20 Jan 2019, 7:36 pm
20 Jan 2019, 8:04 pm
I'm walking on air and living the dream of seeing my man Art Garfunkel tonight, with front row seats literally two feet from the steps to the stage. They're temporary fold-away chairs for VIP guests, not even on the seating plan of the venue. He was my first love when I was four. I can't even put into words how much his voice means to me, or how many feels I'm gonna feel. I think I'll be catatonic for the most part. I couldn't refuse coming to Tennessee with seats this good. He's playing much closer to home but I couldn't get VIP seats for those gigs, so here I am. He's worth all the plane fare, the travel, the Air BNBs and Ubers. He's worth everything.
I've loved him since I was four years old. I took him with me to Uni, through trauma and back again. His lyrics were woven throughout my ASD autobiography and he's my kindred autistic spirit. He also carried my grandmother through depression, before she passed her copy of S&G Greatest Hits down to me. I also learned that Wuthering Heights is his 6th favourite book of all time, among thousands of books that he has documented and kept lists of reading in the past fifty years.
ARTIE
I'm going to die a little at Kathy's Song, American Tune and For Emily.
I'm nine hours and counting.
Yay! I don’t know much of him but I think he was on an episode of a kids show once as I remember the name.. maybe in Arthur?
The idea of documenting books he reads is smart.
And just your type of person to do that.
20 Jan 2019, 8:16 pm
20 Jan 2019, 8:52 pm
I found a flyer for a coding boot camp
Gave it to a friend
She got in
She told me about it. She looked so happy
Free lunch, catered. No dress code. Gender neutral bathrooms. Nice instructor. Loaned laptop.
It's the first time someone did something like this, because of me
No homophobia
Phone completely recharged
Did not rain much
20 Jan 2019, 8:56 pm
20 Jan 2019, 11:53 pm
Songlist that I remember: (mostly in order but not perfect)
April Come She Will
The Boxer (During which he waved at me and winked)
A Poem on an Underground Wall
The Side of a Hill
Homeward Bound
A Perfect Moment
A Heart in New York / All I Know
A song in Hebrew (I don't know what it was called?)
Bright Eyes (I nearly lost it at this point)
Scarborough Fair
A Real Emotional Girl (Randy Newman)
Bridge Over Troubled Water
For Emily
Kathy's Song
Sound of Silence
The Lord's Prayer
I can't process yet.
I'm beyond speechless.
My seat / view was this close. There was a strict "No photos of Art or you'll be kicked out" rule, so the only photo I managed to get of him is blurry. I'll try to doctor it up a bit later.
21 Jan 2019, 6:33 am
I was watching Bear Grills Junior Survival School where kids have to do like survivalist type stuff and it's tough. The youngest kid on there gets bullied at school for being different. He was scared because he was meant to abseil. It looked like he wasn't going to do it. He refused the first time and they let him (which is good cos otherwise I'd stop watching, he was twelve and looked and acted younger and I don't like seeing people being forced to abseil anyway but esp not someone like that). But then he watched all the other kids do it and he decided to do it anyway and he felt really good afterwards and said he wanted to do it again 
I relate a lot to that kid - not me now but me at that age. I would have been scared and I would have refused. I'm really glad for him that he's brave enough to face his fear
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