Lugging a MIDI controller + laptop to a gig?

[MimikOctopus]

I never really understood this. It's all just tools that are a means to an end. The mix should stand on it's own, beyond that it's just a technical exercise and personal preference. Anyone that laughs at you should probably spend less time worrying or mocking you and focus more on either having a good time, or spending their time elsewhere. You're the one up there mixing, not them. And those types of people are just fucking dickheads anyway, because if they couldn't see you at all, the mix would still be identical and they are just looking for a way for themselves to be important or get attention, or somehow insert themselves in a situation where they are in fact totally irrelevant. Fuck em, it's not your fault they are going out of there way to not have a good time.

[Phigure]

^ I don't think this sort of thing is going to be kindly looked back upon in ten/twenty years. No offense.

but it's exillleee