“ ’cause everywhere you go, you take you with you
and everywhere you live has something to give.”
- Guess the Route by The Most Secret Method
In 1998 I met Johanna Classen. My friend Julie introduced us when Johanna’s band, The Most Secret Method (from Washington DC), played a show here at Boston’s in Tempe. Johanna (an amazing bassist) and I had a short conversation about local music in which I expressed my disillusionment with the Phoenix music scene. Her reply completely changed my perspective. ‘It’s what you make of it’, she said. I paused, then shrunk, defeated by my whiney comment. First of all, she was right. Second of all, she was cute and I just made a total ass of myself. I had heard “Phoenix music sucks” over and over in my head for the past 4 years and I had started to first believe, then regurgitate it…without any critical thought. I never forgot it. So I was more than a little nervous when I heard she was in town. I wondered if she’d remember our conversation. Either way, it’d be neat to say hi and hang out. At the house, Johanna, Edie, Julie, Clancy, and I talked about everything from traveling, to bad professors, to sexy Seattleites. I learned that Johanna and I were both born in July, 1972. When I was leaving, Edie noticed that we also had the same truck. It’s funny how the world revolves bringing paths together, then apart, then back together again. I’m thankful that I had a chance to “redeem” myself and have a much less embarrassing conversation with Johanna. And I’m thankful for the impression her perspective made upon me. My parallel universe buddy, stopping by to remind me that everything’s
what I make of it.
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posted by me : 12/29/2004 01:09:49 PM
