We the Kings Fundraising for 4th Album! A message to the Band!

So recently my all time favorite band ever, We the Kings, launched a Indiegogo page to raise money for their 4th album! I honestly got super duper excited, and then all the sudden, really sort of sad at the same time. Why? Well because let's face it: I still have $1,098 and change left for semester one of college. Contributing my next pay check (which was my first thought) would put me at the end of November in terms of payment. If I did about $100 of my next pay check towards school and the rest towards the band, end of October, early November. So I was at a stand still, fighting a battle on the inside as I tried to prepare for my first live model experience for my Drawing 1 class.

In the end, I decided I was going to do it. Yeah they have some really cool perks and I know they have more to come (as they announced in a Google+ hangout video that was uploaded to Danny's youtube account) but that's not what it's about. It's about the art, the music, and inspiring others in their day to day lives. It's about helping out people who had, honestly with one single song, helped me find that one last reason I needed to stay alive, and to keep living even after the wounds had healed. It was about trying to give back a very very small portion of what they gave me, even if I gave it to them in a far different way than they had given me.

I had the immense honor of meeting the band back in July when they came to Denver for SummerFest (as pictured):

I have to say they are seriously (and I know I've said this before and if I haven't, then I'm an idiot) some of the most honest, sincere, and down to earth people I've ever met. They are some of the funniest people I've met too, and it was nice to actually make that one final connection I needed to know that I was not dreaming and that I could relate to these guys, and (luck, karma, and every higher being that could potentially exist be willing) be friends with them. I love them with all my heart, just as fiercely as I love the very few real friends I have in this world. So helping out fellow artists (even though our trades are different) is means more to me than nearly anything else in this world.

They saved me, now I'm going to do what I can and help them. College be damned. I'll be done and paid off for the semester by November and I will be fine. I know I will be. I'd still do it anyways and make it work. Why? Because these men deserve it, more than anyone else I know. It's time to help another dream come true by contributing what I can, when I can.

Travis, Coley, Hunter, Charles, and Danny: If you guys ever actually see this, thank you so so much for being so amazing! I love you guys with all of my heart and soul! If I ever get the chance to meet you guys again, I'll have to tell you this in person. But for now, I'll leave it here. I love you guys so very very much. Keep rocking, keeping inspiring, keep being you. And most importantly: Just Keep Breathing :) Love you guys! <3 Can't wait till my next pay check so I can help you guys out!