About the music and the friends

If someone two years ago told me that I'd be spending my days by going to shows, volunteerswork at the local stage and being way to enthousiastic about my friends their bands, I'd laugh at them.
Now, I found out, it works as a drug to me. My volunteerswork is taking almost all of my free weekends, I'm working at metal, drum and bass, house, jazz, hip-hop and all other kind of music shows, standing behind the bar, selling tickets or the garderobe. Because it's in a different town than that I live, I'm sleeping at colleagues houses most of the time, who became my friends. People I talk to on weekly base, who I'm also seeing outside my volunteerswork. Sometimes, when I'm in this town for other reasons, I'm just dropping by there, talking to everyone, drinking a beer with the people there. It became such a big part of my life, that I couldn't imagine doing something else on my friday or saturday evening.
When I'm doing something else it mostly involves going to shows. Sometimes in bigger venues, bands like Less than Jake and Alkaline Trio I saw this year and I'm going to Sick of it All, Atmosphere, Sociale Distortion and Propagandhi the coming 30 days. Sometimes just local gigs or friends bands. My love for the bands of my friends is really big and I'll support them any way possible. We go to bigger shows together and I'm at most of their shows, even if it involves sitting 2 hours or more in a train. Even then, I mostly stay at their place that night, because my home-town is impossible to reach after 12 if you don't have a car.
Like a drug, I became addicted to this life of travelling, working, seeing bands, meeting people. At school, I'm dreaming, writing and thinking about music, the next gigs I'm attending, the festivas I'm going to, upcoming releases, the coming weekend at my volunteerswork. Without, I'm nothing.

I live on my teenage dreams, raging on the volume of control, without this I'm nothing.
Vine Yard - Teenage Dreams
www.myspace.com/wearevineyard

We offer you this new resistance, instead of forcing you into their acceptance
Question Mark - Independant
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