what does it all mean?

we're so connected.
cellphones and texting, facebook and myspace [wait, who still uses myspace..?], the internet in general..

but it seems to me that we've somewhat lost ourselves in it.
we're more connected, but we've lost connection.

what happened to community?
what happened to going out to coffee with someone to get to know them?
now all we have to do is add them on facebook and boom! we're friends.
all we have to do is read a couple of lines on their profile and boom! we know them.
it's not right. we've lost the art of communication.

i want to know people, not just meet them.

on a somewhat related note, i hate band to fan relationships. why do we put musicians on such a pedestal? why bother with a thirty second meet and greet and a sharpie scribble? even pictures with bands i don't much understand anymore. this has been a gradual, and somewhat recent change in me. i used to be a huuuggggeee fangirl. it was terrible. but now i realize that they're just normal people, with real struggles and faults and hopes and dreams. that's why i've made an effort to, when i go to concerts, actually talk to these people and love them and give them cookies and make them feel like something other than a pedestal.
with the pedestal that we've put these people on, we're so shocked when they mess up and do something we don't like. as my friend Jonathan [of the band eleventyseven] once said to me "bands aren't allowed to have bad days". they aren't, really. because if they're having a bad day and therefore don't feel like socializing with fans, we automatically write them off as being "mean" or "full of themselves". or on the opposite side of the spectrum, if they do interact with fans at all, we automatically think that they're perfect.


yay word-vomit..