I think I might have to pull back on the blogging reins a little. I'm starting to feel like I reveal a little too much when I write, and I'm starting to feel uncomfortable about it. I wonder if I'm making other people uncomfortable too. I'm not sure. (If I am, please let me know.) I need to think about this some more.
Posted by thevieve at June 5, 2006 11:09 AMI read this post of Amanda Palmer's on the Dresden Dolls blog recently that grappled with some of the same issues:
all the journalists ask me: "aren't you afraid you expose your private life too much?" i find this funny. my family reads this blog, my manager reads it, the label publicist reads it, brian reads it, our crew and promotors read it. this is the fucking ART of telling the truth carefully.
if i actually shared my private life in all it's complexity and detail, i would anger and worry and confuse these people so much....i'd be crucified. so i generally save my personal conflicts, my true heartbreak, for the emails i send to the ones who don't need me as a boss, a rock star, a musician, an idol, a promotional tool or even an artist.
it shouldn't come as a surprise that everything i share here is heavily censored, well, slanted at least..a combination of the reckless impulses to emote and the simultaneous, hyper-conscious measuring of the consequences. i can complain about my own faults, my own mistakes, my own fears, but the line ends there. it's not my place to complain about everybody else's.
Posted by: Bret on June 7, 2006 11:36 PM