My kids have been long gone from home, and I’m finally turning my daughter’s room into my office/music room. Stu will be excellent inspiration hanging next to the synthesizer he made me buy.
Who else is getting into synth now? My Minibrute 2S arrived last week (thanks for your advice u/beetwothousand), and I'm slowly and patiently learning all the features. I'm curious if there are other KG fans here on the same journey. I'm also wondering if there are folks out there who would be open to fielding questions from time to time when I'm lost.
I saw the FMB on stage on night 2 at Forest Hills, and I thought the microtonal segment was going to be the highlight of my weekend. But then they rolled out Nathan, and Kepler just hit me so hard... I saw the light while Stu was chanting, "obsession is good for ya" over and over again. It was a reminder of one huge reason why I love this band--I'm a serial obsessive, and I totally appreciate the way Stu is wired.
I drove about 90 minutes for an open mic, and it quickly became clear that the audience would laugh at anything crude--and little else. The host was getting wild laughter just by tossing in the juiciest curses whether there was a punchline or not. Then this trend continued from comic to comic to comic. No joke--I thought I was beamed into the movie Idiocracy. I did my prepared set and got wild laughter with my weed jokes and masturbation jokes and crickets with everything else.
Driving home, it occurred to me that I couldn't really accept any of this as feedback. They overappreciated the dick jokes and the clean jokes went right over their heads. Or am I looking at this the wrong way?
I'm thinking I'll go back next month and perform my bluest shit just to see what happens. But I don't know what else to take from a mic like this.
It's getting a little frustrating lately. The mics in my home town are quiet, quiet, quiet, and I'm driving at least an hour in several different directions just to try out new jokes. Maybe it's just summertime blues and things will pick up with more people going out in the fall?