I’ve been up since 4am sorting out a quick trip and I’m only now getting a moment to unwind and jot down some thoughts but before I being I gotta tell you how amazing it always is to run into friends at airports.
My parents and I were minding our own business at the airport here in LA and I see a close friend and the best front of house engineer I’ve ever worked with and pretty much the best in the world. We’ve done tons shows with Miley together, we had out plane get hit by lighting, and we’ve also done countless shows with The Jonas Brothers. Basically if you’ve ever seen Miley or The JoBros doing a live TV performance you’ve heard his work and he’s also engineered/mixed/produced bands like Van Halen, Devo, St. Vincent and many more and if you heard Miley’s Attention Live concert, he mixed that and yours truly is on percussion.
I didn’t know how or when my parents would ever meet him, someone that means a lot to me, but the universe conspired and I was able to introduce them to him and it was lovely to hear them chat for a second and share some Boston love.
Let’s chat us now, my friends.
The off season is predictably a very slow time not just for the fans but also for us “content creators” because events and matches usually are prompts for whatever that content will contain. This off season will be my second one as a blogger and it promises to be some sort of a return to basics for me and to essence of this blog and why I started it in the first place, which means anecdotes, opinions, of course lots of music parallels, things in the artistic vein and much more. And by much more you can bet this means disapproval of that manager which even if we win the quadruple next season, I will still express.
All this to say that I will be here for you during the slow time as I attempt to be a source of distraction for you while things are boring and nothing seems to be happening but make no mistake, I need YOU because you are the reason I do this every singe day.
I will never assume or even imply that I’m better than anyone out there but I am me and I am different and I love you all too much to leave you with only a couple of podcasts and a blog by the same person that leaks info and pretends it doesn’t matter because he has minions that repeat his words and don’t formulate their own. That is not me and I owe you variety, at the very least FFS.
It’s somewhat simple and basic to just talk about transfer rumors and potential lineups. To this last point its a total waste of time for me if I try to predict what that manager is trying to do because nothing makes sense and I love myself too much to try to embody anything related to him so that’s a hard pass.
As I mentioned briefly yesterday Leah signing is such an interesting thing and it gives us food for thought, assumptions and speculations. Why would she sign if this is the club that treated Viv poorly? some would debate. This and other questions like these are valid and very interesting and all I would say is that similar things happen in the music world and what it boils down to is very much an individual thing and of course an individual’s things. Each person is different, treated differently for better or worse, with peculiar dynamics and such, so comparing players and their contracts and all that is tricky.
If you’re hopeful or frustrated or anything in between, you are correct to feel that way and it’s all valid, and I will add one of the things my mom has stilled in me since I was a child: you cannot expect rational behavior from irrational people. Football clubs to me are very irrational and we, in order to remain as sane as possible, cannot expect anything rational coming from it.
Viv on a free is the definition of irrational and I will never get over it.
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