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  • a quickie

    Friday, Jun 27, 2008 3:51AM / Standard Entry / Members only
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    I was just thinking about another concert that was really different and meaningful for me. It was the Sundays, down by the Jersey shore. It wasn't the Stone Pony. I think it was a place in Red Bank. Some moderate-sized auditorium.

    Bigger than a school auditorium and smaller than something like the Hammerstein Ballroom in NY. But what I remember about it was the space felt like a public school auditorium, somehow. What was it? Was it during the daytime? Wooden seats with arms? Somehow I remember seeing Harriet Wheeler in natural light. Which was perfect for her. That was the only concert I ever saw down by the Jersey shore. The Sundays remind me, almost more than any other music, of all the confusing feelings of being a girl and a teenager.



    This song, especially. I LOVE THIS SONG!!! It reminds me of so many things. Being young. Being free, for real.


    Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezrrcMGUnic




    Also, last night, I went to see Hamlet with Butter and Ivy at Central Park and it was amazing. Shakespeare is the kind of thing that really does "hit the spot" more and more intuitively as you get older. The dramatic issues - extreme emotions dealing with serious politics between adults - are things that we can all relate to without blinking or having to analyze the language. And famous phrases like "More matter with less art" make sense just as ideas - not as something you were forced to study. The fact that these words ring true, and were written so perfectly, to last throughout eternity, to serve so many people, is satisfying on multiple levels.

    The sexual puns get funnier and more intuitive too.

    Like the "country matters" joke.

    HAMLET
    114   I mean, my head upon your lap?

          OPHELIA
    115   Ay, my lord.

          HAMLET
    116   Do you think I meant country matters?

          OPHELIA
    117   I think nothing, my lord.

          HAMLET
    118   That's a fair thought to lie between
    119   maids' legs.








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  • ivylam
    Official artist Ivy Lam 
    posted on Thursday, Jul 17, 2008 1:57PM [Report]
    it was a great play to watch... and i really enjoyed the company! :) you should definitely go watch more of it if you have the chance... just make sure you line up early! ;P
  • JoanneSanderson
    JoanneSanderson 
    posted on Monday, Jun 30, 2008 5:27AM [Report]
    As a kid Shakespeare was torture to me, I never understood it, but the older i got the more i realised that he was years ahead of his time and that his works were quite hip, even by today's standards.
               I've not heard the Sunday's, but I like the song here, it gives me a summery feel and yeah a trip down memory lane of the teenager past.
  • jae-hochang
    Official artist Jae-Ho Chang 
    posted on Friday, Jun 27, 2008 10:32AM [Report]
    i love Harriet Wheeler.  i want to marry her.  such a cutie!
    i believe it was Red Bank because i bought a Sunday's shirt in high school and the tour dates were on the back.
    their version of Wild Horses is out of this world.
  • Jaine
    Jaine 
    posted on Friday, Jun 27, 2008 6:28AM [Report]
    music is so emotive and good at bringing up the emotions of youth.

    I love Shakespeare in the park (no matter where the park) I took Kahurangi to Macbeth last year - she grizzled the whole time but then later after she had digested it she actually liked it quite a lot.
  • butter
    butter 
    posted on Friday, Jun 27, 2008 6:21AM [Report]
    Wendy, thank you so much for putting this vid of The Sundays up.  I loved this album but this song was never one of my faves.  Listening to it again now, I have a whole new appreciation for it and must go dig up that CD now.  If you had gone to see The Sundays at The Marquee in Chelsea, perhaps we would've run into each other back in the day.  They were one of my fave bands.  I was amazed at how Harriet Wheeler's voice sounded just the same live.  The way you describe their music is so apt and how I feel about it too :)

    The play was so good and a total reminder of why Shakespeare's work is so amazing and thoroughly relevant even today.  Kind of makes me want more.
  • janechu
    janechu 
    posted on Friday, Jun 27, 2008 4:10AM [Report]
    oh seeing Hamlet sounds fun... =) I remember having to read for a school assignment.. haha...

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