhaps you might go back to work on the strechy time? I sure do need it tonight...FabulousLorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14889080113368458412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-51588170558002381372008-10-07T21:25:00.000-07:002008-10-07T21:25:00.000-07:00Really great sketches Val!Really great sketches Val!AletaMayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05639273261672273258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-52570141063949537802008-10-07T17:00:00.000-07:002008-10-07T17:00:00.000-07:00Whenever it's finally finished, I will try to brin...Whenever it's finally finished, I will try to bring it back in time. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, current research suggests that a time machine will never be able to travel farther back in time than the moment when it was first created.<BR/><BR/>The movie "Primer" is a good demonstration of this, actually. I heartily recommend it.Dan Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00894953005632382940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-32085415303559830322008-10-07T16:58:00.000-07:002008-10-07T16:58:00.000-07:00Dan, can you get this time and transportation mach...Dan, can you get this time and transportation machine happening? It would be so cool to all be in one place for Halloween.<BR/>Jess, I bet you blow their little sockies offDragonsallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13776798562258217431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-76564504337698668382008-10-07T16:52:00.000-07:002008-10-07T16:52:00.000-07:00Lovely photos; thank you Malena!Teaching intro bio...Lovely photos; thank you Malena!<BR/><BR/>Teaching intro biology to uninterested college students pretty much cured any last bits of public speaking anxiety that I had. I'm NOT sure if that would extend to reading fiction or poetry that I'd written, but talking about science? No problem!Phialahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05604909119508288912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-65623536400143147402008-10-07T15:38:00.000-07:002008-10-07T15:38:00.000-07:00Pantagruel, I thought your sketches were amazing, ...Pantagruel, I thought your sketches were amazing, as well as the story. I’m glad to hear the devil in you was rewarded ;) <BR/><BR/>Jess, you probably already know this, but people fear public speaking more than they fear death. At least they did a few years ago. <BR/><BR/>There are a few issues involved the first one is about your content. Have you put enough work into it and do you think it’s good? How well do you know it? If the answers to these questions are positive, then you will deliver it well to the audience.<BR/><BR/>The second one is about presentation. Before you go on, rehearse what you’re going to say, many times. Think about speaking up and speaking clearly. Try and have fun and smile, although, don’t try and smile if you’re feeling miserable. People can tell. Rehearse the whole thing in your mind and do reruns of everyone giving you that standing ovation at the end!!<BR/><BR/>Lastly, is the audience really going to throw rotten guavas at you or more likely, throw you to the wolves? Maybe, sometimes, depends on who your audience is. Are you going to die from that? No, but then you’re not as afraid of that as you are of public speaking, right? (just kidding).<BR/><BR/>For my money, I reckon you’d be awesome and I’m sorry I can’t see you. Pretending you’re someone else is also good, especially someone you admire. But you probably already know all this.<BR/><BR/>If you’re getting this after, I bet you rocked!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-41102343134932791402008-10-07T13:43:00.000-07:002008-10-07T13:43:00.000-07:00Jess, you're welcome, don't even worry about it. I...Jess, you're welcome, don't even worry about it. I know from wound up… <BR/><BR/>And thanks to everyone who liked the sketches. ;) <BR/><BR/>I so need an office couch. I would be napping on it, right now.<BR/><BR/>I hope the photos and video of the Bengals is not too fraught with peril…Dread Valhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03081969484772150648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-10239561283136208572008-10-07T13:37:00.000-07:002008-10-07T13:37:00.000-07:00So I read Ariandalen's advice up there about creat...So I read Ariandalen's advice up there about creating a persona for readings, and then Lorraine's about Cat working on the photos, and for just a *second* I felt very, very worried. :D <BR/><BR/>Thanks, everybody. :) I always get wound up before things like this, y'know. I'll be fine once I'm up there. At least until that one person goes, "Can you speak <I>up</I>?" (I was behind a mic the last time that happened, too...)Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251196964275450121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-30397296330796504962008-10-07T13:24:00.000-07:002008-10-07T13:24:00.000-07:00Jess, I've read my stuff to hostile crowds (my fel...Jess, I've read my stuff to hostile crowds (my fellow high school students) and tamed the beasts so why should you fear people who want to love what you do? <BR/>Just go for it and the rest will follow.spacedlawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12462723005560128474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-53760841208205199422008-10-07T13:21:00.000-07:002008-10-07T13:21:00.000-07:00Cat is working on photos now....Cat is working on photos now....FabulousLorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14889080113368458412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-41060390760688154342008-10-07T13:00:00.000-07:002008-10-07T13:00:00.000-07:00I like the sketches, Val!Break a leg at your readi...I like the sketches, Val!<BR/><BR/>Break a leg at your reading, Jess. Have you thought about creating a persona just for readings? Just a thought. :)ariandalenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05314214363004851355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-81861177518644134812008-10-07T09:44:00.000-07:002008-10-07T09:44:00.000-07:00I did wonder where you had gone, Malena ... I unde...I did wonder where you had gone, Malena ... <BR/><BR/>I understand perfectly what you mean about playing in front of a few folks in a pub, as opposed to performing for a huge crowd. I've always been more at ease performing before a faceless lake of strangers than for my mother and brothers.<BR/><BR/>Hoping you come back and blog some more!<BR/><BR/>~EmilyEmilyLadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16781814502682479156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-29966200492757647392008-10-07T09:42:00.000-07:002008-10-07T09:42:00.000-07:00Jess, I don't know if this helps but try to rememb...Jess, I don't know if this helps but try to remember that most people who go to see any performance really WANT to like what you do and generally will. Being in front of students who don't want to be there or belligerent drunks can be difficult but that is probably not what you are facing this time. An audience, in general, is happy to enjoy your performance and you are surely harder on yourself than they will be.gaypethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899272957253331125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-54524664210928733902008-10-07T09:33:00.000-07:002008-10-07T09:33:00.000-07:00Jess, remember, to be a king, do as a king. If ou ...Jess, remember, to be a king, do as a king. If ou believe you rock and have confidence, the audience will. Never apoligise on stage...I've seen SO many people get up and be like "Oh, uh hope you like this, it's not very good..."<BR/><BR/>Set that up!<BR/><BR/>Val, you so need an office COUCH!<BR/><BR/>And I did tell you so!<BR/><BR/>Kitty and I are trying to catch up enough to do these pics and vid....May be night before it happens....FabulousLorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14889080113368458412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-33867819793126060502008-10-07T09:07:00.000-07:002008-10-07T09:07:00.000-07:00I say thank Fod I've only got to get through two p...I say thank Fod I've only got to get through two poems, and that only one of them is mine! :D I'll warm up with the one which isn't mine, so they won't start hurling rotten guavas right away.<BR/><BR/>You're a busy lady, Lorraine, and you've done a marvellous job of getting everyone's poems some limelight in spite of the whelm! You take good care of us. :) <BR/><BR/>Just emailed, Val! Dude, you need a futon in there or something.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251196964275450121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-11226188588470687142008-10-07T08:56:00.000-07:002008-10-07T08:56:00.000-07:00Ha! I spit coffee! Last night I wrote back, 'Now I...Ha! I spit coffee! Last night I wrote back, 'Now I must prepare myself for Quiche telling me she told me so...' Heh. ;) <BR/><BR/>The website is under way, sketching out comps. Well, not at the moment. At the moment I'm marveling at just how astonishingly hard my office floor was, and drinking the coffee I sent my minion out for.Dread Valhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03081969484772150648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-79050938883214112562008-10-07T08:45:00.000-07:002008-10-07T08:45:00.000-07:00Morning Fiends!!!!!!I ove t that I get to wake up ...Morning Fiends!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>I ove t that I get to wake up tot he late nighters, our Melbourne (apparently a Fiends MAGNET!) and all the early risers!<BR/><BR/>Danguy, keep working! We need this ablity! Ywo places at once!<BR/><BR/>Val, nice scetches, glad you had a good time and see? I told you he would like it!<BR/><BR/>Malena, very fun, thanks for stopping by for a guest blog! And yes, I will kind of miss them, but mostly I am glad that they are going to their right home!<BR/><BR/>Jess, do send the night gardens to Val. I am REALLY sorry that I got overwelmed and stopped posting them, in the blog at night, as they are all truly wonderful. <BR/><BR/>(feeling a little streched these days, with me on this one?)<BR/><BR/>I will have ponder and we will see how quickly this website comes together. It would be up but Val and Dan are messing around with, lves, kids colds art readings jobs....<BR/><BR/>Hmmph. You'd think working as unpaid minions would take priority!!!!!