When and where does this REAL world occur?

myheartforasong:

There has been a great amount of discussion on the recent decision by John Mayer to stop using Twitter and turn his attention to more cohesive means of communication, namely Tumblr. I understood his eloquent explanation to say that, in part, devoid of the luxury of the full sentence, Twitter has…

Very well said. I believe many JM fans feel the same and I, for one, can totally agree. I am looking forward to the deeper side of John. Although I can certainly enjoy his occasional bathroom humor and witty tweet responses, I think JM is one of few artists of any medium to allow such participation in everyday life. And with that being said I will thoroughly enjoy the intricate and well thought conversation pieces that will ensue. Either way John will seek challenge on his own, thus the choice to blog and not tweet. Because it definitely takes more effort and is more challenging to blog something interesting that people can talk about and discuss as opposed to mini comments that are tweeted. Good luck to JM and cheers to getting to know him a bit more.

He wont be gone for long.

I think its easy to forget that music can still do this to you, being an aspiring musician, nice to be reminded once in a while. This song truly makes my heart float. 

Amazing.

This song was originally, I think, written about…it’s about anything really that’s sort of is working against you. But for me, at the time, it was like this lifestyle of touring and playing music and how I do that without ever falling into drugs which I am happy to say that I have never done and I’m blessed that I never have.

I’m gonna say something that might sound a little sacrilegious and I don’t mean it to. I actually mean it to sound more religious than you think. You know, I go over to the amplifier and I kneel on the ground and I pray to the ghosts of guitarists past and I just…I wanna be that, you know? And I say…I say, “I wish I could be like Jimi Hendrix”. But Jimi Hendrix died at 27 years old, so I don’t wanna be like Jimi Hendrix. I know, it’s weird, it’s awkward, you’re not supposed to scream for that but you want to scream for Jimi Hendrix. I’m just saying that maybe I won’t reach that. maybe I wont get that freaky. Maybe I’ll never be that linked up to that other thing. But the older I get the more I don’t want to be linked up to that other thing. The more I want to play the best guitar I can play and still love myself and love my friends around me when I go to bed at night, you know? And yea, I’m not as good, but I’m very thankful that I’m just good enough to play the guitar and have some people show up but not so good that I see things that aren’t there, you know what I mean?

And so, and really what song is now about…it’s about this newly invented energy. You know they say matter can neither be created nor destroyed but I feel like there’s this new matter of this fake fucking hate that doesn’t actually exist except…except in the people who feel it. So, there’s all this negative energy going around and it’s not real. You wouldn’t actually get it if you stood face to face with somebody. You can read about it on your Myspace page. You can hear that it’s out there somewhere. But when you actually go face to face it’s not there because we’re having split personalities now you know? We have like our internet personality, and our loving selves personality. And I just want to tell the internet to go fuck itself because I’m in front of a whole bunch of people who are sending me real love and that’s all that matters. I can’t deal with that much of a multiple of people in my life. I can just deal with the people in front of me who are sending me love. And I just wanna, in your own way, deal with the love in front of you. Don’t deal with that world outside of ether cos it doesn’t exist. There are people losing sleep over what they think it hate. And the person who wrote that shitty little comment on the internet isn’t thinking about it anymore. So just go on the assumption that you’re awesome, is what I’m trying to say.

And if you’re listening out there on Ustream and you think that I’ve offended you, well then come on up to me face to face and I’ll give you a high five and a hug. Cos I got an analog heart, this shit don’t have USB, it’s just me. I can’t hook up to 3G. I just gotta let it be, you know what I’m saying? Do you know what I’m saying? It’s a little abstract, I admit. It’s a little abstract. My point is, just spend all your time on love. Just spend it…just love more. When in doubt, shut your eyes and love. I promise it works, I’ve been trying it for a little while. It’s an awesome little thing to do. And so I play for you. Not so long as to wear out your attention span because I think I’ve don’t that already. I just wanna play love for you on the guitar. And it goes like this…

—John Mayer (during Gravity at the Red Rocks Amphitheater, September 1, 2010 via Ustream) (via nevergonnastopthistrain) (via gazelles) (via lottaryuryu) (via livemayerlove) (via hbbanana) (via fornowjustcarryon)

Uhh…what? Haha jk. I get what he’s saying and I agree. I too feel like people create a negative out of a situation in order to feel like their opinion matters. Because maybe they don’t feel important or wanted or needed in other aspects of their life that they need to put things down or be negative about something when it’s not really truly how they feel if they were to take a minute and think about things. People like to feel as if their voice or opinion counts for something. Or that someone cares what they think, which is a very basic and instinctual feeling, however since being negative is often very contagious the effect snowballs rather quickly. It’s hard for people to get over their own initial emotion of disagreement or intolerance of something different. And when things are different most people immediately say “nope, don’t like it, get rid of it, throw it out, don’t need to see anymore more. It’s not what I’m used to so I don’t like it.” What John is saying is that whether through the Internet or even in person, love conquers all. If someone wants to hate on you or someone or something, watch what they do when you give them a hug or a genuine compliment. Or befriend them instead of joining them in confrontation. One: they won’t know how to react, which by the way may just be the funniest face you’ve ever seen someone make. And two: most likely they will realize that you are not filled with the same hate that they’ve created within themselves. And just like negativity, love is contagious as well, it just takes a little bit more work at first. So I say thanks to JM for sharing his abstract existentialism with us yet again. And good luck to all with the living and loving!

With the sincerest love-
Ryan