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Hejli je ostavila poruku - 18. 06. 2010. taj Sub Jun 19, 2010 1:03 am
stay.awake
Hayley's best friend
long time coming, this post is....... was.... why am i talking like yoda now?
so, i'm really excited to be writing here. not really sure what i'm
going to write about yet but that's what makes it exciting. i guess i
can start with, it's been a wild month, to say the least. "life is a
daring adventure or nothing at all". is there really more to say about
that than that? ok, well one more thing... human beings are no less
respectable when they are at their most vulnerable. and that's why i
try to have faith in people.
right now, it's about 12:30am - we landed here in Hamburg, Germany
about 10 hours ago. all i've done is sleep, watch movies and "glaze" my
hair. i'm trying not to dye it at all this summer besides right before
the honda civic tour. i like the way the colors fade and how strung out
i start to look with my hair turning all sorts of greenish yellow. it's
even better when i don't wear any make-up out. what a sight. anyways,
i'm tired and at the same time completely restless. and in, what some
people would call, a "desperate need" for a shower. and what's most
exciting is that my face wash spilled out into the rest of my toiletry
bag. there's still a little left though. on the flight over, i read
half of a new book i've started called Wonderland Avenue. it's by Danny
Sugerman, in case you're interested, who happens to be my voice
doctors' brother. NEATO! the author of this book not only met and hung
around The Doors as a young kid around the age of 13 ... but by the
time he was out of his teens he was already managing them AND Iggy Pop.
(if you aren't aware of these artists, get to googling). so yeah,
couldn't put that book down until finally i had to... cause me and
jeremy wanted to watch Shutter Island on the plane tv's. that's right,
folks, business class seats have an assortment of movies available to
you on little personal tv's. what a bunch of snobs we must be! by the
time we were done with that movie we realized we still weren't tired so
we watched Fantastic Mr. Fox (directed by Wes Anderson, an absolute
genius)... and then as jeremy fell asleep i proceeded to doodle in my
journal and listen to Nirvana's 'Incesticide', then Mumford and Sons'
'Sigh No More'. it was a good flight. clearly, i got a lot of things
accomplished.
again, i'm still just sitting here in my hotel room letting the
orange glaze sit in my hair until i finally give in to a shower. i
didn't even have enough orange left to cover my full head, so just get
over it when you see me and i look like a hot mess.
maybe now is a good place and time to state my opinion on our being
everywhere at the same time. seems like we've got just about every
magazine covered this month, people are playing our songs and i'm
singing on B.o.B's song and it's just crazy all the time. i do love
it... it's a lot of fun to work hard and see your work all around you.
yet at the same time, there are still large number of people that i
don't think will ever get it. the SPIN article (you know, the cover
one) that was just printed about us doesn't really seem to say anything
ABOUT us as a band. and it seems that in most cases writers simply
enjoy looking at us and exclaiming - like they've discovered something
huge - "THEY'RE YOUNG!" or of course there's always, "THEY'RE
CHRISTIANS"... or "THEY DON'T SHOOT UP IN THE BACK OF THE BUS!" what is
this the 80's? is it really that sensational that we aren't the second
coming of Motley Crue? does our music suggest that we should be acting
otherwise? listen, i'm not trying to sit here and wreck the writer from
SPIN. i'm sure it's hard to get a handle on any band within the amount
of time given to capture "our story". maybe reading articles about us
just gets a little monotonous, that's all. oh and i'm not actually
friends with McLovin or Miley. awkward turtle.
and on a slightly different tip, it's my opinion that anyone who is
coming onto our band looking for controversy is completely missing the
point. the point isn't in the intent of controversy, the point is that
there is no way around it. as people, aren't we all bursting at the
seams with conflict and controversy? the point of our music is that
there are human hearts in it. because anyone knows that eventually,
someone will find something on you. if you don't do drugs, you probably
have another addiction. even innocent. we could stop looking for the
wrongs and realize that they're inevitable on the way to something more
meaningful. i'm not totally preaching here. talking to myself as well,
in case you wondered. who knows? maybe i really am just bored with
giving music journalists the benefit of the doubt. like they're really
gonna let people know what we would want to tell them. yet still, i
want to have faith in people. and anyways, what WOULD we want to tell
people if we had that much space to write about ourselves? it would
probably end up just the same. does it ever bug you guys? do you ever
feel like some people are just missing it?
when you come to a show do you feel the same thing that i feel when
i'm on that stage? i mean, i know you're not standing on the stage...
but surely you can feel the same energy that i'm feeling, to some
degree. it's so much more powerful than all the trivial nonsense that
people chalk our band up to be. it means something great and it feels
empowering. it's the grace of knowing that we can all totally suck and
be a little messed up and then stand in a room with thousands of other
people who are exactly the same way, no matter how dressed up they look
on the outside, and we can be broken all the same.
man, what have i gone and spouted off about now? sorry for such a
long winded, self-serving type of post. i'm ready to wash this crap out
of my hair and try to sleep til the show tomorrow. we are actually
sharing the stage with The Get Up Kids, Hot Water Music and Dropkick
Murphy's tomorrow. should be a good one!
