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for all the dreamers
Jul. 16th, 2017 06:24 pm"are you doing her?"
"Yes… and phrasing."
The theme of Artbeat this year was voice and let it be said that they really outdid themselves. I kind of like the one day thing, even if it was overwhelming.
An organization was having people make a monarch butterfly mosaic from squares of felt. Some people got a really nice effect.
There was a collaborative comic in which a snake is making pancakes by holding the griddle with his tongue and then the snake bites a bear and they both get each other's powers and then a pancake bites a snake and the snake gets pancake powers, so I drew a maple syrup factory leaking everywhere and the bear got stuck to it and they all build a dam to stop it and then the pancake laments that nobody will eat him because there's no maple syrup in the world and then I have no idea what happens but Dan will post it "tomorrow" (that means today, kupo) and rest assured that it is hilarious and amazing.
This might be the first comic in which a pancake bites a snake, by the way.
Cassandra and GennaRose had a booth set up in which someone would give them a prompt for a poem, and they'd write one up in five minutes on a Hermes typewriter, read them to you, sign them and put your poem in a plastic sleeve. Here's the poem Cassandra wrote for me, after confirming that I meant the concept and not the movie:
Moonlight
The world robed in a new glow.
Every night a fraction more
of the moon on display, and
then less, and then a night
of only stars before once again
we are bathed in a waterfall
of blessings, the sky's gift
for those of us who suffer
through its mercurial moods,
the sun's harsh blaze or
the sudden downpour's drench
the moon's light is a simple
and soft reminder
to slow down and think
of the majesty of the night's expanse.
Had I more time, I'd ask GennaRose to write a poem about moonlight and hope she'd be too busy to hear anything Cassandra read. GennaRose is pronounced with a soft G, like Gemma. She has no noticeable tattoos.
Cassandra has a tattoo of the Wunterlabe, the machine Professor Algernon Aisling and his daughters Miranda and Cassandra use to navigate out of reality in Voyage of the Basset, a book she loved as a kid, in part because one of the characters was named Cassandra. What's amazing, kupo, is that her tattoo is the first thing to come up when you search for wunterlabe, and she said she thought about getting the ship instead. Someone else has it on her leg. She has Face With Arrows, a sketch by Garcia Lorca, a poet executed by Spanish Fascists at the beginning of the Civil War, on her arm.
Aisling is Irish for "dream." It's pronounced "Ashleeng" and the g is pronounced like the g in sing, because an S flanked by broad vowels, that is to say, a, o, and u, is pronounced like "s" while an s flanked by slender vowels, that is, i and e, is pronounced like "sh." There. Now you know. D and T do that too. Appending a H lenites a consonant, so "sh" is pronounced like "h" and "bh" is pronounced like V or W depending on the vowel. And then consonants can also be eclipsed. The rules are complicated but there are rules. Miranda comes from a Greek word meaning miracle and was invented by William Shakespeare. Cassandra is a name of semi-unknown origin and in Greek myth was given the gift of prophecy but she was cursed to have no one believe her prophecies.
There was a Language Lab where you could learn words in Italian, Portuguese, Nahuatl, Nepali, and Arabic. I asked someone what Hassaleh meant but she had no idea. I'm also not sure about the pronunciation, since I learned how to say it from a game series in which Cujam and Cebalrai are pronounced incorrectly.
Dogs in Aztec mythology are envoys to the Unseen Realm. Like the Japanese and Chinese, the Aztecs saw a rabbit in the moon and not a man or a skull.
You could put words in Bigfoot's mouth, in a tiger's mouth, in dinosaur's mouth. Someone had the tiger say "feed me people" and someone had Bigfoot say "I do exist" and I had the dinosaur say "stomp Tokyo."
"Do whatever it takes to feel joy" a sticker says.
She drew King Corgi on a pile of sheep and her corgi on the bottom. She was thinking about getting a pug but her husband wanted a corgi instead and you can't complain about corgis. You can't complain about pugs either. She drew a UFO abducting a raccoon and a rabbit with some more rabbits running away
She has a portrait of Cthulhu on one of her arms and lotuses on the other.
