
Winding quarter inch cable, for instance, or adjusting a microphone. Simple things that I do so often that I should be able to craft an elegant pattern of movement memorizable and repeatable over and over again. I could cheat looking graceful, when really it’s just those heavily practiced elements that I’ve got down. Cheating at effortless grace. You would think i would be able to do that, but I still haven’t got it figured out. After what’s coming up on three years as a serious musician, I still commonly walk into mike stands, have an ungainly time with cables, and just generally knock things over and stuff. I think I’ve figured out part of it though, I think my brain is working out my order of operations too fast. I know the handful of motions and tasks I have to do to get from the stage where I’ve just played back to my seat, but I try to do them halfways all at once rather than lining them up and giving them each their own time. I need to stop trying to wind my cable while holding my guitar and not looking where I’m going so I walk into the mike stand …. This is a theory that gives me hope, because the idea that I could just be this clumsy forever without anything that can be done about it is sort of disheartening.
ilyAIMY joins forces with Tinsmith at the College Perk.
I would also like to have wings. Maybe if I had the wings I would be naturally graceful, because a clumsy creature with big beautiful wings just seems like a crime against nature. I’ve always wanted them since I was little, in that foolish way that secretly still thinks maybe one day something crazy will happen and I will have them … just like that. Tyler says if I was a winged creature, I would be a dodo, but I would have a good time with it nonetheless. Sigh.
hmmmmmm….I wonder if reading Heather’s entry here inspired rob to do the art piece of Heather with WINGS!!!!!