the Beirut that's not destroyed
So I'll be 21 in a week or so, a little over. the 9th.
Check it: Beyonce was 16 when she signed to Columbia records with Destiny's Child. Patrick Wolf was 20 or so when he released Lycanthropy. Willy Mason's only 19 and he's been touring solid for at least two years and is signed to Team Love. Conor Oberst was touring (and drinking, yuck yuck)consistently when he was, what, 14? (no shit commander venus sucked but i give the dude credit for even thinking it was possible at that tender age). And the dude from Beirut, Zach Condon, is 20 now and in addition to having next big thing written all over his boyish face, the drummer from Neutral Milk Hotel plays in his band. I mean, that's pretty rad.
If you've crumbled into a small pile of depression, well I don't know what will help you. But it's interesting to note how youth is so prized in music these days. i feel like i read something about that a while ago, but it's not really important. i mean, it's obvious. i feel the pressure all the time. for some reason i feel like once you hit 30, you're done. check out. peace. done & done.
but i like to think I'm pretty happy where i am, going to college and cutting my teeth bullshitting around a tight, relatively noninclusive music scene. i've developed a ton as a songwriter, singer, musician, etc. i probably could've done that had i just bought a van out of high school and hit it, but that would've been entering a world of pain. i dunno man, i sucked when i was a kid. i sucked probably up till last summer, '05. and even then i just got by. i did not have the chops nor the mental or emotional capacity to cut out on my own just then, and if i didn't die, i probably would've given up music or killed myself or gone crazy or something. i can do tht after i blow my parents' $$.
like this condon character. spend all or most of highschool amassing a large army of instruments. spend as much time playing and recording those instruments. after highschool, move out of sante fe, new mexico and hitchhike/ramble/dick around europe with gypsies/vagabonds/etc. learn their ways. come back to states after relatively short trip and put all things learned to good use. croon. etc. tour with get him eat him and sell out a bunch of shows. develop defense against those who might say you are not unlike a diet patrick wolf.
anyway, beirut's pretty good. i wonder how he feels now that his band's namesake is mostly a smoking pile of rubble.
-cd
Check it: Beyonce was 16 when she signed to Columbia records with Destiny's Child. Patrick Wolf was 20 or so when he released Lycanthropy. Willy Mason's only 19 and he's been touring solid for at least two years and is signed to Team Love. Conor Oberst was touring (and drinking, yuck yuck)consistently when he was, what, 14? (no shit commander venus sucked but i give the dude credit for even thinking it was possible at that tender age). And the dude from Beirut, Zach Condon, is 20 now and in addition to having next big thing written all over his boyish face, the drummer from Neutral Milk Hotel plays in his band. I mean, that's pretty rad.
If you've crumbled into a small pile of depression, well I don't know what will help you. But it's interesting to note how youth is so prized in music these days. i feel like i read something about that a while ago, but it's not really important. i mean, it's obvious. i feel the pressure all the time. for some reason i feel like once you hit 30, you're done. check out. peace. done & done.
but i like to think I'm pretty happy where i am, going to college and cutting my teeth bullshitting around a tight, relatively noninclusive music scene. i've developed a ton as a songwriter, singer, musician, etc. i probably could've done that had i just bought a van out of high school and hit it, but that would've been entering a world of pain. i dunno man, i sucked when i was a kid. i sucked probably up till last summer, '05. and even then i just got by. i did not have the chops nor the mental or emotional capacity to cut out on my own just then, and if i didn't die, i probably would've given up music or killed myself or gone crazy or something. i can do tht after i blow my parents' $$.
like this condon character. spend all or most of highschool amassing a large army of instruments. spend as much time playing and recording those instruments. after highschool, move out of sante fe, new mexico and hitchhike/ramble/dick around europe with gypsies/vagabonds/etc. learn their ways. come back to states after relatively short trip and put all things learned to good use. croon. etc. tour with get him eat him and sell out a bunch of shows. develop defense against those who might say you are not unlike a diet patrick wolf.
anyway, beirut's pretty good. i wonder how he feels now that his band's namesake is mostly a smoking pile of rubble.
-cd
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