Big Balls, or No Brains?
Yesterday I performed with The Casual Poets at the MSE Department’s annual Christmas party. It was an unusual show for me in several respects:

1. I think the largest audience I’ve ever played for, approximately 150 or so.
2. It was a well-lit room in the daytime, and no stage lights to blind me.
3. I know most of the audience.
4. It was an acoustic set, so there was no drumkit to hide behind.

We played our now-infamous Brit rock cover version of Britney Spears’s “Baby One More Time”, followed by Travis’s “Love Will Come Through” and ending the set with “The Thermo Song”, an original with the fantastic lyric “A D is just a B without its belt on”. I continued the recent trend of handling most of the singing, much to my chagrin. Afterwards, the women complimented me on the performance, and the guys told me they admired my courage for getting up in front of the crowd. Par for the course. But it did make me realize I hadn’t thought about the audience or the setting at all until we were sitting there playing for them. Would I have still done it had I thought about it beforehand?

Yeah, probably. I’m a dumbass, and let’s not kid ourselves, I have no shame or integrity left.
- posted by Liebs @ 2:52 PM