365 Days Of Marketing And Me: Day Twenty-One - 1/21/2021
/One Creative Introverts Effort To Take On The Extroverted Marketing World…
Welcome to day twenty-one of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… two years ago… right after decided to take a break from writing until I could get my head straight… once I realized just how much my fictional work was starting to blend with my real-life… since my screenplays are typically very autobiographical leading the surreal situations that I’d use to seem like they were coming to fruition… especially since this was before I realized that I was experiencing strange sensations from nerve damage kept getting misinterpreted as anxiety…
I now know that there is a vibration sensation in my lower back that comes from a compressed nerve… this nerve issue makes every sense of internal vibration feel like it’s amplified… so… if it’s just a little cold I might start to shiver like it’s freezing while physically not minding the low temperature at all… when I would get the chills from things like deja vu… for a brief second… until the chills would calm… it would feel like something supernatural was going on… and these amplified chills would seem like a sign that my interpretation where correct…
Though I wasn’t aware that my back problem was contributing to my mental condition… I was aware that I was blending fiction with reality… which is why I decided to take a writing sabbatical to sort things out… minutes after committing to quit… my mind must have snapped because rather than choosing reality to live in… I decided to pick the fictional route to create a path toward my future… and became an astronaut for 15 days… while playing out the character on social media… only to go unnoticed… because I was so verbose that I kept getting muted unfollowed or blocked…
Though I lost most of the audience that I had been building for years while posting about projects from The Wicker Breaker… the lack of interaction made my astronaut delusion feel more real… like I was too far away from the planet to get an instant response… so… I just kept on rambling… to see if there was any life on this planet… or if it was populated with nothing but bots…
During this time… I shared an entire novel that I wrote through my posts… and hosted what I referred to as a text-based podcast while I was looking for life… I also attempted to be a space DJ… talking up the music that I’d share… I must have looked like a lunatic… but I didn’t care… because… in my head… I was too far away from the planet to care…
Why am I sharing this??? Well… yesterday was Disc Jockey Day… and the above is the closest thing that I have to any form of disc jockey connection to share… I also wanted to share the opening sequence that I would play daily before “starting my show”… which also worked as a what for me to hypnotize myself to commit to this astronaut character…
First… I started each day with this clip of Max Headroom interrupting a BBC broadcast to let people know that I was playfully trying to interrupt what’s considered to be a normal day…
next… I transitioned to this trailer for the Weird Al movie UHF… to again remind everyone that my astronaut character was playful… and that I was going for a public access type of low budget vibe…
then… I played this trailer for Pump Up the volume to highlight how there was a part of me who thought I was cool for trying to be such a rebel while attempting to escaping the planet Earth…
after that… I played this song by Max Normal… because this song shares a lot of my creative beliefs…
this was followed by more fun… with this clip from Wayne’s World… that was supposed to highlight that no matter how serious I sound… I’m still just chasing a childhood obsession…
finally… I wrapped the introduction up with this cover of a Screeching Weasel song about using whatever belief you need to get by… because at that time… I needed to be an astronaut… and felt just fine…
I have no idea whether or not anyone followed my space adventures… but it was a blast… I’d probably still be doing this today… if I didn’t end up having a manic episode when I decided to try to find a way to monetize the venture… and switch over to carnival barker mode… trying to draw attention to my actions instead of continuing to try to stay under the radar without breaking character…
And there you have my astronaut tale… that also fulfills yesterday’s assignment to celebrate Disc Jockey Day…
With that… it’s now time to introduce the assignment for today…
According to the 365 Days Of Marketing book… today is Squirrel Appreciation Day… which is a fun day to celebrate since I’m a fan of squirrels and have them hidden through my living space… in fact… I’m looking at one right now as I type… and know that there is at least something behind me with a squirrel on it…
Yep… there it is… my old Tipsy Squirrel Flask… but that’s not all that I have to celebrate Squirrel Appreciation Day… tune in tomorrow and I’ll tell you the tale of the time that a few friends and I held a Viking Funeral for a dead squirrel that I found while visiting friends at a party… talk to you then!!!