Someone bought a painting called "under the light of the moon, rigor mortis raccoon." Apparently there's a song called Rigor Mortis Raccoon but the link is broken and by that I mean, if I go in the source, I can get a link to Youtube
Here are the other short hand puppet poems:
"I'll share your secrets and be your friends."
"With you behind me, I can read books, keep your secrets and tell stories 'cause WE'RE A TEAM!"
There was a booth called Giraffes and Robots.
There was a coloring book of monsters and things.
A sign said "free kittens (just kidding) but I do have art which is cool too!!"
There were dogs everywhere: multiple pugs, corgis, a shi-zu, a Boston terrier, a husky puppy, a few labradors, a collie, even a dalmatian and a samoyed.
Skittles the manticore from "Darwin Carmichael is Going To Hell" was on her bag and it depicted his friend, and her shirt had an AT-AT walker. She had blue hair. Speaking of webcomics, someone mentioned ridonkulous in a video and I thought of ridiculicious. I think it's from Buttercup Festival. I'm amazed that I remember it. The man next to her had a t-shirt with rocketships. I think. I don't know. It was a long day.
I got some of the dog tags that depict a cat which makes them cat tags early on, but because they depicted cats, they sold out pretty quickly and so they were selling vintage tags and I was able to find one for 2015.
I met a woman with at tattoo of a crow with flowers in a framed portrait, an owl, a crescent moon. I met a woman with a tattoo of her grandmother's signature. Carrie has no obvious tattoos and Heather has a tattoo of a swan that looks like the Rebel Alliance crest. Or maybe it was the other way around. A woman has a tattoo of an arctic fox on one shoulder and a raven on the other. A woman had a bird nesting in leaves amongst gearwork tattooed on her shoulder. A woman had short dark hair and a band hat and a t-shirt of a skull wearing a monocle and top hat and her girlfriend had teal and blue in her hair.
Alex has a pendant with her name in hieroglyphics. That is, I think it says Alexandria or Alexandra and not Ra-Katit or Ra-Kedet, the indigenous name.
She's never been to Egypt but wants to go but it's too dangerous.
Rey has green and blue hair and tattoos of a horse but not of the words Carpe Noctum and since her name is Rey, I asked her if she's a time traveler because she's clearly over 18, and she said she wishes she was one.
Mary has a tattoo of a Chain Chomp on her leg and of a Triforce and Exodus' sigil on her back. She has a key necklace with pearls that she's had since she was in the third grade. Like Rey, she does not approve of Donald Trump. I'm not sure if Rey noticed Poland along with most of Eastern Europe reverting to authoritarianism but Mary most certainly did.
Their rally went well and only one drunkard showed up.
There was a guy wandering about the festival with a Link to the Future t-shirt that depicted Link getting out of a DeLorean with a triforce powered flux capacitor in the background.
Henry Acker Gypsy Jazz Trio
Henry is 12 and has been playing guitar for four years. You'd never realize that if you heard it. They play gypsy jazz with two guitars and a bass.
Strangers By Accident
They released an EP and are in the process of recording another. I'm not sure if Heidi was a guest drummer or she just wasn't on the EP.
Stars Like Ours
They play 90s-influenced fuzzed out rock.
Tory Silver
She's a singer-songwriter who plays electric guitar.
Jorge Arce and Raiz de Plena
They play plena music from Puerto Rico, with lots of percussion and brass and call-and-response songs.
Ebinho Cardoso & Albino Mbie
I met Albino Mbie last year. Ebinho Cardoso is a Brazilian bassist who joined him on stage. The keyboardist, Jiří, was from the Czech Republic.
Red Right Hand
Rachel said that Nick Cave would be proud.
They're not to be confused with the Red Right Hand from Manchester (formerly known as Namoskeag, which is not to be confused with a place formerly known as Mancunium or Mamucium or the place formerly known as Manchester in northern Massachusetts or with New Manchester, which is spread across a string of asteroids), which is a metal band. She's pretty sure they sound nothing alike. The booklet compares them to Patti Smith and PJ Harvey.
