so this thought has been kind of congealing in my head all morning and i thought i would share it so here goes. this is about the reason i want to play music and its a story: so the first time i ever went to The Get Down was in 2011ish maybe 2010 and Rebecca Jae Petchenik took me to see the queers who were playing i hadnt ever been in a band before but practicing guitar regularly i had also just started going out full time as a trans-woman and had just found out from Caleb Magoon where to talk to someone about taking hormones and beginning the process of transition so i was kind of a nervous wreck in public my clothes didnt fit and i was making the decision of weather or not to wear these crazy huge breast forms into the venue i decided against it and walked into a mass of people that i didnt know and i kind of instinctively winged because i knew people were going to say something about my skirt or my hair or my bra or something and i looked up and for the first time since i came out i didnt feel weird in a crowd and one could say that about coming to asheville but ive lived in asheville pretty much my entire life so i know that just because someone has tattoos or crazy hair or whatever doesnt mean they arnt judging me but i kind of just felt ok in that crowd i didnt quite know why but everyone just wasnt looking at me with the awe of someone who thinks of me as a good people watching find they were kind of just looking at me like a human being and maybe a friend. i paid the cover and got those giant xs that marked me as unable to drink and then walked up to the bar and ordered a sweet tea Matthew Glenn Montgomery gave me the funniest look and told me this is a bar. and i kind of shrugged and got some water after about ten minutes the bar had grown so packed that we were shoulder to shoulder and the bartender had disappeared only to be replaced by another of the people on my list of favorite people in the world Kristin Sears and matty reappeared on stage and started to play music in a genre that Id never heard before or really since and the crowd pulsed and writhed and it was awesome and that was kind of my first really good look at what i wanted to do. i wanted to make people do this pack into a small space and flail and fall on each other and pick each other back up and lift each other up and laugh and yell and sing. and thats still what i want to do and keep doing thanks everybody
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:28:39 +0000
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