Ask a simple question...

[dianec42]

So at the party Friday night, one of the random hotel guys asked if this was the only gig the band plays. I said yes, this is the only thing we do together... some of the guys have other things they do, but this is the only thing we do as a group.

So I started thinking... right now, this is the only thing I'm doing. Which is ridiculous, once I start thinking about it. It's an insane amount of effort and stress, for the meager output of 1 hour of live music per year.

So... I don't know what I want to do, other than that I want to do SOMETHING. I want to play with other people, maybe even in front of other people, more often. I want to visit my musical Happy Place more than once annually.

Hence the social engineering question. If you found yourself in a strange place, knowing almost nobody, and wanted to play rock or blues music with like-minded people, where would you start looking for them?

I'm repeating the question 'cause I *know* I must know SOMEBODY who's better at meeting people than I am, besides just gvdub (who has made a number of helpful suggestions).

Comments

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Is WoW a hermit enabler? ;)

For the record, I was actually talking about my husband. Stupid short attention span!

[dieppe.livejournal.com]

Well, SilkRoadOnline is a hermit enabler too and being free makes it even more appealing.

And tisk, here I am telling you about the SCA. I suspect you probably could tell me more about the SCA than I've ever learned.

So get the husband outta the house sometime! :)

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Well, the local SCA that I know nothing about. So you've been providing some extremely useful information for this socially inept introvert.

Also, apparently I've been using the husband as Yet Another Excuse to hide in the house and not do anything. I raised the topics of general socialness, and the New Year's party, last night, and he was quite enthused about both. Oops.

(It turns out, by the way, that I've been in somewhat of a snit for a while and have been refusing to participate in this whole LA thing. Which pretty much amounts to not participating in life, except on the extremely rare occasions when life has grabbed me and dragged me along in spite of myself. D'oh. Gonna see what I can do about that one now.)

[dieppe.livejournal.com]

Well, introverts need to stick together, right? It is much nicer going to a new thing with new people you've never met if you know at least one (or two) people there! That's all I'm saying.

And using the husband as YAE? We'll be going to the NYE thing if we're not out of town so... maybe we'll see you both there? :)

And the whole LA thing? Which part would that be?

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

"The whole LA thing" is basically some internal BS I have about not wanting to be here.

I was going to say it's a long story and probably worthy of its own post; but it's BS and it's really not worth even having in my head any more, much less immortalizing in LJ.

I can tell you all about it in person if you're still interested, the next time I run into you. (It really does require hand-waving and ironic expressions. If I wrote it in LJ, god help me, someone might actually take it seriously.)