Four Questions and a Rain Dance
It’s dry out there. I should just dump out my planters. I haven’t watered them, and everything is quite dry and dead. If enough of you volunteer to join me, I will initiate a community rain dance on the 400 Block tonight. Nudity not required.
1. I’ll start with a stupid question. I’ve never experienced live music, and I have a question pertaining my involvement. What do people do when they listen to the music? Do they sit and stare at the musician? Do they start grooving along with the tunes? Do they sit quietly and comment with their neighbor on the quality of the music? I’m so used to typing or writing or doing sudoku while I listen to music at home, I’m worried that when September comes along when I go see Scott Holt at the Fillmor, I’ll look like an idiot.
2. When you were a child, did you have a “lovey”? Like a blanket or a stuffed animal, maybe a lucky rock. I didn’t, and I think I always felt like I should have, but I was pretty easy to please. My husband still has his ratty ol’ teddy bear.
3. What is the craziest thing you ever did with a group of friends? I’m sure I did a lot of stuff in college, but I wasn’t sober enough to remember them later. I think one time we took an armful of stuffed animals to the grocery store, strapped them into a number of carts, and went shopping. We thought it was so funny; in retrospect, it was totally lame.
4. What is the appeal of white walls? One of my favorite things to do is choose colors for the walls in my home. It feels like a world of possibilities and magic, so versatile, so effective in directing the mood of a room. I always feel kind of sad for people who prefer white walls.
oldwoodchair said:
1. From keeping an eye on CW since it began (is that almost a year ago???) I’ve come to realize that I know nothing about music…I’m way outa my league here on this site. I’ve only seen one band (well, famous band…I’ve been to plenty of bars in my youth with local bands..does that count?) and that was the Doobie Brothers. So I’m with ya Cheryl…not sure what’s “proper”….though I imagine just sitting back enjoying the music and going where it takes you is the thing. By the way…who is Scott Holt…and is he any good?…should I go see him?
2. I had a stuffed Monkey named Zippy…he was won at the fair when I was 2 years old. I still have him tho he is an amputee now…but I still have the disconnected foot in a bag.
3. I really can’t answer this question as I believe they are still looking for us. I admit to nothing.
4. I have every paint sample card from Fleet Farm (the best paint, by the way.) I can’t stand white walls - to me it is the color of insane…I need strong color. Our latest house had all white walls when we moved in…a blank canvas! I am obsessive about wall color. And I love the names…it’s not dark orange…it’s Pilgrimage Foliage. It’s not lite green..it’s Earthly Embrace. I pick as much for the name as for the actual color…it has to be JUST RIGHT. Hey…we all have our passions.
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm #
Mohawk Matt said:
1. You can do whatever you like while listening to music. That’s the beauty of it, and some people may laugh, but as long as you have fun, that’s the goal.
2. I think I had a stuffed cat or something. Can’t remember.
3. We would get high on Robitussen and act out Return of the Living Dead 2 in a playground. It was fun and stupid. There are more, but I’ll leave it at that.
4. Being color blind, white walls are fine with me.
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm #
Dino Corvino said:
Chair…Scott Holt was Buddy Guy’s lead guitar player and bandleader for a decade. So he might be good.
1. I encourage people to dress as ninjas, and practice jeet ku do on the dance floor. Seriously, do what your body tells you to do in response to the music.
2. I still have and use the batman brush I got as a child. I also have my childhood blanket, but do not use it.
3. Not even going to answer this. I worked at Scott Street.
4. I think as long as you can wash them, go ahead.
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:13 pm #
timothyp said:
Scott Holt… September at the Fillmor? That’d be great! Not only one of the finest blues guitarists but a fantastic showman. No need for the puzzles or laptop that night!
1. I doubt that I’ve ever done anything the same way twice at any concert or show. I just go with the flow and within a few songs, I’ll know whether I will being paying attention to the band or not.
2. Nothing from my childhood, but I have this little perfectly shaped stone that I’ve been rubbing for the last 30 years. I always have to carry it, I’ll forget keys, wallet but never my stone.
3. XPress… that was the craziest thing I’ll ever do and what a blast.
4. I am a renter and most owners do the painting, so I’ve grown accustomed to white walls. Does force me to buy more wall art, but that gives me more motivation to find the right piece of art that I’ll see every day.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:35 am #
Dino Corvino said:
Timothy
October at the Fillmor
Tony brown in sept
sunspot in sept
August 24th, 2008 at 3:59 pm #
erik said:
1. I will join in with the chorus and say you do what you fell compelled to. When watching someone like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, I’ll usually sway a bit and get lost in the mood; a prog rock band like Co&Ca I’ll watch the chops on guitar a bit more; and still yet for someone like Bad Religion I will mosh with the best of them.
