JesusFest! Wow!
So, the GF, her son and I went to JesusFest, in Rockville, CT yesterday… and lemme tell you… it was a fest. A Frost Fun Fest, to be sure.
Scarlet Fade, a teeny-bopper Christian-grunge modern reinterpretation of the Go-Go’s (with a barely-male drummer), was the main act. These kids are not incompetent musicians, and they did have some stage presence and energy… but… then Ali [bio - age unspecified] started to tell us about a song she wrote, that they were going to play next… and how it came from “a time in her life” when blah blah blah…. Ali, I’ve got news for you. There hasn’t been enough time in your life to you a phrase like “a time in my life”. You’re in THE time of your life. Wait till you’re 25, washed-up, living in a box on the Sunset Strip… turning tricks to pay for your meth habit. When you turn THAT around, then you can write songs about “a time in your life”
Then there was the Midway.
There was a guy there, in a … what do you call it… a shade tent? He was selling individual kneeling benches… for when you’re home, praying along with the televised mass, I guess… eek. There was a tent with a sign on it: “NEED PRAYER?” …with a few people waiting, apparently, to help people pray for or about things. …? There was a mobile petting zoo, which according to the GF, was fine, except for the rude, pushy Christians.
I missed out on the mobile petting zoo, because I ran into my cousin’s husband there… and lemme tell you, he was SURPRISED to see ME there. We ended up going into the adjacent church, because my cousin was in there… so there was this nice little family reunion thing… that was a little awkward, being that I’m at JesusFest, in a church, wearing one of my famous Reality Check shirts. Still, it was pleasant to catch up, and they didn’t seem too horrified by my shirt…
We wandered around a bit more, then went home.
I have to say it was a little spooky… it was like walking around in a fur coat, eating a raw hunk of veal, at a PETA convention. Apparently, none of us had the “look in our eyes” that said we were “saved”… and then there was my shirt….
So all-in-all… I’d say it was interesting. I mean… good for them… the rented a street, had a little fun… I can’t say I agree with what they believe (and perpetuate with all the merchandise and entertainment)… but they’re free to believe it.
Oh, and I now have a “personal” twitter account. You can follow NewsUndies stuff on http://twitter.com/newsundies, and follow ME, personally, at http://twitter.com/ursuspacificus.
Whee!