Kali Stoddard-Imari and Ancestors In Training
Savannah, the drummer, has bright pink hair and hand of fatima earrings and a rainbow crystal pendant. Kali writes things like LOVE and HOPE and drew things like feathers on his guitar in what looks like marker. Once he had a dream that he and Tyler were in a band of actual cats and they couldn't get anything done and all the other cats were in it for the milk. No, it's not actually the best dream ever and I mentioned the one someone on Talking Time had about Dick Cheney and George W. Bush riding on a stagecoach equipped with a flux capacator traveling through time and brazenly and loudly assassinating historical figures while the Joker chases them through time on his stagecoach trying to kill them for stealing his idea.
Chelsea has a pendant of Shemhazai's sigil, a necklace of gold stars, a hair ribbon. I can't remember if she was born on St. Cecilia's Day or on Lisa Goldstein's birthday but I know she doesn't share her birthday with my dog. Matt plays saxophone, Mike plays trombone.
Hillbilly Holiday
This is what happens when you get some indie rockers to attempt country and are headed by a woman who doesn't really like country music from Taiwan, where country music is virtually nonexistent, but at least it is a country.
Smallest Town Ensemble
A folk-rock band with trumpets. Remember Mt. Peru? They're connected.
Air Congo
A Congolese-inspired jazz band with electric guitar, alto sax, upright bass, and percussion.
I finally had a taco at the Painted Burro. It was a shrimp taco with guacamole, pickled red onions, habanero and mango salsa, and it came with chips and salsa, and it was delicious.
Elsewhere, a man played the violin and elsewhere, on the curb, a man played guitar accompanied by a woman on a rin gong (it's a bowl and if you rub your finger along the rim, it resonates) with Tibetan writing on it.
Kina Zoré
They started out with mellow fado-inspired songs but halfway through, switched to more danceable Afrobeat stuff. The vocalist, Helder Tsinine, sang in the Ronga language, spoken in the south of the country. The name Kina Zoré is a type of celebratory dance, not a personal name.
Sugar Blood Jinx
They did a lot of fast blues songs with ragtime and Americana influence on harmonica, upright bass, drums, and steel guitar. This was the first complete set I heard mostly because everyone was so amazing. One of their songs was a cover of a Muddy Waters song.
The Northeastern Railroads
A shoegaze band. They did a cover of a song by New Order that I wasn't familiar with. I'm Fine Here sounds kind of familiar but there are only so many different possible chord progressions.
There was a Silent Dance Party in the Statue Park and someone put headphones that lit up in red on a statue.
This Bliss
This Bliss is the only band with this name, Jess thinks, except for a French DJ.
Jess is the vocalist in both Red Right Hand and This Bliss which I didn't realize until I read an interview with them a few hours ago. In my defense, it was dark when they started and there are lots of people in the world named Jessica.
I tried to draw Jess in less-than-adequate lighting conditions and then put my pen in my bag so I couldn't draw in earrings. They're gradually putting their songs online and making abstract videos for them. Rachel compared them to Portishead only she said they had more of a certain quality I can't name. They call themselves 'true grime,' which someone else described as electric soul, and there's some definite trip-hop and synth-pop in there. It has that unrefined quality to it. There's a kurzweil and a drum machine.
They put on a show with colored lights and a fog machine and a projector that got misaligned during one of the songs.
I think they planned for it to take a while to set up because they ended at 10.
They played their first show with Atlas Lab and Glass Mannequins.
I was hoping Emma would be at Artbeat because of that fact but I didn't see her. I saw someone earlier who looked like her and was a talented artist who was drawing characters of her own creation, including a silver-haired man and a woman covered in blue like flowing water or liquid fire, but she didn't have the bumblebee tattoo that I look for whenever I see someone who looks vaguely like Emma outside of any place she'd probably be. Coincidentally, not ironically, her name is Alex.
I did meet someone named Emma on the way home while I was trying to fill in the blank spaces in my sketchbook. She has a chin like Sterling Archer and wore a t-shirt with a flying saucer with a contrail of stars. There was a girl with a dirty sort of blue hair and a pin on her bag that said pronouns matter. I hope I'm using the right one.
I left North Quincy via the wrong exit and had to run across the parking lot. Sarah, meanwhile, was facing the wrong door, although she'd probably have heard the whoosh instead of standing there wondering when the train was going to move.
burning question: As a practical problem, isn't not letting an intellectual speak the same as a death sentence?
