enantiodromic zones
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yamamanamaI started my bus ride as one of three passengers and then it got super-crowded by Wollaston.
It's actually more convenient than the usual busing, because you're getting on the bus at Braintree, and that means you neither have to get on the train and then get on the bus and then wait for another train, nor do you have to get on that stretch of highway between North Quincy and JFK/UMass.
So it only took me 50 minutes to get to Downtown Crossing.
It's weird: the Berklee Stage closest to the Mass Ave station was on a slightly different schedule than the Beantown Stage at the other end and the main stage. They're reasonably far from each other
There was a Brazilian drumming circle and a guy on drums who I think is less part of this and more a permanent fixture, and a group on melodica and keyboard and vocals that probably wasn't aware of this whole thing and just showed up. They got plenty of donations, though. So I guess everything worked out nicely for them.
Yulia plays piano and sings, Sarah plays harmonica and wears cat earrings and kind of looks like Tina Belcher, and Jeff may or may not play an instrument but he says he's easy to draw because he looks cartoonish and he says he looks like Rémy the chef from Ratatouille, which I haven't seen. I loved Inside Out, though. He cried a lot during Inside Out but really, pretty much everyone does. And Toy Story 3 wasn't that sad. Those are happy tears. If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about.
I never got the red-haired woman's name.
They moved their setup somewhere, sometime.
Kaovanny sounds Lao but I have no idea, honestly. In fact, I'm pretty sure she might be the only Kaovanny in existence. Sara Coelho was a guest vocalist for their first song.
Sarah, who has a dog named Chaplin, was happy when Kaovanny shouted out Sara Coelho. Actually, I don't know how these people spell their names. Sara is the Portuguese spelling but Sarah the harmonicist is from Brazil and she spells her name with an H at the end. In Morocco, it's always Sara with just an A. If you ask me, I prefer Sara but only one out of eight-ish are Sara. I asked you about this a long time ago so I'm not going to here. If you want to tell me your preferred spelling, go ahead.
Caroline and Carolyn, however, are different names. Caroline has a tattoo of a treble clef on her wrist but I never got to ask her what, if any, instruments she plays. Ashley had tattoos of some sorts too but they was obscured by the sleeves of her jacket.
A woman's tattoo is a swallow, not a swift. They're both birds and that's as related as they are. Swifts are related to hummingbirds except they're not restricted to the Americas, while swallows are passerines.
Another woman had a tiger tattoo.
A guy had a t-shirt with Louise Belcher saying that she does not appreciate your lack of sarcasm and a woman had a t-shirt that said Enjoy Slurm.
I met someone else who had to say hello to every dog she sees and she says that she sometimes feels awkward and wonders what the owners think but I say that if they don't want people saying hello to their dogs, they would't take them out in public or at least they'd get a fake service dog sign.
Someone was selling paintings of jazz musicians and there were Black Lives Matter t-shirts and I think it's so weird to come home to read about problems with race becoming more and more mainstream and they don't even have to hide behind an anti-Islam veneer anymore.
Mark Shilansky and Fugue Mill is a Celtic folk jazz band, and if that wasn't possible before they started it, it's possible now.
Jazz cred is a lot like prison cred. To get prison cred, you walk up tho the biggest guy and punch him in the face. To get jazz cred, you play Body and Soul. They played songs with mixed meter because the Venezuelan group that played before them did a lot of things in mixed meter and said that the music students could probably identify what those meters are. They sang a non-cliche Leonard Cohen song because their guest vocalist was an opera singer from Canada. Unless it's called something else, it doesn't have that amazing cover of She Moved Through The Fair. Actually, it's a medley of two Irish folk songs.
Eyeless In Gaza, Flying Saucer Attack, and The Durutti Column all did their own version of that song. The Durutti Column's version is called Maggie and someone described that album as the grey zone between personality/emotion and pure transcendence.
Self Portraits isn't really jazz. Jackie (this is a different Jackie who does not have hair the color of a belted kingfisher male) is every bit as bewildered as I was that a jazz festival invited a rock band to play but they're good.
I don't remember what Dreamcatchers is about. Time is about being in a relationship that isn't working out because the two of you want different things out of the relationship. Be Ok is about bullying. They're on Youtube.
Malcolm wanted to be in selfies with everyone. I didn't get a selfie with Malcolm but I did get a portrait of him, along with Emma and Julia, though they were rather quick ones. Not that Emma, alas.
Cassie has a bright red ponytail and black bangs under a hat. She says that people who donate 5 can get a bag and people give her 10 and tell her to keep the change.
There were many many women with green hair, the occasional man with green hair and occasional woman with pink or purple hair, a woman with a sunset prism hair in pink and purple and blue, a woman with a blue buzzcut and a guy with short blue hair.
Every time Sabrina travels somewhere, she gets a new ring. She got a heart ring from Paris, because she visits Paris regularly because she's French, and she got a sun in his splendour ring from Mexico. She had three other rings and I can't remember what those other places were. Phoebe knows about the birds.
