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Jun. 4th, 2017 08:35 pmAs one of the members of Hot Molasses put it, it was a good day despite the rain, in which nobody fell in the canal and they held off the rain for two minutes and the ducks were super stoked about being there. It rained on and off, which was kind of annoying, and every time it got sunny, it rained again.
Sophia has a tattoo of the sun and moon with faces, the sun more feminine and happier than the designs in Lighting Returns' final dungeon, and in the void between them, stars and spirals.
The bumblebee won the sculpture race but that's because it's a bumblebee in a pushcart pushed by someone in a black and white cape. The loser was the Sisyphus Boat, which, homage to Sisyphus that it is, had barely moved past the magnetic poetry when everyone else finished. See, the Sisyphus Boat (not its actual name) is a sailboat with four square wheels, people lay tracks in front of it and it moves forward when the guy standing on it pulls a rope, and as it moves, it leaves track behind, they take that track and move it in front so it can keep moving. They probably won points for creativity. I don't know. If there was a judging, I missed it because I wanted to hear Hot Molasses play. Other sculptures include:
The BiblioBurro, obviously.
The Planet Express Ship, which had a decal of Bender Bending Rodriguez with a decal of a heart on his chestal door, and bubbles came out of the afterburners and engine exhausts. It was piloted by kids but adults could go inside after the race. The artist's husband could go inside it so I probably could, the artist said. Might have trouble getting back out.
A platonic solid orrery made from cardboard.
The Who CarnioFlunx, a giant musical contraption powered by modified bicycles, which included a giant trumpet thingy in front, some small drums and a huge drum with pro-immigrant slogans written on it, and while it does move, it turns like a battleship built from abandoned shopping carts.
Dizzy the Cat
Ladder Machine: an octagonal prism made from ladders.
Justice Trumps All: A man in a Donald Trump mask was running from the moon, which had JUSTICE and COVFEFE painted on it, pushed by Lady Liberty.
Goldfish: foil fish that shimmer and waver.
12:00
Hot Molasses is named in homage to the Molasses Flood of 1919. They sung a homage to David Bowie and to Prince and sung about the time one of the members fell on the railway tracks and someone shielded him from the train. Or something like that.
1:00
So, I brought up one problem with the location last year, and that hasn't changed; I still have to walk all the way across the event to get from the rock/indie/alternative stage to the folk stage, which is in a slightly different location.
The other problem, and by the way, I did this three times, is there's a Family and Children's stage, there's a bridge and a path leading up to the active street, and to get from the Energize Stage to the other stages and the sculptures, you can't go that way, you have to go under the bridge.
I did get to meet the bunnies, though, towards the end. Fluffer is a white and gray miniature lionhead while Nutter is a tan Netherlands Dwarf. No, Jenny the Juggler does not juggle bunnies. Jenny did realize that bunnies are extremely cute when viewed from behind.
Sophie and her marionette Sylvie performed the overworld music from the Legend of Zelda, Can't Stop Me Now, a few other songs I can't remember, on accordion.
There was a tent with Russian crafts. A nesting doll of an owl in a tree caught Natalie's eye. There was a bear hammering on things and five fowl pecking and other things that moved when you took it and moved the pendulum ball in a circle.
Natalie had an eight-petaled talisman around her neck. There was someone in a great blue heron costume and apparently there was someone dressed as a bat, says Natalie's friend, whose name may or may not be Rachel, who had purple hair. Natalie thinks they were using the sculpture race to raise awareness rather than being part of it, although the booklet mentioned them as part of the festival.
Ken Pierce Baroque Dance Company performs French and Italian dances from the Renaissance, and two of them are dressed in period clothing while all the other dancers are members of the audience and wore whatever they felt like wearing for the day.
Peter Cannizzaro put on a circus act with things he bought from Home Depot for less than 40 dollars.
Liars & Believers demonstrated stage fighting with swords.
The Philosophy Project let you spin a wheel and get a Plato quote. I got politics and the quote is "the price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." How eerily relevant.
Ashley Rheaume is an artist. Here are some of her artworks. She loves to put color into the world.