"Yes… and phrasing."
The theme of Artbeat this year was voice and let it be said that they really outdid themselves. I kind of like the one day thing, even if it was overwhelming.
An organization was having people make a monarch butterfly mosaic from squares of felt. Some people got a really nice effect.
There was a collaborative comic in which a snake is making pancakes by holding the griddle with his tongue and then the snake bites a bear and they both get each other's powers and then a pancake bites a snake and the snake gets pancake powers, so I drew a maple syrup factory leaking everywhere and the bear got stuck to it and they all build a dam to stop it and then the pancake laments that nobody will eat him because there's no maple syrup in the world and then I have no idea what happens but Dan will post it "tomorrow" (that means today, kupo) and rest assured that it is hilarious and amazing.
This might be the first comic in which a pancake bites a snake, by the way.
Cassandra and GennaRose had a booth set up in which someone would give them a prompt for a poem, and they'd write one up in five minutes on a Hermes typewriter, read them to you, sign them and put your poem in a plastic sleeve. Here's the poem Cassandra wrote for me, after confirming that I meant the concept and not the movie:
Moonlight
The world robed in a new glow.
Every night a fraction more
of the moon on display, and
then less, and then a night
of only stars before once again
we are bathed in a waterfall
of blessings, the sky's gift
for those of us who suffer
through its mercurial moods,
the sun's harsh blaze or
the sudden downpour's drench
the moon's light is a simple
and soft reminder
to slow down and think
of the majesty of the night's expanse.
Had I more time, I'd ask GennaRose to write a poem about moonlight and hope she'd be too busy to hear anything Cassandra read. GennaRose is pronounced with a soft G, like Gemma. She has no noticeable tattoos.
Cassandra has a tattoo of the Wunterlabe, the machine Professor Algernon Aisling and his daughters Miranda and Cassandra use to navigate out of reality in Voyage of the Basset, a book she loved as a kid, in part because one of the characters was named Cassandra. What's amazing, kupo, is that her tattoo is the first thing to come up when you search for wunterlabe, and she said she thought about getting the ship instead. Someone else has it on her leg. She has Face With Arrows, a sketch by Garcia Lorca, a poet executed by Spanish Fascists at the beginning of the Civil War, on her arm.
Aisling is Irish for "dream." It's pronounced "Ashleeng" and the g is pronounced like the g in sing, because an S flanked by broad vowels, that is to say, a, o, and u, is pronounced like "s" while an s flanked by slender vowels, that is, i and e, is pronounced like "sh." There. Now you know. D and T do that too. Appending a H lenites a consonant, so "sh" is pronounced like "h" and "bh" is pronounced like V or W depending on the vowel. And then consonants can also be eclipsed. The rules are complicated but there are rules. Miranda comes from a Greek word meaning miracle and was invented by William Shakespeare. Cassandra is a name of semi-unknown origin and in Greek myth was given the gift of prophecy but she was cursed to have no one believe her prophecies.
There was a Language Lab where you could learn words in Italian, Portuguese, Nahuatl, Nepali, and Arabic. I asked someone what Hassaleh meant but she had no idea. I'm also not sure about the pronunciation, since I learned how to say it from a game series in which Cujam and Cebalrai are pronounced incorrectly.
Dogs in Aztec mythology are envoys to the Unseen Realm. Like the Japanese and Chinese, the Aztecs saw a rabbit in the moon and not a man or a skull.
You could put words in Bigfoot's mouth, in a tiger's mouth, in dinosaur's mouth. Someone had the tiger say "feed me people" and someone had Bigfoot say "I do exist" and I had the dinosaur say "stomp Tokyo."
"Do whatever it takes to feel joy" a sticker says.
She drew King Corgi on a pile of sheep and her corgi on the bottom. She was thinking about getting a pug but her husband wanted a corgi instead and you can't complain about corgis. You can't complain about pugs either. She drew a UFO abducting a raccoon and a rabbit with some more rabbits running away
She has a portrait of Cthulhu on one of her arms and lotuses on the other.
