appreciation post, love from LFT to you
When we started almost seven years ago, everyone hated us. We weren’t that good and half the time we played shows just to piss people off. We thought that was our niche, an inside joke that no one wanted to get and our own noodling on our instruments. Over time though we became more and more serious as we threw in more of our resources, became more serious about ourselves, and as we became aware of the fact that any and every voice counts, if said voice is promoting positivity, community, and self-awareness. Personally, it was mostly a fear of really evaluating what I had to offer the world. I was simply afraid to take myself serious.
Fast-forward a few years and we start writing music that we like and is listenable, I still feel weird about compliments and the idea of fans and such. The past year, it’s safe to say, has been a huge growth year for us artistically and a huge growth year for people attending shows and listening to our records. With that being said, we have a few more people personally telling us they dig what we do or what we mean to them. It means so much to me that we’ve created someone can get behind while pursuing our own interests. It’s really the greatest thing in the world. I sit in my shitty room at my shitty house with empty cabinets and empty pockets writing lyrics and guitar parts to please myself, then we scrounge enough money together to record it, and we “release” it and people understand. That’s the whole fucking point to me. Across the board, different states and different backgrounds, even different countries, we’re all suffering in some sense. I don’t have much religious indoctrination dialed into my perspective but I pick and choose what makes sense to me, try to pass it along. In Buddhism they have something called the four noble truths, I’m going to quote a pbs special I’ve watched on it because in my own illiterate american phrasing, it’d lose a bit of it’s meaning. It goes something like this:
The Four Noble Truths comprise the essence of Buddha’s teachings, though they leave much left unexplained. They are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. More simply put, suffering exists; it has a cause; it has an end; and it has a cause to bring about its end. The notion of suffering is not intended to convey a negative world view, but rather, a pragmatic perspective that deals with the world as it is, and attempts to rectify it. The concept of pleasure is not denied, but acknowledged as fleeting. Pursuit of pleasure can only continue what is ultimately an unquenchable thirst. The same logic belies an understanding of happiness. In the end, only aging, sickness, and death are certain and unavoidable.
That might seem depressing but to me, it’s a chance to acknowledge the world as it is, interpret it, and try to rectify negative situations through art. When we try to do this in our way and people identify, it’s really important to us. So when you give us compliments at shows, especially me, it’s too intense for me to handle and I usually cower down to the beauty of the situation, something as simple as understanding and perpetuating positivity. It has nothing to do with me or the band, just that we’re on the same page in our suffering and our path to end suffering.
sorry about this long post, we just got a lot of compliments last night from friends at the show and it really means the world to me.
Much Love,
Charles H.
LFT
-
waitwhatttt liked this
-
latinfortruth posted this
