Elliot James

Happy Birthday blog. Two years eh? Just like that? Damn. I guess I should make a toast, thats what you do at a celebration right? On tour it’s not always easy to stay in touch with the people you want. Everyday is as busy as the one before it with totally different things you did the day before, and those same things you’ll do day after day after day after day. I started iamelliotjames.com as a way for my friends and family who i didn’t always get the chance to talk to daily to see what i had been doing, where i was at, what i saw, and the stories along the way. Never did I expect it to turn into something that thousands and thousands of people would subscribe too and read every day. I was skeptical at first about writing all my truths in one place about things. Giving a statement to the actions of your life isn’t always easy to justify to other people, especially when i already feel so misunderstood by the world sometimes. Or i should say, not the world, but the people on it. I think the secret to my success in this though has been honesty. Anytime a fan has approached me after a show, come into a chat online, sent me an e-mail, called me out about something that seemed out of place, all i’ve ever done is just be honest. I get the feeling that a lot of times people who are under the light sugar coat their lives a bit more than they are, and although there’s nothing wrong with that to an extent, being honest and straight up with the people that are allowing you to live your dreams isn’t exactly a large payback. I couldn’t imagine reaping fame in my life for something that isn’t me, i always want my message and art to be taken for exactly what it is. Alive. This blog started as an atlas, it’s not only become a gallery of my life but it’s in many ways my therapy. Every so often i come on here and write a longer entry, I’m going to bring that back and start letting people into my head a little more, along with all the other monsters inside of it. My message to you all today. Live high. Be alive. Each morning i wake up and know that i am the boss of my own life. I’m the luckiest man i know to feel all five senses. Weather i wake up on someones couch or my own bed i know that the following day will be an adventure. I don’t have a lot of friends, but the ones that are my best friends know who they are. And they know that anything i would do anything for them, just like they’ve always done for me. I have a beautiful family and a drop dead gorgeous mum who can out cook bobby flay. I have a talented father who taught me everything i know. I have a brother with a snappier mind than me, he’s grade A on paper and in person. I have person who see’s me for me. Who turned me inside out and didn’t mind what was under the wrapping paper. I am only twenty and some of my wildest dreams have become my life. The best part, i can be anything i want to be. I get to struggle. I get to grind and try for something. I even get to fail. Nothing is for certain and one day i will be able to say “i did it all”. And so can you. We have our whole lives to be anything. So i encourage every single one of you to chase your dreams. Your parents might tell you can’t, followed by your friends and society but that fuel you. You are alive and you are amazing. You are beautiful.

I don’t want to be famous. I want to be recognized.

I will be a duck and a swan. I will be a legend.

Too the last two years, let’s have two more. Cheers-

-EL