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Aug. 20th, 2016 12:40 amAs it was last year, there were no schedules printed out today.
I missed Pastel play because I was listening to Bulldog instead. That's totally OK with me. Bulldog is jazzy indie rock with keyboards and alto saxophone. Also, I really loved Nora's voice even from afar. Different Nora, a guitarist with normal-colored hair.
I thought they were part of greenfest because there were three people, one with short blue hair, one named Kelly who looked familiar for reasons unknown who had dark hair dyed bright yellow blonde, giving away pieces of taffy and some tents with free lemonade and stuff, but nope, it was part of a series of Friday afternoon concerts put on by the city of Boston.
One of their songs had an environmental theme.
I went over to see what was going on while Bulldog took a break and Rhode Iceland was opening up.
Their motto is "reverberate everything" and Eva says she's not very good with keyboards. They're from Lowell. I'm satisfied with the way I rendered the sparkles on her dress in pen. When I decide to paint these people, I need to figure out good ways to render sparkles.
When Rhode Iceland finished their set, Bulldog was still playing. I asked if they were planning a new album because they just played two hours worth of material plus a David Bowie song and they say they're planning to release it in the fall. I asked how long it takes to make an album and he said it took three days to record all the songs but that doesn't include the time spent getting everyone together, and mixing is several weeks and mastering is several weeks.
A woman had a tattoo of a three-eyed gazelle, a woman had a tattoo of two dryads embracing. Humanoid dryads that are becoming one tree with each other, one set of roots, not those weird demonic dryads that hang around the Jagd Woods. A woman had bright electrically agitated helium lavender-colored hair.
Xover is a protocol. Xover is a Mega Man mobile game. Xover in our case is a band composed of Chinese-Americans that uses standard rock instruments as well as piano, saxophone, and erhu, and they sing in English and Mandarin Chinese. Stephanie, the singer, has an owl pendant.
There is an xover page on Bandcamp which is an electronic project of a Sardinian and a Bostonian. That's not this one. If you want to, check it out. I haven't; it's late.
Monika Cefis wasn't listed on the website.
She's from Montreal and is studying at Berklee, she plays the ukulele and keyboard and sings in both French and in English, her bandmates play cello and guitar and drums.
The Only Humans were great. They started early and played for a really long time. They sang a love song for when someone doesn't love you back but maybe they'll come to their senses but it really doesn't matter because the world is ending, they sang about how no one likes nice guys™ who complain girls don't like them because they're actually liars, they sang about stringing up christmas lights and then getting so drunk everything's a blur because you can't afford a trip to Iceland to see the northern lights. They sang about Judy telling her new boyfriend "oh, he's just a guy, we didn't do anything" but you know what, we did. They sang about waking up at five to watch saturday morning cartoons and feeling like you got hit with an anvil and using your teeth as piano keys and birds circling your heads. They sang about Stephanie moving to California the night you were going to tell her you were in love with her. They performed a bluegrass cover of No Surprises by Radiohead and a song by The National, I do believe. They have two fiddlers, Renee and Neil, and Tim, the guitarist and lead vocalist.
The drummer was away for a bachelor party. And the drummer for Zac Mac Band was at a wedding in Maine or something. I think they're the same drummer, or maybe two drummers got married. Upon checking their bandcamps, probably the latter.
Naty Hernandez is a Colombian guitarist studying at Berklee and her bandmate Matteo is Brazilian. I was surprised when she told me she was playing guitar, it's just a jazz guitar. I was thinking that it was a part of the guitar family, whatever the next largest member was.
Zac Mac Band is indie rock. They gave away free cds.
Wonder City is indie rock.
Bajucol is a Colombian folk dance. There was also the usual belly dancing and funk dancing and between the later sets, they did zumba.
Elisa Smith and the Tiny Little Lies is country/bluegrass/folk. When I met Elisa and Sara, I told them I'd draw the band but I had to cram them together to get them all on the same page and they had to move around. Elisa is from an obscure little town in Illinois, not in the ironic sense of "Chicago" or "Peoria" and sang about that and being happy with her husband despite the lack of heat and lack of resources.
