GIP

From today's (2006-12-09) Sinfest. There might be one or two of you interested in it; take it with my blessing (but credit me, please). Thanks.

(I'm considering making a still-image version of just the final frame. What say you; would that be better, or at least a good idea?)

Rules for Musicians

I'm sure all the folks reading here to whom these would apply already follow them (for the most part) and/or know them explicitly. However, The Rules for playing live v2.0 (via) (aka "Did your band Suck?...a love letter from your sound guy") are good to be aware of.

2. Tune your guitar before you get on stage and don't do it again. If it falls out of tune during a 30 minute set there is something wrong with your guitar. However if for some reason you need to tune, do it muted... almost all tuners have this function, it's there for a reason... and do it during a break in a song or quickly in between.

Yep.

These are intended for small clubs and short sets. Maybe even Open Mike situations, as I read them (17. If you're setup, don't play except for when your level is being set. We're not at Guitar Center. We're all very impressed. And for fucks sake, don't play along to the music.) but most apply to pretty much any performance situation.

20. This is the one rule of any PA system: Garbage in, Garbage out.

(no subject)

Thanks again to MeFi for this one:

A group of Pagans in Albemarle County, Va., was recently given permission to advertise their multi-cultural holiday program to public school children – and they have the Rev. Jerry Falwell to thank for it.

It seems that Jerry and his gang insisted on sending home fliers via "backpack mail"; i.e., placed in the folders the schools use for distributing notices. They asked, and were refused, then twisted the schools' arm to change the policy.

Good for the goose, good for the gander: some local pagans used the system to advertise an informational event about the origins of winter holidays.

Yep. You expected an uproar, you got one. But that's the way freedom works. Either it's for everyone, or for nobody.

Go, Albemarle County pagans!