April 29, 2004

I secretly wrote an email to KEXP, one of the most fabulous radio stations ever (and it streams via the internet as well) to see if somehow, I could get permission for my husband to see Air play live in their studio today.

My email was rather cheeky though terribly sincere. It said:

To my surprise, Cheryl from the station wrote me back and said, "Come down today at 2:15."

We were there at 2.

We sat in the recording booth with the engineer and three other people and that was it. We watched Air play but what was most interesting was all that they said. It's my understanding that they don't do a lot of radio interviews or performances and, when doing interview, don't actually talk that much. But they answered all the questions with so much thought and information, that for Chris, that was the real treat because it was answers to questions he had about his own music and ways of thinking.

He wants to be in music and I think seeing this intimate performance showed him his own possibilities. It made his dream real in a way that it wasn't before. I told him that this experience felt like the one I had at his age where I met someone who showed me my own dream and made it possible. And look where I am.

What this also taught me was that a lot of people always say, "Why don't things like that happen to me?" but that they never ask for what they want. I asked to go to the radio station and it happened. I sometimes wonder how many more rock stars we'd have if people didn't sit and wait for things to be handed to them.