Hey there. Not sure if you’ve noticed, but I’ve been using words from other people (Oliver Sacks, Mike Mills, Krzysztof Kieslowski, & Charlie Kaufman) to help describe my feelings on what this EP means to me. I’ve been posting them on all the socials the last few weeks, and it got me thinking… What if I asked all of you to help do the same, but in a visual way? The idea came to me out of nowhere and I instantly saw hundreds of videos of all of you presenting pieces of yourself that you “hate.” I’m not sure exactly how to do this, and I don’t even know what the end result will be, but intuitively I know that this will be a beautiful thing.

So, I’m thinking if all of you could find that thing that you either hate or used to hate about yourself and try to represent that visually without sound and send it to me, I can then edit them all together and present it to the world. Now the most important part of this is that the same thing that you either hate or used to hate must now or in the near future be seen as something important to you that you now love or will eventually begin to love. I know that was wordy as fuck, so I’ll let my misremembering of a Tom Waits quote speak for me. About his favorite musicians, he said, “I like anyone who has taken what most people consider to be a liability, and turned it into an asset.” 

That’s what I am hoping you can throw my way. I would love nothing more than for you all to get creative as fuck. Go to places you’ve never gone to. Most of us have been cooped up for a year and sometimes it feels good to just go out into the garage and scream for an hour. Maybe that’s just me. But I’m hoping you’ll see this as an opportunity to get something out of you and hopefully begin to move through it or share a bit of your history with the world after having moved through it and come out the other side. 

I long to connect. You have no idea how much you’ve done for me by deciphering things in my words that I wasn’t even aware of, and then relaying them to me in a way I could understand. It truly goes both ways. I have you to thank for eventually going to therapy and starting to become a better human. This is overdue, but in all seriousness: THANK YOU.

Much love.