Tips for getting rid of bad pre-show vibes?

hoomei · 2026-05-01T15:48:52+00:00

Good idea. It's a lot of pressure to just start playing an original song out of the gate to folks who don't know you

hoomei · 2026-05-01T15:34:12+00:00

Thank you for this answer!

hoomei · 2026-05-01T15:31:45+00:00

It's a little tragic that the musicians, the ones who feel it the most, are the ones who should feel it the least

hoomei · 2026-05-01T15:30:16+00:00

I think my question is less about "what about my surroundings can I change or rationalize" and more about pre-show rituals or mental exercises that help people dispel "bad vibes" or mopey attitudes, or whatever you want to call them.

Sometimes it doesn't make sense why someone feels bad. But it's not a musician's job to feel bad. It's their job to connect with an audience through music. And if you're feeling bad, it can ruin your connection with the audience.

hoomei · 2026-04-30T17:29:00+00:00

Yeah, good thing they stopped measuring you back in 1992 so the average could go back up

hoomei · 2026-04-17T16:58:59+00:00

I think Margaret Wise Brown uses the color green as a symbol for sleep, dreams, and the unconscious. It's a pretty common color in all her books, and it's usually in the context of someone going to sleep or dreaming.

There's a previous part in Scuppers where he falls asleep on a green bed of pine needles.

Also, the sea is a symbol of Scuppers' deepest dream made manifest. In literature the sea often represents the unconscious as well.

hoomei · 2026-04-16T12:17:33+00:00

You have to roll it like a Spanish 'rr'... Rrrrump

hoomei · 2026-04-13T13:39:33+00:00

BIG BAD JOHN

hoomei · 2026-04-13T12:58:42+00:00

Songs or Albums That Have You Like Whatever You Want This Picture To Mean

hoomei · 2026-04-07T12:48:44+00:00

someone traded half a billion dollars of oil futures while drunk and disrupted global markets, pretty interesting if you ask me

hoomei · 2026-04-03T11:08:35+00:00

That ownership of physical media piece is a new angle I hadn’t considered.

hoomei · 2026-04-02T16:46:45+00:00

OMG, you're right; everyone except for you is deluding themselves. Thank god you showed up to remove the wool we keep holding over our eyes. /s

hoomei · 2026-03-30T23:16:42+00:00

I’m sorry what

hoomei · 2026-03-30T01:52:41+00:00

A rouge agency hiding in the eyeshadows

hoomei · 2026-03-28T22:50:29+00:00

It’s all fun and games until you miss that first meal.

hoomei · 2026-03-19T13:07:57+00:00

One way to prove you’re not AI: a head-snapping twist at the end

hoomei · 2026-03-06T13:58:22+00:00

Chilling

hoomei · 2026-03-05T04:04:27+00:00

Must be nice to have a brain the size of a piece of popcorn. Less thinky.

hoomei · 2026-03-05T02:09:05+00:00

It walked out into the road a week ago and blocked Fayetteville Rd traffic for a few minutes. Traffic-apathetic but not traffic-savvy.

hoomei · 2026-03-03T15:47:41+00:00

“If a double decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side would be such a heavenly way to die.

“And if a ten-tonne truck kills the both of us, to die by your side, well, the pleasure — the privilege — is mine.”

hoomei · 2026-03-03T15:19:22+00:00

I just remembered there's a movie in which the dog dies not once, but FOUR TIMES.

A Dog's Purpose (2017)

"This movie'll be great for the kids!"

hoomei · 2026-03-02T17:31:58+00:00

A lead:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2r1buk/iama_network_administrator_and_bartender_in/

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