Olivia was reading a book called Shantram, which she says is a little bit under a thousand pages but goes by quickly and it's about a guy who escapes prison in Australia and joins the mob in India.
Rhett Price plays electric violin with a DJ. He started out playing in the Boston Common when he came up here to study music and then his Texan brain forgot about the cold and he was scrounging up barely enough to eat playing in the subway (he said that the first few hours he played, he made six dollars) and was crashing on his friend's couch. He's from Midland, TX, which has the lowest unemployment rate and his parents said that they'd buy him a one way ticket back there and he could have an office job for a petroleum company but his music video became a runaway hit so the moral of the long story made short is "follow your dreams"
Oh, okay, I missed Hipshot. Again. I dunno I thought The Cranks were the last band of the night because they finished at 9:30. I didn't try to draw the members of The Cranks because neither the lighting nor the noise level were optimal, but I did draw two British women. The Cranks said they were missing four violinists, and joking aside, it would be pretty cool if they did, or if they had a string quartet like the one that worked with Quilt. The Cranks are rock with female vocals.
I was still planning to leave around 9:30 but then I liked The Cranks so I stuck around.
I'm actually sated, though I had were two Korean dumplings, a veggie one and a beef one, a chili shrimp skewer, a few pieces of taffy, and a few cups of Sahale nuts including Thai style cashews and balsamic pecans.
Like Brigid, Greta smiled at me and so I had to draw her and then her friend Kaitlyn. Too bad Park Street was the next stop. Maybe I'd have more time to draw Kaitlyn, Greta, and their unnamed friends had I got on at Haymarket instead of Government Center but I'd probably have gotten on a different train if I did, and I probably would have ended up on another train at Park Street, which means I wouldn't have met Marisa and Molly.
I wanted to depict the brightly-colored lilies and birds (magpies? swallows? swifts?) on Molly's dress but she held her bag in front of her. Marisa had a pendant with a curved white claw, a bracelet with love Roma and a bracelet with a hand of Fatima, while Molly wears only a simple disk on a silver chain around her neck.
Marisa had all her pictures in one folder so she couldn't show me any of her art but Molly showed me a face she drew in pencil with the city reflected in the eye.
Marisa swears her cat is part dog because he can do tricks.
Marisa is half-Armenian, half-Italian, while Molly is not at all Irish like I'd expect with her hair color and a name like Molly, but Polish and Lithuanian and maybe some British and maybe a bit of Russian.
But then again, I've lost the ability to think about what color eyes someone has and what ethnicity someone is, I once thought Mexicans were Filipino, but they guess that makes sense because Native Americans did cross the land bridge into the Americas. She knows people who look like they could be anything. She knows someone who's part Chinese-Barbadian and part very dark Irish. I know people who are ambiguous, like Eve from Rhode Iceland, like the Sara I know with rose tattoos, like Sam of Atlas Lab.
Marisa is pronounced like Madisa if you have an Armenian accent, because Armenians pronounce their Rs as Ds.
And I'm wondering if Armenian has the letter R, and I guess it does. Not because of Armenia, their name for the country is Hayastan, but in names like Armin Tamzarian or Hovhannes Bagramyan or Aram Khachaturian, the three greatest Armenians.
Her grandparents came over from Eurasia. She said that her family fled the Armenian genocide and I'm like "what?" because that was a century ago, but no, they went back to Armenia and then emigrated from the Armenian SSR. People guess that she is Greek and the people who know she's Italian notice and once someone thought she looked Persian, which I guess makes sense. When she was in Miami, she says that people tried to converse with her in Spanish.
She says that Armenian sounds a bit like Yiddish only without the guttural sounds. She says that Dutch sounds like Happy German while Molly and I think Dutch sounds the way English would to someone who doesn't speak English.
I don't know what they speak in Tanzania and what that sounds like but I never brought it up.
I'm glad I got off at Braintree instead of Quincy Center or whatever because I'm like "holy shitsnacks" when we got off at Braintree.
One of her friends that they got separated from worked with tagging and tracking sea turtles in the British Virgin Islands while one of her friends wears a pendant that depicts a map to her family's summer home.
burning question: why would you holler for Midland, Texas? If you've been there, you wouldn't.
