Hey are any of you going to a show for Sarah McLachlan's tour this summer? Feist is opening.
I am going to fly into another state just to see it and fly back the next day because I can and I have the money and I could afford good seats.
And it's so crazy because in the mid to late '90s I was kicked out at 18 and from about the ages of 18 to 24 they were incredibly difficult and I was incredibly poor. I did not own many CDs I did not go to any concerts I did not have concert T-shirts I didn't do festivals I remember desperately wanting to go to Lilith Fair but I might as well have gone to the moon.
In so many ways I did not have that young adult experience that so many others did. I was just so busy surviving and trying to get through school and so incredibly broke. For example, I had to pawn a pearl ring my grandmother gave me to go to the thrift store to buy black pants for a job. That's how poor I was. And I was a good kid I just had a stepdad that didn't like me and a mom not able to stand up to him.
And Sarah's songs got me through many, many a dark time filled with despair and longing. She was one of the few CDs that I actually bought during that time and when I got to my university in my junior year on a 22-hour Greyhound bus with a suitcase at broke along the way and I had to tie with rope. And I felt so out of place and alone and scared and broke I would listen to her music on CDs over and over again and I felt held.
So I am going to take a fun amount of shrooms I'm going to sing my heart out to every song probably crying the whole way and I cannot.
And I will buy merch.
Anyone else going? I'm going to the Cincinnati one.
And so now I can' afford going to concerts and I do and I am so excited that I get to see her live when that was never a possibility before. Our music was a huge milestone and the fact that my fortunes changed and I get to now enjoy what I couldn't there's something deeply cycle completing about this.