I think someone in Pitch Slapped is named Rachel. Stephen is the vocal percussionist, as they put it. I was talking to Olivia before they played because they were dancing to Lenny Stallworth and Black Steel and I was surprised at how many people there were on stage. I had to wait to draw the rest of them: Kiana, Julia, C.J, Stephen, Brandon, Connor, Jordan, Alex, because they disappeared to do who knows what. They were already dressed for stage, so obviously not that.
All the guys at Bao Nation's tent were Indian and one of the guys had a Sikh emblem tattooed on his wrist. So, my guess is that gua bao originated in China obviously and ended up in India because there are Chinese people there. The one I ate was roasted eggplant with cilantro and peanuts on top.
Bokhara is a strange name for an Indian restaurant but they have good samosas. One of the condiments is spicy onion chutney, and that brown goopy oily-looking stuff is a tamarind sauce. Chutney, apparently, though I'm starting to suspect that the word chutney is just an Indian word for condiment.
Behind These Eyes (playing the music of Hal Crook) sang about feminism and sang a song in honor of one of their members who couldn't be there.
Katie is from Connecticut, and says that the T is better than New York's subway, mostly because it's easier to navigate, even though it isn't open late at night, but Katie doesn't care about that because she's usually in bed by 10. I'm not sure if all the stations in New York look the same but the ones I've seen looked pretty similar. She's been to Washington D.C, where every station looks alike. I've read that each station's vaulted ceiling has a subtly different pattern to it but either it's too subtle or they're wrong and they really do look the same.
I've heard something about a Night Bus, which is an awesome idea and shouldn't cost too much money or mess with maintenance too much.
Mollie is an art history student and is probably very happy Pepe the Frog has supplanted the elephant as the Republican mascot because she wears a silver elephant pendant hanging from a choker of green stones, which means that a left-wing party free of authoritarians and social conservatives (it's kind of a catch-22: either you alienate them and they vote for Trump or you integrate them and they take over the party) should use the heron or the the kingfisher as their mascot. There's a ruddy kingfisher in Southeast Asia. They're red and they eat frogs. Danny doesn't particularly care how anyone spells her name. Mae Rose told a story about someone stealing vodka like a snake and I said that snakes can't steal things because they don't even have arms. It was probably a raccoon.
A woman looked like Christina and even kind of dresses like Christina.
burning question: so, if Princess Elise from Sonic 06 cries, the Flames of Disaster will be released and it's the end of the world or whatever. What if she laughed so hard she cried or cried tears of joy or had something in her eye or had allergies? What then?
It's actually more convenient than the usual busing, because you're getting on the bus at Braintree, and that means you neither have to get on the train and then get on the bus and then wait for another train, nor do you have to get on that stretch of highway between North Quincy and JFK/UMass.
So it only took me 50 minutes to get to Downtown Crossing.
It's weird: the Berklee Stage closest to the Mass Ave station was on a slightly different schedule than the Beantown Stage at the other end and the main stage. They're reasonably far from each other
There was a Brazilian drumming circle and a guy on drums who I think is less part of this and more a permanent fixture, and a group on melodica and keyboard and vocals that probably wasn't aware of this whole thing and just showed up. They got plenty of donations, though. So I guess everything worked out nicely for them.
Yulia plays piano and sings, Sarah plays harmonica and wears cat earrings and kind of looks like Tina Belcher, and Jeff may or may not play an instrument but he says he's easy to draw because he looks cartoonish and he says he looks like Rémy the chef from Ratatouille, which I haven't seen. I loved Inside Out, though. He cried a lot during Inside Out but really, pretty much everyone does. And Toy Story 3 wasn't that sad. Those are happy tears. If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about.
I never got the red-haired woman's name.
They moved their setup somewhere, sometime.
Kaovanny sounds Lao but I have no idea, honestly. In fact, I'm pretty sure she might be the only Kaovanny in existence. Sara Coelho was a guest vocalist for their first song.
Sarah, who has a dog named Chaplin, was happy when Kaovanny shouted out Sara Coelho. Actually, I don't know how these people spell their names. Sara is the Portuguese spelling but Sarah the harmonicist is from Brazil and she spells her name with an H at the end. In Morocco, it's always Sara with just an A. If you ask me, I prefer Sara but only one out of eight-ish are Sara. I asked you about this a long time ago so I'm not going to here. If you want to tell me your preferred spelling, go ahead.
Caroline and Carolyn, however, are different names. Caroline has a tattoo of a treble clef on her wrist but I never got to ask her what, if any, instruments she plays. Ashley had tattoos of some sorts too but they was obscured by the sleeves of her jacket.
A woman's tattoo is a swallow, not a swift. They're both birds and that's as related as they are. Swifts are related to hummingbirds except they're not restricted to the Americas, while swallows are passerines.
Another woman had a tiger tattoo.
A guy had a t-shirt with Louise Belcher saying that she does not appreciate your lack of sarcasm and a woman had a t-shirt that said Enjoy Slurm.
