stealing the show
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yamamanamaI ran into Mary at Davis station but she had to work that day.
There were two Emilys at one table and one Emily and one Kim and one guy I didn't get the name of at another. The Welcome Project was making a quilt about various immigration stories. I attempted one and squirted some marker over my hand. On the bright side, I might be able to pass off as a long lost Trump son and swindle them out of their fortune.
I met a husky or something named Isis, you know, like from the Shazam!/Isis Hour tv show. I met a big white fluffy dog who barks when he's happy.
There was a man with a Mondrian tattoo and a woman with blue hair who was dressed like R2-D2, a woman with half raspberry and half orange hair and a woman with a Boo from Super Mario t-shirt and a woman with a seahorse tattoo and a woman with red skull apple tattoos, and a man with a green and violet mohawk. A woman had a strawberry bicycle helmet, a cat t-shirt, and had a pin of Rick and of Pickle Rick and of standing with Planned Parenthood and she held a stop fascism sign. A woman had dog tattoos including a dog wearing a monocle. She sold dog collars and leashes and stuff.
Someone carved raw potatoes and you could use them as stamps.
A woman had an octopus necklace and a rainbow ice cream cone hairclip.
I saw the woman with the tree-waves-lotus-rising sun tattoo but I didn’t get a chance to say anything.
Kim didn’t recognize herself because she was only dimly aware that she was wearing stripes.
The theme this year was Flip so there were acrobats and some artists made these flip books in which you could turn a crank and a dagron would fly through the air or some abstract colors would swirl around. One year, the theme was Robots or Future or something.
The dog tag had an ice cream cone or perhaps a castle sitting atop a swirling cloud. The poster had a puppy licking the ice cream but the dog tag didn't.
Stacking Stones
A folk-rock group. I don't have a lot to say about them but they were good. The last song they played was a traditional gospel song that was pretty obviously a metaphor for slaves escaping to freedom.
Le Prestige
It's what happens when someone tries to create instrumental music inspired by the backing tracks in 90s hip hop and electronica, performed on trumpet, tenor saxophone, drums, upright bass, and alto saxophone.
Matthew Stubbs and the Antiguas
They mash up psychedelic garage rock with the blues and Afrobeat and 60s spy film soundtracks. Julie Rhodes joined them onstage. The booklet didn’t explain who she was but she’s an up-and-coming blues-americana singer and she played at the River Arts Festival as well.
Gogofski
A Balkans trio and sometimes quartet. They sang in Macedonian, Romani, Turkish, and Bosnian. They played at Artbeat:Loops too. They play accordion, clarinet, vocals and tambourine, and tǎpan drums and a few other types of drum.
Nearby,
Long
Live
Obso
lesc
ence
was on a glass window now covering an payphone cradle and the exoskeleton of a payphone. It was titled "the future of telecommunications was here" Allison, over 5 years, kept tabs on the new stickers and graffiti. Allison called it an exoskeleton too. Dreamers think alike, I guess.
Elsewhere, Gary Duehr mummified a phone in a plaster cast.
There was a fish sculpture and a decorated Barbie in the Inside Out Gallery, which I can't find pictures of anywhere. The world moves faster than Google does.
I had a falafel pita from Amsterdam Falafel.
The Royer Family Band
A bluegrass folk group with Hazel on upright bass and her father Eric on banjo and guitar and Sean, a friend, on guitars. They covered a Neil Young song.
Saboyouma
A seven piece band led by a balafonist from Guinea with a lot of percussion.
Sinnet
An indie rock band. Again, I don't have a lot to say about them. One of the members plays in Soft Pyramids, who played at Loops.
Forró Zabumbeca
Northeast Brazilian folk music, some of which was slow and bouncy, some of which reminded me of Irish music, on an accordion known as the crazy man's instrument because of the fact that each button makes two different notes depending on which way the bellows are moving and a fiddle called a rabeca, a zabumba drum, a triangle, maracas, and woodblock. The vocalist says Brazil has the best ice cream because of all the tropical fruits there and his favorite kind is flavored with the coco babaçu, or drooling coconut.
Boston Cream
Someone called them party punk or disco punk. They’re from Boston, Massachuetts, not Cream, Massachusetts. That isn’t even a real place. One of the members made that joke.
Megan was wearing a pendant with St. Christopher on it and says that he’s the patron saint of travelers and wayfarers and she’s been doing a lot of that. She visited Scotland recently. Her friend is Anna. It was their first time hearing Boston Cream. They said they didn't need salsa lessons.
Mel, singer of Boston Cream, had a crescent moon pendant, a whistle that she used in her music, and a pendant of St. Christopher that she found in the trash. Once I found a ceramic Darth Maul face in a drawer while were cleaning up the art room on the last day of classes. At least, I think it was supposed to be Darth Maul. Sully thought it was the Moon or a cookie. I don’t know what Amanda’s intent was. I still have it. I have no idea what happened to Blocko Man, A Man of Greatness, who was crying and saying “meh!”; Tomato-Head Man. I know someone ended up with Hitler with a constipated-with-rage expression but I have no idea what they did with it.
