Further Adventures Discovering My Idols Are People

[sanura]

One of the galvanizing factors behind my realization that I could be a songwriter too and play my own stuff was, obviously, meeting and chatting with Tony Beliveau, songwriter/pianist/singer of Crash Kings, and coming to know in an emotional and visceral sense that he's a real person. It's one thing to admire the work of people you know are real, but it's a human (and I think particularly artist-human) feature to be unable to relate to or identify with the unfamiliar. Cause of all war and violence, you know. So when you meet and talk to people whom you previously only knew through their blindingly brilliant creative output, it's encouraging and motivating: I could do that!

Guess who tweeted back at me today?


And this is after reading back through Jamie Parker's feed and seeing him stress over an audition he reaalllly wanted and not get it.

Those History Boys are all real people, too. I could do that?