summer goals and zimbabwe
Well, it is July 18th. A part of me is freaking out because I have accoplished really only the making money and having fun part of my summer goals. Today I am buying a keyboard though, I've already done half of my practicing for the day, but thats about it, and its kind of pathetic that I am somewhat content with that progress for today. Anyways. So dispatch was Friday night. I was incredibly impressed. They totally made the entire concert about Zimbabwe instead of just merely promoting that they were putting all the procedes of the concert towards it. They opened the concert with this video of Zimbabwe and they had Elias actually narrate the whole thing which was really cool. After the video this Zimbabwean childrens choir opened with this song and dance and it pretty much just gave me goosebumps. They also played a few of those videos between sets, and after this particularilly long one they turned the lights back on and they were sitting on top of an old school van in the middle of the floor and did the acoustic portion of the concert from there, which was really cool. after that part was over there were several bras on top of the van. Needless to say- dispatch reunion fans are easilly the craziest fans I have ever seen. Like ten times what dave and oar fans are like. Madison Square Garden was basically a giant sticky beer surface encased in a large cloud of pot. When they played the opening riff to the general i just happened to look at the crowd and im surprised that new york didnt lower in sea level because 60 thousand people basically lifted off the floor at the same time. It was insane. I'd also like to think that everyone actually cared about the cause, but everyone was pretty fucked up. They ended the concert with out loud and had all of the Zimbabwean children and drummers come out and they sang and danced to it. The encore was really cool too- I can't remember what the other song was- I want to say it was Elias, but I dont think it was- mission maybe? The other song was 2 coins so that was really cool.
watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jfEqJx1Xz8
I don't think that I will ever get over the guilt of not chosing a career that helps people more. Yea, music does have the power to change so to speak, but I dont know if that is direct enough for me. And yes, I know that the arts are a lot more humanitarian oriented than a lot of other careers, and a lot of things that you can do for other people are entirely individually based upon little everyday things, but it doesn't feel enough sometimes. If I end up going in the music business end of this, I want to do a lot of stuff like benefit concerts. I would die to work for the whole live 8/aid/earth group. Either way.
There is not enough time in one day.
watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jfEqJx1Xz8
I don't think that I will ever get over the guilt of not chosing a career that helps people more. Yea, music does have the power to change so to speak, but I dont know if that is direct enough for me. And yes, I know that the arts are a lot more humanitarian oriented than a lot of other careers, and a lot of things that you can do for other people are entirely individually based upon little everyday things, but it doesn't feel enough sometimes. If I end up going in the music business end of this, I want to do a lot of stuff like benefit concerts. I would die to work for the whole live 8/aid/earth group. Either way.
There is not enough time in one day.