Thursday, January 3, 2013

Confessions of a Hipster





I'm confused. I don't know whether I should be happy or ragingly jealous and protective. The Head and The Heart just played over the speakers in Cups. I feel like I should rejoice. Yay! They are entering a coffee shop in Jackson, Ms! This coffee shop has a pretty cool playlist (Florence & The Machine, Of Monsters and Men, The Lumineers, the latest Mumford & Sons cd (not the stuff on the radio but lesser known songs from the album) Bourbon & Bitters (ok just kidding they dont play b&b but how cool would that be, eh? one day...)) The Head and The Heart are mine though. I want them to succeed and have a big following  BUT I TOTALLY KNEW THEM BEFORE THE COFFEE SHOP DID!!! (thanks to a certain blorgotroth blurore) This coffee shop is cool. I will concede that. But, come on they aren't that cool these people don't understand The Head and The Heart deserve more than to just be played over a speaker in a coffee shop. They deserve a shout out. The barista should stop all buisness and command all the customers to listen because what is playing is totally the awesomest EVER.  I guess I can't keep T.H.A.T.H. to myself forever. They need to spread their wings and get out of the nest of my musical tree. I water this tree with harmony and humming and it blossoms and protects the sweet little birds of music that I discover (or discover via other people who like to help me tend my tree by grafting/pruning/general maintenance(I just spelled that word without spell check. BOOYA!) like if I'm out of town or something). They may fly away for a little bit, but they know who gave them a home and they fly back to me eventually.  My music tree does NOT look like the tree above. If you see that tree it's not mind. Mine is planted in a garden far far away where no one can find it, on my unicorn farm.
Fun fact of the day: The word mare is Old English -- it means a witch or spirit or goblin. A ‘nightmare’ supposedly would crawl on top of you while you slept, paralyzing you and causing you to have scary dreams.
Because a bad dream itself isn't scary enough.