children of the revolution
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yamamanamaI met more people than the previous two excursions into and out of Boston combined and I think I met more interesting people on public transit in one day since ever. I'm really glad I went, even if I only got to enjoy two hours worth of a seven hour event, and I'm actually really grateful I had to scrounge up money before leaving because I wouldn't have had the opportunity to meet Shannon and Jenna, Hayley and Kate and Lindsey.
But I guess I'd meet other interesting people in those other realities. It's like Casey's friend said: people are more interesting than you give them credit for.
Lindsey goes to art school and was telling me that they have a class all about drawing people on public transit. Lindsey told me she'd pretend she didn't see me. Sometimes I try to draw people who haven't noticed me. Sometimes they'll say something or even just smile and I'll feel obligated to draw them.
Kate has black hair with green tips and spiral earrings.
Shannon painted a robot and an astronaut or possibly a robot astronaut in acrylic paints and they're really good. Jenna isn't an artist as far as I know but she was eye-catching enough to draw.
Shannon has a rose tattoo (without hummingbirds) on her shoulder and a necklace that looks like something Gabriella would wear.
There was a woman with streaks of purple in short black hair, dressed in stockings, a white shirt and black vest-dress combo, and I thought to myself "I can't not draw her."
A guy wearing a Konami Code t-shirt said his kid was train surfing.
There was a guy listening to music on his headphones loud enough for me to hear and it's bothering me because I recognized either the song he listened to or a song being sampled in the song he was listening to.
I missed these but I've heard of Bong Wish (Alas, there's not much there) through Emma, I checked out Frollicking Lamb on my own, and I checked out Rose Polenzani because they were selling her CDs but I didn't have enough money, but she has a bandcamp and there's stuff on it. She's well-known enough to have her own Wikipedia page. Dust Clouds of Mars has a great name and they're surf rock meets 50s B sci-fi.
I arrived at the tail end of the Bullock Brothers set, heard Soft Pyramids, which are really good, Gogofski, a mostly Macedonian Balkans music ensemble consisting of a vocalist, an accordionist, a clarinetist, and a drummer, and Mt. Peru which is surprisingly enjoyable for a band that's not ethnic rock with panpipes and stuff, but Americana indie rock.
The singer of Soft Pyramids said "that's my last falsetto for the day."
Macedonian Romany music sounds like a Bollywood number as performed by a klezmer band.
It makes sense because there's a lot of overlap between Romany musicians and Jewish ensembles, and musicians from each group would often travel and perform with each other. Also, they shared a common enemy in the Nazi regime. In Europe, 1 in 4 Romany and 2 in 3 Jews perished. Something like that. I can't find population estimates for Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Sweden, the UK. I also wonder how many non-Jews died because they were assumed to be Jewish or for something as trivial as being named Sarah or Emma.
It makes sense because Romany is related to Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Bengali, et al.
There was circle dancing, of course, since the theme of this year's ArtBeat was loops.
The Union Square station is destined to open in 2018 and they're doing a lot of the bridge work right now. Getting funding for these things is like pulling teeth.
I ran into Radames and Ria again and they remember me. Radames makes jewelry.
There was a chalk drawing of Boba Fett and a chalk drawing of Mario hitting a question block, Death Before Decaf and a skull, a fruit mandala, the earth surrounded in an aureole of wood.
There's a woman who makes jewelry and other things out of what look like bicycle parts.
this is the largest picture of the flying hamster in Skippy Fantastic's logo. They sell things and stuff, just no actual flying hamsters.
She asked me if baby bats were as cute in real life as they are in pictures and the answer is yes.
This guy was selling silkscreen art.
This one caught my eye. It looks like something Sully would draw.
The Post-Meridian Radio Players presents Night Of The Super Sleuths (except when it's a Matinee) sounds fun. It's too bad there's so much other stuff going on and I won't be able to go.
I met a woman with a whole bunch of fake tattoos including flowers and a combination of the word "love" and the symbol for infinity. It's really cool, especially if you want to change things up a bit. She says the floral one is less than a dollar at Michael's, so if you want to stock up on them, go for it.
I think I saw Alex but she was busy talking to someone. I think the worst thing for Somerville's women is politicians, especially politicians in far off lands like Wasilla and Austin. No offense meant to the people of Austin; I've heard very good things. It's just that Austin, being the capital of Texas and all, is home to some pretty awful politicians.
A woman had a blue mohawk and she had Humpty Dumpty tattooed on her arm. Another woman had a mishmash of pink and orange and blue or something like that. I don't remember the exact colors, probably because there are so many interesting people and things to remember. A woman had the official dog tag for ArtBeat, a few letters, a pentagram, a thing I can't quite remember. A woman had a tattoo of Abe Lincoln riding a unicorn.
Emily makes jewelry and was selling some at ArtBeat. She was wearing a tripartite pendant and a hand thingy made out of turquoise and bamboo. The price tag was still on it because she was modeling it and didn't have a posable model hand.
