DECLARATION #2: THE SMALL CIRCUMSTANCE IS AN ANGEL KISSING YOUR FOREHEAD
march 1, 2005
Something occurred to me a few weeks ago. It was in the middle of going through the rigor of packing up the band, its gear, and my dwindling supply of OBSCURITY IS THE NEW FAME buttons, and heading to North Bay in the dead of winter in order to play a single show for a small crowd in a boxy public gallery space. To put it simply, I remembered that there is a great, undiscussed, unnamed energy which infuses shows given for only a few dozen people in a quiet space. You no longer feel as if you are on a stage, you no longer feel you are performing in front of strangers, and, best of all, you no longer feel the presence of the SPECTRE OF IMMINENT CELEBRITY breathing down your backside, telling you lies in order to make you into some kind of bellowing rock and roll asshole, performing to people as if they are all somehow getting ready to become your future biographer.
Small rooms and under-capacity crowds always behave as if they have something to feel sad about, and yet, I have come to realize that those circumstances are the ones where you can perform perfectly. The performer relaxes enough to be given the chance to PURSUE JOY IN ORDER TO RADIATE JOY.
Something occurred to me a few weeks ago. It was in the middle of going through the rigor of packing up the band, its gear, and my dwindling supply of OBSCURITY IS THE NEW FAME buttons, and heading to North Bay in the dead of winter in order to play a single show for a small crowd in a boxy public gallery space. To put it simply, I remembered that there is a great, undiscussed, unnamed energy which infuses shows given for only a few dozen people in a quiet space. You no longer feel as if you are on a stage, you no longer feel you are performing in front of strangers, and, best of all, you no longer feel the presence of the SPECTRE OF IMMINENT CELEBRITY breathing down your backside, telling you lies in order to make you into some kind of bellowing rock and roll asshole, performing to people as if they are all somehow getting ready to become your future biographer.
Small rooms and under-capacity crowds always behave as if they have something to feel sad about, and yet, I have come to realize that those circumstances are the ones where you can perform perfectly. The performer relaxes enough to be given the chance to PURSUE JOY IN ORDER TO RADIATE JOY.
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oh please more blogging tiny.
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