I missed Pastel play because I was listening to Bulldog instead. That's totally OK with me. Bulldog is jazzy indie rock with keyboards and alto saxophone. Also, I really loved Nora's voice even from afar. Different Nora, a guitarist with normal-colored hair.
I thought they were part of greenfest because there were three people, one with short blue hair, one named Kelly who looked familiar for reasons unknown who had dark hair dyed bright yellow blonde, giving away pieces of taffy and some tents with free lemonade and stuff, but nope, it was part of a series of Friday afternoon concerts put on by the city of Boston.
One of their songs had an environmental theme.
I went over to see what was going on while Bulldog took a break and Rhode Iceland was opening up.
Their motto is "reverberate everything" and Eva says she's not very good with keyboards. They're from Lowell. I'm satisfied with the way I rendered the sparkles on her dress in pen. When I decide to paint these people, I need to figure out good ways to render sparkles.
When Rhode Iceland finished their set, Bulldog was still playing. I asked if they were planning a new album because they just played two hours worth of material plus a David Bowie song and they say they're planning to release it in the fall. I asked how long it takes to make an album and he said it took three days to record all the songs but that doesn't include the time spent getting everyone together, and mixing is several weeks and mastering is several weeks.
A woman had a tattoo of a three-eyed gazelle, a woman had a tattoo of two dryads embracing. Humanoid dryads that are becoming one tree with each other, one set of roots, not those weird demonic dryads that hang around the Jagd Woods. A woman had bright electrically agitated helium lavender-colored hair.
Xover is a protocol. Xover is a Mega Man mobile game. Xover in our case is a band composed of Chinese-Americans that uses standard rock instruments as well as piano, saxophone, and erhu, and they sing in English and Mandarin Chinese. Stephanie, the singer, has an owl pendant.
There is an xover page on Bandcamp which is an electronic project of a Sardinian and a Bostonian. That's not this one. If you want to, check it out. I haven't; it's late.
Monika Cefis wasn't listed on the website.
She's from Montreal and is studying at Berklee, she plays the ukulele and keyboard and sings in both French and in English, her bandmates play cello and guitar and drums.
The Only Humans were great. They started early and played for a really long time. They sang a love song for when someone doesn't love you back but maybe they'll come to their senses but it really doesn't matter because the world is ending, they sang about how no one likes nice guys™ who complain girls don't like them because they're actually liars, they sang about stringing up christmas lights and then getting so drunk everything's a blur because you can't afford a trip to Iceland to see the northern lights. They sang about Judy telling her new boyfriend "oh, he's just a guy, we didn't do anything" but you know what, we did. They sang about waking up at five to watch saturday morning cartoons and feeling like you got hit with an anvil and using your teeth as piano keys and birds circling your heads. They sang about Stephanie moving to California the night you were going to tell her you were in love with her. They performed a bluegrass cover of No Surprises by Radiohead and a song by The National, I do believe. They have two fiddlers, Renee and Neil, and Tim, the guitarist and lead vocalist.
The drummer was away for a bachelor party. And the drummer for Zac Mac Band was at a wedding in Maine or something. I think they're the same drummer, or maybe two drummers got married. Upon checking their bandcamps, probably the latter.
Naty Hernandez is a Colombian guitarist studying at Berklee and her bandmate Matteo is Brazilian. I was surprised when she told me she was playing guitar, it's just a jazz guitar. I was thinking that it was a part of the guitar family, whatever the next largest member was.
Zac Mac Band is indie rock. They gave away free cds.
Wonder City is indie rock.
Bajucol is a Colombian folk dance. There was also the usual belly dancing and funk dancing and between the later sets, they did zumba.
Elisa Smith and the Tiny Little Lies is country/bluegrass/folk. When I met Elisa and Sara, I told them I'd draw the band but I had to cram them together to get them all on the same page and they had to move around. Elisa is from an obscure little town in Illinois, not in the ironic sense of "Chicago" or "Peoria" and sang about that and being happy with her husband despite the lack of heat and lack of resources.