Someone bought a painting called "under the light of the moon, rigor mortis raccoon." Apparently there's a song called Rigor Mortis Raccoon but the link is broken and by that I mean, if I go in the source, I can get a link to Youtube
Here are the other short hand puppet poems:
"I'll share your secrets and be your friends."
"With you behind me, I can read books, keep your secrets and tell stories 'cause WE'RE A TEAM!"
There was a booth called Giraffes and Robots.
There was a coloring book of monsters and things.
A sign said "free kittens (just kidding) but I do have art which is cool too!!"
There were dogs everywhere: multiple pugs, corgis, a shi-zu, a Boston terrier, a husky puppy, a few labradors, a collie, even a dalmatian and a samoyed.
Skittles the manticore from "Darwin Carmichael is Going To Hell" was on her bag and it depicted his friend, and her shirt had an AT-AT walker. She had blue hair. Speaking of webcomics, someone mentioned ridonkulous in a video and I thought of ridiculicious. I think it's from Buttercup Festival. I'm amazed that I remember it. The man next to her had a t-shirt with rocketships. I think. I don't know. It was a long day.
I got some of the dog tags that depict a cat which makes them cat tags early on, but because they depicted cats, they sold out pretty quickly and so they were selling vintage tags and I was able to find one for 2015.
I met a woman with at tattoo of a crow with flowers in a framed portrait, an owl, a crescent moon. I met a woman with a tattoo of her grandmother's signature. Carrie has no obvious tattoos and Heather has a tattoo of a swan that looks like the Rebel Alliance crest. Or maybe it was the other way around. A woman has a tattoo of an arctic fox on one shoulder and a raven on the other. A woman had a bird nesting in leaves amongst gearwork tattooed on her shoulder. A woman had short dark hair and a band hat and a t-shirt of a skull wearing a monocle and top hat and her girlfriend had teal and blue in her hair.
Alex has a pendant with her name in hieroglyphics. That is, I think it says Alexandria or Alexandra and not Ra-Katit or Ra-Kedet, the indigenous name.
She's never been to Egypt but wants to go but it's too dangerous.
Rey has green and blue hair and tattoos of a horse but not of the words Carpe Noctum and since her name is Rey, I asked her if she's a time traveler because she's clearly over 18, and she said she wishes she was one.
Mary has a tattoo of a Chain Chomp on her leg and of a Triforce and Exodus' sigil on her back. She has a key necklace with pearls that she's had since she was in the third grade. Like Rey, she does not approve of Donald Trump. I'm not sure if Rey noticed Poland along with most of Eastern Europe reverting to authoritarianism but Mary most certainly did.
Their rally went well and only one drunkard showed up.
There was a guy wandering about the festival with a Link to the Future t-shirt that depicted Link getting out of a DeLorean with a triforce powered flux capacitor in the background.
Henry Acker Gypsy Jazz Trio
Henry is 12 and has been playing guitar for four years. You'd never realize that if you heard it. They play gypsy jazz with two guitars and a bass.
Strangers By Accident
They released an EP and are in the process of recording another. I'm not sure if Heidi was a guest drummer or she just wasn't on the EP.
Stars Like Ours
They play 90s-influenced fuzzed out rock.
Tory Silver
She's a singer-songwriter who plays electric guitar.
Jorge Arce and Raiz de Plena
They play plena music from Puerto Rico, with lots of percussion and brass and call-and-response songs.
Ebinho Cardoso & Albino Mbie
I met Albino Mbie last year. Ebinho Cardoso is a Brazilian bassist who joined him on stage. The keyboardist, Jiří, was from the Czech Republic.
Red Right Hand
Rachel said that Nick Cave would be proud.
They're not to be confused with the Red Right Hand from Manchester (formerly known as Namoskeag, which is not to be confused with a place formerly known as Mancunium or Mamucium or the place formerly known as Manchester in northern Massachusetts or with New Manchester, which is spread across a string of asteroids), which is a metal band. She's pretty sure they sound nothing alike. The booklet compares them to Patti Smith and PJ Harvey.
