when I lived in Tempe, AZ...I went with a friend...to see Glen Phillips play at the Big Fish Pub....so excited...it was, after Toad the Wet Sprocket's prime time...and it was going to be...just Glen...playing a small venue...but I'm all over live music....
we both were looking forward to the concert.... and when we got there....we saw....there was some guy opening....
yeah, we had questions about that earlier...like- I wonder if the concert is actually going to start at the time on the ticket...or if there is some opening dude...
and yeah...we got there...and read....on the flyer....some guy....named, John Mayer opening.
who the EFF is this guy? god.... I just want to hear Glen Phillips...seriously...who is this guy....god.
and then he started.....and it was over before I knew what hit me...and to top it all off...he covered Message in a Bottle....which...as a Sting/Police fan...I pretty much just lost it.
yeah. John Mayer.
and....after he did his thing...he was selling his CDs off to the side....crazy...all ages show....we passed through the small crowd....walked up to him...and said, "wow, great job!" HAHAHAHAHAHAH.
ohhhh, man. I didn't buy a CD....I should have.
anyway. He is brilliant...as a musician...and as a dude, that just....he's funny...and he's smart....and when he isn't saying things that get him in trouble....he's saying some pretty awesome things....
watching a clip of John Mayer working on the song, "In Repair"
he said,
"we are always either on the way down or the way up....those moments when those things come apart...set you up for moments of putting it all back together....
there's a beauty....of this idea...of being in repair...."
and.....me.....I love this.....part of me never wants to finish a painting...I almost hate feeling like I've painted...and painted and there's no more to paint....I kinda like seeing something incomplete....
that there isn't a finality to it...that it hangs there living on....breathing and not being so defined that it is done....that it still has a journey that could go in a million different directions....
because....
the journey is never over....the discovery....the mystery....the magic....
I'm in repair, I'm not together....but I'm getting there.
peace...and love...and being in repair....ripping it down to put it back together....
#johnmayer
#acrylicpaint
#turkishman
No comments:
Post a Comment