I once got an email from a friend five or six years ago after I’d just come back from Europe and had broken up with a girl I was seeing. But, what was interesting, or an epiphany for me that I sometimes forget is for whatever reason that email, which was just a simple message to a bulk list of friends, described where the email was coming from and what it was like. They were playing in the snow in Sweden and just planning a party. But, somehow, the idea of a kind simple email or any kind of phone call, letter, email, or reaching out just to let someone else in on a slice of their world and happiness caught me as special in that case. Perhaps because I had just come back from a trip and a breakup. That’s what I want to try to do more regularly, send messages that are glimpses into the world I’m living in at that point in time. In some ways it’s a service, it’s a reason for getting applause and well deserved.
Right now, as I write this, I’m listening to Modest Mouse. I love these types of examples, a band creating music to give others pleasure. Sure, they need to make money, but these guys would be making music and songs anyway. Bands like this and Built to Spill. Sometimes we don’t realize how easy this is to do, get applause that is. Bands like this give it all out.