u/WorldRelevant6640

Jeez, these black shirts and hats are just so much better than the old ones. Supposedly we're also getting pants, too!

Every possible source I can find is either out of stock or doesn't deliver to my country(the US). Where can I find vials of estradiol? Hell, I'll synthesize it if I have to(I have looked into it, this seems quite difficult).

My DIY production org is starting a venue aimed at young folk, ideal age range is 15-25. The end goal is to make a good third space in my area for the youth and get youngsters excited to make music. Also, if things go well, I want to make and spread online resources that give good how-tos on how to start similar venues. Anyways, all this to say I have a dream. However, including the bands I'm in, we've only got about 5 bands in our booking rotation, which also happens to be the amount of bands we're aiming for each event, which is once a month. I don't really just want to put on the same five bands every month, ideally I'd like each band to have two or three months in between being rebooked so they can have time to work on new material and get gigs elsewhere, which means I need to find about 15-20 bands in regular rotation, on top of cycling new acts. How do other DIY venues do things? I know some people in a booking agency that has said they'd be glad to send some bands my way already, and I'm gonna post on local Facebook groups. Anything else I could do to network? One problem I'm running into is I keep making some great connections, but they're all slightly older artists in their 30s and 40s who are a little above our pay grade and outside our demographic.

Literally nothing is happening right now. Zero orders. Every single dish is washed. All ingredients needing prep have been prepped. We have five pizzas of canceled orders and two hour-old carryouts waiting. It's been like this for thirty minutes and I swear I'm so bored I'd rather be back in algebra in high school listening to my teacher drone on about Y equaling M times X plus B than be sitting here for FOUR. MORE. HOURS. My manager is playing block blast full volume from his office. What do you guys do in times like these?

When they do something that annoys me or dissapoints me(ex: they keep on not practicing the parts and slacking off during rehearsals, and our bassist told me he'd send me the logo for our band to put on the poster for the DIY show I'm running a week ago and he only just now finally sent it), I hit them with a look of contempt, like they did something wrong or they should feel bad. When they do something I like or want them to do more, like practice and lock in on the music or when my bassist finally did send the logo, I praise them and say I'm happy/proud/grateful/whatever emotion would be relevant at that moment. The thing is, I don't actually feel the emotions I'm displaying to them. Don't get me wrong, I do want them to do the things that I need, but I just am not all that annoyed or happy when they do them. I feel towards their actions the same way I do towards the actions of my teammates in a counter-strike game IRL: maybe some vague annoyance or frustration or happiness, but very little other than that. I feel like I'm treating these real human beings like dogs, giving them a punishment/reward system. I consciously think that I'm not, that this is a normal way to act, but whenever I do it, I feel so bad, like I'm hurting them.

I'm a new driver, and I was wondering if after I deliver the pizza, I can get gas or fast food on the way back. Everyone I ask about it at my location either doesn't know or is kind of cagey about it so I still can't tell the specifics. Is there a time limit on coming back?

I'm probably going to sound like the newb I am, but twice just today I've ran into needing a box for something that already exists as a cable. I need a way to convert a 1/4" into an XLR? I can either pay 30 bucks for a DI400P, or I can pay 10 bucks for an adapter cable from D'Addario. I need to connect all eight channels available on my mixer to the stage neatly and space-efficiently? I can get a $140 snake, or I can just fasten eight xlr cables together and run them to the same spot. What gives? Is it just reliability or something? I will admit, the boxes look and feel way cooler and easier to interface with, despite functionally(seemingly to my amateur self) doing the same thing.

Every open mic I can find online is the acoustic singer-songwriter type of open mic, and while that's cool and I'll definitely be checking them out, are there any rock open mics? Me and my louder grungy band really want to(for lack of a better word) grind open mics to get better playing live, make some friends and connections, and get experience and ample recordings of us live before we start asking around for gigs.