..if you spin your love around
in the secrets of your dreams
you may find your love is gone
it's not quite what it seems
the night has come to hold us young.
Hi, I'm Marshall. I play guitar in a band called The Masquerade Scene, you'll read about us in Rolling Stone one day... maybe. I belong in a van, on stage and in the studio, not at University Of Colorado at Denver. I have the best friends and family anyone could ask for.
"Fuck all that. The 'scene' is high school all over again. I don't look like that. I'm' bald and relatively ugly. But I can play the shit out of my guitar. I'd rather be able to say that than to say I dress really well. I don't want to look like everyone else. It's such a weird, underlying need inside of all of us to want to look and act like everyone around us. Conformity is anesthesia, it numbs our social anxiety. I used to be really self-conscious about being bald, just with how much focus there is on looking cool in our scene. But one day I just said fuck it, if someone doesn't like me as much as another dude because I don't look right, then they can fuck right off. And I'm gonna say the same thing to my kids when I have them, without swearing."
-- Bobby Darling, Gatsbys American Dream
