KILLING YOURSELF TO LIVE
To me, that's what makes the Great White tragedy even sadder than it logically what. One can safely assume that none of the 100 people who this is playing at the station that night were trying to be cool by watching Great White 20 year old songs. This was not a bunch of hipsters trying to be seen by other hipsters, these were blue collar people, all trying to unironically experience music that honestly meant something to them when they were teenagers. So many of the rock concerts I've attended have been filled with people who were there ONLY TO BE THERE, who just wanted to be seen by other people, who only were there TO BE THERE. They want to be able to say "I saw the Vines at the Mercury Lounge before they released Highly Evolved, and they already sucked." They want to say, " I saw the strokes right before they started to get serious, and it was amazing." They want to say " I saw Janes Addiction on the Nothing's shocking tour , and I thought I was seeing the new Zeppelin. It was amazing but when I saw them againg, then they sucked. "
Half the people who attend concerts only go so that they can tell other people (a) certain shows were amazing and (b) other shows sucked.
I am amazed by Killing Yourself to Live. He's fucking right. This book wants to be in my Olympus and I'm not even halfway through.
Damn It!
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