Rowan sent a comment to my blog! I deleted it because it was a bunch of whiney crap about how I should not blame him and how if he had a budget things would have been better.
Whatever.
I'm always amazed at how people will come up with the budget excuse whenever things go wrong and someone complains. Having produced art on a shoestring for a very long time, I know EXACTLY what a budget can and can't do for you.
And it can't make you better at your job.
It can make you look more like an ass when you fuck up your job though.
I don't think he read the post very well, because he thought I blamed him 100% for everything that went wrong, but I don't think he's was as interested in the content as much as providing some sort of personal PR for himself.
I don't provide a forum for excuses dude.
Posted by jlp716 at December 30, 2005 11:14 PM>I don't think he read the post very well
It's not clear to me that you made it past the first sentence of my response, an executive summary of which might go: my contract to the PMR was to provide a venue and an opening act + explicitly (however contrary to what you might have been told) that no place to stay was being provided. That contract was fulfilled.
If PMR central, wherever that might be, saw fit to give the venues and performers each others' contact information, the lack of crash space might not have been such a rude surprise; they had that information and for whatever reason I cannot conjecture failed to pass it along to you.
>I don't provide a forum for excuses dude.
The forum element is irelevant; the only person this has to reach is you... this blog remains the first and only means of contact I have with any of the last PMR crew. (Also, not JUST excuses: if you read to the bottom of the comment, you might have noticed an apology.)
But while we're talking about forums: I am way open to suggestions + constructive criticism from PMR performers (a side of the relationship I've not yet experienced + hence can't fully appreciate) on how to make Vancouver more like the more successful stops on the circuit. (Fear not, I'm already working on "stop being a gormless nitwit.") If you can just tell me one thing to do differently next time then you will have already done infinitely more good for those who will follow in yr steps than merely dismissing my thin-skinned attempts at self-defense would have achieved (excepting that perhaps enough dismissal would cause me to resign in dismay, never again inflicting my production ineptness on another innocent + unwitting performer.) I'd be pleased to make a learning experience out of this provided I manage to learn how to do something besides piss you off.
Posted by: Rowan at January 3, 2006 07:05 PM