Today I feel defeated by everything, that my world is too hopeless to blog about. Is it? Probably a little bit: the weather like my mood, overcast and blurry. But there should be something to write about, shouldn’t there? Shouldn’t I be excited about the future? Well, to be honest I am excited about it: about playing shows and having people hear the album, about getting back out there. But there seems so many obstacles, such an enormous shit storm hailing down over The Dears, over the entire music business. The cynicism is devouring people left, right and center…chewing them up and spitting them out.
The thing is, is that I can’t let go of the hope. I believe in music too much; I believe music is more powerful than money or success. Those things are intangible, unreachable and in some ways, they don’t even really exist. So, *deep breath* I say fuck it. Fuck the past, fuck today, fuck popularity and pretention. This is art. The Dears is art — again — and these songs are fierce and uncomfortable, just as they should be. After nearly a decade of struggling to fit in under a forced, false identity, I feel like maybe we are finally free to be, well, you and me.
Post Scriptum: Recognise the obtuse KITH reference from the title? As good and quotable as: “We need an exorcist in here and this time I mean it.”
Natalia Yanchak 
when I’m feeling bleu I go check in on Michel Hellman’s (Thomas’ frère) visual blog. works every time…
http://lifeinapanel.blogspot.com/
I think that art is not a win or lose proposition. Yes music is also a business and with the music or entertainment business you can win or lose. But if you make art the point is to keep trying, keep pushing in new directions you do not ‘win’ or ‘lose’ because it’s never over, there isn’t a point where an artist stops being an artist and tallies up the score (even if they chose a new band or a new type of art.)
“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending
Keep believing, keep pretending
We’ve done just what we set out to do.
Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers, and you.”
– the Muppets
Happy Mother’s Day!