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Jun. 18th, 2017 07:09 pmNora and Nicole are not sisters but everyone thinks they are.
Once I got past Park Street, the train was virtually empty.
A man had a tattoo of the moon made from a raging tempest.
A woman had a tattoo of the moon made from knotted metal.
I bought The Golem and the Jinni because I've been meaning to ever since I met Jessica. There's a list of four things she learned while writing it and one of those things is that respected newspapers were openly racist, sexist, and classist in the late 19th century. Most of us are thinking "well, nothing's really changed since the 19th century" and I guess that all depends on whether or not you consider newspapers like the Washington Times and the Daily Mail to be respectable. I, for one, do not.
I bought Beloved Son by George Turner which is about a biological apocalypse at the end of the 20th century and an expedition to Barnard's Star and it might be that source of that quote about saying goodbye to the 20th century and its many things.
2:00
The Imaginators are three siblings who played pop rock, including Smooth Criminal, on three cellos. One of their cello cases had a This Machine Kills Fascists sticker. Good to see they're starting the fight at a young age. There will be no Generation Identitaire here. Anyways, speaking of killing fascists, I tried to play Civilization II's World War 2 scenario as the Spanish. My plan was to produce diplomats and steal technology from the Axis en masse and then trade them with the other powers. My plan was also to switch from monarchy to a Republic or Communism but the game wouldn't let me do that apparently, although if I obtain communism or democracy from another civilization, it will give me the option to have a revolution. First time around, the Axis asked to parley, Hitler was like "so, hey, we want you to declare war on the French." "No." "we have had enough of your insolence! PREPARE FOR WAR!" but at least the French and Allies kept their war going. The second time, I didn't make the mistake of contacting Hitler but the Allies and French both made peace by September of 1940.
3:00
Sonia and Ben played Russian folk songs or maybe klezmer. There's a lot of overlap between the two.
In Radiance was a flute quintet. One of them had a bass flute, which is J-shaped and is rarely used outside of flute ensembles. She wanted to show me an alto flute for comparison, which looks very similar. They also used piccolo. There was Maria, April, Stacey, and Joanne and then a fifth flautist who wasn't a founding member.
Seth Wonkka was around but I didn't see any of his friends.
4:00
Circus Trees is an indie rock duo. They mostly played covers, the one that stuck out in my mind was The Cranberries, but one of their songs was an original about monsters under the bed and monsters in her head. Supposedly, someone was scheduled to play covers of 80s pop songs on ukulele but I have no idea what happened.
5:00
Unlike last year, there was no time where I could just sit down and eat something and not really care about who's playing. The minced garlic burger (also with lettuce, olives, and jalapeño peppers) I had was very good but very unwieldy, because there aren't any seats in front of Harvard Books, where MILA was playing. I probably should have said something about putting the lettuce on the bottom but oh well. The Cajun fries were also good.
The singer/tambourinist of MILA is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the drummer is also from Buenos Aires, and the guitarist is from Bogota, Colombia. They all met in Boston, although the singer and the drummer lived only a few blocks away from each other back in Argentina. There's a short story about a train that disappears into a spacetime anomaly in the Boston subway which was made into a movie with the setting transplanted to Buenos Aires. The singer has a streak of purple in her hair. Elsewhere was a woman with pale green hair.
I'm not sure where Cata was from, but I would guess Buenos Aires because the only other city in Argentina I can name is Ushuaia. After all, Argentina is the 8th largest country landwise and the 31st populationwise with 40 million people. In a strange twist of fate, it's rich in many minerals but not silver. It's also the one place you can go where you could, in theory, and that's a very big "in theory," dig a hole to China. Also, I'm pretty sure that Rand McNally, where people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people, where hot snow falls up and sunlight makes things cold and rain makes things dry, is off the coast of Argentina. But apparently, it's not in a fixed location like other countries. It's not to be confused with Fnaph, where people believe the human soul is shaped like a frisbee and people bounce on trampolines trying to reach Heaven.
A woman had the lavender color the singer wanted but the singer had the shade of purple the woman in the audience wanted. She said she could tell she was from Argentina because of her accent which is apparently very distinctive if you know what to look for. I don't.
6:00
Athena Desai played bass mostly but for her last song, she used a mandolin. Hannah played violin. I think the guy who played guitar and also kicked a box is Matt. I'm going to call him Matt. Athena has tattoos that from a distance I couldn't tell if they were Indian or Hebrew or even Babylonian cuneiform, of three arrows, of the moon among constellations and raging seas. She told me that they were Tibetan sutras.
Sunset Kings is Hannah and Matt's other project.
I had to show Athena our owls even though she is associated with the unhorned little owl rather than any of the nearctic (this is a strange name as it covers both the arctic and the temperate regions of North America down into southern Mexico and Neotropical includes Tierra del Fuego and the Andes) owls. We have long-eared owls and short-eared owls which are holarctic (which includes the palearctic region that includes North Africa and the middle east) but I've never seen one.
Matt got it: owls are dumb and he called them bottom feeders because they eat mice.
Jessie has a tattoo of Pluto and a lot of cool jewelry. Gracie has a scallopshell pendant. Jessie introduced me to her friend, I think his name was Chai and to her other friend, who's name I've forgotten so let's call him Josh. Josh was like "huh?" They were all at Faneuil Hall and heard that there was free music at Harvard Square so they came over.
7:00
Chris Moreno leads a rock band. A guest saxophonist, Hannah, joined them on stage. Savasha caught my eye again but I missed them play.
A woman had tattoos of butterflies including a female swallowtail butterfly in its yellow morph.
8:00
I alternated between Lily Black and Tali Freed and the Mandolin, with Alex on guitar.
Like last year, Lily Black more or less alternated between covers (Rage Against The Machine, but she couldn't do the end bit because it's a family-friendly event; a Sublime song that isn't Santeria or What I've Got, so props to her; a song that is either The Ramones or Rancid, and since I'm blanking on the lyrics, I can't tell you) Phoebe said she was in the band last year but she didn't play with them. There are four members listed in the album notes, but five played on stage.
I made Lily look like Pris from Blade Runner, a movie Lily says she has been meaning to see. Some guy said the original version, that is to say the theatrical cut, is better. At least, I think that's what he meant.
A guy was wearing a shirt with Tiny Rick in the pocket and so he flipped me off and said "peace among worlds."
9:00
Mei Ohara was playing in the same location as last year. She described her current hair colors as "oil slick on Neptune."
Maria says she wishes she could make art and she was asking me how I started doing this and how long I've been making art for. Her art teacher in high school was crazy, she says. Liz, Mackenzie, and Shannon asked similar questions.
A woman was busy saying goodbye to her friends and the train closed its doors before she could get off and then when she got to the next station, there was a train waiting but it left before our train stopped.
I thought I saw Liz, Mackenzie, and Shannon when I got off but they were just other people in commonplace clothing.
burning question: Can the maker repair what he makes?
Once I got past Park Street, the train was virtually empty.
A man had a tattoo of the moon made from a raging tempest.
A woman had a tattoo of the moon made from knotted metal.
I bought The Golem and the Jinni because I've been meaning to ever since I met Jessica. There's a list of four things she learned while writing it and one of those things is that respected newspapers were openly racist, sexist, and classist in the late 19th century. Most of us are thinking "well, nothing's really changed since the 19th century" and I guess that all depends on whether or not you consider newspapers like the Washington Times and the Daily Mail to be respectable. I, for one, do not.
I bought Beloved Son by George Turner which is about a biological apocalypse at the end of the 20th century and an expedition to Barnard's Star and it might be that source of that quote about saying goodbye to the 20th century and its many things.
2:00
The Imaginators are three siblings who played pop rock, including Smooth Criminal, on three cellos. One of their cello cases had a This Machine Kills Fascists sticker. Good to see they're starting the fight at a young age. There will be no Generation Identitaire here. Anyways, speaking of killing fascists, I tried to play Civilization II's World War 2 scenario as the Spanish. My plan was to produce diplomats and steal technology from the Axis en masse and then trade them with the other powers. My plan was also to switch from monarchy to a Republic or Communism but the game wouldn't let me do that apparently, although if I obtain communism or democracy from another civilization, it will give me the option to have a revolution. First time around, the Axis asked to parley, Hitler was like "so, hey, we want you to declare war on the French." "No." "we have had enough of your insolence! PREPARE FOR WAR!" but at least the French and Allies kept their war going. The second time, I didn't make the mistake of contacting Hitler but the Allies and French both made peace by September of 1940.
3:00
Sonia and Ben played Russian folk songs or maybe klezmer. There's a lot of overlap between the two.
In Radiance was a flute quintet. One of them had a bass flute, which is J-shaped and is rarely used outside of flute ensembles. She wanted to show me an alto flute for comparison, which looks very similar. They also used piccolo. There was Maria, April, Stacey, and Joanne and then a fifth flautist who wasn't a founding member.
Seth Wonkka was around but I didn't see any of his friends.
4:00
Circus Trees is an indie rock duo. They mostly played covers, the one that stuck out in my mind was The Cranberries, but one of their songs was an original about monsters under the bed and monsters in her head. Supposedly, someone was scheduled to play covers of 80s pop songs on ukulele but I have no idea what happened.
