Me right now, and pretty much always.
Here's a kid playing Paparazzi at his school talent show. I am, without a doubt,
pretty much a combo of these three girls, all the time.
Although, I am sometimes always that girl in the lower left hand corner too.
On a semi-related note, this reminded me of something that happened when
I was about 10 years old, when I played piano at a church talent show. I had
selected "The Rainbow Connection" as my masterpiece. I knew the song so
well I told my mom I didn't need to bring the sheet music. She asked, "Are you
sure? What if you forget some of the notes?" And I said something along the
lines of "Don't sweat it mom, I've got this." (Can you guess where this is
going??) When it came time for me to perform, I walked out onto the stage,
brimming with confidence, in front of an attentive audience of about 500
Southern Baptists.
I sat down at the piano, placed my hands on the keys, and then....NOTHING. Nothing happened. No lovers, no dreamers. No rainbows were being connected. I could not force my hands play the notes I claimed to know so well. I just completely blanked. About 30 seconds went by, which seemed like an eternity to me and everyone else, and then, I did what any quick-thinking kid would do.
I started sobbing uncontrollably.
Finally, I think somebody realized that I had no intention of going anywhere, and that the crying was only going to multiply and feed on itself over time, so my older sister had to come drag me off the stage. I'm pretty the incident inspired this album:
Ever since, I have had severe anxiety about playing piano in front of anyone. I call it "Public Piano-Hand Paralysis Syndrome." I'm pretty sure Brooke Shields will be advertising medication for this soon (because after those Latisse commercials, I'm pretty sure we're just making up drugs at this point).
Also, this is Martin Lane, the man behind the Crying Piano albums. I take it back. This is me right now, and pretty much always.
Someday we'll find it.