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Somerville to throw itself a pity party
By adamg on Fri, 08/07/2015 - 1:34pm
Greg Cook, who in year's past has organized the Saddest Parade on Earth, is working with the Somerville Arts Council on a pity party in Union Square next month:
We’re looking for bands to play 20 minutes sets of sad songs (classic covers as well as depressing originals). We’ll provide a “back line” (amps, mics, etc.), but musicians have to bring their own drums and other instruments. We’re seeking facepainters to paint tears and other sad stuff on visitors’ faces. We’re seeking artists, writers and performers to offer sad visuals, readings and so on. We’re looking more for funny sad than sad sad, but surprise us with your best melancholia.
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Depressing news...
Depressing news...
was totally going to go
But fuck it, I'm just going to lie on the sofa listening to Patsy Cline and eating cupcakes.
Sounds like fun!
... but not too much.
I love my city
but holy cow sometimes I just want to slap it, too.
Will Puddles be singing?
They will also need some sad trombones from the HONK! festival, as well as serve fluff on toast that landed fluff side down in the dirt.
Will try
Greg said, yes, he'll contact Puddles.
i bet you that happens
chocolate sprinkles.
come on, underemployed bohemian hipsters, make the fluff-side-down happen
Doofus Hipster Alert
They'll be serving the hipster irony in very large containers.
JP has officially lost the contest
The center of Hipster gravity has unquestionably shifted to Union Square.
They were going to insist on attendees arriving via pantsless MBTA conveyances, but that motion was blocked by the Davis Square Fixie Affinity Group.
Howie Winter, Johnny Martorano, et al were not available for comment.
Anyone else remember Union Square in the late 1980s?
Ah, the old days when the area's claim to fame was the sleazy 24 hour market that sold Rule 34 porn before there was a Rule 34.
Mid-Nite Market
is still there.
It's just your basic blue collar square.
I'm over there regularly and have known the square since the 70s. I like the Brazilian butcher shop that has yerba mate, the Indian grocer, the Korean market and the sub shop with the killer mural.
https://goo.gl/6PxVdv
The diversity is a bit more compelling than some quasi extinct skank pit clinging to life by dint of scratchie and ciggy sales. That fame claim belongs to the minds of its imaginers.
And even before it veered away from white monoculture, it still had its gritty charm with useful things in the mix.
https://youtu.be/uEOI9xbTmWE
Union Blues
Mostly Union Square was famous for it's 37 used furniture stores. I still have junk that was junk thirty years ago.
I don't have a band, but...
...I do have an iPod with a playlist titled "songs to make me cry". The sad(?) part is it's more than 20 songs long.
I have many more than 20
I have many more than 20 songs that can make me cry. I like sad songs.