band girlfriend

email to brett / may 18 / 9:05pm

we listened to the trrr cd on the way back from san josé.

i was only gonna play one song - i didn't want to be the annoying girl who forces everyone to listen to her boyfriend's band's CD.

but it's so good, and i was so happy to listen to it, that we listened to the whole thing.

cecile asked me 10000000 questions about it, to the point that i had to clap my hands and be like CECILE. LESS TALKING MORE LISTENING TO THE MUSIC. she asked what you played and when i said you did vocals, she was like 'he sings by himself?' and i'm like yeah.

and she's like 'but they're not his lyrics.' and i was like, yeah, they are.

then she asked me a million more questions about if you wrote about me. i was like i dunno, i can't understand what the hell he's saying, and i haven't heard the new songs, but these aren't about me because he wrote them way before he met me.

'but what are they about?'
other girls.

'how can you deal with that? what does he say?'
i don't know, he won't write down the lyrics for me, but i know more or less what they're about.

'but why don't you ask him to write a song about you?'
....because that would be really annoying. and too much pressure.

'but you could just ask him.'
no. if he asked me to write a story about him i would laugh at him. and also he wouldn't ask me that.

lisa wanted to know: what if you asked me, "have you written a story about me?"

and i was like, "well, he knows i haven't written fiction in a million years. but i've written about him on my blog and he knows about that, and he reads it and asks me if it's about him, and i'm like 'who the fuck else would it be about?'"

cecile asked,  "why don't you write lyrics for one of the songs?"
for one, because it's more like poetry and i can't write poetry. and for two, it's his band and it's his thing.

and she said, "but i think it would be cool" and i was like but it's not my thing. we can play together and sing and stuff but his band is his thing.

i told them how i tried to figure out the lyrics and make you correct them, in lieu of you writing them down for me, and about how i think it sounds like you say 'cheeseburger!' in awful eyes. and how you asked if you could write a song about a girl with gray hair, and i was like uhhhh no.

and lisa said you sang well, and i said yeah (awful eyes was on) and i said how you were less concerned about singing "well" and more concerned about sounding cool, and how i thought that was hilarious but also i could see your point. and she said you did sound cool. and i said yeah.

and i said how it was good that i liked your band before i met you, because what if i met you but i didn't like your band? and i probably wouldn't have gone out with you.

and then i had to tell cecile the story of how i heard your band and then met you.

so i'm all smiley and we're listening to the CD and then lisa's like, "aren't you so excited to go home?"

and i realized that i really am going home so soon and i said, "oh my god, i'm leaving soon." i started taking pictures out the window and it was the first time i felt sad and urgent about leaving spain.

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[jade b]

letter to brett too:

BRETT. there is a cd of the live trrr set from the moon show. it's at major video! i texted everyone else in yr band to tell them i had it/how did they want to get it & no one got back with me. so i left a note on yr practice door & left the cd at major. owen gave it to me to give to you guys to preview? i think it sounds pretty darn good ;)

<3 jblank

ALSO ANN WHEN DO YOU COME HOME????

[brett]

word jade. thanks for that.

[ann]

june 6 late late in nola

[lisa]

Yay, this post made me smile. Funny conversation. And only the best weekend EVER.

[Rikki]

Leif's got more songs about other girls because they broke up with him, stood him up, or made him sad/mad. Or because he was younger and more emo at the time. But I did score "Happy Freakin Birthday."