So I got tickets to go see David Byrne at Radio City Music Hall in Feb. This is awesome, awesome, awesome! He is not a regular touring act these days and he has always been one of those performers I wish I could see. The kind where I just know Im going to get schooled watching him. So Im totally psyched. I was roaming around his website and got to his journal, his blog if you will, and he has an entry writing about how his promoter urged him to add a second radio city date. Thankfully he did, because that is the show I am seeing, but the funny thing is that this journal entry is about his anxiety and insecurity of adding a second date! He says"it’s a big place and the possibility of playing to a half-filled hall on the second night would be both depressing and bad for my rep. "......!!!! DAVID BYRNE!!! What a relief to know, in a way, that the anxieties I have are real and human and are not just due to the fact that I have no idea what Im doing! Maybe we never know what we are doing. I never do. I guess its just nice to hear that someone who has achieved what I perceive to be 'success' is dealing with the same struggles I am..... I mean, thats good to know, to keep me grounded.... to take on my own issues without expecting them to magically disappear. To accept it as part of the job, part of the artistic personality. I want to impress people and fill up my shows and entertain them and add value to their lives and sell my records and it is all very personal and important to me.....and I guess, my point is, that will probably never go away.
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I wish it were mandatory for people to travel and see how other people live outside of their own small ideas of the world. I've only been here a few months and I am not prepared to make any sweeping statements about New Jersey, but I have heard more ignorant ideas, more fear-fueled perspectives, more latently prejudiced comments than you would want to know. The worst part of it is how ingrained it is around here, how words are thrown around as if they are a fact of life, without malicious intent. How people claim up and down about how progressive and open minded and loving they are, how they love the lord, they have no problem with black people or gay people or latinos or freak-flag-flyers, how no one human is superior to another..... and then turn around and make a comment so full of arrogance, ignorance, and fear, and not even realize what they are doing. Granted, I am in a very republican county primarily filled with older, richer, whiter types..... but for an L.A. girl, it is surprising and saddening and very weird to see people think this way.
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Celebrate! Hope! Smile! Here is to a new day!!!!
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OK I dont seem to be a very reliable blogger. I am going to be more diligent about it. After all, there is so much to talk about! Like the fact that 34 degrees becomes "warm" after streaks of single digit weather. That is scary for a California girl. How about the fact that on Tuesday we are getting a new president. I think its great that hes black and it is historic and all but mostly I am so excited that he has hope. We need some hope. I need some hope. My own little world is still intact but it is hard to know that so many people are suffering, losing jobs, struggling... I mean, I am struggling, but I have a roof over my head, a job, a passion I am able to pursue, and no children to feed. I am not going to complain. Except about this- I got my first ticket yesterday! I know it is an inane thing to complain about in the same breath as remarking about other peoples very real misfortunes.... but at the same time, there ARE so many other important things to worry about rather than whether I am going a little faster than has been mandated "safe" in this great-not-corrupt-at-all state of New Jersey. 10 years driving in LA and I never even got pulled over ONCE. A few months in NJ and I am some kind of speed demon! Ah, well..... it was bound to happen I guess. Had to start my criminal record at some point.
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Queen is one of my top 3 all time favorites..... I mean, they are in my heart, in my blood, and in my very soul. They were the first band that made me a FAN. meaning fanatic. I saved my allowance every week to buy another Queen tape (yes, tape) until I had the whole collection. Freddie's voice is like Lennon's for me in the way that it grounds me and soothes me and takes away all the insanity, leaving only the truth. I am listening right now to a bunch of Queen songs I haven't heard in a long time...... and I guess I just felt compelled to profess my love for them. Man, what a band.
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