went to a concert last night for the first time in four years!!
(like a proper proper concert. i saw trixie mattel in february 2020 and saw a beatles cover band last summer after a baseball game lol. but to me, those weren’t like proper concerts. i took seeing trixie as it was a comedy show with music, but i suppose you could consider it a concert 😅 and the beatles tribute band was kinda small and idk didn’t feel like a proper concert to me. if that makes any sense…? lol. but yeah, the last proper concert i went to was 2019 and i saw cher 😅 anywaaayy lol)
i saw Rick Springfield 🥰
i haven’t been to one of his shows since 2015 or 2016 (i think, i can’t remember for sure atm lol) but i’m so damn happy i went last night 💙
he puts on such a fantastic show!
he talked very openly about his mental health at one point and dealing and struggling with depression and it just really touched me. at one point while he was talking about depression, he said that to anyone else dealing or struggling with it to know that it’s not their fault. he said it’s not our fault that our brains are like this. but it doesn’t mean we’re broken. it’s just something that’s really shitty that we deal with. but we can push through it. it’s okay to feel low, but please don’t give up.
and that really meant a lot. it was so nice to see someone be so vulnerable and so open about their struggles. especially in that kind of setting. he sang a song he wrote when he was at his lowest and now he sings it every night while he’s on tour and he said it helps lift him up and always makes him so happy. and idk… that just was so sweet to see that side of him.
Also, you would never guess that he’s gonna be 74 in a few weeks! i don’t think he looks like it and he certainly doesn’t move like it 😄 he was jumping and running around the stage and went into the audience and it was just awesome!
and i was with some of my favorite people and despite being soaked by the rain multiple times yesterday and being damp and trying to dry off during the concert lol, it was such an amazing night! 🥰🖤❤️
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Title: Love Somebody
Author: Rachel Roasek
Genre: YA Fiction | Romance | Friendship | LGBTQ+
Content Warnings: Parental Abuse | Abandonment
Overall Rating: 8.9/10
Personal Opinion: This is The Half of It but set in a progressive town. But it’s a pretty good story formula if I’m being honest. Girl helps the boy get another girl but ends up falling for the girl herself. You can’t really go wrong with it, especially with characters with as much depth and personality as Sam, Ros, and Christian. Sam views love as a game, Ros thinks love can only hurt you in the end, and Christian thinks love is a light. Who’s right? Well, the answer is pretty obvious. But there isn’t just one way to view love, as this book will show.
Do I Own This Book? No.
Spoilers Below For My Likes & Dislikes:
Likes:
- The depth of the characters is what I really like. Sam wants to be like Emma Watson when she grows up. She doesn’t want to be a nobody so she pushes herself to the point of breaking just to prove that she can be somebody. Ros saw the way losing his husband broke her dad. She became fearful of letting people close because she was so afraid of losing them. Her idea of love is that it’s tragic. Christian is a genuinely nice guy who is always agreeable even when something doesn’t necessarily agree with him. He’s a doormat like his best friend says. These three people are so different but the connection they have makes them so interesting to read about. Seeing Ros open up to Sam and Christian, seeing Christian become braver because of the girls’ influence, seeing Sam realize that she doesn’t have to prove anything to anybody (definitely not to a mother that basically abandoned her), that’s where the story is.
- The people in the main three characters’ lives are also truly special. Monty is a good best friend for watching out for Christian and urging him to do better for himself. Aimee is just downright adorable. Nana is so sweet for always supporting Sam in every endeavor and making her a priority in her life. And Ros’s dad is such a good man in general! He’s a wise man whose love for his kid is almost palpable.
- Ros’s final submission for the Bellerose Assembly was just perfect. I mean, I thought her original idea was very cool even if it was morose. But I love that she took what everyone’s idea of love was and put it into her presentation. I do wish she would’ve gone up to the lectern and finished it off by saying what love meant to her but this was still good. And I think a good way to show Sam that she still cared about her.
- I’m sort of obsessed with Loredo too now. I think it’s such an interesting detail to include about a character. Sam, as a little girl, wanted so badly to go to Loredo but then her mother denied her. Told her nobody important came from Loredo. It became their inside joke to always talk shit about tiny towns like Loredo and Sam used that as her motivation to push herself. She even kept the map! It’s such an intriguing character trait.
- I was most interested in the Will storyline to be honest. He just disappeared and Christian never questioned it because his parents were okay with him being gone. But it makes me so happy that Christian made contact with Will and even went to New York to find him.
Dislikes:
- I’m not sure Sam and Ros had the most chemistry. I felt it, it was there. But I guess I just wasn’t sure if I felt the love between them since most of their starting interactions and thoughts about each other were largely negative. We spent so much time with all the characters assuming things about one another, we don’t get to delve as deeply into their interactions. I know, I know, Ros fell for Sam through the bits she saw in Christian. But I didn’t feel the love between them! I just didn’t. I don’t know, maybe it’s because my love languages are physical touch and quality time so I don’t get it.
- Fuck Christian’s parents! It’s no wonder Will decided to leave. I know parents like that. The kind that expect their children to be carbon copies of themselves and impose their values/beliefs/wants onto them. It’s wrong. And I am glad Christian is learning to fight it and that Will got to escape from that situation. Hopefully Aimee doesn’t have to suffer as much as her brothers did.
- Ros using Christian like that as, what, some sort of petty revenge against Sam was so wrong. But I get why she did it. Still, going that far? Yuck. Girl, I know virginity is a construct but you still deserve something better than that.
- Sam and Christian didn’t know that Ros found out about them lying to her. So why was it written like they did know that? All they knew after Monty’s party was that Sam confessed her feelings to Ros and then Ros and Christian had sex. Why were they talking to Ros later like the problem was the lying? It just feels like a mistake in the editing process.
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Release: March 10, 1984
Lyrics:
I can see the path you're cutting
It costs me a little piece of my heart
I can see the doors you're shutting
'Cause they were open at the start
Baby, loving you has been hard on me
You're such a tough little sister
Just looking for Mr. Right
On the wrong side of town
You better love somebody
It's late, you better love somebody
Don't wait, you better love somebody
Don't tempt fate, you're gonna pull it just a little too far
One night
Your eyes are wild, your skin's so white
You're undernourished and overfed
She's got the teeth, she knows how to bite
'Cause, when you bit, I bled
You got the perfect image of a perfect man
You're a tough little sister
But you'll settle for a mister tonight
But you're running out of time
You better love somebody
It's late, you better love somebody
Don't wait, you better love somebody
Don't tempt fate, you're gonna pull you just a little too far
One night
I'm only saying what I feel
You think I'm wrong, I know
You thought I was sleeping at the wheel
I thought that you were driving
You better love somebody
You better love somebody
You better love somebody
It's late, you better love somebody
Don't wait, you better love somebody
Don't tempt fate, you're gonna push it just a little too far
One night
Songwriter: Rick Springfield
One night, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa
One night, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa
One night, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa
One night, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa
SongFacts:
“Love Somebody” is a song by Rick Springfield. It was released in 1984 as the first single from his soundtrack album Hard to Hold.
Cash Box said that the song shows Springfield's progress as a songwriter since the beginning of his pop music career.
The song peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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