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horselizardsat 12th feb: tickets for hecklers welcome at machfest go on sale
sun 13th feb: tickets for hecklers welcome at machfest sell out
tue 22nd feb: i find out about hecklers welcome at machfest, and frantically scour all possible avenues i can think of to try to discover whether this might be part of a bigger run of shows, including checking the listings of every comedy club i can remember james having played in the past, checking his dice.fm profile, and googling various combinations of "james acaster" "hecklers welcome" "work in progress"
wed 23rd feb, 10am: tickets for hecklers welcome at angel comedy go on sale (via dice.fm)
wed 23rd feb, 7pm: i google "james acaster" "hecklers welcome" again in order to remind myself of the machfest deets, and am completely thrown for a loop when the angel comedy deets also appear - already marked as sold out
wed 23rd feb: i frantically sign up to every possible comedy club newsletter i can think of, "follow" james' dice.fm profile (whatever that means), and set up various alerts for various channels where there's half a chance of resales turning up
thu 24th feb: i wake up exhausted and take a mental health day
like, to be clear, that's not the only thing that's been A Lot recently - but - haha, that's funny, isn't it - james quit stand-up because it was giving him anxiety - now him coming back to stand-up is giving me anxiety.
the calculus has changed! two swallows make a summer! he is working up a show! i haven't missed my perhaps only opportunity to see him! i've also missed additional opportunities to see him, but there will surely be more! this is HUGE FUCKING NEWS!!! <3 <3 <3
...aaaaaand i cannot rest until i track some tickets the fuck down o.O
...aaaaaand perhaps not even then. -_-
very, very strange to have heard about the two gigs in such a compressed timescale, and with such inauspicious timing. it gave me the impression of FRENETIC ACTIVITY and more news HAPPENING ALL THE TIME and if i could only maintain CONSTANT HYPERVIGILANCE then surely i could get my foot in some door somewhere. in reality, things are happening quite slowly. i'm full of nervous energy and channelling it into likely-fruitless busywork (setting up an app to send dice emails as texts to my featurephone will surely pay off(!)) and shutting doors after horses have bolted (whoops, if only i'd stayed on that patreon i would have heard about that gig, signing back up to it will surely not be a waste of money(!)) and failing to notice tip-offs through sheer panic-induced failures of reading comprehension.
maybe - probably? eventually? law of averages? - i'll score tickets to A Gig. i'm still not sure it'd be enough for me. i want to go to All The Gigs. i want to go to The First Gig. it's about to happen without me and i'll surely be climbing the walls. what will happen?? will it be The Best Gig??? will it somehow abruptly and catastrophically be The Last Gig???? every gig is different, and i'm going to miss so many of them...
i got very into a completionist special-interest groove during the pando. (easy when your person-of-special-interest is only doing an average of 0 gigs per month, and all of them are livestreamed.) that is... very much not going to be sustainable, now.
come on, brain. this is huge news. this is fantastic news. this is news i honestly didn't think i'd ever hear. if i can just manage to wrap my head around it... maybe it'll turn out i'm not anxious, i'm just excited :P
sun 13th feb: tickets for hecklers welcome at machfest sell out
tue 22nd feb: i find out about hecklers welcome at machfest, and frantically scour all possible avenues i can think of to try to discover whether this might be part of a bigger run of shows, including checking the listings of every comedy club i can remember james having played in the past, checking his dice.fm profile, and googling various combinations of "james acaster" "hecklers welcome" "work in progress"
wed 23rd feb, 10am: tickets for hecklers welcome at angel comedy go on sale (via dice.fm)
wed 23rd feb, 7pm: i google "james acaster" "hecklers welcome" again in order to remind myself of the machfest deets, and am completely thrown for a loop when the angel comedy deets also appear - already marked as sold out
wed 23rd feb: i frantically sign up to every possible comedy club newsletter i can think of, "follow" james' dice.fm profile (whatever that means), and set up various alerts for various channels where there's half a chance of resales turning up
thu 24th feb: i wake up exhausted and take a mental health day
like, to be clear, that's not the only thing that's been A Lot recently - but - haha, that's funny, isn't it - james quit stand-up because it was giving him anxiety - now him coming back to stand-up is giving me anxiety.
the calculus has changed! two swallows make a summer! he is working up a show! i haven't missed my perhaps only opportunity to see him! i've also missed additional opportunities to see him, but there will surely be more! this is HUGE FUCKING NEWS!!! <3 <3 <3
...aaaaaand i cannot rest until i track some tickets the fuck down o.O
...aaaaaand perhaps not even then. -_-
very, very strange to have heard about the two gigs in such a compressed timescale, and with such inauspicious timing. it gave me the impression of FRENETIC ACTIVITY and more news HAPPENING ALL THE TIME and if i could only maintain CONSTANT HYPERVIGILANCE then surely i could get my foot in some door somewhere. in reality, things are happening quite slowly. i'm full of nervous energy and channelling it into likely-fruitless busywork (setting up an app to send dice emails as texts to my featurephone will surely pay off(!)) and shutting doors after horses have bolted (whoops, if only i'd stayed on that patreon i would have heard about that gig, signing back up to it will surely not be a waste of money(!)) and failing to notice tip-offs through sheer panic-induced failures of reading comprehension.
maybe - probably? eventually? law of averages? - i'll score tickets to A Gig. i'm still not sure it'd be enough for me. i want to go to All The Gigs. i want to go to The First Gig. it's about to happen without me and i'll surely be climbing the walls. what will happen?? will it be The Best Gig??? will it somehow abruptly and catastrophically be The Last Gig???? every gig is different, and i'm going to miss so many of them...
i got very into a completionist special-interest groove during the pando. (easy when your person-of-special-interest is only doing an average of 0 gigs per month, and all of them are livestreamed.) that is... very much not going to be sustainable, now.
come on, brain. this is huge news. this is fantastic news. this is news i honestly didn't think i'd ever hear. if i can just manage to wrap my head around it... maybe it'll turn out i'm not anxious, i'm just excited :P
