Filed under: music, personal | Tags: annoying weekends, future clouds and radar, gay marriage, join the impact
I’m having a completely ridiculous weekend, which has so far involved about six hours spent with overly clappy marriage equality people, first at a screening of Saving Marriage, a well-made (though sort of oddly paced) documentary about how same-sex marriage came to be legalized in Massachusetts. [NB: By clappy I mean they applauded at everything, even through the whole movie; I didn't mean everybody had the clap.]
I didn’t even know it was happening, actually, because somehow I had gotten the details (and ticket price) of that event mixed up with an environmental fundraiser that involved the completion of a giant underground tunnel and The English Beat. No, really. But I ran into some friends who were going, so I tagged along.
Like I said, it was good, although at times it dragged a little; I mean, I’m impressed by any movie that can make me care about individual state legislature races in other states, but at the same time the captions counting down until the final decision just drew attention to how slow the whole process is, but not in a good way for the audience. Admittedly, though, I did miss about half the movie because the entire audience applauded anytime anybody said anything.
After the movie I went to see a friend of a friend DJ, and then got dragged, only sorta-willingly, to the Eagle, where on Friday nights the butch contingent of Providence’s gay community gather together to hit on one another while TVs show hardcore porn and a DJ plays thumpy house remixes of Leona Lewis songs, even though there’s not even really a dance floor and for Christ’s sake it’s supposed to be the seedy bar come on people I mean really.
Saturday involved getting up early for ultimately no reason, then heading over to the State House for Rhode Island’s version of Join The Impact, the national rally against Prop. 8 in California. I took some pictures which I might upload later, but ultimately I’m very bad at going to rallies. I got there late because I had to stop for coffee, I couldn’t really focus on what anybody was saying, and I started laughing when one speaker broke out in song. Also, I always get distracted by people that bring cute dogs to events like that. Here’s a picture (not by me) of the event. I’m not in it, though I’m pretty sure Waldo is.
That was the good part of the weekend; the bad part is that my garage is sort of flooded, which is bad because I keep hundreds of books there, and I only found out because I’m having a book sale this afternoon. I don’t know where you are reading this, but last night in Rhode Island there was some kind of horrific wind and rain/humidity storm. As a result, many of my favorite childhood books are now basically mush, including most of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys and Agatha Christie books I liked so much.
I should actually be getting ready for the book sale now, but I thought I’d post about how much I like the new Future Clouds And Radar CD and also give my boyfriend’s cat some quality lap time. Of course, I just spent over five hundred words talking about my weekend, so maybe I’ll skip the review and just tell you that I think it’s great. I also like how FC&R debuted last year with a double-album, and how they followed it up with something that only has eight songs on it. And they’re calling it an album, not an EP. That’s kinda awesome.
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