It IS the Rent argument! It is completely possible to create amazing art while having a day job and meeting your responsibilities. Because if you are really that passionate about creating, you will do it. Other things may slip by the wayside (like, oh, a social life and sleep, she says knowledgeably), but having a day job and exercising your creative passion can be done.

I saw La Boheme (in Prague, which oddly appropriate, esp. since Prague was the locus of the bohemian-ahahah- expats at the time) before I saw Rent here in B'more. I learned that I prefer my singing melodrama operatic, in a foreign language.

Oh! This is basically the Rent argument I have with people, isn't it?

I assume you mean the It's Romantic To Suffer For Your ART one, and not the Zombie Tiny Tim one? Because if it is, I was totally in the restroom for that part.

God DAMN, I wish it were Zombie Tiny Tim in Rent.

I'm trying to imagine a zombie singing in falsetto... and not succeeding.

Thanks all! The place is one of my top choices, but the location isn't convenient. Still, the people there are great so I'm very happy about it. I've notified my other top choices that I have an offer on the table so we'll see if anyone else makes a move. I don't figure anything will come of that, but I feel I should cover my bases. No matter what happens, it's all good since this was a top choice.

I don't have all the details yet, that will be tomorrow since the HR guy contacted me after hours. I don't anticipate any troubles, though.

Other things may slip by the wayside (like, oh, a social life and sleep, she says knowledgeably), but having a day job and exercising your creative passion can be done.

I'm not sure art *should* be created in a vacuum. Having a day job is at the very least one way to interact with the world, or at least some other people, and that's important (to me anyway).

It also seems really backwards to think that you shouldn't have to have any other responsibilities or any imposed discipline about schedules or whatever, when creating anything worthwhile actually takes a *huge* amount of discipline.

Gud, that is excellent!

Zombie Tiny Tim approves.

Bwah! We are making me laugh!

Hey, bitches, I followed my dream and gave it all up for my art, by way of learning about and regularly filing payroll taxes. So I've played music for a living for a decade. Take your art and shove it up your soundhole!

all I can think is, if that had happened to me younger, and the label was there, wow, I'd have grabbed on like a lifeboat.

Yeah, I TOTALLY get that.

And you're one of my A-Number-One examples of ditching it all, while living a life of greater connectedness and responsibility.