<3 hayley
so, i'm really excited to be writing here. not really sure what i'm
going to write about yet but that's what makes it exciting. i guess i
can start with, it's been a wild month, to say the least. "life is a
daring adventure or nothing at all". is there really more to say about
that than that? ok, well one more thing... human beings are no less
respectable when they are at their most vulnerable. and that's why i
try to have faith in people.
right now, it's about 12:30am - we landed here in Hamburg, Germany
about 10 hours ago. all i've done is sleep, watch movies and "glaze" my
hair. i'm trying not to dye it at all this summer besides right before
the honda civic tour. i like the way the colors fade and how strung out
i start to look with my hair turning all sorts of greenish yellow. it's
even better when i don't wear any make-up out. what a sight. anyways,
i'm tired and at the same time completely restless. and in, what some
people would call, a "desperate need" for a shower. and what's most
exciting is that my face wash spilled out into the rest of my toiletry
bag. there's still a little left though. on the flight over, i read
half of a new book i've started called Wonderland Avenue. it's by Danny
Sugerman, in case you're interested, who happens to be my voice
doctors' brother. NEATO! the author of this book not only met and hung
around The Doors as a young kid around the age of 13 ... but by the
time he was out of his teens he was already managing them AND Iggy Pop.
(if you aren't aware of these artists, get to googling). so yeah,
couldn't put that book down until finally i had to... cause me and
jeremy wanted to watch Shutter Island on the plane tv's. that's right,
folks, business class seats have an assortment of movies available to
you on little personal tv's. what a bunch of snobs we must be! by the
time we were done with that movie we realized we still weren't tired so
we watched Fantastic Mr. Fox (directed by Wes Anderson, an absolute
genius)... and then as jeremy fell asleep i proceeded to doodle in my
journal and listen to Nirvana's 'Incesticide', then Mumford and Sons'
'Sigh No More'. it was a good flight. clearly, i got a lot of things
accomplished.
again, i'm still just sitting here in my hotel room letting the
orange glaze sit in my hair until i finally give in to a shower. i
didn't even have enough orange left to cover my full head, so just get
over it when you see me and i look like a hot mess.
maybe now is a good place and time to state my opinion on our being
everywhere at the same time. seems like we've got just about every
magazine covered this month, people are playing our songs and i'm
singing on B.o.B's song and it's just crazy all the time. i do love
it... it's a lot of fun to work hard and see your work all around you.
yet at the same time, there are still large number of people that i
don't think will ever get it. the SPIN article (you know, the cover
one) that was just printed about us doesn't really seem to say anything
ABOUT us as a band. and it seems that in most cases writers simply
enjoy looking at us and exclaiming - like they've discovered something
huge - "THEY'RE YOUNG!" or of course there's always, "THEY'RE
CHRISTIANS"... or "THEY DON'T SHOOT UP IN THE BACK OF THE BUS!" what is
this the 80's? is it really that sensational that we aren't the second
coming of Motley Crue? does our music suggest that we should be acting
otherwise? listen, i'm not trying to sit here and wreck the writer from
SPIN. i'm sure it's hard to get a handle on any band within the amount
of time given to capture "our story". maybe reading articles about us
just gets a little monotonous, that's all. oh and i'm not actually
friends with McLovin or Miley. awkward turtle.
and on a slightly different tip, it's my opinion that anyone who is
coming onto our band looking for controversy is completely missing the
point. the point isn't in the intent of controversy, the point is that
there is no way around it. as people, aren't we all bursting at the
seams with conflict and controversy? the point of our music is that
there are human hearts in it. because anyone knows that eventually,
someone will find something on you. if you don't do drugs, you probably
have another addiction. even innocent. we could stop looking for the
wrongs and realize that they're inevitable on the way to something more
meaningful. i'm not totally preaching here. talking to myself as well,
in case you wondered. who knows? maybe i really am just bored with
giving music journalists the benefit of the doubt. like they're really
gonna let people know what we would want to tell them. yet still, i
want to have faith in people. and anyways, what WOULD we want to tell
people if we had that much space to write about ourselves? it would
probably end up just the same. does it ever bug you guys? do you ever
feel like some people are just missing it?
when you come to a show do you feel the same thing that i feel when
i'm on that stage? i mean, i know you're not standing on the stage...
but surely you can feel the same energy that i'm feeling, to some
degree. it's so much more powerful than all the trivial nonsense that
people chalk our band up to be. it means something great and it feels
empowering. it's the grace of knowing that we can all totally suck and
be a little messed up and then stand in a room with thousands of other
people who are exactly the same way, no matter how dressed up they look
on the outside, and we can be broken all the same.
man, what have i gone and spouted off about now? sorry for such a
long winded, self-serving type of post. i'm ready to wash this crap out
of my hair and try to sleep til the show tomorrow. we are actually
sharing the stage with The Get Up Kids, Hot Water Music and Dropkick
Murphy's tomorrow. should be a good one!
<3 hayley
“Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves.”
Love you, Williams.
