🌞🌷 HAIR! 🦋🌟
HAIR! at the Weston Playhouse, Weston, Vermont
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'Though the photo shows me without a mask, this was only for a moment during intermission when we went outside. Everyone was required to wear a mask, and show proof of vaccination or a fresh Covid test. Very safe place. Makes sense too. One round of Covid would take down the whole production!
ReplyDeleteThinking of "Hair," I wonder if that is one of the cultural touchstones of the "Boomers." I remember reading that when Donald Trump gets out of control he can be calmed by a song from the musical, and he is both a chronological Boomer and a native of the New York area. Where I grew up it was culturally the 1950's during the 1960's. We were far more influenced by the Beats than we realized at the time. "Hippies" and the "Rock and Roll" of the 1970's (or thereabouts) just didn't register with us. "My music" is the Chicago Blues. "The Blues had a baby, and its name was Rock and Roll"-- Muddy Waters
DeleteI identify Rock and Roll with the 1950s. I believe I was 16 when "Rock Around the Clock" hit the white airwaves. That would have been 1952 or '53. Elvis was a couple of years later.
DeleteYeah, that would be about right. I remember listening to Wolfman Jack (whose persona was partly based on Howlin' Wolf) on the radio after sundown. I also remember searching the shortwave dial to see what I could pick up. I remember Radio Moscow having to change frequency as "parties unknown" began to interfere with their signal.
DeleteRock Around the Clock was by Bill Haley, 1954
DeleteI was born in 1955. Funny how it never occurred to me that the song pre-dated my existence. LOL
It seems to me that a person identifies with whatever songs were playing on the radio in their teen years. For me that would be the late 60's.
I never liked what was on the radio. At least, not until folk became a thing. My tastes always skewed strongly toward classical.
DeleteAh, Bill, nothing compares to Classical. I love classical music, folk, and some rock (not too much pop and not acid rock).
DeleteMisogyny Comes out of the closet This is the Katie Phan Show on Youtube. I think on Hannah there are no ads.
ReplyDeleteI like the perception that GOP women are incubators of misogyny. I prefer "disfemism" but that is not a dictionary word.
Delete(Susan) I have always believed that GOP women don a parody of womanhood. They pay attention only to their exterior. Look at pictures of any trump rally and you'll see herds of overly-made up blond women. They pretend to be subservient and bow to "man as the leader" in trade for being allowed to be dependent and to be "taken care of" rather than having to exert themselves. They play being dumb but they hide their authentic selves.
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DeleteToo long to be readily memorizable or to fit on a bumper sticker, but dandy none the less. I'd say it's on a par with David Lloyd George's "A fully-equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts; and dukes are just as great a terror and they last longer."
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DeleteYesterday was the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing; the day after tomorrow is the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing. Naturally NHK (the Japanese public broadcaster) has extensive coverage of the last days of the war.
ReplyDeleteA story: the father of one of my college roommates was a member of the first group of US soldiers to enter Japan after the armistice, to take possession of and reopen the US embassy. Their plane flew into Atsugi (the Japanese Army Air Force headquarters base), fully expecting that they would be machine-gunned as soon as they got off. They weren't, and were put on a bus to take them into Tokyo. The windows of the bus had been largely replaced with wood, and the bus was powered by a gasogen (which produces gaseous fuel for an internal combustion engine from wood--they were known in the US during the Depression and WWII) and taken into Tokyo through the ruins of Yokohama, which had been one of the greatest concentrations of industry in the world--comparable to the Ruhr District in Germany. There was not a single factory building standing, not a single chimney standing. The only things rising above the rubble were the big safes of the factories.
That's quite a story, Alan. What an experience. All I can think is:
DeleteOh, what fools we mortals be.
‘What a piece of work is a man. How Noble in reason. How infinite in faculty. In form and movement
how expresse and admirable. In Action, how like an Angel. In apprehension, how like a God.
The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals..."
~ Shakespeare
How can we mess things up all the time so much?
And the whole damned thing, from its origins hundreds of years before to its very end, was so human, and so understandable.
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