I ganked them from her facebook page at whimsicalsnail
2:00
Muddy Ruckus is a stripped-down Americana rock band with guitar and suitcase drum kit, and they tried very hard to not be vulgar. Christine was way into it and used her legs to drum along.
They are playing with a band called Bella's Bartok, who unfortunately did not play today. A CD was on display but it wasn't on sale, but it's free on bandcamp so go download it. The band describes themselves as klezmer punk.
3:00
I was talking to Rachel last week about concerts (I swear Ashley said something about Twenty One Pilots too) and said that the only band I've heard of at this concert was Honeysuckle and I'm not really familiar with their music, but that's not true: there were a few bands playing on the jazz stage that I've heard of, some which played at previous river festivals and some which played at Beantown Jazz Fest.
On the album and EP, there's a guy on banjo. at the concert, there wasn't, just mandolin, vocals, and guitar. Their last song was Josephine and I was expecting a cover of that Tori Amos song that I've listened to at least 100 times in the last month, but it's an original. Lonicera, the honeysuckle genus, is mentioned in the Tori Amos song Datura. Holly, however, is not.
Once Holly set out to write a song about something innocuous and it ended up turning out dark and murdery, like everything else she did. They played a love song and an anti-love song.
Kat reminded me of a more rustic Gabriella, so more like Leah (I once described her as the Spira to Gabriella's World of Balance(before January 19, 2017) or World of Ruin(after January 19, 2017), except Leah isn't really rustic, just mismatched and girly-grungy). She had hair helices and a bun and spiral earrings lined with golden studs, a denim jacket and a plaid shirt over a blue turtleneck, a blue pendant and a wooden bead bracelet and denim shorts and leggings and boots. I drew her before I knew she was one of the three Wolff sisters, which consisted of Kat on keyboards, Rachael, and Becca along with two guys who may or may not be related to them.
There was a guy who reminded me of Dana and I don't recall if they had the same eye color.
4:00
The Kevin Harris Project is described as a mix of Thelonius Monk and Charlie Parker mixed with J.S. Bach, Scott Joplin, and Cuban folk music.
Kevin Harris is a pianist. Apparently there are people and/or Google search robots out there who think he was involved with Columbine somehow.
The drummer Yoron Israel was playing with them.
I drew Dana without knowing it was her and she moved to catch that one ray of sunshine, and I barely got to draw Talia, Dana's sister, because Dana was eager to look through my sketchbook. Emily is probably in Denmark.
She's in a play called Days of Atonement, which is not based on the Walter Jon Williams novel, a thriller set during a period of contempation devoted to each of the seven deadly sins, and is not the play that became The Jazz Singer, it's a new play written in Hebrew about a family of Sephardic Moroccan Jews (Morocco was a vassal of the Ottoman empire).
I was like "wait, Rosh Hashanah means 'days of atonement'" and no, that's not true. Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the year and it sometimes happens when the new moon is in Virgo but not always. Unless you take precession of the equinoxes and the actual sizes of the constellations into account, in which case, it sometimes happens when the new moon is in Virgo but not always. Yom Kippur means Days of Atonement and takes place 10 days after Rosh Hashanah.
Dana isn't particularly observant but she is from Israel. So she knows these things.
I have Jewish friends (obviously) and I have Hungarian Jewish ancestry but I do not claim to be an authority on Judaism.
She told me she saw me at A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was thinking "do I know this person?" and I was thinking "is she waving to me? No, she can't be. Hey, we can eat in here?" and at the Riverfest, she told me that she probably wasn't allowed to eat in the stage room but she was hungry and that she doesn't remember what she was eating but it was probably Thai food.
For what it's worth, I also saw Alexandra but I went there expecting to see her, so it shouldn't count as serendipity. The theme of this year's collaborative artwork is the river and things you want or expect to see in the sky above the river.
The people at the nearby table said "it wanted to be a real flying saucer" so it flew off in the wind, so later on, she asked me to draw another one, and this time it stayed there. Someone added a one-eyed squid. Alexandra thought there was a one-eyed fish but I think it was just a fish viewed from the side. Someone included Ariel, the mermaid and not the air spirit.
I told Alexandra that I think that if they say it's going to rain, even five weeks in advance, when they're pulling the forecast out of their ass, it's going to rain, while if they say it's going to be sunny a few days before, there's a very good chance it will rain.
