(My previous entry about the current state of theatre drew a lot of comments/ire/applause, but all of the comments were in Facebook, to which I import my blog entries. I’m not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, I knew I would get a lot of comments from my fellow Boise State classmates and friends, and I knew it would take “balls” to post something so personal up where so many actors could read it. At this point in my life I don’t really care about having “balls” to do things1. If I think something is fucked up, I’ll say it, even if I’m dead wrong. I think my post speaks to a deeper truth about the failure of theatre as a culture, as an art, and as a divine medium. But on the other hand, I wish they’d comment in my blog, rather than on Facebook. Oh well. Moving on…)
One of my first posts upon my arrival in Portland was about the magical festival known as Musicfest Northwest. It was great because I had just moved here, and I was broke, and my friends Paul and Missy were nice enough to buy me a ticket and escort my broke ass around downtown Portland so I could see a bunch of bands. It was like being thrust into the Portland scene, and I loved it.
Now, one year later, MFNW is back, and is five days long, and Paul and I are going and we have VIP PASSES. THAT COST US EXTRA BUT WERE TOTALLY WORTH IT. One of the bands playing at a VIP after party but not during MFNW proper is a little three-piece I like to call THE FUCKING THERMALS2. It’s gonna be a blast. I have money now, I am going to party like some kind of rockstar, I’m going to be really tired at work on Thursday and Friday, and, most importantly, I am going to blog about it for you, my gentle readers. So consider this week Musicfest Week. Tomorrow I’ll write an itinerary of events/bands, and after that I probably won’t have time to write anymore, so you’ll have to wait until Saturday for reviews.
Also, I completely redesigned joshuabelville.com, implementing a wordpress blog design instead of my shoddy HTML. This will make it a lot easier to update, which I desperately need. Anyway, I say that because I will be writing a quick blog post about my set at Hempstalk this last weekend, so perhaps you should head over there and RSS feed some shit so that you can stay up to date on whatever cool thing it is I’m doing, yes?
RSS feeds are a wonderful things, folks. They’re like picking out your favorite articles of the newspaper. Use them. Love them.
PEACE!