Unofficial poll.

[spacebug]

I'm a cheapskate (heh), so I don't have polling ability.
Do it up with comments.

Should spacebug try out for the Rollergirls this summer?

A. Hell yes! Get thee some kneepads and fishnets and start kicking ass!
B. Hell no! You'll put an eye out!
C. Damnit, Low Orbit still doesn't have a full length. Spend those three nights a week in your studio, bitch.
D. None of the above

Comments

[burnunit.livejournal.com]

C.

without question it's C. For my tastes, anyways. I mean, yeah, it's super cool. and anyone who wants to really should. and it's unbelievably cool. and you only live once and it's cool.

However, if you get injured- like let's say you break your hand (not unheard of in a rough roller skating environment), how will you play your keyboard to the fullest? Or what if you start with the best intentions but really get more involved or have to practice more for that than your music? Or the simple fact that you started one thing and it's super awesome and it's YOUR thing that you started and you're not joining something led by someone else (something that I'm no NO WAY bagging on, so whoever reads this and thinks I got something against roller girls you got another think comin!)

Lokey's point about the other 4 days is cool and all, but that means, well, if you do music on 4 days and roller girls on 3 days, that means the other 9 million things you have an interest in then get zero days of the week.

And the comparison between motor vehicles (even motorcycles) and roller girls isn't quite rhetorically accurate. Because cars and motorcycles are dangerous, true. But that's a situation where the whole system (speed limits, safety devices, engineered roadways, signs, and perhaps most important, the lack of team competition) is designed in prevent or protect against injury.

But deliberately putting yourself in a position that risks injury is one really good way to get better at roller derby and such risks may be required of a roller derby player in order to advance the cause of her team; whereas putting yourself in position to risk injury is one really good way for a driver to advance the cause of trauma medicine. So it's not a one-to-one correlation, IMHO.

It's still rilly rilly cool.

Low Orbit, well, all you'll risk breaking when you do a public work like an album is, you know, your heart and soul and stuff.

I say C, still.