Olivia was reading a book called Shantram, which she says is a little bit under a thousand pages but goes by quickly and it's about a guy who escapes prison in Australia and joins the mob in India.
Rhett Price plays electric violin with a DJ. He started out playing in the Boston Common when he came up here to study music and then his Texan brain forgot about the cold and he was scrounging up barely enough to eat playing in the subway (he said that the first few hours he played, he made six dollars) and was crashing on his friend's couch. He's from Midland, TX, which has the lowest unemployment rate and his parents said that they'd buy him a one way ticket back there and he could have an office job for a petroleum company but his music video became a runaway hit so the moral of the long story made short is "follow your dreams"
Oh, okay, I missed Hipshot. Again. I dunno I thought The Cranks were the last band of the night because they finished at 9:30. I didn't try to draw the members of The Cranks because neither the lighting nor the noise level were optimal, but I did draw two British women. The Cranks said they were missing four violinists, and joking aside, it would be pretty cool if they did, or if they had a string quartet like the one that worked with Quilt. The Cranks are rock with female vocals.
I was still planning to leave around 9:30 but then I liked The Cranks so I stuck around.
I'm actually sated, though I had were two Korean dumplings, a veggie one and a beef one, a chili shrimp skewer, a few pieces of taffy, and a few cups of Sahale nuts including Thai style cashews and balsamic pecans.
Like Brigid, Greta smiled at me and so I had to draw her and then her friend Kaitlyn. Too bad Park Street was the next stop. Maybe I'd have more time to draw Kaitlyn, Greta, and their unnamed friends had I got on at Haymarket instead of Government Center but I'd probably have gotten on a different train if I did, and I probably would have ended up on another train at Park Street, which means I wouldn't have met Marisa and Molly.
I wanted to depict the brightly-colored lilies and birds (magpies? swallows? swifts?) on Molly's dress but she held her bag in front of her. Marisa had a pendant with a curved white claw, a bracelet with love Roma and a bracelet with a hand of Fatima, while Molly wears only a simple disk on a silver chain around her neck.
Marisa had all her pictures in one folder so she couldn't show me any of her art but Molly showed me a face she drew in pencil with the city reflected in the eye.
Marisa swears her cat is part dog because he can do tricks.
Marisa is half-Armenian, half-Italian, while Molly is not at all Irish like I'd expect with her hair color and a name like Molly, but Polish and Lithuanian and maybe some British and maybe a bit of Russian.
But then again, I've lost the ability to think about what color eyes someone has and what ethnicity someone is, I once thought Mexicans were Filipino, but they guess that makes sense because Native Americans did cross the land bridge into the Americas. She knows people who look like they could be anything. She knows someone who's part Chinese-Barbadian and part very dark Irish. I know people who are ambiguous, like Eve from Rhode Iceland, like the Sara I know with rose tattoos, like Sam of Atlas Lab.
Marisa is pronounced like Madisa if you have an Armenian accent, because Armenians pronounce their Rs as Ds.
And I'm wondering if Armenian has the letter R, and I guess it does. Not because of Armenia, their name for the country is Hayastan, but in names like Armin Tamzarian or Hovhannes Bagramyan or Aram Khachaturian, the three greatest Armenians.
Her grandparents came over from Eurasia. She said that her family fled the Armenian genocide and I'm like "what?" because that was a century ago, but no, they went back to Armenia and then emigrated from the Armenian SSR. People guess that she is Greek and the people who know she's Italian notice and once someone thought she looked Persian, which I guess makes sense. When she was in Miami, she says that people tried to converse with her in Spanish.
She says that Armenian sounds a bit like Yiddish only without the guttural sounds. She says that Dutch sounds like Happy German while Molly and I think Dutch sounds the way English would to someone who doesn't speak English.
I don't know what they speak in Tanzania and what that sounds like but I never brought it up.
I'm glad I got off at Braintree instead of Quincy Center or whatever because I'm like "holy shitsnacks" when we got off at Braintree.
One of her friends that they got separated from worked with tagging and tracking sea turtles in the British Virgin Islands while one of her friends wears a pendant that depicts a map to her family's summer home.
burning question: why would you holler for Midland, Texas? If you've been there, you wouldn't.
