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“If there’s a message it’s live every day as if it’s your last. I went through a very sticky patch… The freedom of not being enslaved by addiction is marvellous”: John Wetton’s return from the darkness
:zerotwo_learn: I wrote a short version of Always With You for a wedding I did a few weeks back, but I'm finally getting around to extending it to my more usual-length arrangement (while adding an extra harmony part) :panda_yay: :zerotwo_excited:
It's both a wonderful and an odd feeling :cat_mlem:
On one hand, that's a lot of people that found my thoughts worth their time and attention :cat_wow: :espeon_love:
On the other hand, my most faved post is words, not music (which runs counter to my usual sort-of-self-depricating motto of "I'm a musician, not a wordsmith" :blobfox_laugh_sweat: )
:blobhaj_think: Huh...does this mean I can finally give myself permission to call myself a bard without adding an asterisk? :zerotwo_flushed: :dracthyr_yay:
All the work went into the video already :bugcat_work: I made all of the posts on all of the platforms. I can't even bosst the one on here because it's been all of 1 hour since I made it :blobfox_laugh_sweat:
And now, I just sit here, hoping it gets enough eye-balls to please the algorithm into giving me more eyeballs so that I might, just maybe survive :ditto_yikes:
Also, I feel like I would feel guilty if I posted a mutual aid post? Not quite sure...need to munch on that a bit more :psyduck_sweat:
I wish I had had the medical support to start this half a lifetime ago. Or maybe not? Then I'd have even more videos on my channel featuring not-me (though, even now, the video that has 50 times the views of the next most watched is the old caretaker of this body :cat_dead: )
Of the various milesones to hit, this might be my favourite. The funniest part of this is that someone with a domain ending in .lol was my 666th follower which, for those of you who have known me for my whole time here, is hopefully amusing :axolotl_shock: :leafeon_giggle:
I know some poeple in that count of 666 might be completely gone from the fediverse :kitty_sad: I'm sure it includes people with multiple accounts (especially close friends). Not everyone in that count is here for my music :shiba_hello: There might be people following me for my rambles. :blobhaj_think: I'm sure there are other things I could say to play down the milestone...
but...
As someone that wants to get back to properly sustaining herself through music, where the audience is the life-blood, it's a sign that I'm doing at least some things right. So, to everyone who took a look at my posts and decided that it was worth having on your timelines..
:pink_moon_and_stars: Thank you for giving this queer bard some hope :zerotwo_flushed: :espeon_love: :shiba_please:
In my mind, the work ends after I've processed the audio, then edited and rendered the video that goes with it.
In reality, once that gets uploaded, I have to fill in all of the various text boxes for the video, then send out like 7 or 8 different public messages saying that it got uploaded :blobfox_cry_laugh:
With that said, the worst part...the worst part is the waiting that happens after it's all done :axolotl_shock:
Hours and hours of practice to play the piece. At least an hour or two to record (in case of live events, having someone actually be there to record because I haven't figured out how to spawn shadow clones yet). An hour or light audio engineering, another 2 hours of video editing, and an hour doing all of the stuff mentioned in the beginning of this post.
And then you have to sit back and hope that people like it. Hope that it catches peoples' eyes :big_heart_eyes: (speaking of which, I really need to find someone that'd be willing to trade time with me for the thumbnails). Hope that people don't click off of it in seconds. Hope that they click the like, comment, subscribe...all of the things that the algorithm desires :cat_gun:
And hoping that, hopefully, just hopefully, they'll throw me a dollar or two for the effort :leafeon_money:
With live shows, the hard part is mostly in getting it set up and preparing. The show is the easy part, and you can see peoples' immediate responses to it :espeon_love:
Recorded stuff, though? Once everything's out there, you can't do anything. The wait's bloody terrifying :cat_scared:
The Dawn of GCE Day 1 pic that I took last Saturday? On my personal FB page, it got 60 reactions. Meanwhile, the really worthwhile stuff, the stuff that I REALLY want people to see (i.e. the music) gets 3~10 :axolotl_angry:
Is it because I uploaded in the morning? Do I really know that many morning-birds? Grawwrawrawr :shiba_angry: :zerotwo_big_angry:
Here's a little peek into the world of my main display :cat_wow:
We got a thunderstorm today in Portland, which made me switch the night from gym night to whatever the heck this is (I hesitate to call it video editing because everything I'm doing is terribly rudimentary).
All that I need to do now is get it uploaded to youtube and fill out the various fields that that'll need :zerotwo_learn:
For not having been in DaVinci Resolve for a hell of a long time, I'm honestly surprised at how much I remembered. It only took me...uh...2 hours? And that was with being on the Fedi on the side :cat_bongo:
I really should make a non-default thumbnail, but at this point, I really can't be bothered since that's a whole 'nother skillset that would be another barrier to entry for me to get videos uploaded :bugcat_work:
(I'm rather envious of people that can just hire someone to make them a nice thumbnail :cat_lurk: )
I just sat here and did all of the sound engineering work for the video I need to get out while ignoring my phone's plea to please go check the drier to see if my clothes are dry :ditto_yikes:
I really want to skip gym to do the video part and get it out there and over with and finally get another video out on my youtube channel (who knows, that might even lead to donations so I can get things I need), but I know I need to train so my biological equipment doesn't fail on me, just like I try to maintain my violin :zerotwo_cry:
Anyway, here's the audio track. I won't have the video stuff done for at least another day or two, unfortunately :kitty_sad: