vampires (& new video & ticket link!)
in which i get my first reading of 'twilight' off my chest and then go on to prepare for the winter solstice concert 12/22! Plus video from the cutting room!
Hey Hartlist,
I know, I know, ‘spooky season’ is over, but I haven’t newslettered since Halloween.
But first:
TICKETS! WINTER SOLSTICE CONCERT 12/22 @Rockwood Music Hall! Plan ahead to join me & Matt Gelfer and some special guests for an intimate, magical, wintry set in our candlelit subterreanean home base (Stage 3) where we haven’t played since 2019.
VIDEO from the CUTTING ROOM SHOW! Courtesy of the good people at ‘Famous in NY’, pls enjoy this playlist of a few great tunes from the Hallows Eve(Eve Eve Eve) show, like this newer tune:
How was your Hallows Actual Eve? Speaking of intimate and magical, I’m glad to report that reading tarot for people (in person!!) at a Halloween baby shower in Brooklyn went swimmingly well. I’ve been doing this a long time now and it never ceases to amaze me. I’m a person who sees the Tarot as an art form rather than a party trick, and all art as (potentially) a spiritual practice/tool that can offer insight. When I’m writing a song that works, I’m always reminded of how little it feels like I’m doing and how much it feels like something’s happening. And I’m similarly humbled and delighted to sit with people at a little table and watch a story rise off of the ten cards between us in a way that feels weirdly like it has nothing to do with me even though I’m there to articulate it. I mean, I’ve had a lot of practice articulating and I’m pretty good at it (at least when I’m not writing this paragraph). More on that here. In the meantime, a small PSA: at a party like this, I think you can either get completely hammered OR get your cards read, but not both. Thank you on behalf of Not Fortune Tellers everywhere.
Speaking of unnecessary energy drains, over Halloween I read the ginormously famous Vampire Love blockbuster ‘Twilight’ for the first time . (I think I have actually maxed out on ‘Labyrinth’, arguably my generation’s version? It was a weirder/simpler time.) And this post was originally going to be All About That and it wasn’t, and you’re welcome, but I have some things to say.
Kids:
Vampires aren’t real, but relationships that begin with a person saying “I’m really bad for you, you should stay away from me” or similar are sadly very very actual. And they usually end in misery, not in A Love That Outlasts Eternity. When you hear this, listen. And then run. Love, Aunt Rebecca.
PS. Secret relationships are bad. Not being able to talk about your personal life to friends or parents or anyone is (usually) bad (unless your parents are homophobes or - I guess??? - vampire hunters). PPS. “Strong female character” is not the same as “character who says ‘I’m fine!’ constantly even when seriously injured and ‘I don’t care I just want to be with you!’ about everything. Oh my god. PPPS. “He’s a vampire, but he says he’s not going to kill me” = No. HE IS A GOT DAMN VAMPIRE.
(He spends the whole book going “I’m just SO afraid I’m going to LITERALLY KILL YOU” and she’s like “oh my gosh how can I help you feel better about that?”)
Also, sir, if I may speak to you for a moment? You are A THOUSAND YEARS OLD. Your actual, real soulmate who you’ve been ‘waiting centuries for’ is a 17-year old high school student? Get a(n eternal) life.
I’ve said too much.
Also, Lindy West wrote a much funnier essay about this in ‘Shit Actually’ and also this news is 20 years old.
Besides I’ve gotta get back to my first-time binge of Tru Blood now. ( Bill is awesome, he would never do anything to harm Sookie.)
:)
See you at the gig,
Rebecca