Baby, take my hand and pull me down, down, down, down
John Mayer: Love On The Weekend
And I’ll be dreamin’ of the next time we can go
Into another serotonin overflow
Love on the weekend… Love on the weekend
Billboard Hot 100 #53 – December 2016
Um, sorry… these notes are a mess… hang on… wait.. OK. I’m ready. Here we go:
I think I’m supposed to say:
“A big, Friday Hello to all! Welcome to the tnocs.com Weekend Wrap-Up”
So, um… hello.
Goodboy, here.
And I guess that it’s up to me to help with The Weekend Files today. Which is hard, because, you know, I don’t have thumbs, or know how to type, or anything.
Fortunately, I was able to get in touch with the local zoo and get some professional help. Those guys and gals were amazing. A big shoutout to all. I’m working on a proper thank you.
What a week around here! There was a lot of something that Dad sometimes calls “IRL stuff” going on. I don’t know what that means. But I can tell you all that he feels bad about slacking off on Thursday. There was just not enough time to pack everything that needed to be done in the past 168 hours.
He said to tell you all that he’s sorry and that he will do better next week.
He’s making that weird sleeping noise. I’ll let him rest and be sure to tell him later that you came by. That will make him smile.
And that’s because whenever you stop by to visit, read some stuff, and maybe even make a comment on one of the articles:
…that’s his favorite thing in the world.
And now, according to this alleged script, I’m supposed to say:
“Here’s our weekly recap of recent cool stuff that you may have missed…”
This Past Week’s New Articles
Contributing Author Ozmoe is killing it, and on Monday, brought us the 1978 vintage installment of his awesome Songs Of The Summer series…
A triumphant Contributing Author JJ Live At Leeds stopped by on Tuesday with a celebration and tribute to Lioness fans everywhere…
Nothing this week from the vacationing Bill Bois.
Oh – sorry – that would be, “we totally made him work, anyway…”
Our beloved Virgindog brought back some great memories of the emerging punk scene, circa 1975…
And Hey, It’s THURSDAY! And we have…
…[cough], let’s just move on to…
Friday!
Contributing Author Phylum Of Alexandria‘s scheduled Thursday appearance was delayed. But as always, it was totally worth the wait, as he deftly presented the penultimate chapter of his Summer Mini Series: Politics in Mind.
I knew that I could get through it. Piece of cake. Thanks for your support.
And please send your ideas for articles to submissions@tnocs.com . As Dad would say: We wicked need, and welcome everybody to write for the site!
Be sure to hang with us all weekend… drive-by comments here at The Weekend Files, as well as in any of our articles are always welcome.
Thank you in advance for keeping us company – we appreciate you!
Thank you so much for your support and kind comments about the site. I’m impossibly lucky to be able to hang with all of you. Have a great weekend, please be careful, take good care of yourselves and each other…
…and good on you all.
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Nice lead there with a really good John Mayer song.
I can’t believe there’s a song with the lyrics “serotonin overflow.”
And that said song is a John Mayer song rather than, say, Black Midi.
It’s a misplaced lyric. He could have gone with lots of other choices in that verse. But hey, this is John Mayer. Being predictable is not his thing.
Good boy, Goodboy.
Thank you, mt58, for reading 10,000 words. You are the best.
TFI Saturday – 2 weeks with no work? Yes please. Tomorrow morning we’re off to Wales for a week of castles, beaches, zip wires, the great outdoors, steam trains and hoping mini J doesn’t try and impress the locals with her Welsh accent.
Watched the Woodstock ’99 documentary this week, aptly titled Trainwreck. A lesson in how not to stage a festival; lousy venue, insufficient infrastructure, lacking in basic sanitation, rampant profiteering and Fred Durst. it seemed as much a social experiment in creating a real life Lord of the Flies scenario on a mass scale as it did a music event. The organisers play their parts as villains of the piece perfectly with no culpability that they did anything wrong. It was a few bad apples, they can’t be held responsible for the behaviour of a minority of assholes. As we see the crowd get busy in dismantling the security around the sound booth while Fred Durst encourages people to break stuff one of the promoters describes the behaviour as ‘rambunctious’. Kids at a birthday party hyped up on sugar are rambunctious – and who the hell uses the word rambunctious anyway?! On the other hand there weren’t just a minority of assholes in the crowd, there were a whole load of them showcasing the very worst elements of society and the hive mind.
As a spectacle though there are some wow moments; the scene of devastation on the Monday morning once everyone had left is really something. And seeing the crowd reaction to Korn, I’m in no way a fan but it looked incredible with a moshpit that went back forever and the entire crowd rippling wave like as they bounced up and down to the music. I’ve been in some big festival crowds but that was wild. Too wild in the end.
I still have episode 3 to go in Trainwreck; was watching it last night. As presented in this doc, the weekend really was a train wreck. How do the Brits do it? How are they able to repeatedly pull off these festivals where the crowd is actually respectful? Was it simply the fact that the Amercan frat boy culture will always ruin everything?! Or was it a textbook example of how NOT to stage a festival when you don’t care about the music and just view it as a business venture? Is it the decades of experience Brit festival promoters have under their belt that they have paid attention to the Lessons Learned over the years?
Really fascinating doc to watch.
Enjoy your vacation, JJ!
Its a case of lessons learnt i think. Glastonbury is the big one and has been run since 1970 by the Eavis family. They still had to bring in outside help for logistics and security though as in the 80s and 90s it was under serious threat of not being allowed to continue. Security was so non existent in 1994 its estimated that 300,000 watched The Levellers headline. Which is insane when you consider that the official capacity was 80,000. I’ve a friend who went during those years and he said similar things to some of those on the Woodstock doc, he had a great time but it did feel dangerously overcrowded and with an element who were there to cause trouble and rob tents. In the same year 5 people were injured in a shooting onsite. And then there were the closure threats due to environmental reasons with so many people pissing in the streams running through the site.
They had to install the ‘superfence’ in 2002 which sorted the easy access issue and the times I went in the 00s and 10s it was a super friendly fun atmosphere and the crowd (mostly) taking responsibility for looking after the site. Treating people like grown ups helps. You can take your own food and drink in, no limits, whereas Woodstock not even allowing people to take in their own water was just pissing people off as soon as they got there.
Enjoy part 3, where it really hits the fan and you get to see a whole lot of Flea.
Finished it up tonight. Totally forgot Flea let it all hang out for that Woodstock set. Oy.
You know what though??? I’m watching part 3 of the Woodstock doc, and couldn’t help but tie it in with Phylum’s ongoing series. Makes for a fascinating study of the hive tendancy. The promoters made that hornets nest of festival-goers very, very, very angry.