At one point, Mel was flipped over. She said that if you dance, you won’t look as stupid as she did and most of you are right side up. They were way too animated to sketch properly.
Them Frisky Critters were playing New Orleans style jazz on accordion and banjo and other things. I think they just travel wherever their music takes them.
Sarah’s favorite book is whatever book she just finished.
HONK! held a parade. Sophie took part, playing the melodica. It was led by a woman in a purple feather boa and white gloves playing the rubber chicken.
Jesus Pagan y su Orquestra
Before they played, someone gave us the basics on salsa dancing in half an hour or less. I think that’s why it ended at 9:40. That and the next two bands don’t take a long time to set up.
Serena, Megan, and two others I never got the names of played with a tennis ball and were offering local rocks and had a bunch of rocks and stick fragments lined up all professionally now that all the actual booth people were gone. Trades were accepted. Unfortunately for their rock business, someone came to collect all the tables and put them away. Megan has gauge earrings and a piercing at the bridge of her nose.
Britta has mesopelagic blue hair and floral clothing and wore one of the dog tags around her wrist.
Hayley Thompson-King learned opera vocals at the New England Conservatory and moved away from that and into psychedelic Americana. She sang about Lot’s wife, who was never named in the Bible, about how she was turned into a pillar of salt because she turned back to look at Sodom burning and she interprets that as her heart beats really slowly within, and God was letting her watch the city for all eternity, like a l’Cie, and Lot was kind of a dick anyway, who would have children with his own daughters. She likes playing in Massachusetts because in some places, they’d crucify her for blasphemy. She played a new song for us and is going into the studio to record it very soon. The first song she played was lieder by Robert Schumann and she played a song inspired by one of Albrecht Dürer's etchings. She had just finished a tour of Europe.
A man had two pugs, black and fawn. Both of them were exceptionally skinny by pug standards.
There were four black and white puppies in front of Davis Square. The placeholder names they had include Moose, Orion, and Lucy.
Miranda from the wildlife center and her friend Olivia, how appropriate, arrived when the last group started playing. Miranda has a picture of a raccoon on her phone and people always think it’s a cat. She says she's going to visit the wildlife center soon.
I thought I saw Ashley but I’m pretty sure that Ashley would rather spend a day with me than get a tattoo or get earrings.
The Perceptionists: Mr. Lif & Akrobatik.
I find that rap is very focused on lyrics while I tend to get lost in songs. They're regarded as Boston's best rappers but I don't really know enough about the genre. At times, they got very political.
Last year I had Fungal Fruit, which is passionfruit and lime. This year, I got Alien Snot, which is kiwi and blue raspberry.
burning question: What do you make of Judas Iscariot?
There were two Emilys at one table and one Emily and one Kim and one guy I didn't get the name of at another. The Welcome Project was making a quilt about various immigration stories. I attempted one and squirted some marker over my hand. On the bright side, I might be able to pass off as a long lost Trump son and swindle them out of their fortune.
I met a husky or something named Isis, you know, like from the Shazam!/Isis Hour tv show. I met a big white fluffy dog who barks when he's happy.
There was a man with a Mondrian tattoo and a woman with blue hair who was dressed like R2-D2, a woman with half raspberry and half orange hair and a woman with a Boo from Super Mario t-shirt and a woman with a seahorse tattoo and a woman with red skull apple tattoos, and a man with a green and violet mohawk. A woman had a strawberry bicycle helmet, a cat t-shirt, and had a pin of Rick and of Pickle Rick and of standing with Planned Parenthood and she held a stop fascism sign. A woman had dog tattoos including a dog wearing a monocle. She sold dog collars and leashes and stuff.
Someone carved raw potatoes and you could use them as stamps.
A woman had an octopus necklace and a rainbow ice cream cone hairclip.
I saw the woman with the tree-waves-lotus-rising sun tattoo but I didn’t get a chance to say anything.
Kim didn’t recognize herself because she was only dimly aware that she was wearing stripes.
The theme this year was Flip so there were acrobats and some artists made these flip books in which you could turn a crank and a dagron would fly through the air or some abstract colors would swirl around. One year, the theme was Robots or Future or something.
The dog tag had an ice cream cone or perhaps a castle sitting atop a swirling cloud. The poster had a puppy licking the ice cream but the dog tag didn't.
Stacking Stones
A folk-rock group. I don't have a lot to say about them but they were good. The last song they played was a traditional gospel song that was pretty obviously a metaphor for slaves escaping to freedom.
Le Prestige
It's what happens when someone tries to create instrumental music inspired by the backing tracks in 90s hip hop and electronica, performed on trumpet, tenor saxophone, drums, upright bass, and alto saxophone.
Matthew Stubbs and the Antiguas
They mash up psychedelic garage rock with the blues and Afrobeat and 60s spy film soundtracks. Julie Rhodes joined them onstage. The booklet didn’t explain who she was but she’s an up-and-coming blues-americana singer and she played at the River Arts Festival as well.
Gogofski
A Balkans trio and sometimes quartet. They sang in Macedonian, Romani, Turkish, and Bosnian. They played at Artbeat:Loops too. They play accordion, clarinet, vocals and tambourine, and tǎpan drums and a few other types of drum.
