Thank you E!! Well I try. I wish I had your confidence and did better at hosting Zooms and things, I just have gotten scared of people/groups/coordinating things in the last few years? I can't stop thinking about what if something turned out shitty and people would be mad at me specifically.
I don't think I would have watched it if I didn't have COVID right now. It was very nostalgic. They have a lot of footage from the time. They also extensively interviewed Ananda Lewis, an MTV VJ whom I have not thought about since 1999. (She seems to be doing great!) Anyway. I was 18 and lived in California at the time. I do remember seeing it covered on MTV and I remember how much trash their was in the news footage, but otherwise it was very much on the periphery of my life. It's not a particularly well done doc (it doesn't really put the festival into context of 90s music festivals, talk about the race divide in music and how overwhelming white these events were) but it has so much footage from the time so in that way it is interesting.
I remember it happening but thinking it was dumb, maybe because of my Boomer parents and hearing a lot about Woodstock (not from them, they were determinedly anti-hippie) so I was dubious about them trying to do another one in another era. Also I didn't get cable until college so I was so out of the loop anyway.
Just pre-COVID some friends from high school who have a band that has a cult following were doing a reunion tour. One of them called and invited me to the local concert. I was thrilled to hear from him because they are fellows I love very,. I havent seen them in decades and was really excited to see them after all these years.
But as the night approached, I started to run through in my mind what lay ahead - the concert was in a big concert venue. There would be no seats! I'd be standing up. It probably wouldnt START until 11. God forbid there might be an opening band before that. And then after 11 I'd have to stand up in a room full of people, music blaring at full blast, for potentially hours. It was a reunion! Tney'd do multiple encores.
I was gripped by terror and when the night came, i sent my regrets that I was feeling under the weather. Which describes my permanent state post-non-concert.
I am glad I am not alone on the concert thing. Recently went to my first one in over five years and left well before it was over despite wearing some extremely supportive footwear. I definitely need a concert that guarantees I can be seated the whole time.
Claire! You did it! You figured out how to get your
witches together! I congratulate you! I am
so happy for your readers, who all love you!!!
Thank you E!! Well I try. I wish I had your confidence and did better at hosting Zooms and things, I just have gotten scared of people/groups/coordinating things in the last few years? I can't stop thinking about what if something turned out shitty and people would be mad at me specifically.
Claire, it's GREAT when people turn crappy! It forms a bracing and exhilarating friendship among the group who wish to toss the shitty person out!
I would be thrilled to meet fellow witches in the Philly area!
I got you! Thanks!
Did anyone watch the Woodstock '99 docu-series on Netflix yet. Yeah. The whole thing. Holy shit.
I know people who are watching it--is it enjoyable in any way or mostly depressing/enraging?
I don't think I would have watched it if I didn't have COVID right now. It was very nostalgic. They have a lot of footage from the time. They also extensively interviewed Ananda Lewis, an MTV VJ whom I have not thought about since 1999. (She seems to be doing great!) Anyway. I was 18 and lived in California at the time. I do remember seeing it covered on MTV and I remember how much trash their was in the news footage, but otherwise it was very much on the periphery of my life. It's not a particularly well done doc (it doesn't really put the festival into context of 90s music festivals, talk about the race divide in music and how overwhelming white these events were) but it has so much footage from the time so in that way it is interesting.
I remember it happening but thinking it was dumb, maybe because of my Boomer parents and hearing a lot about Woodstock (not from them, they were determinedly anti-hippie) so I was dubious about them trying to do another one in another era. Also I didn't get cable until college so I was so out of the loop anyway.
Just pre-COVID some friends from high school who have a band that has a cult following were doing a reunion tour. One of them called and invited me to the local concert. I was thrilled to hear from him because they are fellows I love very,. I havent seen them in decades and was really excited to see them after all these years.
But as the night approached, I started to run through in my mind what lay ahead - the concert was in a big concert venue. There would be no seats! I'd be standing up. It probably wouldnt START until 11. God forbid there might be an opening band before that. And then after 11 I'd have to stand up in a room full of people, music blaring at full blast, for potentially hours. It was a reunion! Tney'd do multiple encores.
I was gripped by terror and when the night came, i sent my regrets that I was feeling under the weather. Which describes my permanent state post-non-concert.
I have always been too old for outdoor music festivals. Now even for seated concerts I wear earplugs and it is frankly great.
I am glad I am not alone on the concert thing. Recently went to my first one in over five years and left well before it was over despite wearing some extremely supportive footwear. I definitely need a concert that guarantees I can be seated the whole time.
I will genuinely not buy a ticket for even my FAVORITE bands unless I have a chair.