don’t know how I’m supposed to be okay after hearing ‘staring at the setting sun, no reason to come back again’ & ‘i don't want to feel this way forever’ live ???
(‘understanding in a car crash’ @ the nile coffee shop)
Last Thursday I finally got to see a band I looked forward to since discovering in 2020, Apes of the State! Joined by the rad Dana Skully and the Tiger Sharks and our local awesomeness of A Better Problem, they made for an exciting night!
Phil The Band is a high energy punk outfit from Show Low, AZ who has been trekking to Phoenix/Mesa area to hit the stage, most recently, at the World Famous Nile Theater. I had the opportunity to shoot some pictures of their performance and it was definit
In Egyptian mythology, Meret (also spelled Mert) was a goddess who was strongly associated with rejoicing, such as singing and dancing.
Meret was a token wife occasionally given to Hapy, the god of the Nile flood. Her name being a reference to this, meaning simply the beloved. As token wife, she was usually depicted with the same associations as Hapy, having on her head either the blue lotus for Upper Egypt, or the papyrus plant for Lower Egypt. Since Hapy was the source of bountifulness, Meret was usually depicted with an offering bowl, as she was seen, being his wife, as the symbolic recipient of his generosity.
Among the lower classes, where nationalism was less important than successful harvest, she was more strongly considered the wife of Hapy than the protectresses of Lower and Upper Egypt, which were more normally his wife in the upper classes. As a deity whose role was to be the symbolic receiver of bounty from the inundation of the Nile, she was strongly associated with rejoicing, such as singing and dancing.Later stories tell that Meret was the goddess of the eighth hour, in the Book of Gates.
Brannaughverse: Poirot was a soldier who saved his squad but then his captain died in an explosion and then his face got real scarred so his heterosexual love interest said that he should grow a mustache (this is the first few minutes of Death on the Nile. War is presumably WW1 due to trenches)
The ABC Murders: Poirot was a pastor and his entire congregation except for him got killed in a raid on his church during the war (presumably WW1 again but I have no clue actually)
Dale Bozzio (left) and Prescott Niles of Missing Persons - ‘80s Weekend #9; Microsoft Theater; Los Angeles, CA (2-15-20). @DaleBozzio @officialMPlive #PrescottNiles
so lately I’ve been compiling a list of venues where I’ve seen shows in my life, and it has me thinking about how incredible it is that some of these venues are roughly a hundred years old - that in a part of the world where 75+ year old buildings are something remarkable, some of the oldest buildings I’ve gotten to spend time in are revitalized early 20th century theaters that keep on living and serving as communal gathering spaces and hosting live music