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foxymophandlemomma
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I didn’t start the thread that led to my post/new thread, so I want to shout out to the one that did: Happy Bday 2-feign-reluctance!!! I'm also turning 30 this year too...weird.
Feign, you are so right; it has been an amazing run of years…which leads me to my elated panic on the B train into work this morning. So...I don't know about anyone else, but i go through pj cycles: I'll listen to nothing but pj for a few weeks/a month...then switch off and don't actively listen to them at all - that is if they shuffle onto my iPod I don't turn it off. I was in the middle of a switched off cycle when i heard about the tour last week. After all the ticket drama yesterday & being lucky enough to get tix, i was craving to hear the most recent album...which immediately made me get all smiley & giddy about the upcoming shows - i even started drumming on the train (hello loser! I love it).
Anyway...i thought of the many years of shows, the ritual of it all...and then the thought came. the thought i try not to think: when will it all end? When will they wake up and decide, "meh, I'm done and just want to live a peaceful life with my family now." They're all surely set financially, so i have to believe they are still doing this for the love of touring & making music...and us. I don't know if it's gonna in be 1, 2 or 10 years, but it will end one day. It will be a sad day, but as i think back on it all - my first concert at randall's island in '96, sitting on someone’s shoulders during who you are, the first time I heard oceans live, reading theskyiscrape.com set lists moments after shows, the moment I found out about the third show in boston in 2000 and THEN when I found out about the acoustic set beforehand, the free Irving Plaza show after over 24h on line at tower records & calling in sick to work, ticket karma coming back around to me in Hartford in o6, storytellers…and how I still fee whenever I hear do the evolution or in my tree (or almost any song on no code) – I realize there is no way to properly thank the band & 10c enough. Nothing I do could give them back what they gave me.
I cannot WAIT until June.
…and we’re all allowed to dream of the next, oh the next…time we touch…
Feign, you are so right; it has been an amazing run of years…which leads me to my elated panic on the B train into work this morning. So...I don't know about anyone else, but i go through pj cycles: I'll listen to nothing but pj for a few weeks/a month...then switch off and don't actively listen to them at all - that is if they shuffle onto my iPod I don't turn it off. I was in the middle of a switched off cycle when i heard about the tour last week. After all the ticket drama yesterday & being lucky enough to get tix, i was craving to hear the most recent album...which immediately made me get all smiley & giddy about the upcoming shows - i even started drumming on the train (hello loser! I love it).
Anyway...i thought of the many years of shows, the ritual of it all...and then the thought came. the thought i try not to think: when will it all end? When will they wake up and decide, "meh, I'm done and just want to live a peaceful life with my family now." They're all surely set financially, so i have to believe they are still doing this for the love of touring & making music...and us. I don't know if it's gonna in be 1, 2 or 10 years, but it will end one day. It will be a sad day, but as i think back on it all - my first concert at randall's island in '96, sitting on someone’s shoulders during who you are, the first time I heard oceans live, reading theskyiscrape.com set lists moments after shows, the moment I found out about the third show in boston in 2000 and THEN when I found out about the acoustic set beforehand, the free Irving Plaza show after over 24h on line at tower records & calling in sick to work, ticket karma coming back around to me in Hartford in o6, storytellers…and how I still fee whenever I hear do the evolution or in my tree (or almost any song on no code) – I realize there is no way to properly thank the band & 10c enough. Nothing I do could give them back what they gave me.
I cannot WAIT until June.
…and we’re all allowed to dream of the next, oh the next…time we touch…
It's an art to live with pain...mix the light into grey..
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