Ready for another installment of #ThanksForTheInspiration? So two years ago, after working at Domefest as their Stage Manager, Jeremy Schon called me up out of the blue and says to me, You need to call BLEEEP. BLEEEP runs BLEEEP BLLLEEEPP and needs you. Badly. Call her. For 3 months following this I desperately reached out and reached out via email and phone using the same tactics and strategies for making cold contact that Id learned in all my years doing telemarketing. I think I may have gotten one email response. But it asked more questions than it answered. And my replies fell on silent emails and full answering machines... So I found myself at Pasture Palooza Music & Arts Festival that June. I was only there for a few hours and I was goddamn sure to make the best of it. 3/4 of a bottle of Catoctin Creek Rye Whiskey (my favorite rye) between myself and Jeffrey Dolan before had to leave. And on our way out, I was talking to some random chick about this festival later in the season that I had been looking into. She was like, Oh, BLEEEPP BLEEEP? Well, theyre here. I stopped and looked her dead in the eyes and asked sternly, You are telling me that BLEEEP is here right now? Take me to BLEEP now. She did and as we walked, I mustered all the energy I could from that whiskey bottle and was able to find a 2 minute reserve of sobriety that I save for situations like this. This is BLEEEEP. And I launched into the smoothest, coolest, Hi-Im-JohnChurch-And-This-Is-Why-You-Need-Me-Selling-Myself speech. Layin down facts and dropping numbers as if I was making a presentation to a boardroom of potential clients. Gesturing in the air towards the scenery around us, my powerpoint. Yes. was all BLEEEP could say. ::Flash forward to the festival that had just hired me as their stage manager:: Little did I know, that I would very quickly become much much more than a simple stage manager for this beautiful organization. What followed was the hardest weekend Ive ever worked in my life. So much hustle. So much struggle. So much... love. So much anger at the the wonderful folks that hired me. I had no idea that this is what Jeremy meant when he said, They need you. But at the end of the weekend, I was sitting on their front porch with, BLEEEEP and BLEEEP by my side and BLEEEP at my feet. I told them how I felt. I told them how burnt I was, to a crisp. I told them how I want, no I needed to come back next year. I told them how I wanted to help make this better. I told them how they had/have something so beautiful and special and magical that it felt like a charge from the Universe to help; that it was my universal obligation to improve upon this in any way I could. Jessica Abramson and Seth Abramson... You showed me what beautiful people can do, which is limitless. Thanks for the inspiration. You showed me what I can do, which is limitless. Thanks for the inspiration. You showed me what happens when worlds collide; stars are born. Thanks for the inspiration. This will be my third year working at Pink Moon Festival. This will be the fourth weekend I spend with my Rock Camp family. This will be the annual reminder of why I got into all of this in the first place. So, heres to you Jess and Seth. #ThanksForTheInspriation And heres to you Ginny, gone but never forgotten. You showed me that we all need a companion as we march forth on this journey. #ThanksForTheInspiration
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 17:26:12 +0000
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