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by Nancy
i know i might be the 5 millionth person to scream out of her lungs "i
love you, Jonathan houseman Davis!" but i really dont care. it all started
when i was a little girl, my brother would be the one growing up becuz my
parents would be too busy killing each other every day. i dont think there
was a day that they didnt fought.
anyways, my brother was always strict on me, always saying "dont do that
or this.." and when i do (which is always) he would beat me up saying "what
do you want to turn out like? Mom? dad? well, im not gonna let you do that to
yourself" everytime i would hear that, it would shut me up cuz i dont want to
turn out like them.
life past by and my brother got older. he decide to go up town to a place
called Huntington beach (i think) with a friend of his to check out this
small club which was known to have the heaviest and coolest underground bands
there. He left and i was alone with my parents.... i was only 7 or 8.
they killed each other harshly, i remember my mom starting out the fight
by yelling at my dad on "why did you let your son go out of town! dont you
know that he bitch at me today for cleaning his room!" ....hell broke loose!
i remember crying, slaps, yelling, pushing, things being thrown, but it
wasn't from my dad, my own mother was going crazy right before my eyes. i
stood by a corner, just crying and say to myself that my brother will come
home soon, he didn't come soon enough.
only being around 7, i got pissed and hit my Mom to calm down, needless
to say i got my ass kicked. sadly no one heard me cry and about 3 hours
later, everyone was in separate rooms crying.
around midnight, i hear a knock at my door. i limped to open the door
for my brother. he took me to his room and told me to explain everything,
when i did he tried to change the subject to something that would make me
feel better. he threw out this old tape that was in a recordable player,
typed to his chest. he told me that he heard this new band called koRn and he
wanted me to hear it. (he knows that i love music) when he pressed play, my
life soon began to make sense to me.
i heard the guitars and bass playing together, almost acting like a
sexual commotion, like a perfect story of 2 combined to 1. i heard the drums
playing exactly on the beat which was created with such devotion and love,
the beats which pulled it all together. And then, i heard this man sing.
almost like he was singing to me. singing with such anger, sorrow, hope, and
tears that i knew so well, even only being so young then. i dont remember
what words he was singing but i do remember the emotion put into it. In total
of 4 songs i heard that day from my brothers crappy stero tape. my brother
first words was " ...do you want to hear it again?" after it was over. i
simply smiled and he gaved me the tape to play in my playskool radio.
i dont know what happen that day but love inside of me grew from only
listening to this band. after that, as years past by, things only got worst
for me personally, family members died left to right, friends moved and one
even died, brother just stop taking care for me, he cares for me still but
now he got his own life to save, i had 2 abusive boyfriends, and in the end,
all i have left is me, Mom, dad, and brother.
my story continues with my parents hating each other (but never
divorcing) Mom, brother, even dad beating me up time after time (i had
buries, bumps, blood spil,cuts, busted up lip, and red marks left by my
mother alone) but again, i had my korn songs helping me out through it all, i
never lost hope. and in time, i grew to have a crush for the singer of this
band, i soon to know his name as Jonathan Davis, with out knowing how does
this guy look like.
i got older and i was watching beavis and butt-head one day ( tehe
remember them?) and they were playing blind from korn. i yelled to my brother
"oh my God its them!!" when i saw them i notice exactly how fine Jon really
was! lordy, i made a great pick. my brother said "dont you know that they
have a cd out already?!" i got pissed cuz since that time, i was listening to
that old tape and some songs my friend taped over the radio. i soon got the
cd, i cried through it, it wasnt hard for me to hear it, but it was just so
beautiful that i had to cry. again, more years past and i dont find myself
anyway different, same family, but i had hope that one day i will be in a
band myself, make it big and meet korn and thank them for giving my life...
but times got worse,
i was killing myself at times, i eyeballed the pills, i glared at the
butcher knife, i even notice my dads neck tie and see how i can make that to
a noose. But always turned away when i see that huge picture of Jon on my
wall, looking at me as he was saying "you know better than to give up
everything just like that" ... luckily, before i felt down in a place that
wasn't my room that didn't had that picture, my Mom turn into a "Mom" and
asked whats wrong. it was hard but i released all the tensions build up in
me. she helped me through this, and all she asked in return is to help her
too. ever since, the "spell" has been broken, i kissed the heavens from up
above now for giving me this family.
i thanked korn for their music and Jon for being so open with his life to
show me that i wasnt the only one hurting at times. but this doesn't end
there...
November of 1999, korn decides to come to my town, northridge, and do the
only autograph signing for there newest cd issue. my sweet sweet sweet
brother gave me the yellow bracelet to go and be one of the first ones to
meet korn. (he gave me this as my birth day present, 12-28) i went alone, but
hell it was for korn and waited in line for about 6 hours. luckily in the
crowd i found a friend of mines i knew in skool, i joined up with her, and
then with her brother who was the 20th in line!
i remember the bagpipe players, then the clown, and then a huge beammer
comes riding out. Jon comes out and screaming fans break off my ears! i cried
and started to yell, everyone crying and cheerin "korn!", it was great. the
whole band was on the stage talking but no one can hear them cuz the crowd
was simply too laud. they headed in the tower records for the signing. i
waited another 30 mintues to get in.
as the people inside got out, i ran to them to talk to them,they said
"they were all kool and all but Jon was bitchy" then another goes "well lay
off him! he going through a divorce!" i was mixed emotional now, glad that im
inches away from my gods but sad that my one baby is bitchy. i got inside and
when it was my turn the first person i saw was the man himself! Jon looked at
me, i turned back! i got so scared, but Jon kept on looking at me, i kept on
say ing"oh my God, oh my God!" then he smiled and shook my hand. he talked to
me like "dont be scared... dont shake.... youre so nice to love us that
much.... dont cry.... i love you too... "
the man was too good! i shocked filedys hand next, nice fellow he was,
then davids, he was talking to the guy who drew the cover for issue, ( you
cant miss that wedding ring of davids, Sparkle sparkle) next was munky, we
gave each other that look at needs no words, and then head , who was talking
to MTV and hugged me on camera ( fucking MTV didnt show the korn signing on
tv, cuz they suck!)
as i was heading out, a girl from a radio station, 106.7 kroq, pulled me
away and gave me a hug and said "its ok to cry for love" i left the building
in tears and full of spunk. but then realize that i didnt say thank you! i
forgot to say thank you!!!! but i soon didnt worried, i know that i will see
them again, whether now or later, i will meet all of them again and i know i
will remember then to say what i have to say.
my life is and will get better, but i pray and hope for Jon life to do
the same, i love him so much for any harm to be done to him. if i had to kill
my life to just make his better, and i shall. theres nothing that hurts me
anymore, im too broken to be fixed but im too hopeful to be ended.
forever i will love korn, they mean so much to me, i dont ask for them to
love me back or anything, all i ask is for them to play the music that is so
dear to my soul.