A nearby table asked viewers what about Cambridge piques their curiosity. Someone brought up something about not being truly progressive and I'm like "huh" because I'm pretty sure progressive means something like "vaguely left-wing but emphatically not about identity politics because we need to be willing to throw minorities and women under the bus in search of the white rural working class vote."
5:00
The Wolff Sisters play a blend of folk, rock, and blues. They sang about the rain and then apologized, and sang about rivers. While I told Dana and Megan to smack me if I try to sit on the grass, I had to because I had food. And then a non-alcoholic piña colada, which was amazing. Someone said that everything is better with alcohol but snakebites aren't, as alcohol is a vasodilator, which makes it the absolute worst thing you can do for a snakebite. And Cyril wins cobra knowing so you should listen to him.
A woman had a tattoo of a tree in autumn foliage with and anatomically correct heart as the trunk.
Jordan has white feather earrings and a constellation of freckles on her face and looks familiar somehow.
I didn't get to hear these bands/musicians play but you probably should check them out: Cold Chocolate, Kimon Kirk & The Meds, Antidote, John Cordalewski Trio, Rebecca Cline Trio, Yoron Israel Trio, The Blue Ribbons, These Wild Plains, Jimmy Ryan & Hayride, The Revelations featuring Erica Mantone, Andrea Gillis, and Jen D'Angora.
You might know Jen D'Angora as Jenny Dee from Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents.
Nobody got to hear Anna Egge. She was stuck in traffic so the backup band played on their own.
I thought that the train stopped outside of Quincy Center to let another train go by but when we started moving again, I didn't see anything go by. So maybe there wasn't a reason for it. That makes total sense. I also thought they'd be done winterizing the tracks by now but I have no idea why I'd think that.
Jen was talking about the time she was in New York and it took her 40 minutes to get her portait done, but he was using charcoal and doing shading. A guy saw my drawings of Hailee and Julia and wanted to be drawn but Jen was like "No! you wait your turn!" Julia really likes to use watercolors but is just a casual artist. She thinks I should consider becoming a professional artist. Hailee has a pug named Pugley.
burning question: how likely am I to see Merry Wives Of Windsor by 2022?
Sophia has a tattoo of the sun and moon with faces, the sun more feminine and happier than the designs in Lighting Returns' final dungeon, and in the void between them, stars and spirals.
The bumblebee won the sculpture race but that's because it's a bumblebee in a pushcart pushed by someone in a black and white cape. The loser was the Sisyphus Boat, which, homage to Sisyphus that it is, had barely moved past the magnetic poetry when everyone else finished. See, the Sisyphus Boat (not its actual name) is a sailboat with four square wheels, people lay tracks in front of it and it moves forward when the guy standing on it pulls a rope, and as it moves, it leaves track behind, they take that track and move it in front so it can keep moving. They probably won points for creativity. I don't know. If there was a judging, I missed it because I wanted to hear Hot Molasses play. Other sculptures include:
The BiblioBurro, obviously.
The Planet Express Ship, which had a decal of Bender Bending Rodriguez with a decal of a heart on his chestal door, and bubbles came out of the afterburners and engine exhausts. It was piloted by kids but adults could go inside after the race. The artist's husband could go inside it so I probably could, the artist said. Might have trouble getting back out.
A platonic solid orrery made from cardboard.
The Who CarnioFlunx, a giant musical contraption powered by modified bicycles, which included a giant trumpet thingy in front, some small drums and a huge drum with pro-immigrant slogans written on it, and while it does move, it turns like a battleship built from abandoned shopping carts.
Dizzy the Cat
Ladder Machine: an octagonal prism made from ladders.
Justice Trumps All: A man in a Donald Trump mask was running from the moon, which had JUSTICE and COVFEFE painted on it, pushed by Lady Liberty.
Goldfish: foil fish that shimmer and waver.
12:00
Hot Molasses is named in homage to the Molasses Flood of 1919. They sung a homage to David Bowie and to Prince and sung about the time one of the members fell on the railway tracks and someone shielded him from the train. Or something like that.
