am i a snob now? i choose to respond, NO, i'm not. i'm older than i was before, and i have stayed in some pretty kick ass places, so i know what's out there. and....i like those better! lol.
don't get me wrong, it's all good, i'll enjoy it and hell...it's only a few days, but i wish EVERYONE could enjoy luxury. i mean, checking into a hotel in a swank lobby, and taking the elevator up to your sweet room and throwing yourself down on that big soft bed with those amazing pillows and crazy ridiculous sheets....and later falling asleep in a beautiful pretend world where you live like a fancy fool....for a night.... it makes vacationing SO much more fun for me when i know i'm going home at the end of my day to a kooshkoosh place.
ok. i'm a snob. big deal.
:)
i can't believe it is christmas time. seriously, i don't know why, but i just don't feel it this year. i keep looking outside and seeing lights and trees and stuff, and think, "really!? now? isn't it ....NOT now?" but it is. i think it will all start to feel better when i get my ass home to my moms and pops. christmas is family for me i think. just chilling out with my parents, eating funny foods, playing games, doing....nothing. i need that. i feel like i've been running since i hit american soil. time to STOP and breathe.
gonna try to go see BLACK SWAN tonight. why do i feel like i am going to have nightmares? i don't know anything about it, but that trailer is freaking me OUT. but come on...it's ballet....how bad can it be?
(cut to me wetting the bed tonight)
peace
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Hahaha, oh Gavin. Coming from a Bostonian myself, I can honestly say that Boston, aside from some gorgeous architecture and swanky-ass hotels, definitely has it's share of low-end shabby establishments that look like they haven't been updated since, oh I don't know.. say, 1967?
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Anyway..
Super happy to hear you're in good ol' Beantown, even if for just a couple of days. I saw your Tweet about it and nearly choked on a stale everything bagel. I choose to let you know it was stale so you get the full imagery I'm trying to convey. I think you should know all the details. I leave nothing out. Except.. well, everything else besides the bagel.
ANYWAY (not shouting. just felt caps were necessary to break away from the prior rant)-
I sure hope you're here to play a show somewhere open to a public audience. I find it terribly necessary to see you perform/meet you sometime in my life before I'm 22. I have a year and half. (Give me a break, I'm impatient :P)
I mainly give myself a small window of time because it's terribly hard to wait when I find you to truly be one of the most talented, humbled, wise, gracious, peaceful, hilarious, inspirational, and beautiful people I've ever had the pleasure of not knowing personally, but feeling like I know due to every video I've watched of you perform, broadway impact vlog I've watched you speak on, rally I've listened to you empower and motivate, and every beautifully truthful and meaningful thing I've read of yours, whether it be a tweet, a blog, or an interview. (how's THAT for a run-on sentence.)
You really know you can touch a life when you've never met someone and the only way they can say you've changed their life for the better, so far, is through a computer screen. Now THAT, sir, means you are one gorgeous human being.
(One way I -can- say I've been touched though your existence, -not- via the internet, is my dozen or so friends who got to see Hair live, any of whom I would gladly murder and step over their dead bodies to relive that moment in their shoes. I mean.. what? I'm super happy for them. grunt.) Anyway.. They all ranted and raved and shouted and screamed and cried and laughed and basically chewed my ear off about how insanely phenomenally connected and pure and inviting you are on stage, and how your voice (besides being as smooth as a baby's bottom and butter- not together. ew. just two separate comparisons.) is so movingly beautiful; strong, yet so soft, and all the while captivating. Breathtaking, too. I heard that one a lot.
Basically, you should just pay someone to release a dozen doves every time you walk into a room.
(I'm sure you never would. You seem way too modest and bashful for that. But.. do it. Seriously. Wicked badass.)
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Also, the rallies and protests you speak at-- hoooly guacamole, don't get me started.
Too late.
Wow, Gavin. Just wow. How do you do it? Honestly? Black magic? Sorcery? Scientific formula? The Wizard of Oz?
You speak with such intellect. With such passion, and devotion, elegance (even amongst the cursing :P) and fire in your eyes. There's never a doubt in my mind (and clearly in anyone's present at whatever rally I'm watching at the time) that you know exactly what you're talking about, and you are passionate and motivated enough that you will get us there someday. You were born to speak to people, and to fight for this (to be on stage and entertain as well, but we'll get into that later..). So glad you're doing it. And you love doing it.
Okay so... now that what -should- have been a two-sentence comment has turned into a novel among novels.. I should be off.
I know it all probably sounded really creepy and weird and invasive. It's totally not my intention. I just wanted you to know that your existence really means something in this world. It changes people for the better. I firmly believe you were put on this earth for the exact thing you are doing right now; helping make a more beautiful & positive world we live in. Through your music, your presence, you kindness, your hilarity, your smile, your profound wit, intelligence, desire for equality, and overall being.
And for that, I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart. And I know I'm not the only one. I'm just one of many. And we'll be with you until you become old, bitter and cynical (hahahhaha.. never). Even then, we'll probably be with yah, you charming man, you.
Please don't ever EVER stop what you are doing. Like I said, oh, a trillion and eight times.. you were meant for this. All of this. And I hope the whole world knows it. But for now.. I'm okay knowing it myself (I'll still spread the word).
Peace and love always,
Zoe.
Swanky hotels are nice...big bed with crisp clean sheets - crazy awesome, but not nearly enough occasions of that actually happening in my life. There's nothing wrong with indulgence and a bit of luxury every once in a while...because more often than not life is not that decadent.
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