Oh, and I’m always singing along :D
2. Ricky the Raccoon was my cuddle toy of childhood. I still have him to this day, along with a cohort of additional raccoons that I’ve recieved as gifts.
3. After my first semester in college I dropped out of school to play guitar and sing in a punk band after only owning a guitar for three months. I moved down to Chicago with a bassist that got his axe at the same time as me and a drummer that was actually talented. I lived off of ritz crackers and peanut butter while living rent free in my girlfriend’s parent’s basement.
4. Much like Timothy I too have rented my whole life. White walls are all I know.
August 24th, 2008 at 6:17 pm #
robertmentzer said:
4. I have been a homeowner for, let me see, three days now, and job one has been to repaint almost every room. It is great painting over the bland white. For us at least, it is the first step toward making the house feel like ours.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:26 am #
PackOne said:
1. When I listen to music live, I am filled with a deep deep sense of regret. I often have to cease doing so.
2. I had a ratty old teddy bear as well. It still lives in my basement. Red and white with no eyes.
3. Lots of things, that were far from vanilla.
4. Really, don’t feel sad for us white wallers. It brings out the art that resides there.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:52 am #
Billie said:
Scott Holt is good an puts on a great show. Go, have fun, do whatever you like. If you look like an ass, I will post photos here. (Absolutely kidding, fear not).
1. If I like the band, I may dance or sing along… (apologies to anyone who attends the Sept 5 Sunspot show.. I will likely sing and dance). I am fascinated by most musician’s abilities and have a tendency to sit stupified as I watch their hands.
2. Nope. Nada.
3. Mine are all probably lame. I did take my cat and a human friend on a cross-country road trip once. We got stuck in Reno for 3 days but were too young to get into any trouble.
4. The first thing that I did when we bought the farm was to cover each and every bit of white wall in the house with colored paint. I was a renter for a long time and have always hated white walls.
August 26th, 2008 at 3:59 pm #
Tom Neal said:
Scott Holt blazes on stage. Good guy, too.
1. I’ve always and still do pretty much watch and listen intently. Too often, I critique and wish I were the act’s manager so I could make them even better. How arrogant.
2. Davy Crockett flintlock musket (my Rosebud?).
3. Went off to college in 1970 … you can well imagine what I did with my group of friends. Luckily, this was in the far north where we tended to do these things in the remote woods or on the beach. One thing: we’d go “tracking” … which was riding a van on railroad tracks through the endless wilderness (let air out of tires a bit to hug the rails, put ‘er in low and let ‘er go). We’d climb on the roof of the van and, uh, “sight see” yeah, that’s it!
4. Walls are walls. It’s everything else that really matters.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:07 am #
Dino Corvino said:
As far as Holt goes, TimothyP saw one of the better sets over in the twin cities. He can tell you what it is like.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:32 pm #
swearingen said:
1. Shake your groove thang. Get down wit yo’ bad self. Everybody have fun tonight; everybody Wang Chung (or at least Connie Chung) tonight. You put your left foot in…
2. Being the youngest of three, I got the castoffs…the green suckers (instead of the red or purple), the hand-me-downs (”holes in the knees and frayed hems are in this year”) and the least desireable stuffed animals. My sister got the huge teddy bear, my brother a fuzzy pink pig. I got a tiny, emaciated stuffed squirrel. Least that’s how I remember it (”Why do I have to sleep with the squirrely all the time?”) There is little comfort in a skinny squirrel.
3. Hmmm…in my younger days: collecting all the discarded Christmas trees from our neighborhood and piling them in front of Miss Labuddy’s front and back doors. Or opening a Playboy to the centerfold on her porch, rining the doorbell and running (this was prior to all those trees being piled up there, of course). Or throwing bubblebath or Alka Seltzer in the water founatin at the mall. In my older days: I was framed. It was all a big misunderstanding. All done with smoke and mirrors. I demand to see my lawyer.
4. Whitewalls…like the PeeWee Herman flyer on PeeWee’s Big Adventure… are cool. White walls make my eyes hurt.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:45 pm #
Jane Neal said:
1. I think it depends… on the musicians, the venue, your mood. There’s no wrong or right.
2. Like Swearingen, I was the last child, and the “oops/afterthought” at that. When I was 8, my older sister bought me a teddy bear because she thought it sad I didn’t have anything, but by then, I was too old for a “lovey,” I think.
3. Drunk or sober? I’ve done too many crazy/stupid things. Let’s just say that sometimes I think I’m lucky I’m still here.
4. I think this is another one where there’s no right or wrong. But I am also way more inwardly focused than most people, so anything is good as long as it’s not too jarring.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:14 am #