A great practice if you can do it!

Oh man I’m originally from Vancouver so right there with you on the shitty weather front (ha) there is 2 weeks of summer and 50 of shit grey dismal wet cloud.

for someone to call you a con-artist is perhaps their own negative perception

For you to be still drawing them in after eleven years is a gift. You are ever changing , talented and engaging.
Madonna is an ever changing talent. In her 50’s , she still draws them in. Love her or hate her, she still has that something.

You have to have that special quality to keep an audience interested. And you can’t please everyone so you may as well just be yourself. Loved or hated, be yourself.

and this so resignates:

Canadians are patient people, I like them. Yes, I like us. We get the teeniest slice of tropical climate and then it goes away and we wait for it again. It is poetic in that it involves suffering. Yes, I suffer from the weather maybe because I allow myself to. I just know that sun is where it’s at and then it’s like middle earth grey sky covered in ash, bleak and cold icing on top, for the majority of the years of my life. Yes I want to live in LA. I hear hipsters and artists eventually become miserable there too, but how will I ever know if I never go? I’ve lived all kinds of places and I’ve sacrificed one lifestyle for another in pursuit of “my dream”.

I BELIEVE THAT HIPSTERS AND ARTISTS WOULD BECOME MISERABLE THERE TOO. well maybe they have the sun on there side but if you are a brooding artist you will get melancholy anywhere.

I am in the audience with DEE. Perhaps together, we can start an ovation.