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WCDT Strips 3976-3980 (April 8th-12th, 2019)
BenRG:
I subscribe to Jeph's Patreon. I'm looking forward to this forum's reaction to what happens in tomorrow's public post. I am going to literally have to physically restrain myself from discussing it before then.
(Fellow Patreons, feel free to PM me if you don't want to wait!)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: traroth on 10 Apr 2019, 01:04 ---I'm with Marten, here. What's the use of twisting themselves to knots beforehand? They don't know what the future will be anyway! Worrying never solved any problem.
--- End quote ---
Maybe, but there's also planning for the future, because you never know whats going to happen.
Its becoming increasingly clear that Marten doesn't think about his future and is quite happy to let things pass him by. Which is also increasingly apparent that is going to cause him problems. He's at the stage in his life where he needs to pull the thumb out of his ass and prepare to make a future for himself and Claire.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 10 Apr 2019, 01:40 ---
--- Quote from: traroth on 10 Apr 2019, 01:04 ---I'm with Marten, here. What's the use of twisting themselves to knots beforehand? They don't know what the future will be anyway! Worrying never solved any problem.
--- End quote ---
Maybe, but there's also planning for the future, because you never know whats going to happen.
Its becoming increasingly clear that Marten doesn't think about his future and is quite happy to let things pass him by. Which is also increasingly apparent that is going to cause him problems. He's at the stage in his life where he needs to pull the thumb out of his ass and prepare to make a future for himself and Claire.
--- End quote ---
And do what? He lucked into getting a job he can do that’s not terrible. Is there really anything else he could be doing? It’s not like he’s got a degree going to waste or talents for that matter other than music, but it doesn’t pay the bills.
pwhodges:
He has a degree - it's in Music History and Critical Theory.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: brasca on 10 Apr 2019, 03:10 ---
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 10 Apr 2019, 01:40 ---
--- Quote from: traroth on 10 Apr 2019, 01:04 ---I'm with Marten, here. What's the use of twisting themselves to knots beforehand? They don't know what the future will be anyway! Worrying never solved any problem.
--- End quote ---
Maybe, but there's also planning for the future, because you never know whats going to happen.
Its becoming increasingly clear that Marten doesn't think about his future and is quite happy to let things pass him by. Which is also increasingly apparent that is going to cause him problems. He's at the stage in his life where he needs to pull the thumb out of his ass and prepare to make a future for himself and Claire.
--- End quote ---
And do what? He lucked into getting a job he can do that’s not terrible. Is there really anything else he could be doing? It’s not like he’s got a degree going to waste or talents for that matter other than music, but it doesn’t pay the bills.
--- End quote ---
If Jeph follows his own life as a pattern (as he has a few times with Marten) then Marten's blog, Yelling About Music, is generating enough money (via ads but also the new 'Sponzar' and 'Te3' on-line tipping services) for Marten to think seriously about an entirely web-based career. This will consist both of music journalism and also musical performance (with Hannelore providing Deathmøle's drum track remotely for Marten to mix together with his and Amir's guitar tracks later). So, he quits the Library and follows Claire wherever she goes to become her house-husband whilst holding forth on popular culture on-line and producing very, very metal concept music on-line with geographically-distributed performers to just make the work that much more avante-garde.
FWIW, I'm still hoping that it turns out Marten is getting a small income from re-publishing of Yelling About Music columns in various on-line publications, including Smif's on-line student newspaper. So Marten gets his dream, of sorts. He'll never be super-famous but he's a published music geek nonetheless!
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