[Music Is My Boyfriend] Crazy To Exist
Good news everybody!
1) Am officially in band (In that, I've been properly told now)
2) Sonic Youth tonight was just incredible. Would have liked to hear
Teen Age Riot or Expressway To Yr. Skull but can't really quibble about
the set. The combination of The Sprawl, which went into Cross The
Breeze, was just about the most intensely brilliant 15 minutes of music
I've ever seen live.
For some reason recently, I've had fantasies about being a wild
frontman-type figure in a band. I think it's probably partly due to the
books I've been reading, which feature a lot of energetic
confrontational bands with similar characters heading them up: Henry
Rollins, James Chance (The Contortions), Mark E Smith etc etc. Also one
of my favourite ever bands, Les Savy Fav, feature a singer who is of
similar, if not greater, girth and beardiness to me, and is basically
my inspiration for being a frontman.
Check out the craziness of Tim Harrington in this video, for example:
For some reason I'm very much attracted to the idea of me flinging
myself around the stage shirtless, diving into the audience, going
through multiple costume changes, fighting, sweaty and a little bit
scary, a whir of beardy energy. I'm not quite sure why this: perhaps
it's because I'm so shy offstage and it would be a nice release,
especially if I had a persona (I think the Horatio Outside one works
well), and because I'm so transfixed by the power of music to make
people do this. Is this normal? Is it something a psychotherapist would
be very interested to hear about?
1) Am officially in band (In that, I've been properly told now)
2) Sonic Youth tonight was just incredible. Would have liked to hear
Teen Age Riot or Expressway To Yr. Skull but can't really quibble about
the set. The combination of The Sprawl, which went into Cross The
Breeze, was just about the most intensely brilliant 15 minutes of music
I've ever seen live.
For some reason recently, I've had fantasies about being a wild
frontman-type figure in a band. I think it's probably partly due to the
books I've been reading, which feature a lot of energetic
confrontational bands with similar characters heading them up: Henry
Rollins, James Chance (The Contortions), Mark E Smith etc etc. Also one
of my favourite ever bands, Les Savy Fav, feature a singer who is of
similar, if not greater, girth and beardiness to me, and is basically
my inspiration for being a frontman.
Check out the craziness of Tim Harrington in this video, for example:
For some reason I'm very much attracted to the idea of me flinging
myself around the stage shirtless, diving into the audience, going
through multiple costume changes, fighting, sweaty and a little bit
scary, a whir of beardy energy. I'm not quite sure why this: perhaps
it's because I'm so shy offstage and it would be a nice release,
especially if I had a persona (I think the Horatio Outside one works
well), and because I'm so transfixed by the power of music to make
people do this. Is this normal? Is it something a psychotherapist would
be very interested to hear about?