1:00
So, I brought up one problem with the location last year, and that hasn't changed; I still have to walk all the way across the event to get from the rock/indie/alternative stage to the folk stage, which is in a slightly different location.
The other problem, and by the way, I did this three times, is there's a Family and Children's stage, there's a bridge and a path leading up to the active street, and to get from the Energize Stage to the other stages and the sculptures, you can't go that way, you have to go under the bridge.
I did get to meet the bunnies, though, towards the end. Fluffer is a white and gray miniature lionhead while Nutter is a tan Netherlands Dwarf. No, Jenny the Juggler does not juggle bunnies. Jenny did realize that bunnies are extremely cute when viewed from behind.
Sophie and her marionette Sylvie performed the overworld music from the Legend of Zelda, Can't Stop Me Now, a few other songs I can't remember, on accordion.
There was a tent with Russian crafts. A nesting doll of an owl in a tree caught Natalie's eye. There was a bear hammering on things and five fowl pecking and other things that moved when you took it and moved the pendulum ball in a circle.
Natalie had an eight-petaled talisman around her neck. There was someone in a great blue heron costume and apparently there was someone dressed as a bat, says Natalie's friend, whose name may or may not be Rachel, who had purple hair. Natalie thinks they were using the sculpture race to raise awareness rather than being part of it, although the booklet mentioned them as part of the festival.
Ken Pierce Baroque Dance Company performs French and Italian dances from the Renaissance, and two of them are dressed in period clothing while all the other dancers are members of the audience and wore whatever they felt like wearing for the day.
Peter Cannizzaro put on a circus act with things he bought from Home Depot for less than 40 dollars.
Liars & Believers demonstrated stage fighting with swords.
The Philosophy Project let you spin a wheel and get a Plato quote. I got politics and the quote is "the price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." How eerily relevant.
Ashley Rheaume is an artist. Here are some of her artworks. She loves to put color into the world.
I ganked them from her facebook page at whimsicalsnail
2:00
Muddy Ruckus is a stripped-down Americana rock band with guitar and suitcase drum kit, and they tried very hard to not be vulgar. Christine was way into it and used her legs to drum along.
They are playing with a band called Bella's Bartok, who unfortunately did not play today. A CD was on display but it wasn't on sale, but it's free on bandcamp so go download it. The band describes themselves as klezmer punk.
3:00
I was talking to Rachel last week about concerts (I swear Ashley said something about Twenty One Pilots too) and said that the only band I've heard of at this concert was Honeysuckle and I'm not really familiar with their music, but that's not true: there were a few bands playing on the jazz stage that I've heard of, some which played at previous river festivals and some which played at Beantown Jazz Fest.
On the album and EP, there's a guy on banjo. at the concert, there wasn't, just mandolin, vocals, and guitar. Their last song was Josephine and I was expecting a cover of that Tori Amos song that I've listened to at least 100 times in the last month, but it's an original. Lonicera, the honeysuckle genus, is mentioned in the Tori Amos song Datura. Holly, however, is not.
Once Holly set out to write a song about something innocuous and it ended up turning out dark and murdery, like everything else she did. They played a love song and an anti-love song.
Kat reminded me of a more rustic Gabriella, so more like Leah (I once described her as the Spira to Gabriella's World of Balance(before January 19, 2017) or World of Ruin(after January 19, 2017), except Leah isn't really rustic, just mismatched and girly-grungy). She had hair helices and a bun and spiral earrings lined with golden studs, a denim jacket and a plaid shirt over a blue turtleneck, a blue pendant and a wooden bead bracelet and denim shorts and leggings and boots. I drew her before I knew she was one of the three Wolff sisters, which consisted of Kat on keyboards, Rachael, and Becca along with two guys who may or may not be related to them.
There was a guy who reminded me of Dana and I don't recall if they had the same eye color.
4:00
The Kevin Harris Project is described as a mix of Thelonius Monk and Charlie Parker mixed with J.S. Bach, Scott Joplin, and Cuban folk music.
Kevin Harris is a pianist. Apparently there are people and/or Google search robots out there who think he was involved with Columbine somehow.
The drummer Yoron Israel was playing with them.
