Long time no see, beautiful Internet friends!
Been following the updates on what Shannon's been working on, of course, and the more power to him because stuff looks *good*.
Anyhow, been doing my thing. Just got back home from some funky "body movement/meditative" retreat to which designee "dancer chick with dat ass" has invited me and boy, was it fun.
Lots of hot chicks in tight yoga pants, lol. Also extremely nice people altogether, which is a great change of pace from the usual bozos I get at work (f. in. recently had another scrap with my vocal coach, lol, but we got all over it quickly. I just went "do tell me you're not trying to turn me into a baritone again, FFS" and she said "errrrm, but of course not!.." which was a lie, but then we figured out a particular technical issue that was the point of contention and now I'm a total god of sex and song, lol). I may have started a bit of a romance with one *choice* lady that was there, but we'll see - the, as they say, chemistry is there and is very strong, but, well, she is a fine lady of about 9 on the attractiveness scale, I'd say (and has a *perfect ass*, OMG fan me gently), and I can see that she may be a little bit wacko because of it, as well as due to the upbringing to be "very proper" which doesn't really match her temperament as far as I can tell - gotta see to what extent this goes, or whether she's just bored with life and needs some proper lovin'.
Because otherwise OMG take me now. She did say she kinda likes it when it hurts a little bit, heh
(most dancer chicks are somewhat masochistic)
The girls did entice me into doing performing a song or two, impromptu, which I usually dislike because you do need a modicum of preparation for performance, and I was tired from all the body movement and walking, but, in the end, I think I did gain quite a number of fans out of it.
The above mentioned chick was recording it and showed me on the video how her BFF was reacting to my belcantoing... oh my... no wonder all the fellas who are my professional competitors *hate me* and are plotting to try to gaslight me into singing with bad technique which makes me sound terribad, lol.
I may even post an excerpt here for attention whoring purposes once my gal sends it to me through messengers and such.
Currently running plain DRS on the sub side. During the retreat, I only played it at night while sleeping for 2-3 loops, with few opportunities for boosting, and I could feel that more power could be useful. Fortunately I was in pleasant surroundings with nice people, so nothing knocked me out or anything. Felt one hell of a difference in the general aura of things upon getting back to town (lemme tell you, this fucking city....
).
Had a run in with some sort of "institutionalized prison gang member" type several weeks back around where I live, and it had the potential to get violent but I think I did manage to stand my ground, and I do believe that the DRS helped even though at first I was worried it might actually escalate the situation. Hadn't seen the moron for the longest time, so perhaps he's back to where he belongs, lol (he did make a scene, and there are undercover cops around here; I'd assume he got their attention). Anyhow, as a preventative measure, I now go to strut my stuff accompanied by my good friends, Mr. Mace and Mr. Telescopic Baton.
Also got admitted to a proper bardic competiton in Austria come September. I'll have to cut some rehearsals I'll be having at the time with my beautiful moron squad + director chick, lol, but it's going to be a nice F U to the con-artist boyo who kept pulling shit like that for no reason these past two seasons, lol. "He's very talented, he'll manage on his own for a couple of days" is what I'm going to tell them, hahahaha (I assume he's going to be completely unprepared for rehearsal, trololo).
That's all for now. Also have some new fancy tricks regarding my sorcerer practice, and they're very, very effective, but on this I'm not going into details.
Cheers!