Saturday's 3-minute blog was a symptom of accessing internet at 4:42 at the library, which closed at 5pm.
It's been a... busy? ...productive? active week for us.
We've begun running each day for about 10 minutes, and have already seen it get easier.
We've taken on a project that we hope to finish by Wednesday, a 5-minute radio play to submit to the podcast Once Upon a Podcast about an adolescent girl who deals with bullies in a unique way, I call it Imagothen.
We continue to ask ourselves the how and what and why questions of our undertaking. Specifically, after a weekend of both performance and observing other buskers, we wonder what we're doing not as well as they are. We know we need to be more engaging and attract more attention, but we're not really sure how to work that into the skill set that we have.
I've begun to learn a few new tricks... or really, to simply realize that I could do a few new tricks by virtue of being entirely comfortable with my 3-ball juggling. I'm especially proud of how I can bounce the ball off my elbow and keep juggling, as that one seems the flashiest.
We're playing basketball with our next door neighbor, who taught us Hustle (a 3-person game like basketball).
We spent some time lounging in a park with friends, and are looking forward to a weekend of games and parades.
We attended last night's Krewe de Vieux parade. It was every bit as debaucherous as we'd been led to believe (though there was no actual nudity, and we got beads without showing our breasts).
I broke my pants for the Nth time in N-1 pairs of pants, and I do not know how to be careful with them.
Finally (but not forlornly), we are still leaking money, and no matter how much we try to staunch the flow, something more needs to be bought. We will survive, but taking jobs that are not busking may be necessary in the near future. Wish us luck.
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Good to see you're getting a bunch done and congratulations on learning new stuff like elbow juggling. I wanted you to know that if you decide to fly at some point there is a website called www.comparefare.com that will notify you when fares reach a low point if you put in a date and time. This guy is really good; I have heard him often on NPR and it's FREE! So bookmark that. They send you an e-mail saying when a fare you want for a certain date is at a probable low. As to leaking money, that the nature of living. If you really enjoy busking great look on it as entertainment that occasionaly provides benefits! but you might do better if you could get paid jobs.
Also, I think you might want to revise the act a bit. I think most folks want an entirely upbeat act, no negative or stupid stuff. Stina's part where she tries and then rather quickly succeeds is okay but ditch the rest of it. Be entirely jolly ands sweet the whole time, both of you, and see if that doesn't improve reactions. Because otherwise --because of the persona Brendan portrays--I think people feel they are giving money to a bickering, stupid somewhat abusive/abused couple. there I have wanted to say that a long time and it was difficult--don't take offense. Remember, I was right about the fight thing. People don't analyze and think--oh, it's just an act. So be clever and funny like you really are. Be yourselves.
Re: The bickering -
We haven't done a show like you would have seen since coming here. Our entire show is based on trickle busking now. We ask people if they'd like to hear a story, and then we tell them fairy tales and poignant or silly stories while we juggle. We don't really have a circle busk show now.
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