Unusual
Posted on October 23rd, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:30 am
So, I’m on my lunch today, and seeing as I had a free soda coming to me via the monopoly promotion, I walked down to the nearest McDonalds. As I sit down and sink my teeth into a Grilled Chicken sandwich, a guy comes up and asks if I happened to be at the PS3 launch at the Best Buy in Bellevue, and of course I say yes. We end up having a conversation, and during it, I kind of felt for the first time since I took my break/acted like a over-dramatic emo-kid that maybe I still wanted to be a musician, atleast to some extent. Not that I’m at all hot to trot into the studio, or get back to doing shows for no money if not effectively paying to do shows after travel and hotel expenses. I just realize now that I need to get Opensource out sooner rather than later, and I should get the Romance Language reprint run done.
I mean, there may not be a lot of people waiting for those things to be done – maybe at best a few dozen people – but, I guess I’ve really made an impression on those folks, and in a case like today, it turns out I’ve even introduced some people to Nerdcore, and everytime I hear that it makes me really happy because it means I’ve had a positive effect on their life (well, I think it’s positive to get into a genre with MCs like MC Frontalot, mc chris, Beefy, Nursehella, ZeaLouS_1 and YT Cracker to name few.) I mean, there are still plenty of things I have to get straight in my life that still take a higher priority, but I think I won’t be turning my back on music even though I’ll have other stuff on my plate as I start getting other stuff underway. I just know I’ll never go back to playing shows that for audiences that don’t care, but as long as there is someone who will listen, I might as well as share what I do.
It’s like I’m happy just being me and doing things the way I want, and in the scale and pace I want. I don’t have to be an overstressed, over-scheduled person who can’t get anything done for anyone because it’s just too much going on. I’ll walk instead of sprint for now, and I’ll enjoy all the warmth and sunshine along the way. I hope people are happy to walk along with me, but they should do what they want to do too. 🙂
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Wonderful story, Karl, and I think I can speak for the bulk of your fans when I say we’ll be happy to walk at your pace through any artistic journeys you’d wish to lead! 🙂
Comment by Z. — October 23, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
TYT, as William Burroughs would say. Take *your* time.
Comment by ChurchHatesTucker — October 23, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
Ya thats right Karl! Follow the dream. Just keep on doing what you doing. Maybe I’ll see you at computer stop some time. My school is right up the road.
Comment by Casey A. (McDanald's buddy) — October 25, 2007 @ 7:26 am
Yeah man, definitely don’t stress yourself out. Music is something to be enjoyed, not pooped out.
It may be worth mentioning that I’m going to be covering no less than 3 of your songs on my remix/cover project (as Beefy would say… “very, very poorly”), beating out all others in sheer quantity of my fan tributes. I really have been enjoying listening to Romance Language a lot. It’s been a staple in my car these past couple weeks.
Comment by Antisoc — October 27, 2007 @ 7:27 pm
That’s probably the best thing I’ve read online in a while. I enjoy your music a lot and believe you are a talented artist.
Comment by Shinigami — November 2, 2007 @ 8:42 am