Played a show yesterday where I called myself as a trans woman with a guitar, i wore a dress, played a song called the popular tr*nny, did an AGAINST ME COVER, and still when I got off the stage someone went "oh your pronouns are she/her?"
Some gay boy at the nye show I played really liked my lace choker and I was like "dude, you can have it I have like 10 of em" but he didn't wanna take it from me 😔 we almost had her
If cops were here to help u should be able to call them and say "im drunk, drive me home" and they'd just do it but noooo they gotta leave lil $15 lyft coupons in their big fancy building with lotsa nice windows
It's why I like playing those kindsa shows though, where I'm pretty confident I'll be the only trans person onstage. They hear my voice crack when I sing "when they dig up all my bones, will they find that I grew old?" and I think that sticks. Even if they're still awkward abt it
Last night felt like the years-long culmination of passion and effort. The biggest sign I've ever seen telling me that I'm doing something right. To feel appreciated and respected by such wonderful people is a blessing, thank you to everyone who came to Songbyrd ❤
Yeah it's true, I'm not playing with ekko astral anymore. I had a good time though 🥳 thankful for all the memories and friendships that this band has fostered for me c:
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way.
Vita Sackville-West, letter to Virginia Woolf
about halfway through i thought "okay i teared up at some parts but maybe i have been properly prepared for what's to come" and by the end i knew that was NOT the case
Took me 4 years to change my name legally, but a friend texts me "hey can we meet up and go over what I need to change my name?" 30 min ago nd im emailing him the forms he needs and his birth state DOH to see how out of state documents will impact getting a new birth certificate
friendly reminder not to let that brave, hardened shell slip for even a moment or everyone will know what a useless vulnerable pathetic piece of shit you are!! just keep that going forever until you die 💯
I think people should hire me to play bass for them. Not like in a band, but gimme $100 and I'll stand in your living room and noodle a bit for an hour.
Next time y'all do a twinks vs dolls sorta thing can we get like.. a dc delegation or something bc that looks fun as fuck and i feel like i'd be really good at it
Five years ago I was taking most any drug put in front of me to try numb myself from dysphoria. I was struggling with an eating disorder in an unhealthy attempt to exert control over my body that I felt I didn't have. I couldn't have sex without dissociating/wanting to cry.
Kids cant even play tag anymore- too much time wasted clarifying whether they were tagged or if they're declaring new pronouns. Cos of woke or whatever.
we got some lube in a food donation at work and my coworker went "lol do you need this" like first fuck you, second im a side, third yes i do but i dont want you to feel vindicated 😭
Kinda crazy how twice now we have sold out Songbyrd with stacked lineups of friends. I hope 10 years from now people can tell their friends they saw all these bands for $15 and their friends will go "noooo fucking waaaay"
2/3 of these shows when we got to I-90 I can't help but think of Summer, who I will never see again. I can't help but think of all the friends that my friends have had, all the friends strangers have had, that they will never see again for no good god damn reason. It's fucked.
I think it's dumb when bands will have "girl" or "girls" in the name without actually having any girls in the band, but also, i have not once ever thought about if Cocteau Twins are actually twins
I have no pics but junior year I asked a girl out by decorating her car during her soccer game, but her team lost so terribly both her and her sister came out absolutely sobbing
fuuuuck i found a nice pair of work pants at the thrift store that fit my waist well but my thighs and ass are simply too much for them to handle 😭😭😭 anyway ladies my dms are open
After throwing his microphone up, the cable got tangled in the stage structure, Eddie Vedder, lead singer of the band Pearl Jam, decided to climb the structure without protection and then climbed down the microphone cable.
I think I paid $200-300 for the squier mustang you see me play for Ekko sets (which is also the bass i used to record pink balloons). The acoustic for Rosslyn Station was $70.
“If you walk through a Guitar Center, you see an awful lot of $300 guitars. If I’m a serious musician, it doesn’t feel like the right place for me anymore”: Guitar Center’s new CEO explains why the firm’s future must prioritize premium guitars
My plan is to have a very nice summer seeing people who i have missed dearly and then think about music stuff again in the fall. Stick around if ur curious! I sure am