Well, that’s a wrap on release week promotion for Born and Raised. It’s so phenomenally weird to wake up this morning at home and not in the back of a bus somewhere. On the bright side, releasing this album and getting back in touch with my fans has been something I’ve been waiting to experience for a long time now. I’m finally at a place in my life where I can truly appreciate the kindness and support, and you have shown me lots of it. Thank you for that.
As I understand it, the album is set to enter the charts at number one, which is just incredible on all your parts because there has been very little I’ve been able to do to promote it. In a world of schemes and strategies when it comes to selling something, you guys just bought music you trusted you’d like. You picked it up in the same way I made it… from the heart, no trickery. That is so cool and rare and all the marketeers in the world together can’t manufacture that. I am very grateful to you.
The making of this record was purposely undocumented, but there are a few iPhone videos and some photos to share. I figure I’ll do that here, and more often than I usually have in the past. Even if this album slides off the charts in a month, it doesn’t make it any less special to me, and we should all be digging this music together, like we would have (and will again) on stage.
Stay tuned…
with thanks and love
John
Sorry I’m not sorry for how much I love John Mayer.
I would call it summer reading, but I’m graduated so I can read whatever/whenever I want now. (Taken with instagram)
05.25.12
"Jennifer Lawrence is a thin young woman. Her body type may differ ever so slightly from the Hollywood norm - her thighs appear functional rather than merely decorative - but she’s still leaner than the vast majority of the American population. If critics are going to pick on a 21-year-old woman for not being skinny enough for a fantasy film, why haven’t they been more consistent in their critiques of actors’ bodies? I haven’t seen much concern about Liam Hemsworth’s muscular frame, even though his character in The Hunger Games occupies the same food-strapped world as Katniss. If we held actors’ physical appearance to a standard of strict realism in all movies, most Hollywood actors would be uncastable in films set in present-day America. Movie critics suspend their disbelief all the time - and when they suddenly refuse to do so for a female actor whose body looks more like an average woman’s body rather than less, it’s hard to see that as anything but sexist."
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L.V. Anderson on the critiques of Jennifer Laurence’s body being too “womanly” to play Katniss (via topographe)
I think Jennifer Lawrence is absolutely gorgeous in every sense of the word. Work them curves, gurl.
There’s something really powerful in those four words. It’s the feeling of more than just love, but faith. Ben always knew that Leslie would rise to the top because he knows her in and out, better than anyone else. He didn’t believe for a second that she would lose. He would bet his whole life for her dream, and that’s exactly what he did the day resigned. Their trust in each other and their trust in their relationship is going to be the anchor that holds them together next season. Still, it’s this scene that encapsulates the heart that these two share and have shared for over a year now. Ben believed in Leslie 110%, and now they’ll have to believe in each other if they want to make this relationship work… and it will. :)
-Charles, of parksandrecthings.tumblr.com
How does this ridiculously good comedy also have INCREDIBLE love stories?! It blows my mind.
"I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do not wish to change you into someone else. It means that I will love you and stand by you even through the worst of times. It means loving you even when you’re in a bad mood, or too tired to do the things I want to do. It means loving you when you’re down, not just when you’re fun to be with. ‘I love you’ means that I know your deepest secrets and do not judge you for them, asking in return that you do not judge me for mine. It means that I care enough to fight for what we have and that I love you enough not to let go. It means thinking of you, dreaming of you, wanting and needing you constantly, and hoping you feel the same about me."
This picture was in the hallway leading to the floor of Reed Arena before I graduated. Yep, that guy on the left is my dad, y’all. (Taken with instagram)
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05.13.12
Classic Rigby - using uncomfortable things as pillows. (Taken with instagram)
