Hi everyone. My name is Ems. And I want to be in an old fashioned rock band. So, let me explain a little:

Until recently, I had given up my dreams because I was depressed my senior year. All my life, people have told me to become a teacher instead of an actress, a singer, a musician, a film maker, or an artist. I became insecure after my first boyfriend dumped me and all in all I hated my life. I felt like I was going to live to work and produce children and then die. And then, I met a friend named Lyn. She told me how she always had a dream of being famous and putting together a rock band (so did I). We talked about our love for the Beatles, how we didn't like how our generation was going, and about how music was part of life. I felt very attached to her and I wanted to make her dream come true. We talked a lot using IM and she told me about her life and mine to her. We began to trust each other and became the best of friends. Suddenly, I realized that I wanted to join her band. And since we talk on Facebook, her friend, Liz, decided to join us. We just need a drummer.

We've been talking about this idea for a long while. She's been having dreams about John Lennon (since her friends always tell her how much alike the two are and they really are very similar in history, in preferences, and personality). She dreams about talking to John and he tells her to go for her dreams. We thought about Portland, Oregon because we just had a very good feeling about the place. Plus, apparently it's #7 in America's top 10 rock cities. We planned on moving there in a couple years since she'll be out of high school by then and I'll have my general ed. done in college and be able to transfer (she doesn't think she has enough money to go to college).

So, until then, I'm going to be working on my singing, piano, and bass. She is already very musically talented, and Liz is a fast learner at the guitar. We want to go up there and find a drummer. Lyn has had dreams of us in Oregon with our record studio doing well, and since I'm the kind of person who believes in Fate, I think we'll succeed...we've been told all our lives that we have talent and great stage presence. We knew since we were kids that we were destined to do something wonderful with our lives. I want to do this very much because I want to follow my dreams as much as possible and not just give up and become a teacher. I'd like to go out there in the world, travel around, and taste life instead of always being prudent. I don't mind being poor, I just want to have adventure and do something fun with my life.

So, I want to know how to go about on this and if this is what we should really do. I think it is, because if we DO fail, then we can always go back and take on meager jobs. But does anyone have any words of encouragement or words of advice as to how we can get started?

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I don`t get what your post has to do with film making, but there has been something stuck in my mind for a while.

There was a writer called David Foster Wallace once. The guy was a genius, he had a certificate for it. He wrote one great book after another, - and one colossal masterpiece, Infinite Jest, - if there was anyone destined in this life for writing, this was the guy. But he was depressed as hell, it plagued him for all his life. He went to hell and back, spent a night in a suicide ward. He was on medication all the time. Then he met a girl. He loved her, they married. Everything turned to sunshine. His life was... normal. He was happy. He wanted to have kids.

So he dropped his medication. His depression came back. He tried getting on his older medication, but it wasn't working. He had become immune to it. He told his mother he was proud that she was his mother, kissed his dogs goodbye, and killed himself.

What does this has to do with what you are saying? Maybe a little, maybe a lot, maybe nothing.