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nerd mix

David and I created nerd playlists tonight...cuz...well...it's kind of self explanatory ;)

Here's mine, in no particular order

  1. Why Does the Sun Really Shine? - They Might Be Giants
  2. Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) - They Might Be Giants
  3. Big Bang Theory Theme - Barenaked Ladies
  4. Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (II): O Fortuna 
  5. Star Trek (Main Theme)
  6. Firefly Main Theme
  7. Star Wars Main Title
  8. Colonial Anthem - Theme from Battlestar Galactica
  9. Battlestar Galactica Main Title
  10. SG-1 Main Title
  11. Istanbul - They Might Be Giants
  12. Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It or Not)
  13. Batman: the Dark Knight
  14. Doctor Who Theme (TV Version) - Murray Gold & BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  15. The Doctor's Theme
  16. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Arc
  17. River's Dance, Firefly
  18. Torchwood Theme
  19. The X-Files
  20. Space Girl - The Imagined Village
  21. We Are the Champions - Jonathan Coulton
  22. De-Evolving - Jonathan Coulton
  23. The Princess Who Saved Herself - Jonathan Coulton
  24. The Presidents - Jonathan Coulton
  25. Code Monkey - Jonathan Coulton
  26. Skullcrusher Mountain - Jonathan Coulton
  27. Roy G. Biv - They Might Be Giants
  28. My Freeze Ray - Neil Patrick Harris (Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long)
  29. Everyone's a Hero - Nathan Fillion (Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long)
  30. The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show
  31. Science Fiction / Double Feature - Rocky Horror Picture Show
  32. The Bridge Of Khazad Dum - Lord of the Rings
  33. Concerning Hobbits - Lord of the Rings
  34. The Breaking of the Fellowship - Lord of the Rings

creative work and pay

This has come up quite a bit in our family since David and I are both "creative types" (but in different fields) and are both trying to make at least a part-time living at it.

This is how I look at the issue of "giving away" creative services or end products.

Most people can't fix cars. They don't have the training or even the natural talent for understanding such things. They wouldn't expect to get their car fixed for free.
 
Mechanics have a skill that I don't have so I pay them to do something I can't do. Giving them money is the way I acknowledge their ability, thank them and allow/help them to continue working as a mechanic so that the next time I need my car fixed, they will still be in business and I can again have them fix my car.
 
I wouldn't go to my local garage and ask the mechanic to fix my car for free.

(If you happen to be opposed to this capitalistic metaphor, just use bartering and imagine trying to barter 50 doilies for replacing your transmission.)

But I might ask my buddy who likes to work on cars on the weekends for fun to fix my car for free.

So as a creative person, I have to figure out how much time and money I'm willing to piss away for the love of it, and most importantly, for WHOM I'm willing to piss it away.

It's my experience that creative people, me included, tend to piss away their gift for the wrong people, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons...for which I admittedly have no right to blame the recipient of my free services.

Posterous theme by Cory Watilo