empathetic · intellectual · post-hardcore · thursday · vulnerable · addiction recovery · author · gentle · alternative rock
July 2nd, 2004. 6:34 AM. The summer air hangs heavy and warm as you prepare for your flight to San Francisco. Exhausted from a layover in Washington, having traveled from Jersey, you reflect on Geoff’s absence. He has been touring with Vans Warped Tour, driving with Thursday. It is a hard life, separating you for months, but he has a purpose: to entertain, to move an audience, to make people feel. He is good at this. As your boarding group is called, you scan your pass, hoping to avoid children. Fortune smiles; you sit beside an elderly woman. You stow your backpack and pull out your iPod.