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You ever had real potential at sports or artistic endeavors?

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Oblivian said:
Was pretty good at baseball and grew up playing with a couple first round draft picks for MLB. I hung with them and played on all stars/travel/school with them through about age 13 and then realized the game completely changes. At that point, a lot of private lessons, focus on building size, etc. I literally just quit. I'd spent the last 5+ years living and breathing baseball, but I just stopped.

Got sponsored by a shop skateboarding, but I never had the required skillset to go far. Similarly with music. Played in bands that traveled, but I wasn't really a good player. I was a decent songwriter though and always had riffs ready to go.
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Thats all the coolest things to excel at lol. Baseball skateboarding and music..

i wanted some shit like that. I was decent at music just not a natural

my stage persona is dopey as fuck. Like Mac from always sunny. but that gets laughs.. and I’m comfortable having my ego take a backseat to the performance
 
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I was an amazing baseball player when I was a kid. But then everyone hit puberty and grew to like 6’1”, and I grew to 5’8”. And my shoulder went out on me.

I was always a pretty decent artist, but not truly gifted in that like I was with baseball.
 
MichiganMMA1978 said:
I was being introduced to college baseball scouts as a sophomore in HS. Junior year my family decided to move back to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, very rural town with no baseball team…. So that was where my baseball career ended.
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I can relate to that my older brother was a great pitcher even back in his 14 year old days he had a cannon of an arm only 130 pounds then and had pro scouts looking at him he got into drinking partying etc etc and i guess that was the end of that possibility, this was around 1984 , they actually went to see him it’s a rare thing at that stage anyway. Baseball, football wrestling and boxing were his athletic gifts .

I was just good at arm wrestling for my size which wasn’t a real recognized sport and I lost to a girl that year though she was twice my size . Lol
 
BroScienceTalkatWork said:
What happened? Did it work out or not? If not what happened? What mistakes did you make?

I spent 15 years trying to be a musician. Made a bunch of mistakes but I never had real talent either. Always had to force the mindset

Comedy though

I’ve been just smoking the open mics lately. I’m the closer now. Got a little drunk.. talking some shit. When I’m sober.. I put a lot of effort into maintaining a cool mindset..

I want to get some money out of the comedy game though. There’s some earning potential.
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I made the mistake of becoming absolutely infatuated with the classical piano at age almost 21. I guess that is fine, but no way to make a career. Your hands literally grow differently when you start at an early age. I can't even think of a "great" pianist that began after 8 or so, it just doesn't happen.
 
I have absolute zero musical talent. My singing will upset the neighborhood dogs. My art is o.k. at best.

I've never found a sport I couldn't get good at quickly, except Golf... I hate that game unless there is a beer cart by the 2nd hole.
 
Stagefright leading to addiction has ruined many performers.

As far as talent coulda been a fighter but I could never make the pieces fall together. Same for music. Anyway, in my observations, talent isn't that rare. Things really can get in the way though. Politics, family life, work and..., especially in music there are way too many musicians of all types.

In terms of mistakes, it would be believing what anyone says. There are so many people out there trying to play bigshot and they'll do anything to get admiration, some of them have nothing to offer, some of them have something to offer but it's never even been close to dealing with these assholes after awhile. That was the same in the fightworld and in music. In fact, I was flummoxed and still am anytime anyone over 30 bitches about how they were exploited and tricked. The one great thing I learned from some of the dipshits I ran into when i was young, i learned to think before i did. Also, I have to say from my own perspective, that I could have been way more assertive and that was a flaw that really held me back. I wasn't ever assertive enough, don't know what difference it would have made in some of those situations but in others, it could have saved me time. Another huge mistake was letting the wrong people into any area of my life who did not deserve my time, my labor, my effort and i learned just how difficult and acrimonious people get when you finally have to leave them. Actual hate in some cases, indifference in others and oddly, people still thinking we're close when maybe we never were (just got a facebook friend request, 2nd one from a gay guy I knew from 40 years ago.

Lots of needy, lonely, hungry people out there, they will invade your life if you let them.
 
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volodya said:
I made the mistake of becoming absolutely infatuated with the classical piano at age almost 21. I guess that is fine, but no way to make a career. Your hands literally grow differently when you start at an early age. I can't even think of a "great" pianist that began after 8 or so, it just doesn't happen.
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I'd agree in general. I started very late and it all comes slow and hard. Other people have often had a way higher opinion of my playing than I have. Cannot fool yourself.
 
