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Feel free to speculate. Speculation is healthy.

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I was playing a show with Daedelus. The venue was attached to a shopping mall. It had an odd and distinctive name, but I don’t remember it. Everything that could have gone wrong with this show went wrong, at least three times each.

When I arrived at the venue, Daedelus told me that the club owner wanted us both to use the same equipment, so he hooked up his monome to my laptop. We were going to just start the show like that, even though I’d never used a monome, but I insisted on trying it out first. Nothing worked right. My samples didn’t end up where they were supposed to, and there were tons of sounds that I’d never heard before and couldn’t do anything with. It was a disaster. Reluctantly, the club owner decided I could use my own equipment.

While I was setting up my gear, my laptop slid off of the music stand, off the stage, and onto the floor. It was busted up, but still working. Some kind of liquid was seeping out the hinge, and the plastic was cracked and separating at the edges, exposing the guts. Luckily, this mall had an Apple Store. Unluckily, it was on the opposite side of the mall, and I was on in 15 minutes. I ran as fast as I could, and when I got there I realized that I’d forgotten to actually bring my laptop. I asked Mathias, who’d suddenly materialized, if he’d go back and get it for me while I talked to the lone Apple Store employee (ASE). I described the damage to the ASE, who told me that my computer might suddenly die on me during my performance, or it might wait until the next day to die. I just had to hope for the best.

I arrived back at the venue, and Daedelus was playing, but a few minutes into his set, the club owner stopped him so that she could sing some karaoke jazz standards or something. Daedelus took this all in stride.

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And that’s what happened. In my dream. Actually, it’s not even my dream, it’s a friend of mine’s dream.

Stumble it!

Posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 in Category lolz. Please comment, ok?