Hotel Vegas
The Night I Drooled Blood on the Music Hall Stage
RECEIVED Mon., March 21, 2005
To the fabulous Louis Black,
Hopefully you are now getting some much-needed rest; you probably deserve it.
Upon reading “Page Two” (March 11) it felt like you had written it with a little bit of my band in mind. It is not easy keeping a band going whose lead singer is a 6-foot-tall alien creature puppet that sings like a puppet, in an unpopular genre. Lucid Dementia has applied for SXSW 8 years in a row, including this year, and has never won a showcase (can any of you whiners top that?!). So you can only imagine how exciting it was for me to be invited to the Austin Music Awards to accept an award!
I've learned to enjoy my artistic life by moments, rather than by expectations. Like the moment I sold my first CD, and every CD after that, and the first time I heard one of my songs in a club, and people got up and were dancing to it, or the time I was recognized by a fan in a grocery story, and now, the night I drooled blood on the Austin Music Hall stage accepting an award for best industrial/goth band.
Will my music ever be bigger than Britney Spears? I don't know, but whatever happens, I will always have my beautiful moments.
Hopefully you are now getting some much-needed rest; you probably deserve it.
Upon reading “Page Two” (March 11) it felt like you had written it with a little bit of my band in mind. It is not easy keeping a band going whose lead singer is a 6-foot-tall alien creature puppet that sings like a puppet, in an unpopular genre. Lucid Dementia has applied for SXSW 8 years in a row, including this year, and has never won a showcase (can any of you whiners top that?!). So you can only imagine how exciting it was for me to be invited to the Austin Music Awards to accept an award!
I've learned to enjoy my artistic life by moments, rather than by expectations. Like the moment I sold my first CD, and every CD after that, and the first time I heard one of my songs in a club, and people got up and were dancing to it, or the time I was recognized by a fan in a grocery story, and now, the night I drooled blood on the Austin Music Hall stage accepting an award for best industrial/goth band.
Will my music ever be bigger than Britney Spears? I don't know, but whatever happens, I will always have my beautiful moments.
Sheldon Reynolds
