I'm gonna blog about this cause it's always bugged the hell outta me.

Why is it that it's okay for musicians to be alcoholics and it's encouraged by the whole fanbase? Do you NOT want these guys to be around for a long time making more music for you to love? Are you only interested in the good time of that night and not the great music that could come if the boys would just quit drinking?

If I were good friends with the person I'm particularly concerned about, I'd rattle his bones for letting himself get so bad. I mean, he's even said to me, "I'll never regret anything more than the day I started drinking this heavily. Never drink, Natalie, just don't do it." He may have been wasted when he said it, but I knew that he was sincere and in a vulnerable state when he said it. I recently saw a picture of him passed out on a stage and many have said that he felt like it was the worst show his band ever played. I agree. I wasn't even there and I know that it was.

I hope that that was an eye openner for him. I wish he would quit. I wish that fans would stop sending shots or drinks to the stage. I feel like he's just living up to the standards of a certain lifestyle.

I wish that I were close enough to him to say all of these things without offending him.

No shout out is a bad shout out.

http://blog.fivedollarcover.com/?p=1118

Scroll down and look at blogville, american style or whatever. Amazing. It's gonna get taken out of context, but at least I got a mention.

I haven't been to a show in forever. If Jamie pays me this weekend, I'm taking my ass to the Hitone Sunday afternoon to see Chris Chew.

I'm hoping that I get the job I'm applying to tomorrow cause that means I could afford to go to more shows. I feel so miserable not going to a show at least once month. I'm like an addict going through withdrawls.

I'm so siked on being mentioned in that blog, fuck being taken out of context. If anything, it'll be a good laugh with the people who do know me and understand where I'm coming from.

I'm not bitter about not being the one to convert fellow Memphians into fans of Memphis music, I swear. It's just frustrating that it took MTV for my friends, who I saw countless hardcore and metal bands with, to get into the music I've loved and grown up with.



I really need to get out to more shows this summer.