moments in golden light
Jul. 7th, 2019 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaPartially because of the background noise and partially because I had my headphones on playing The House of Love’s A Spy in the House of Love and The Art of Noise’s The Seduction of Claude Debussy, I couldn’t tell if the woman whose windbreaker was green with white stripes was speaking German or something Slavic or something else entirely or even English.
A woman had a theropod dinosaur skeleton necklace.
Chloe is a tan and beige Australian shepherd and gave me kisses and then lied down under the seat.
Completely unrelated to the Celtic Music Festival, Andrew Forbes played bagpipes outside the Coop and two women with a pet chihuahua (the etymology of the dog is a state in Mexico; the etymology of the state is unknown but possibly means confluence) were watching. I also met a shih tzu and a labrador and a corgi and even two partially furred Chinese Crested, which most likely don’t originate in China but found themselves on Chinese ships hunting vermin. On the way to J.P. Licks, where I got a raspberry lime rickey, was Jonte of Songsabroad playing baritone sax.
Above the stage are color-shifting lights in abstract loops and tangles of threads.
Guilia Haible plays cello and keyboards and Caroline Dressler plays fiddle. Later, Stewart joined them on stage to play recorder, keyboards, and mandolin. Together, they form a trio who don’t yet have a name. They played a song called Don’t Deforest The Moon (Stewart would be very impressed if you could, although really, just go to Applied Cryonics and freeze yourself for 10,000,000 years, when you will end up in the setting of The Book of the New Sun and the hard part is finding something that will get you to the moon in a setting where even the distance between continents would be like traveling to another planet because all of our resources have long been used up) and a song written while she was spending her summer in the deep woods of Pennsylvania researching fireflies. The song is called Lampyridae, the family of beetles fireflies are part of. It was meant to be only 90 seconds long, and meandering and not really following a set pattern. They played a song called The Death of Bubbles. They have a CD but none of the songs they played are on it.
All of the trio’s songs are originals.
The songs that Giulia and Caroline played without Stewart were a mix of traditional reels and jigs and originals. Going by the stickers on Giulia’s cello case, she’s Scottish and Italian. Going by her surname, she’s also German.
I don’t know if the woman with a paper crane tattoo and the woman with a compass rose pendant were a relative of one of the members or just friends.
A woman had three naked dancers dancing under a crescent moon and a dagger tattooed on her arm.
Fade Blue was mostly James on double bass, Julian on percussion, Yaniv on bouzouki, and Lily on fiddle. And the reason bouzoukia are popular in Ireland is because someone went to Greece in the 1960s and brought one back with him and then hybridized it with the cittern. And that’s it.
Lily made her almost-debut on the concertina and Yaniv switched to accordion.
He would often play reels and jigs on the marimba.
The last song was called Oyá, after the Vodun goddess, and channeled Cuban music, using the same instruments as everything else, aside from a garland of bells on Julian’s boot.
Rebecca and Hannah danced on a stage.
Many members of Fade Blue were also part of Night Tree, which mixes Celtic and Scandinavian folk with jazz.
Lily had a lightning bolt tattooed on her wrist just below a leaf bracelet.
I got food from Salonika. Specifically, the Mykonos, a salad of mixed greens, zucchini and feta fritters, feta, red onions, spicy slaw, cucumbers, herbs, various Greek olives, and house vinaigrette. Yum.
Rebecca and Phoebe both have a lot of silver jewelry. A man who goes to art school in Chicago said he really likes my style.
Bailey was like “that’s the third time you drew me.”
There was a woman with the biggest eyes I’ve ever seen and two women of Indian descent I’d imagine though neither the younger woman nor the older woman wore Indian clothing. The younger woman had Ultima’s sigil with a crown on it tattooed on her wrist.
burning question: is it a good idea have half the Internet reverse-proxying through one service that can go down? I had a few in mind this week and they were all relevant at the same time. Cloudflare went out for maybe about 20 minutes early in the morning on July 2, and it went out a week before that. On the bright side, it fucked up some cryptocurrency webshites. On the other hand, is it worth living without a bunch of websites for a week or two in order to destroy bitcoin? Then we could save the environment and piss off a bunch of techbros at the same time.
