I'm So Tired of America

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Beth and I saw Rufus Wainwright at Tarrytown Music Hall on Thursday the 6th. His sister Lucy was the opener, and she also sang on a few of his songs.

He's a great musician, but so many of his songs are depressing. I guess it runs in his family, since I remember my dad having an album by his mom and aunt, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and those were also good songs that were pretty much all downers, and often about death. Rufus even made a joke about a Leonard Cohen cover actually brought the mood up a bit. The song in question was "So Long, Marianne," although he also did "Hallelujah" as his last song, with Lucy on backing vocals. His second to last was "Going to a Town," which was also the name of the tour, and he wore a T-shirt with some lyrics from it. He also played another political song that he wrote at seventeen, called "Liberty Cabbage."

Last weekend was Monster-Mania in Cherry Hill. The first panel we saw was with Dana Kimmell, who was in Friday the 13th Part 3. We watched most of those movies in quick succession and I tend to forget which one was which, but the stories from people working on them are still interesting.

Then came Lauren Lavera and Elliott Fullam from the second and third Terrifier films.

Roger Jackson's main reason for being at a horror convention was that he's the voice of Ghostface in the Scream series, but he's also Mojo Jojo on Powerpuff Girls and a lot of other voices.

He said that Mojo was originally intended to have a Peter Lorre kind of voice, but Craig McCracken suggested throwing in a bit of samurai. He also gave some examples of when he voiced a whole bunch of cats and dogs for some video games. The first evening panel was with Eli Roth, who mostly talked about the company he's founding that allows for investment from fans.

And there was someone in the audience who yelled every time he mentioned one of his movies. And from The Return of the Living Dead were Miguel Nunez, Linnea Quigley, Thom Matthews, and Beverly Randolph. Miguel was very talkative, but the others had some good anecdotes as well.


I probably don't need to mention that the political situation in this country seems to be pretty much hopeless at this point. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how people can still support Trump when he's constantly bullying and threatening people. Yeah, I know about the leopards eating faces and how his supporters think it's only going to be other people who get hurt, but isn't his attitude off-putting anyway? I feel like that kind of behavior has been normalized way too much, and a lot of people just expect it. I guess at this point it doesn't even matter too much whether he still has supporters in the populace in general when the Supreme Court is on his side, and the Democrats seem eager to maintain a status quo that doesn't really exist anymore.