Comments on: Yesterday My Brain Popped

By: How (Not) To Succeed on the Internet | The Other Side of Everything - Dean Whitbread

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:53:01 +0000

[...] I was quite proud of my subtitle to Blog of Funk: the every day story of the smell of sex – because it meant everything and nothing, and because it was true, and because it generated lots of readers. I wrote Blog of Funk until the end of 2008, and then I moved my blog to a much less snappy domain with a long, difficult to remember name and a rather naff subtitle, and tried hard to lose most of my readers. I stopped blogging entirely for a few months. I started a private blog, got some things off my chest, and then abandoned that. I worked out that the internet was taking up far too much of my time, and said so. [...]

By: DeanWhitbread

DeanWhitbread — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:40:47 +0000

Thanks Leisl. I love you for that comment

By: Leisl

Leisl — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:23:14 +0000

Brain pops. Breaks. Realizations. It's all good. (The dead mouse, however, made me a bit queasy.) Sometimes it takes having a break to refresh the mind and spirit and to remember what direction it really is that one is meant to be traveling. If you really want to write musical theater, then by all means DO SO! Heaven knows the theater community is starving for something fresh and new, rather then the same regurgitated tripe it turns out now. You already DO have the skills and the connections and time is all relative anyway, so it is a non-issue. And with the right bit of scheduling (i.e. turn down a few projects here and there once in awhile and get some sleep), it is possible for you to work a “day job” to support yourself while you are doing what you really want to do, what really makes your inner-most self truly happy. It's like the Chariot learning to control both the light and dark, getting both horses to work together for a common goal. You can do it.

By: ianshepherd

ianshepherd — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:35:54 +0000

That's how it reads though…

So are you saying, rather than doing the things on your list, you are now choosing to do what you really want to ? And, if some futile internet dribbling takes place along the way, so be it but let's keep it to a minimum ?

By: DeanWhitbread

DeanWhitbread — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:28:09 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I didn't say it was pointless – without going forward and making mistakes, we never learn anything.

The musical theatre idea will take quite a bit longer than a few months… !

By: ianshepherd

ianshepherd — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:15:24 +0000

Hm. As a fellow internet addict I applaud your sentiments, but I can't help wondering if you're being a little black and white about things ?

You've made enough money through the items in your list to be able to pursue your musical theatre idea for the next few months – would that have happened without also participating in the “constant draining dribble of futile hope” ? Was/is it ALL that pointless ?

As someone who has a great deal of interest invested in the odd website, and in all the supposed benefits of the futile hope-draining possibilities, I'm curious !