hotel, iowa city
hey everybody
so i've been thinking a little about why keeping a tour diary has become problematic. one reason is we've been touring for ten years and you start to feel like you're just repeating yourself. another is that it's really only fun to write about stuff you want to bitch about but it's gotten to the point after ten years that the shit we bitch about is so hugely outweighed by the extraordinary privilege we enjoy -- we fucking play music. for a living. -- that you just feel like a dick even bringing it up. on the other hand no one wants to read you just gloating about how awesome your life is either, which is essentially what's left after you strip away all the petty bitching.
so what you're left with is hey, great show. good crowd. tough sound. great sound. long drive. how bout that election. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
there is of course the other tack which is to get all introspective but and maybe this is me betraying my age here i just don't have much interest in being introspective in public these days. maybe having a family has something to do with it, maybe our public being more public now, maybe the fact that i'm mostly bored by my own introspection and hardly feel like it merits sharing. i don't really do social media. i have a tumblr where i follow a bunch of twenty-year-old communists i've never met. does lj even count as social media anymore?
anyway whooooo tour! we've had ups. we've had downs. we make music with our friends for a living. soon we'll be home. then we'll be on tour again. repeat. life.
so i've been thinking a little about why keeping a tour diary has become problematic. one reason is we've been touring for ten years and you start to feel like you're just repeating yourself. another is that it's really only fun to write about stuff you want to bitch about but it's gotten to the point after ten years that the shit we bitch about is so hugely outweighed by the extraordinary privilege we enjoy -- we fucking play music. for a living. -- that you just feel like a dick even bringing it up. on the other hand no one wants to read you just gloating about how awesome your life is either, which is essentially what's left after you strip away all the petty bitching.
so what you're left with is hey, great show. good crowd. tough sound. great sound. long drive. how bout that election. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
there is of course the other tack which is to get all introspective but and maybe this is me betraying my age here i just don't have much interest in being introspective in public these days. maybe having a family has something to do with it, maybe our public being more public now, maybe the fact that i'm mostly bored by my own introspection and hardly feel like it merits sharing. i don't really do social media. i have a tumblr where i follow a bunch of twenty-year-old communists i've never met. does lj even count as social media anymore?
anyway whooooo tour! we've had ups. we've had downs. we make music with our friends for a living. soon we'll be home. then we'll be on tour again. repeat. life.