Roadside Attraction

It's pretty clear that we're at the end of an era.  Less apparent - but perfectly obvious - we are at the beginning of a new era.  These things get murky.

But we are happy to celebrate both endings and beginnings, so we do.  Dimmy Jean performs the last holiday song.  The cast at The Last Summer Ball at the Cosmos is up to 7 this time and it's pretty psychedelic.  Thad Williams shows us what it means to be present.  The Roadside Hobo Band swapped instruments with fun results.  Bill Mooney offered reassurance and Michelle Allen offered an angry poem.

More than once we've reassured a guest artist by saying, "Well, at least you don't have to follow Sharon Lane."  This time we turned it around and gave Sharon a tough act to follow.

As always, you can see video of the show at www.RoadsideAttractionLive.com

 

Brandon Berry is our musical guest.  He is usually handling the video part of the project, including running the camera, but he handed off a bit of that while he's performing.  One of the songs he sings is "I Gutted My VCR".  That explains a lot.  In this show, several things explain a lot.  Bill Mooney's take on the word Yum is something to aspire to.  Bill and Erich Reith did a drum and poetry jam that effectively balanced the previously attempted attempt to balance which actually led to imbalance.  Dude!  Khryss Blank is back!  Thaddeus played sweet music.  The Cosmos piece went off to an island in Arizona after witnessing an ant invasion.  Someone shouted "It's everywhere.  It's everywhere".  We edited that out.

You can see the video at www.roadsideattractionlive.com. 

The road to the attraction takes a strange turn this month.  Different sounds, other approaches, but the same happy gathering of words and music.  Debbie DeCasio is our guest.

Darkness settled over the midway.  Maps used to say “There be dragons here”.  Maps don’t say that now.  But that doesn’t mean there are no dragons." - Lorne Malvo.   Roadside Attraction had a visit from a dragon.  It brought whiskey for kids and toxic ideas.  We social distanced.  We sought philosophical distance too.  We considered distant learning and swapping in spooky distance and quantum masks instead of month after month of lockdown.  When none of that seemed to work we sought shelters which soon caught fire, as variously reported herein.  

2020 Vision means that you can see clearly and the year 2020 has made it possible to see many unfortunate and unfair things that were perfectly obvious all along.  We have always treasured information but now there is such a glut of it that it has become almost meaningless. And yet we still aspire.  Maybe something great is about to happen.