you got the love i need.

I'm home from Nashville! Bittersweet. It took me about 8 hours total to get home. 2 hour plane flight and then THREE different trains from Philly to NYC. Luckily I realized about 30 minutes before leaving for the airport that my plane was going to Philly and not Long Island like I'd thought it was all along. Bah, it was a little nervewracking seeing as I'd had all my transportation planned out from Long Island and such.

Anyway, I am obnoxiously in love with Nashville. Josh (my friend from home) took me out to a show at Windows Off The Cumberland to see Fly Golden Eagle and some other rad Belmont bands. At one point the lead singer of Fly Golden Eagle goes, 'So who here is from Belmont?' and everyone in the venue cheered and then he said, 'And who here is a music industry major?' whole venue cheered again.

In

That

Moment

I

Felt

Myself

Falling

        Falling

               Falling.

After the show we went to a party slightly off campus and relatively close to Ben Fold's old house. (Yes, it made me really happy to know I was in the same vacinity as a building that housed such an inspiring person.) The party was awesome. Everyone was outside, talking about amps and music and favorite bands and aahgpoaoakfl.

It was that same abstract feeling that I always get when I'm at a show of a band I really love and I take a look around and realize everyone in the venue is just as in love as I am. That's what Nashville is.

Nashville is the hub of the love of music. New York City and LA you can find a people that love music and perhaps love the same music as you do but they're hard to find. They're hidden in the bustling streets and the corners of dodgy bars. But in Nashville. It's all so small, so compact, so... there. In front of your face. You can go to a Belmont party and know just the type of people that you're going to get. It's the same reason I go to Angels and Kings. You know what you're going to get. You know the people you're going to see, you almost know them by name because you've dreamt of them for years.

Maybe it's a little selfish. I've known what I've loved since I was 13 and I use it like a drug. I meet people, bring people into my life and watch them shape themselves through music. I'm an addict for the high that it gives me. Nashville is my AA.

Being home is nice, I won't lie. New York is where my heart still belongs but it'll be nice to escape off to Nashville and think about the life I live in New York City every once in a while.