I drew Dana without knowing it was her and she moved to catch that one ray of sunshine, and I barely got to draw Talia, Dana's sister, because Dana was eager to look through my sketchbook. Emily is probably in Denmark.
She's in a play called Days of Atonement, which is not based on the Walter Jon Williams novel, a thriller set during a period of contempation devoted to each of the seven deadly sins, and is not the play that became The Jazz Singer, it's a new play written in Hebrew about a family of Sephardic Moroccan Jews (Morocco was a vassal of the Ottoman empire).
I was like "wait, Rosh Hashanah means 'days of atonement'" and no, that's not true. Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the year and it sometimes happens when the new moon is in Virgo but not always. Unless you take precession of the equinoxes and the actual sizes of the constellations into account, in which case, it sometimes happens when the new moon is in Virgo but not always. Yom Kippur means Days of Atonement and takes place 10 days after Rosh Hashanah.
Dana isn't particularly observant but she is from Israel. So she knows these things.
I have Jewish friends (obviously) and I have Hungarian Jewish ancestry but I do not claim to be an authority on Judaism.
She told me she saw me at A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was thinking "do I know this person?" and I was thinking "is she waving to me? No, she can't be. Hey, we can eat in here?" and at the Riverfest, she told me that she probably wasn't allowed to eat in the stage room but she was hungry and that she doesn't remember what she was eating but it was probably Thai food.
For what it's worth, I also saw Alexandra but I went there expecting to see her, so it shouldn't count as serendipity. The theme of this year's collaborative artwork is the river and things you want or expect to see in the sky above the river.
The people at the nearby table said "it wanted to be a real flying saucer" so it flew off in the wind, so later on, she asked me to draw another one, and this time it stayed there. Someone added a one-eyed squid. Alexandra thought there was a one-eyed fish but I think it was just a fish viewed from the side. Someone included Ariel, the mermaid and not the air spirit.
I told Alexandra that I think that if they say it's going to rain, even five weeks in advance, when they're pulling the forecast out of their ass, it's going to rain, while if they say it's going to be sunny a few days before, there's a very good chance it will rain.
A nearby table asked viewers what about Cambridge piques their curiosity. Someone brought up something about not being truly progressive and I'm like "huh" because I'm pretty sure progressive means something like "vaguely left-wing but emphatically not about identity politics because we need to be willing to throw minorities and women under the bus in search of the white rural working class vote."
5:00
The Wolff Sisters play a blend of folk, rock, and blues. They sang about the rain and then apologized, and sang about rivers. While I told Dana and Megan to smack me if I try to sit on the grass, I had to because I had food. And then a non-alcoholic piña colada, which was amazing. Someone said that everything is better with alcohol but snakebites aren't, as alcohol is a vasodilator, which makes it the absolute worst thing you can do for a snakebite. And Cyril wins cobra knowing so you should listen to him.
A woman had a tattoo of a tree in autumn foliage with and anatomically correct heart as the trunk.
Jordan has white feather earrings and a constellation of freckles on her face and looks familiar somehow.
I didn't get to hear these bands/musicians play but you probably should check them out: Cold Chocolate, Kimon Kirk & The Meds, Antidote, John Cordalewski Trio, Rebecca Cline Trio, Yoron Israel Trio, The Blue Ribbons, These Wild Plains, Jimmy Ryan & Hayride, The Revelations featuring Erica Mantone, Andrea Gillis, and Jen D'Angora.
You might know Jen D'Angora as Jenny Dee from Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents.
Nobody got to hear Anna Egge. She was stuck in traffic so the backup band played on their own.
I thought that the train stopped outside of Quincy Center to let another train go by but when we started moving again, I didn't see anything go by. So maybe there wasn't a reason for it. That makes total sense. I also thought they'd be done winterizing the tracks by now but I have no idea why I'd think that.
Jen was talking about the time she was in New York and it took her 40 minutes to get her portait done, but he was using charcoal and doing shading. A guy saw my drawings of Hailee and Julia and wanted to be drawn but Jen was like "No! you wait your turn!" Julia really likes to use watercolors but is just a casual artist. She thinks I should consider becoming a professional artist. Hailee has a pug named Pugley.
burning question: how likely am I to see Merry Wives Of Windsor by 2022?