She also draws people on the train and told me that I was the first person who's ever drawn her. Once her friend was doing an assignment in which she drew people on the bus and this guy gave her the death glare and she kept drawing him.
Emily says that birds are aggressive and snakes are super chill about everything.
Emily is from Maryland, where the public transit is meh, not great but not terrible either. It's one of those places where the suburbanites steadfastly refuse to allow public transit in their suburbs out of fear that people from Baltimore will show up listening to raps and shooting all the jobs. She's never been as far as Braintree. On the other hand, I don't think I've ever been to Alewife. Also, I don't think I've ever gotten on or off at Porter for any reason. I had plans to run to Porter once but I ended up on a bus heading to Lechmere. I've been on the Ashmont line once and I don't remember why or what I was doing in Boston that day actually, and I was getting there from Hingham, I do believe.
Sometimes you just see a nose that you like.
That's what Sherlock Holmes does, he figures out what people are like from the little details.
We were discussing the merits of drawing people when the train is almost empty vs drawing people when the train is packed.
She felt really bad for taking up so much space but she had to, what with a shark backpack and all the jewelry she had on display.
Liz and I went to the same college and she's trying to figure out why I looked so familiar. Liz was telling me about Humans Vs. Zombies and I totally remember that. I didn't remember them using socks as weapons against zombies but I feel like zombies would be so used to their own smell of rotting human flesh that a dirty sock wouldn't faze them or maybe zombies can't smell.
Ayana is not the same Ayana who was at the wildilife center. Her hair is a bulb of tangled braids, with braids falling down the sides and hedge mazes on the side of her head.
I explained the Emma situation to Liz and Emily, not at the same time, obviously, I only started talking to Liz after Emily left, and they both wish me luck with Gabriella and with getting my friendship with Emma wound up again. Liz is talking about taking her afterschool program students to the Wildlife Center and Emily doesn't think it's a bad bike ride but it is a long walk and maybe that's why things fizzled out with our collaborative mural. There should be public transit everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Even if it's just buses. There are some things worth seeing outside the city. I totally recommend the Fuller Craft Museum and the New England Wildlife Center.
I feel like I'm not living up to my promise to Emma. Oh well, maybe in the autumn.
Emily was at ArtBeat while Liz and Ayana were at Earthfest, where they heard a band with Atlas in their name but it wasn't Atlas Lab or Sophie Atlas.
The girl in the white dress wishes she could draw but she can't, but she does write fiction. I swear I've had this same exact conversation before. Same situation, on a summer afternoon on the Red Line in between Quincy Adams and Braintree. Perhaps it was with the same woman.
burning question: does that ever happen to you?
But I guess I'd meet other interesting people in those other realities. It's like Casey's friend said: people are more interesting than you give them credit for.
Lindsey goes to art school and was telling me that they have a class all about drawing people on public transit. Lindsey told me she'd pretend she didn't see me. Sometimes I try to draw people who haven't noticed me. Sometimes they'll say something or even just smile and I'll feel obligated to draw them.
Kate has black hair with green tips and spiral earrings.
Shannon painted a robot and an astronaut or possibly a robot astronaut in acrylic paints and they're really good. Jenna isn't an artist as far as I know but she was eye-catching enough to draw.
Shannon has a rose tattoo (without hummingbirds) on her shoulder and a necklace that looks like something Gabriella would wear.
There was a woman with streaks of purple in short black hair, dressed in stockings, a white shirt and black vest-dress combo, and I thought to myself "I can't not draw her."
A guy wearing a Konami Code t-shirt said his kid was train surfing.
There was a guy listening to music on his headphones loud enough for me to hear and it's bothering me because I recognized either the song he listened to or a song being sampled in the song he was listening to.
I missed these but I've heard of Bong Wish (Alas, there's not much there) through Emma, I checked out Frollicking Lamb on my own, and I checked out Rose Polenzani because they were selling her CDs but I didn't have enough money, but she has a bandcamp and there's stuff on it. She's well-known enough to have her own Wikipedia page. Dust Clouds of Mars has a great name and they're surf rock meets 50s B sci-fi.
I arrived at the tail end of the Bullock Brothers set, heard Soft Pyramids, which are really good, Gogofski, a mostly Macedonian Balkans music ensemble consisting of a vocalist, an accordionist, a clarinetist, and a drummer, and Mt. Peru which is surprisingly enjoyable for a band that's not ethnic rock with panpipes and stuff, but Americana indie rock.
The singer of Soft Pyramids said "that's my last falsetto for the day."
Macedonian Romany music sounds like a Bollywood number as performed by a klezmer band.
It makes sense because there's a lot of overlap between Romany musicians and Jewish ensembles, and musicians from each group would often travel and perform with each other. Also, they shared a common enemy in the Nazi regime. In Europe, 1 in 4 Romany and 2 in 3 Jews perished. Something like that. I can't find population estimates for Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Sweden, the UK. I also wonder how many non-Jews died because they were assumed to be Jewish or for something as trivial as being named Sarah or Emma.
