The first time I met fame by theyareontome, literature
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The first time I met fame
My rock and roll diaries part one: The first time I met fame, and fame's name was Conor.
January 22, 2005
It's an amazing thing to meet an icon of one's own youth at any point in life, but to meet them while they are still a relevant icon in one's youth is in a different matter entirely.
About a month ago, my friend Sarah, a professional singer, was in LA singing back up for Esthero. While she was there she met some cool people, including Jason, the drummer for Bright Eyes. When I first heard about this, I didn't think that much of it. However, Bright Eyes came to Toronto on January 21, 2005, and it suddenly meant a lot.
Sarah called me t
Leafy fingernails of the citytrees hug
the late afternoon light and dance to their own music,
leaving a blurry photograph on the wall behind them:
Reminder of when the day we met in tenth grade
We made a horror movie; I was murdered
You rubbed ketchup blood on my pubescent torso
that genetic metabolism allowed ghosts of muscles to live on;
I used a drill, as a prop
You screamed, you had problems with your contact lenses.
We had the same belt but different.
You flirted and played video games with me.
And the time much later you bitched me out, and I was taken aback
because you completely understood my game and its selfish
i need to get more recent photos up here
im in college now, haha, i go to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
its amazing, im learning amazing things, but its annoying to get my film photos onto computers...so i dont do it.
i feel i really need to edit this cite up, its been way too long
i've taken new photos.
i think i like them.
i really want to concentrate on making
the photos better. just paying more
attention to the little things.
so its summermsfalsdjfSUMMER.
and ill be traveling and photographing
these months away.
im planning to submit some photos
to the schools end of the year
magazine/book. i was hopeing you
could help me decide what photos
i should pick. i need some ideas.
...i surely cant decide on my
own
kthnks love you x70001