Deaths Head said:
I do both won some boxing grappling and was a champion in others I was always undisciplined in my 20”s at 51 I’m the best version of myself now but have movie connection in the horror industry and draw horror art some of my movie ideas actually happened the problem is they weren’t mine bc I w didn’t act on them and these are stuff like Zombie Beavers ( I had the idea first ) and killer ginger bread men etc etc ……


Mistakes I made would be like telling H.R Ginger’s agent ( Artist of the Alien movies ) to basically F off when he wanted to give me a art gallery showing but wanted me to tone down the violence , I learned opportunities down come often like that but when your young and dumb ? Lol

Here’s one more subtle from 2002 , I put this in the Metropolitan Opera Family Art gallery but it was removed because someone eventually realized it had cannibalism in it got good offers for it to but never parted ways with it the pic doesn’t do it justice it’s much cleaner looking in person .

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i want to make films, cool.

I know exactly what you mean about telling your buddy to fuck off. For whatever reason, human beings have things organized so that some are the gatekeepers and give opportunity and some are expected to sell ourselves out, change whatever, and it's ALWAYS something. I think it just gives them a feeling of power myself. It also could be a lot of other things, jealousy, meanness. There was a fine musical composer who advised never ever change your work, never. That was his personal philosophy and he was good enough to tell people that. He worked with Prince on a lot of music as an orchestrator, the results were mixed fan wise, I loved the funk+classical intruments but not everyone did. And Prince, who was a control freak, never bothered this guy about changing anything, if he didn't like something he just didn't use it.
 
volodya said:
I made the mistake of becoming absolutely infatuated with the classical piano at age almost 21. I guess that is fine, but no way to make a career. Your hands literally grow differently when you start at an early age. I can't even think of a "great" pianist that began after 8 or so, it just doesn't happen.
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Oh yeah no that’s not happening

Like my friend who wants to become a powerlifter in his 20s, in the 210 weight class at 6’ 1 lol
 
mozfonky said:
i want to make films, cool.

I know exactly what you mean about telling your buddy to fuck off. For whatever reason, human beings have things organized so that some are the gatekeepers and give opportunity and some are expected to sell ourselves out, change whatever, and it's ALWAYS something. I think it just gives them a feeling of power myself. It also could be a lot of other things, jealousy, meanness. There was a fine musical composer who advised never ever change your work, never. That was his personal philosophy and he was good enough to tell people that. He worked with Prince on a lot of music as an orchestrator, the results were mixed fan wise, I loved the funk+classical intruments but not everyone did. And Prince, who was a control freak, never bothered this guy about changing anything, if he didn't like something he just didn't use it.
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The problem with music is, financially, the pie got smaller and smaller

If you do anything’s outside the mainstream of the mainstream .. you’re fucked

Hell.. even Trap and mainstream hip hop might be pretty cooked now. Gotta make it county trap lol

But art forms that are more lucrative give you more freedom
 
mozfonky said:
i want to make films, cool.

I know exactly what you mean about telling your buddy to fuck off. For whatever reason, human beings have things organized so that some are the gatekeepers and give opportunity and some are expected to sell ourselves out, change whatever, and it's ALWAYS something. I think it just gives them a feeling of power myself. It also could be a lot of other things, jealousy, meanness. There was a fine musical composer who advised never ever change your work, never. That was his personal philosophy and he was good enough to tell people that. He worked with Prince on a lot of music as an orchestrator, the results were mixed fan wise, I loved the funk+classical intruments but not everyone did. And Prince, who was a control freak, never bothered this guy about changing anything, if he didn't like something he just didn't use it.
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Well he wasn’t my buddy it a well known agent of the business industry I happened to luck out and was at my biker bar with my art work bc someone wanted to see it then someone else saw who knew Gigers agent it called him up and he arrived within the hour …..I basically told him to F off without telling him I wouldn’t do that ..lol

I got his point but didn’t listen the thing is my art has a lot of vocabulary and he wanted to get rid of it , if you saw my art you’d get it . The words are necessary at least at that time . He said it brings value down bc it borderlines cartooning but I feel I’d have an entirely different style no one has . .


In the end Gigers agent friend who invited him stole one of my pieces for whatever reason and promised to give it back fjr a month until he ultimately disappeared I guess some ppl might have a fetish for killer Birthday cakes high on meth chopping every one up with a little butter knife bc that’s what he took . . Lol
 
BroScienceTalkatWork said:
The problem with music is, financially, the pie got smaller and smaller

If you do anything’s outside the mainstream of the mainstream .. you’re fucked

Hell.. even Trap and mainstream hip hop might be pretty cooked now. Gotta make it county trap lol

But art forms that are more lucrative give you more freedom
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very true, tech killed music. Part of it is because it's so cheap and plentiful today, no one respects something that's free. I also think the young have way more things than we did to be interested in. I don't think the young have much interest in the entire mythmaking, adoration, hero creating that previous generations did.
 
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