I met someone else who had to say hello to every dog she sees and she says that she sometimes feels awkward and wonders what the owners think but I say that if they don't want people saying hello to their dogs, they would't take them out in public or at least they'd get a fake service dog sign.
Someone was selling paintings of jazz musicians and there were Black Lives Matter t-shirts and I think it's so weird to come home to read about problems with race becoming more and more mainstream and they don't even have to hide behind an anti-Islam veneer anymore.
Mark Shilansky and Fugue Mill is a Celtic folk jazz band, and if that wasn't possible before they started it, it's possible now.
Jazz cred is a lot like prison cred. To get prison cred, you walk up tho the biggest guy and punch him in the face. To get jazz cred, you play Body and Soul. They played songs with mixed meter because the Venezuelan group that played before them did a lot of things in mixed meter and said that the music students could probably identify what those meters are. They sang a non-cliche Leonard Cohen song because their guest vocalist was an opera singer from Canada. Unless it's called something else, it doesn't have that amazing cover of She Moved Through The Fair. Actually, it's a medley of two Irish folk songs.
Eyeless In Gaza, Flying Saucer Attack, and The Durutti Column all did their own version of that song. The Durutti Column's version is called Maggie and someone described that album as the grey zone between personality/emotion and pure transcendence.
Self Portraits isn't really jazz. Jackie (this is a different Jackie who does not have hair the color of a belted kingfisher male) is every bit as bewildered as I was that a jazz festival invited a rock band to play but they're good.
I don't remember what Dreamcatchers is about. Time is about being in a relationship that isn't working out because the two of you want different things out of the relationship. Be Ok is about bullying. They're on Youtube.
Malcolm wanted to be in selfies with everyone. I didn't get a selfie with Malcolm but I did get a portrait of him, along with Emma and Julia, though they were rather quick ones. Not that Emma, alas.
Cassie has a bright red ponytail and black bangs under a hat. She says that people who donate 5 can get a bag and people give her 10 and tell her to keep the change.
There were many many women with green hair, the occasional man with green hair and occasional woman with pink or purple hair, a woman with a sunset prism hair in pink and purple and blue, a woman with a blue buzzcut and a guy with short blue hair.
Every time Sabrina travels somewhere, she gets a new ring. She got a heart ring from Paris, because she visits Paris regularly because she's French, and she got a sun in his splendour ring from Mexico. She had three other rings and I can't remember what those other places were. Phoebe knows about the birds.
I think someone in Pitch Slapped is named Rachel. Stephen is the vocal percussionist, as they put it. I was talking to Olivia before they played because they were dancing to Lenny Stallworth and Black Steel and I was surprised at how many people there were on stage. I had to wait to draw the rest of them: Kiana, Julia, C.J, Stephen, Brandon, Connor, Jordan, Alex, because they disappeared to do who knows what. They were already dressed for stage, so obviously not that.
All the guys at Bao Nation's tent were Indian and one of the guys had a Sikh emblem tattooed on his wrist. So, my guess is that gua bao originated in China obviously and ended up in India because there are Chinese people there. The one I ate was roasted eggplant with cilantro and peanuts on top.
Bokhara is a strange name for an Indian restaurant but they have good samosas. One of the condiments is spicy onion chutney, and that brown goopy oily-looking stuff is a tamarind sauce. Chutney, apparently, though I'm starting to suspect that the word chutney is just an Indian word for condiment.
Behind These Eyes (playing the music of Hal Crook) sang about feminism and sang a song in honor of one of their members who couldn't be there.
Katie is from Connecticut, and says that the T is better than New York's subway, mostly because it's easier to navigate, even though it isn't open late at night, but Katie doesn't care about that because she's usually in bed by 10. I'm not sure if all the stations in New York look the same but the ones I've seen looked pretty similar. She's been to Washington D.C, where every station looks alike. I've read that each station's vaulted ceiling has a subtly different pattern to it but either it's too subtle or they're wrong and they really do look the same.
I've heard something about a Night Bus, which is an awesome idea and shouldn't cost too much money or mess with maintenance too much.
Mollie is an art history student and is probably very happy Pepe the Frog has supplanted the elephant as the Republican mascot because she wears a silver elephant pendant hanging from a choker of green stones, which means that a left-wing party free of authoritarians and social conservatives (it's kind of a catch-22: either you alienate them and they vote for Trump or you integrate them and they take over the party) should use the heron or the the kingfisher as their mascot. There's a ruddy kingfisher in Southeast Asia. They're red and they eat frogs. Danny doesn't particularly care how anyone spells her name. Mae Rose told a story about someone stealing vodka like a snake and I said that snakes can't steal things because they don't even have arms. It was probably a raccoon.
A woman looked like Christina and even kind of dresses like Christina.
burning question: so, if Princess Elise from Sonic 06 cries, the Flames of Disaster will be released and it's the end of the world or whatever. What if she laughed so hard she cried or cried tears of joy or had something in her eye or had allergies? What then?
