For the_bigshow - 2.18.2I - Kurt Cobain Quote
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. Kurt Cobain
I really, really want to come up with some deeply profound response about who I am, and how I embrace it and don’t take shit and blah blah… But I have this stuffed moose staring at me from across the room and instead I’m thinking about last Friday night and the guy that gave it to me, and the fact that the moose doesn’t have a name yet.
Although I suppose the moose stands for something. Me and Hot Stuff haven’t gone into this thing-whatever it is-without being honest. At least… as far as where we stand with relationships or lack of goes, anyway. Everything has just kind of…
Anyway, the moose needs a name. I’m leaning towards Mr. Kite after the Beatles song. I do love Sgt. Peppers. I think he could be a Mr. Kite.
So anyway, back to trying to be deep and meaningful. I think Kurt got it right. I can’t stand fakers and I hope to god that I’ll never be a faker. If you’re loved for someone you aren’t, then it just puts terrible pressure on you. You can’t ever relax because you’re too scared to be discovered, or to slip into your normal self. And really, if your normal self is that bad then isn’t it better to work on a few fundamental changes before masquerading about the place as a persona that isn’t true to you?
Rock stars are about faking it, though. We have a stage persona, and usually that’s the only one the audience knows and therefore loves. They’ll never love the real us because they’ll hardly ever meet the real us.
I think the real trick is knowing when to turn off your stage persona.
Tabitha London Browne
Original Character
Words: 289
allerdyce_john referred to with permission.
I really, really want to come up with some deeply profound response about who I am, and how I embrace it and don’t take shit and blah blah… But I have this stuffed moose staring at me from across the room and instead I’m thinking about last Friday night and the guy that gave it to me, and the fact that the moose doesn’t have a name yet.
Although I suppose the moose stands for something. Me and Hot Stuff haven’t gone into this thing-whatever it is-without being honest. At least… as far as where we stand with relationships or lack of goes, anyway. Everything has just kind of…
Anyway, the moose needs a name. I’m leaning towards Mr. Kite after the Beatles song. I do love Sgt. Peppers. I think he could be a Mr. Kite.
So anyway, back to trying to be deep and meaningful. I think Kurt got it right. I can’t stand fakers and I hope to god that I’ll never be a faker. If you’re loved for someone you aren’t, then it just puts terrible pressure on you. You can’t ever relax because you’re too scared to be discovered, or to slip into your normal self. And really, if your normal self is that bad then isn’t it better to work on a few fundamental changes before masquerading about the place as a persona that isn’t true to you?
Rock stars are about faking it, though. We have a stage persona, and usually that’s the only one the audience knows and therefore loves. They’ll never love the real us because they’ll hardly ever meet the real us.
I think the real trick is knowing when to turn off your stage persona.
Tabitha London Browne
Original Character
Words: 289
allerdyce_john referred to with permission.