<BR/><BR/>Good luck on the reading Jess, remember, most people cannot CONCIEVE of getting up on stage and oding something, the idea is beyond them, truly. They will like what you do, the more you do it, the more you know that...FabulousLorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14889080113368458412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-83365331622154898132008-10-07T08:42:00.000-07:002008-10-07T08:42:00.000-07:00Jess, email me, we'll sort it out. ;)I think readi...Jess, email me, we'll sort it out. ;)<BR/><BR/>I think readings should be required in writing programs -- they were in both my undergrad and grad ones, and although I hated it at the time, I'm very glad they made me. I'm by no means a natural performer, but after about the fiftieth time I had to get up to the mike and read my work, it got easier. When you can read erotic poems with your mother in the audience, it's all downhill from there.Dread Valhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03081969484772150648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-28825778766390890032008-10-07T08:06:00.000-07:002008-10-07T08:06:00.000-07:00Can do! I'll pull those together for you now. Em...Can do! I'll pull those together for you now. Email text okay? I can do separate .rtf file attachments if you'd rather.<BR/><BR/>I think I mostly get nervous because I haven't done many of them. The one reading I did in grad school (thank Fod they weren't a requirement, though maybe they <I>ought</I> to have been) was an unmitigated disaster: it was mainly a captive audience of surly freshman who'd been lured there by promises of Extra Credit. The faculty didn't even show. My life flashed before my eyes-- twice. Et cetera. :D<BR/><BR/>I'm always impressed by people who love to perform. How can they <I>do</I> it? I mean-- get up there in front of people and their <I>staring eyes</I>? And <I>endure</I> the staring?? Gaah.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251196964275450121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-64304803857463471192008-10-07T07:49:00.000-07:002008-10-07T07:49:00.000-07:00Jacqui and Sally -- funny how that works, isn't it...Jacqui and Sally -- funny how that works, isn't it? Definitely have your own Fiendish party!<BR/><BR/>Dan, are you once again in the land of the living?<BR/><BR/>Jess -- I know what you mean about hating to do readings. I was a ball of nerves every time I had to go read my work, too, but it was a firm requirement in my writing program. Not like it takes much to make me a ball of nerves about my own work, mind. (Stop laughing, Quiche! :) ) I can face injuries, accidents, deaths, love, and other catastrophes calmly; but ask me to put my work out there… ugh. I do it in spite of the horrible anxiety and sleeplessness and nausea that goes with it -- but still, ugh. <BR/><BR/>What will you be reading?<BR/><BR/>Oh, and on the Backupland stuff for the Night Garden -- if you could send them over to me so I can include them in the new site, that'd be awesome. Dunno if Quiche will want them posted now, but I know I'll need them soonish.Dread Valhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03081969484772150648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-91491095680155497182008-10-07T07:37:00.000-07:002008-10-07T07:37:00.000-07:00I'm already there! \o/I'm already there! \o/Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251196964275450121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-23843957097988174642008-10-07T07:26:00.000-07:002008-10-07T07:26:00.000-07:00Once I finish the time machine I can have it for y...Once I finish the time machine I can have it for you last Monday.Dan Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00894953005632382940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-44910468146630973212008-10-07T07:22:00.000-07:002008-10-07T07:22:00.000-07:00Depends. Can you can get the prototype working by...Depends. Can you can get the prototype working by Friday?Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251196964275450121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-6876341379692692822008-10-07T07:11:00.000-07:002008-10-07T07:11:00.000-07:00I'm still working on the teleportation device, but...I'm still working on the teleportation device, but I'm beginning to think that a co-location device might be better.<BR/><BR/>Why travel from place to place instantly when you can be two places at once?Dan Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00894953005632382940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10610763.post-42227615969016926762008-10-07T06:48:00.000-07:002008-10-07T06:48:00.000-07:00Lorrraine - yes, how about night garden things? I...Lorrraine - yes, how about night garden things? I still have a pile-o-things waiting anxiously in Backupland for their turn in the spotlight. Would you like me to send them to you, or do you want to wait till you've launched the new site?<BR/><BR/>Cool field report, Val, and lovely sketches too. Seems like everyone (well, okay, not <I>everyone</I>) has had a chance to attend a reading now except me, sigh. I have to <I>do</I> one on Friday, but frankly I'd rather go hear Neil read than go and listen to myself stammer through two poems. Argh. :P I don't like doing readings.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251196964275450121noreply@blogger.com