It makes sense because Romany is related to Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Bengali, et al.
There was circle dancing, of course, since the theme of this year's ArtBeat was loops.
The Union Square station is destined to open in 2018 and they're doing a lot of the bridge work right now. Getting funding for these things is like pulling teeth.
I ran into Radames and Ria again and they remember me. Radames makes jewelry.
There was a chalk drawing of Boba Fett and a chalk drawing of Mario hitting a question block, Death Before Decaf and a skull, a fruit mandala, the earth surrounded in an aureole of wood.
There's a woman who makes jewelry and other things out of what look like bicycle parts.
this is the largest picture of the flying hamster in Skippy Fantastic's logo. They sell things and stuff, just no actual flying hamsters.
She asked me if baby bats were as cute in real life as they are in pictures and the answer is yes.
This guy was selling silkscreen art.
This one caught my eye. It looks like something Sully would draw.
The Post-Meridian Radio Players presents Night Of The Super Sleuths (except when it's a Matinee) sounds fun. It's too bad there's so much other stuff going on and I won't be able to go.
I met a woman with a whole bunch of fake tattoos including flowers and a combination of the word "love" and the symbol for infinity. It's really cool, especially if you want to change things up a bit. She says the floral one is less than a dollar at Michael's, so if you want to stock up on them, go for it.
I think I saw Alex but she was busy talking to someone. I think the worst thing for Somerville's women is politicians, especially politicians in far off lands like Wasilla and Austin. No offense meant to the people of Austin; I've heard very good things. It's just that Austin, being the capital of Texas and all, is home to some pretty awful politicians.
A woman had a blue mohawk and she had Humpty Dumpty tattooed on her arm. Another woman had a mishmash of pink and orange and blue or something like that. I don't remember the exact colors, probably because there are so many interesting people and things to remember. A woman had the official dog tag for ArtBeat, a few letters, a pentagram, a thing I can't quite remember. A woman had a tattoo of Abe Lincoln riding a unicorn.
Emily makes jewelry and was selling some at ArtBeat. She was wearing a tripartite pendant and a hand thingy made out of turquoise and bamboo. The price tag was still on it because she was modeling it and didn't have a posable model hand.
She also draws people on the train and told me that I was the first person who's ever drawn her. Once her friend was doing an assignment in which she drew people on the bus and this guy gave her the death glare and she kept drawing him.
Emily says that birds are aggressive and snakes are super chill about everything.
Emily is from Maryland, where the public transit is meh, not great but not terrible either. It's one of those places where the suburbanites steadfastly refuse to allow public transit in their suburbs out of fear that people from Baltimore will show up listening to raps and shooting all the jobs. She's never been as far as Braintree. On the other hand, I don't think I've ever been to Alewife. Also, I don't think I've ever gotten on or off at Porter for any reason. I had plans to run to Porter once but I ended up on a bus heading to Lechmere. I've been on the Ashmont line once and I don't remember why or what I was doing in Boston that day actually, and I was getting there from Hingham, I do believe.
Sometimes you just see a nose that you like.
That's what Sherlock Holmes does, he figures out what people are like from the little details.
We were discussing the merits of drawing people when the train is almost empty vs drawing people when the train is packed.
She felt really bad for taking up so much space but she had to, what with a shark backpack and all the jewelry she had on display.
Liz and I went to the same college and she's trying to figure out why I looked so familiar. Liz was telling me about Humans Vs. Zombies and I totally remember that. I didn't remember them using socks as weapons against zombies but I feel like zombies would be so used to their own smell of rotting human flesh that a dirty sock wouldn't faze them or maybe zombies can't smell.
Ayana is not the same Ayana who was at the wildilife center. Her hair is a bulb of tangled braids, with braids falling down the sides and hedge mazes on the side of her head.
I explained the Emma situation to Liz and Emily, not at the same time, obviously, I only started talking to Liz after Emily left, and they both wish me luck with Gabriella and with getting my friendship with Emma wound up again. Liz is talking about taking her afterschool program students to the Wildlife Center and Emily doesn't think it's a bad bike ride but it is a long walk and maybe that's why things fizzled out with our collaborative mural. There should be public transit everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Even if it's just buses. There are some things worth seeing outside the city. I totally recommend the Fuller Craft Museum and the New England Wildlife Center.
I feel like I'm not living up to my promise to Emma. Oh well, maybe in the autumn.
Emily was at ArtBeat while Liz and Ayana were at Earthfest, where they heard a band with Atlas in their name but it wasn't Atlas Lab or Sophie Atlas.
The girl in the white dress wishes she could draw but she can't, but she does write fiction. I swear I've had this same exact conversation before. Same situation, on a summer afternoon on the Red Line in between Quincy Adams and Braintree. Perhaps it was with the same woman.
burning question: does that ever happen to you?
