From an email I just wrote.
If you’d like to help me feel less guilty, and you’re the kind of person who actually enjoys music (not just likes to have it play while some mongoloid tries to rape the back of your jeans), Francis and the Lights is a good band for you to get in to. Listen to a couple songs, maybe take advantage of a couple of the free downloads (the two first EPs are entirely free!), then maybe buy a copy or two. We can talk later about how happy you are I set you in their direction.
No, really, I’m going to sleep after this. I got too wrapped up in photos and then reading things online.
I also feel pretty bad for Francis, and have to buy albums for life now. Since he keeps track of all income activities, there’s this tweet on Twitter:
“$44 shipping neon sign 10-07-09 5:45pm balance: $57”
http://twitter.com/fstarlite/status/4701664048
So I paid $200 or something, and he ends up spending the time to have the sign repaired twice (and since he runs things well, I’m assuming it is literally him walking through New York with the sign in his hands to a repair place), with zero luck, he then offers his only working sign and has to perform sign-less until the other one is fixed (terrible thought creeps in: what if the light from the sign is what activates his singing powers? What if he can never get the new sign working and he has to change the band name to just “Francis” or “Francis in the dark”?) Then he has to spend $10 on shipping supplies (a previous tweet) and now $44 to ship it across the border.
This sign is probably costing him money at this point with all the extra costs, repair costs, and time/travel costs. I feel so bad about it.
