Been rather absent of duties as Dr. V these days. Not much communication with 'The Fellas' lately, I dialed Marcelo yesterday somewhat in the 10:00pm to 11:00pm time range (it was almost like dialing the mexican equivalent to 911), I just needed to talk with someone familiar,and see what you guys are up to. but hey! guess what? no luck. As he probably was having a rather replenishing cheap chat with Morpheus.
I have a vey hard dilemma, I've been sequencing a lot lately, new home brewed sonic material, for an adaptation of Sir William Shakespeare's 'Othello', my first classic, and the 10th play I work on since 1999 yikes! I guess that puts me closer to the 'old geezer' category. I should be jumping and dancing like a dwarf happy for a long theatre/musical career (actually that is a little bit longer than that) but I've been confronted by the fact that I'm liking the tracks a lot (as in for keeping them for performing them myself with new people) - I'm actually feeling a strong urge and desire to play and get on stage -I have a lot of work to do yet to get to that point but hell haven't felt that urge in over 10 years at least not like this.
And lately, a strange thought has been spinning in my head, I have to admit it: I really don't want to do theatre anymore, more important I don't want to keep giving away my music for nothing and get what is worth -perhaps you dear reader may thought of me as a bad ass pretentious motherf***r- but let me tel you that the amount of energy spent in music making, time spent learning the tools, 'refining' you ears, and putting your head through all this technicall 'mumbojumbo'. to be able to express some ideas; and all the things put aside at some point just to learn, all for not getting any revenue or having to sell you tracks -tracks where you had spilled your guts over for well under 300US. it's a deal breaker, big bump. I'm just to old for this shit, I'm sick of hiding my self behind other projects just to not having to explain people why I do what I do, and, why I do things the way I do. whatever, I'm sick of not being where I feel I belong. And that's sharing playing and touring like a mad man. Enough for this rant. Expect things soon.
On to other things:
Now, let me tell you about some of the good stuff happening. Dr. V is now officially a teacher! I'll be giving a stop motion animation workshop to 9yr old kids in a school near here in Lomas Verdes - I guess now I'll have someone my brain age to talk with :P
Tomorrow is my first day, so as you may guess I'm feeling somewhat nervous about it, and excited about it - preparing a list of animations to show them kids. So much that I've arranged to take puppet building lessons with an old friend of mine with whom I shared the experience of a trip to France back in 2004. Polo Muro, a great puppet builder - and also a man dedicated to teach kids in rural communities. so I guess I'll be learning a lot form him, kids are kids whatever their background.
There's also the possibility of imparting radio worshop, to kids in higher levels, perhaps a more advanced course with Blender -who knows I'll look forward for that to happen.
Just talked with Orly who's the intermediary between the school and everything seems li
I still have to work in this site of course - none of the previous matters will releave me of my responsabilities with Liminal and this site, but having a steady monthly income will make everything to be plain more fun.
Anyhow greetings to you! I read about the radio interviews. I hope you could get a copy or a link to it, to include it on the site.