Music Brings Us… Together?!??!

I’m not clear-headed this day. Up till 3am, body woke me up at 7.30 – the GPU on my computer outputs a LOT of heat so though I got right down to the video editing that needed to get done, the data offload that I’d LIKE to get done, the Life the Universe, the EVERYTHING that should get done – it’s just so freakin’ hot down here that it’s hard to focus. So I’ll just lay out what is fishing around in my mind about last night…

Oh right, THAT’S what music does.

Last night at Teavolve I had a bunch of family there. Family that I haven’t spoken to, mostly that I’d never met. But my mother knew my cousin’s daughter had been playing and singing and asked if she’d be interested in coming to my open mic and… they done brought EVERYBODY. Some of these people I feel like… well, I’ll say that politically and socially speaking, I don’t feel like I have very much in common with them – and haven’t since I was in high school. But we sat and we had a really great time in a room together, brought together by music.

It’s cliché, and I said it better in my head last night. Hell, I think I said it better to the featured artist last night who looked at me like “duh – that’s what music DOES!!!”

In the bars and in the coffeehouses, in the rat race and in my personal struggle to survive… I guess I forgot.

Here’s to being reminded again *clink* and here’s to discovering that there’s another musician in my family!