Kali Stoddard-Imari and Ancestors In Training
Savannah, the drummer, has bright pink hair and hand of fatima earrings and a rainbow crystal pendant. Kali writes things like LOVE and HOPE and drew things like feathers on his guitar in what looks like marker. Once he had a dream that he and Tyler were in a band of actual cats and they couldn't get anything done and all the other cats were in it for the milk. No, it's not actually the best dream ever and I mentioned the one someone on Talking Time had about Dick Cheney and George W. Bush riding on a stagecoach equipped with a flux capacator traveling through time and brazenly and loudly assassinating historical figures while the Joker chases them through time on his stagecoach trying to kill them for stealing his idea.
Chelsea has a pendant of Shemhazai's sigil, a necklace of gold stars, a hair ribbon. I can't remember if she was born on St. Cecilia's Day or on Lisa Goldstein's birthday but I know she doesn't share her birthday with my dog. Matt plays saxophone, Mike plays trombone.
Hillbilly Holiday
This is what happens when you get some indie rockers to attempt country and are headed by a woman who doesn't really like country music from Taiwan, where country music is virtually nonexistent, but at least it is a country.
Smallest Town Ensemble
A folk-rock band with trumpets. Remember Mt. Peru? They're connected.
Air Congo
A Congolese-inspired jazz band with electric guitar, alto sax, upright bass, and percussion.
I finally had a taco at the Painted Burro. It was a shrimp taco with guacamole, pickled red onions, habanero and mango salsa, and it came with chips and salsa, and it was delicious.
Elsewhere, a man played the violin and elsewhere, on the curb, a man played guitar accompanied by a woman on a rin gong (it's a bowl and if you rub your finger along the rim, it resonates) with Tibetan writing on it.
Kina Zoré
They started out with mellow fado-inspired songs but halfway through, switched to more danceable Afrobeat stuff. The vocalist, Helder Tsinine, sang in the Ronga language, spoken in the south of the country. The name Kina Zoré is a type of celebratory dance, not a personal name.
Sugar Blood Jinx
They did a lot of fast blues songs with ragtime and Americana influence on harmonica, upright bass, drums, and steel guitar. This was the first complete set I heard mostly because everyone was so amazing. One of their songs was a cover of a Muddy Waters song.
The Northeastern Railroads
A shoegaze band. They did a cover of a song by New Order that I wasn't familiar with. I'm Fine Here sounds kind of familiar but there are only so many different possible chord progressions.
There was a Silent Dance Party in the Statue Park and someone put headphones that lit up in red on a statue.
This Bliss
This Bliss is the only band with this name, Jess thinks, except for a French DJ.
Jess is the vocalist in both Red Right Hand and This Bliss which I didn't realize until I read an interview with them a few hours ago. In my defense, it was dark when they started and there are lots of people in the world named Jessica.
I tried to draw Jess in less-than-adequate lighting conditions and then put my pen in my bag so I couldn't draw in earrings. They're gradually putting their songs online and making abstract videos for them. Rachel compared them to Portishead only she said they had more of a certain quality I can't name. They call themselves 'true grime,' which someone else described as electric soul, and there's some definite trip-hop and synth-pop in there. It has that unrefined quality to it. There's a kurzweil and a drum machine.
They put on a show with colored lights and a fog machine and a projector that got misaligned during one of the songs.
I think they planned for it to take a while to set up because they ended at 10.
They played their first show with Atlas Lab and Glass Mannequins.
I was hoping Emma would be at Artbeat because of that fact but I didn't see her. I saw someone earlier who looked like her and was a talented artist who was drawing characters of her own creation, including a silver-haired man and a woman covered in blue like flowing water or liquid fire, but she didn't have the bumblebee tattoo that I look for whenever I see someone who looks vaguely like Emma outside of any place she'd probably be. Coincidentally, not ironically, her name is Alex.
I did meet someone named Emma on the way home while I was trying to fill in the blank spaces in my sketchbook. She has a chin like Sterling Archer and wore a t-shirt with a flying saucer with a contrail of stars. There was a girl with a dirty sort of blue hair and a pin on her bag that said pronouns matter. I hope I'm using the right one.
I left North Quincy via the wrong exit and had to run across the parking lot. Sarah, meanwhile, was facing the wrong door, although she'd probably have heard the whoosh instead of standing there wondering when the train was going to move.
burning question: As a practical problem, isn't not letting an intellectual speak the same as a death sentence?