Nearby,
Long
Live
Obso
lesc
ence
was on a glass window now covering an payphone cradle and the exoskeleton of a payphone. It was titled "the future of telecommunications was here" Allison, over 5 years, kept tabs on the new stickers and graffiti. Allison called it an exoskeleton too. Dreamers think alike, I guess.
Elsewhere, Gary Duehr mummified a phone in a plaster cast.
There was a fish sculpture and a decorated Barbie in the Inside Out Gallery, which I can't find pictures of anywhere. The world moves faster than Google does.
I had a falafel pita from Amsterdam Falafel.
The Royer Family Band
A bluegrass folk group with Hazel on upright bass and her father Eric on banjo and guitar and Sean, a friend, on guitars. They covered a Neil Young song.
Saboyouma
A seven piece band led by a balafonist from Guinea with a lot of percussion.
Sinnet
An indie rock band. Again, I don't have a lot to say about them. One of the members plays in Soft Pyramids, who played at Loops.
Forró Zabumbeca
Northeast Brazilian folk music, some of which was slow and bouncy, some of which reminded me of Irish music, on an accordion known as the crazy man's instrument because of the fact that each button makes two different notes depending on which way the bellows are moving and a fiddle called a rabeca, a zabumba drum, a triangle, maracas, and woodblock. The vocalist says Brazil has the best ice cream because of all the tropical fruits there and his favorite kind is flavored with the coco babaçu, or drooling coconut.
Boston Cream
Someone called them party punk or disco punk. They’re from Boston, Massachuetts, not Cream, Massachusetts. That isn’t even a real place. One of the members made that joke.
Megan was wearing a pendant with St. Christopher on it and says that he’s the patron saint of travelers and wayfarers and she’s been doing a lot of that. She visited Scotland recently. Her friend is Anna. It was their first time hearing Boston Cream. They said they didn't need salsa lessons.
Mel, singer of Boston Cream, had a crescent moon pendant, a whistle that she used in her music, and a pendant of St. Christopher that she found in the trash. Once I found a ceramic Darth Maul face in a drawer while were cleaning up the art room on the last day of classes. At least, I think it was supposed to be Darth Maul. Sully thought it was the Moon or a cookie. I don’t know what Amanda’s intent was. I still have it. I have no idea what happened to Blocko Man, A Man of Greatness, who was crying and saying “meh!”; Tomato-Head Man. I know someone ended up with Hitler with a constipated-with-rage expression but I have no idea what they did with it.
At one point, Mel was flipped over. She said that if you dance, you won’t look as stupid as she did and most of you are right side up. They were way too animated to sketch properly.
Them Frisky Critters were playing New Orleans style jazz on accordion and banjo and other things. I think they just travel wherever their music takes them.
Sarah’s favorite book is whatever book she just finished.
HONK! held a parade. Sophie took part, playing the melodica. It was led by a woman in a purple feather boa and white gloves playing the rubber chicken.
Jesus Pagan y su Orquestra
Before they played, someone gave us the basics on salsa dancing in half an hour or less. I think that’s why it ended at 9:40. That and the next two bands don’t take a long time to set up.
Serena, Megan, and two others I never got the names of played with a tennis ball and were offering local rocks and had a bunch of rocks and stick fragments lined up all professionally now that all the actual booth people were gone. Trades were accepted. Unfortunately for their rock business, someone came to collect all the tables and put them away. Megan has gauge earrings and a piercing at the bridge of her nose.
Britta has mesopelagic blue hair and floral clothing and wore one of the dog tags around her wrist.
Hayley Thompson-King learned opera vocals at the New England Conservatory and moved away from that and into psychedelic Americana. She sang about Lot’s wife, who was never named in the Bible, about how she was turned into a pillar of salt because she turned back to look at Sodom burning and she interprets that as her heart beats really slowly within, and God was letting her watch the city for all eternity, like a l’Cie, and Lot was kind of a dick anyway, who would have children with his own daughters. She likes playing in Massachusetts because in some places, they’d crucify her for blasphemy. She played a new song for us and is going into the studio to record it very soon. The first song she played was lieder by Robert Schumann and she played a song inspired by one of Albrecht Dürer's etchings. She had just finished a tour of Europe.
A man had two pugs, black and fawn. Both of them were exceptionally skinny by pug standards.
There were four black and white puppies in front of Davis Square. The placeholder names they had include Moose, Orion, and Lucy.
Miranda from the wildlife center and her friend Olivia, how appropriate, arrived when the last group started playing. Miranda has a picture of a raccoon on her phone and people always think it’s a cat. She says she's going to visit the wildlife center soon.
I thought I saw Ashley but I’m pretty sure that Ashley would rather spend a day with me than get a tattoo or get earrings.
The Perceptionists: Mr. Lif & Akrobatik.
I find that rap is very focused on lyrics while I tend to get lost in songs. They're regarded as Boston's best rappers but I don't really know enough about the genre. At times, they got very political.
Last year I had Fungal Fruit, which is passionfruit and lime. This year, I got Alien Snot, which is kiwi and blue raspberry.
burning question: What do you make of Judas Iscariot?