5:00
Unlike last year, there was no time where I could just sit down and eat something and not really care about who's playing. The minced garlic burger (also with lettuce, olives, and jalapeño peppers) I had was very good but very unwieldy, because there aren't any seats in front of Harvard Books, where MILA was playing. I probably should have said something about putting the lettuce on the bottom but oh well. The Cajun fries were also good.
The singer/tambourinist of MILA is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the drummer is also from Buenos Aires, and the guitarist is from Bogota, Colombia. They all met in Boston, although the singer and the drummer lived only a few blocks away from each other back in Argentina. There's a short story about a train that disappears into a spacetime anomaly in the Boston subway which was made into a movie with the setting transplanted to Buenos Aires. The singer has a streak of purple in her hair. Elsewhere was a woman with pale green hair.
I'm not sure where Cata was from, but I would guess Buenos Aires because the only other city in Argentina I can name is Ushuaia. After all, Argentina is the 8th largest country landwise and the 31st populationwise with 40 million people. In a strange twist of fate, it's rich in many minerals but not silver. It's also the one place you can go where you could, in theory, and that's a very big "in theory," dig a hole to China. Also, I'm pretty sure that Rand McNally, where people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people, where hot snow falls up and sunlight makes things cold and rain makes things dry, is off the coast of Argentina. But apparently, it's not in a fixed location like other countries. It's not to be confused with Fnaph, where people believe the human soul is shaped like a frisbee and people bounce on trampolines trying to reach Heaven.
A woman had the lavender color the singer wanted but the singer had the shade of purple the woman in the audience wanted. She said she could tell she was from Argentina because of her accent which is apparently very distinctive if you know what to look for. I don't.
6:00
Athena Desai played bass mostly but for her last song, she used a mandolin. Hannah played violin. I think the guy who played guitar and also kicked a box is Matt. I'm going to call him Matt. Athena has tattoos that from a distance I couldn't tell if they were Indian or Hebrew or even Babylonian cuneiform, of three arrows, of the moon among constellations and raging seas. She told me that they were Tibetan sutras.
Sunset Kings is Hannah and Matt's other project.
I had to show Athena our owls even though she is associated with the unhorned little owl rather than any of the nearctic (this is a strange name as it covers both the arctic and the temperate regions of North America down into southern Mexico and Neotropical includes Tierra del Fuego and the Andes) owls. We have long-eared owls and short-eared owls which are holarctic (which includes the palearctic region that includes North Africa and the middle east) but I've never seen one.
Matt got it: owls are dumb and he called them bottom feeders because they eat mice.
Jessie has a tattoo of Pluto and a lot of cool jewelry. Gracie has a scallopshell pendant. Jessie introduced me to her friend, I think his name was Chai and to her other friend, who's name I've forgotten so let's call him Josh. Josh was like "huh?" They were all at Faneuil Hall and heard that there was free music at Harvard Square so they came over.
7:00
Chris Moreno leads a rock band. A guest saxophonist, Hannah, joined them on stage. Savasha caught my eye again but I missed them play.
A woman had tattoos of butterflies including a female swallowtail butterfly in its yellow morph.
8:00
I alternated between Lily Black and Tali Freed and the Mandolin, with Alex on guitar.
Like last year, Lily Black more or less alternated between covers (Rage Against The Machine, but she couldn't do the end bit because it's a family-friendly event; a Sublime song that isn't Santeria or What I've Got, so props to her; a song that is either The Ramones or Rancid, and since I'm blanking on the lyrics, I can't tell you) Phoebe said she was in the band last year but she didn't play with them. There are four members listed in the album notes, but five played on stage.
I made Lily look like Pris from Blade Runner, a movie Lily says she has been meaning to see. Some guy said the original version, that is to say the theatrical cut, is better. At least, I think that's what he meant.
A guy was wearing a shirt with Tiny Rick in the pocket and so he flipped me off and said "peace among worlds."
9:00
Mei Ohara was playing in the same location as last year. She described her current hair colors as "oil slick on Neptune."
Maria says she wishes she could make art and she was asking me how I started doing this and how long I've been making art for. Her art teacher in high school was crazy, she says. Liz, Mackenzie, and Shannon asked similar questions.
A woman was busy saying goodbye to her friends and the train closed its doors before she could get off and then when she got to the next station, there was a train waiting but it left before our train stopped.
I thought I saw Liz, Mackenzie, and Shannon when I got off but they were just other people in commonplace clothing.
burning question: Can the maker repair what he makes?
