So like... I just found out that the Distant Worlds tour came to SF last July, and I never knew about it until just now. Probably because I was too hung up with K-pop to remember that Final Fantasy music is my true and eternal love.
AND NOBUO UEMATSU WAS THERE. I know I don't talk about it much, but he is MY HERO. Only 150 bucks for a meet and greet? I paid 240 to go to the Korean Music Festival, and I didn't even get to meet any of those groups.... I can't believe I missed out on this.... ;~;
If I could, I'd turn back time and instead of going to the 2AM concert in SF (which was also in July OTL), I'd go to Distant Worlds.
Oh god you guys... if you only understood. I want to meet Nobuo Uematsu more than I want to meet my favorite K-pop group, or even the cutest asian guy in the world, which is fucking saying something. I wish I could go up to him and shake his hand and tell him that he changed my life and that I seriously was going to become a music major, just so that someday I could play one of his compositions in concert, or take part in the next FF soundtrack. The only reason I didn't was... well... I guess I wasn't optimistic enough to follow through with that dream. Being a concert pianist is unbelievably tough, and I was afraid of failing and having nothing to fall back on (besides being a piano teacher, and I really didn't want to do that).
But now that I think about it, it's really sad that I let that slip away. I mean, god, I've only had two real dreams in my life, and they were becoming either a concept artist for a video game company, or becoming a composer/arranger/performer for a video game company. But neither of those were practical enough for my parents, who were like, "Why cant you dream of being a doctor? or a lawyer?" :(
But honestly, I have no one to blame but myself. I could have worked harder, been more passionate about pursuing what I loved. If I had given it my all, I could be like Kyle Landry right now, who I admire so much.
Anyway... the tour is only going to NY, Atlanta, and Chicago this year, so I... I really hope it'll come back to California sometime, maybe next year. I'd give anything. ;____;
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On another note, I got accepted to EAP. So I'll be studying abroad in Korea this summer and fall.
Chang, subscribe to square-enix newsletter. I've got a memo about the tour that way; of course I couldn't just take a plane for it, but at least I knew about the concerts lol.
ReplyDeleteAnd I understand what you mean about actually being there. If there's someone who made FF work, was Nobuo. He gave life to the series, back when we didn't have voice overs. Pretty sad that he decided to step down from it.