A woman had a theropod dinosaur skeleton necklace.
Chloe is a tan and beige Australian shepherd and gave me kisses and then lied down under the seat.
Completely unrelated to the Celtic Music Festival, Andrew Forbes played bagpipes outside the Coop and two women with a pet chihuahua (the etymology of the dog is a state in Mexico; the etymology of the state is unknown but possibly means confluence) were watching. I also met a shih tzu and a labrador and a corgi and even two partially furred Chinese Crested, which most likely don’t originate in China but found themselves on Chinese ships hunting vermin. On the way to J.P. Licks, where I got a raspberry lime rickey, was Jonte of Songsabroad playing baritone sax.
Above the stage are color-shifting lights in abstract loops and tangles of threads.
Guilia Haible plays cello and keyboards and Caroline Dressler plays fiddle. Later, Stewart joined them on stage to play recorder, keyboards, and mandolin. Together, they form a trio who don’t yet have a name. They played a song called Don’t Deforest The Moon (Stewart would be very impressed if you could, although really, just go to Applied Cryonics and freeze yourself for 10,000,000 years, when you will end up in the setting of The Book of the New Sun and the hard part is finding something that will get you to the moon in a setting where even the distance between continents would be like traveling to another planet because all of our resources have long been used up) and a song written while she was spending her summer in the deep woods of Pennsylvania researching fireflies. The song is called Lampyridae, the family of beetles fireflies are part of. It was meant to be only 90 seconds long, and meandering and not really following a set pattern. They played a song called The Death of Bubbles. They have a CD but none of the songs they played are on it.
All of the trio’s songs are originals.
The songs that Giulia and Caroline played without Stewart were a mix of traditional reels and jigs and originals. Going by the stickers on Giulia’s cello case, she’s Scottish and Italian. Going by her surname, she’s also German.
I don’t know if the woman with a paper crane tattoo and the woman with a compass rose pendant were a relative of one of the members or just friends.
A woman had three naked dancers dancing under a crescent moon and a dagger tattooed on her arm.
Fade Blue was mostly James on double bass, Julian on percussion, Yaniv on bouzouki, and Lily on fiddle. And the reason bouzoukia are popular in Ireland is because someone went to Greece in the 1960s and brought one back with him and then hybridized it with the cittern. And that’s it.
Lily made her almost-debut on the concertina and Yaniv switched to accordion.
He would often play reels and jigs on the marimba.
The last song was called Oyá, after the Vodun goddess, and channeled Cuban music, using the same instruments as everything else, aside from a garland of bells on Julian’s boot.
Rebecca and Hannah danced on a stage.
Many members of Fade Blue were also part of Night Tree, which mixes Celtic and Scandinavian folk with jazz.
Lily had a lightning bolt tattooed on her wrist just below a leaf bracelet.
I got food from Salonika. Specifically, the Mykonos, a salad of mixed greens, zucchini and feta fritters, feta, red onions, spicy slaw, cucumbers, herbs, various Greek olives, and house vinaigrette. Yum.
Rebecca and Phoebe both have a lot of silver jewelry. A man who goes to art school in Chicago said he really likes my style.
Bailey was like “that’s the third time you drew me.”
There was a woman with the biggest eyes I’ve ever seen and two women of Indian descent I’d imagine though neither the younger woman nor the older woman wore Indian clothing. The younger woman had Ultima’s sigil with a crown on it tattooed on her wrist.
burning question: is it a good idea have half the Internet reverse-proxying through one service that can go down? I had a few in mind this week and they were all relevant at the same time. Cloudflare went out for maybe about 20 minutes early in the morning on July 2, and it went out a week before that. On the bright side, it fucked up some cryptocurrency webshites. On the other hand, is it worth living without a bunch of websites for a week or two in order to destroy bitcoin? Then we could save the environment and piss off a bunch of techbros at the same time.
