Happy Birthday, Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead)

Listen, some days I don't know what I am doing on this Earth truly. How does it keep happening that I wake up over and over again?

Anyway, I stopped doing this for awhile but yesterday on New Year's Eve was the birthday of one of my very favorite artists of all time, Kazu Makino.

One of the only consolations of living in these times is the fact that we have so many years of art to keep us company. I start listening to Blonde Redhead and it's like I enter a different headspace altogether.

Kind of like when I look at old photos. It took awhile for me to get it right when it came to everything. You have to get it wrong for so many times first. I didn't start photographing anything and have it turn out genuine and brilliant like I wanted. I experienced so much stress and frustration. Combine this with the fact that the bands I love the most always play in darkness. I'll never love Taylor Swift and her 100 ISO bright light extravaganzas. It just doesn't appeal to me artistically or musically.

I take as many photos of bands as I do when I am on vacation. I would say that I probably have at least 2 Million photos I have never even looked at and I mean that literally. I have terabytes filled with them and a constant backup system. One of my good friends recently lost all of his concert photos from the past 20 years or so. I think I'd rather lose an arm.

Time travel for me is when I go back to concerts and look through those moments. There's a whole lot of photos I delete if they are not perfect for me and I have gotten better about not being a hoarder of the unseen so to speak. I liked this one for The New Year as I found it very relatable for me now . Makino was the age I will be turning this year in this moment. She has a look of both hope and anxiety. You can almost hear her gasping through space and time. She is clinging with a slight blur in her hands to a light that won't fit inside. She has so many hopes for the world. It is 2015. Before all of the horrors that came after. We perceptive humans all knew it was coming but we didn't know what. It wasn't tangible and we couldn't put it a finger on it.

Listen to me when I tell you that without certain things in my life, I would not be breathing. Music is one of them. I listen to music every minute of my day and night. I even listen when I am sleeping. If there is a server crash and the music stops, I wake up immediately. I cannot function without music. I cannot move. I cannot even blink to show that I'm not in a deep coma.

"You know we are all equally damaged."

Happy New Year.

blonderedhead.bandcamp.com/track/for-the-damaged

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Taken on: July 25, 2015

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