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My parents used to take us to concerts all the time when we were young - Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Bruce Springsteen, Al Jarreau, Tito Puente, Jeffery Osbourne, Kool & the Gang - I've seen all of those performers so many times. But, the very first concert I got to choose to see was when I was like in 7th or 8th grade, they took me and 2 of my friends to see Faith No More/Billy Idol at Pacific Amphitheatre. I still remember it so vividly, feeling so in awe of Mike Patton, invigorated, so truly alive. I think the next show that had that much impact on me was when I was 15 and saw GNR at the Rose Bowl. That was my first show without my parents, just friends, so fun. The next year I got to see Nirvana & Pearl Jam and I think my brain almost exploded. I don't even know why I am talking about this. I guess thinking about the quote that has been hanging over my head:
"It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything else that makes you feel) at the centre of your being , then you can't afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You've got to pick at it and unravel it all until it comes apart and you're compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. Maybe Al Green is directly responsible for more than I ever realized."
C'mon read it again:
"Maybe we all live at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy"
Yeah, if you're reading my journal you have got to feel this.
"It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything else that makes you feel) at the centre of your being , then you can't afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as the finished product. You've got to pick at it and unravel it all until it comes apart and you're compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. Maybe Al Green is directly responsible for more than I ever realized."
C'mon read it again:
"Maybe we all live at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy"
Yeah, if you're reading my journal you have got to feel this.