Carly Bond
&
Meernaa
From ANDRAS JONES: And so we come to the end of our sleepy afternoon sesh with Meernaa. I don’t know about you but I absolutely fell in love with this band. It was an honor to document them at this particular moment in time for all of us.
Some of the things that have obsessed me about this show as it has rolled out include:
1. The revelation of Tarantino’s endangering Uma Thurman on the set of Kill Bill, syncing up with our discussion about Jennifer Jason-Leigh’s guitar in The Hateful Eight with actor Craig Stark.
2. I’ve been targeted for harassment by some malicious people in Olympia the week this came out. I’m sure I’ll address this more in the future but for now I’m grateful for the eight soothing sonic balms of Meernaa’s music, and the support of those who spoke up on my behalf.
3. I thought a lot about the male marriage theme that showed up in this episode, in both the John Vanderslice and the Rob Shelton pods. I don’t want to “no-homo” here except to say that I wish I was as gay (as in happy and as in homosexual) as I sound in this episode. Since being the host of Radio8Ball is a kind of best version of me possible character that I play it’s had me pondering what’s up with that? I’ve come up with two things. First, Carly Bond embodies a lot of masculine energy (not at the expense of her powerful feminine energy) and, with her band at least, that created a really sweet vortex of man-love, and I was caught up in it. It felt good. The other thing I’ve been thinking is that at some point, probably when I was bartending in a gay bar, I realized that flirting with men is pretty safe, for me as man, I think because no one believes I’m actually gay. I certainly couldn’t fool them at the gay bar where they fired me once they found out I was trying to pass. I may not be gay but I am certainly queer and when John Vanderslice was talking about how lonely he is, I sure wished I was as groovy as the host of Radio8Ball and not as sad and straight as the guy being targeted in a tiny town in Washington state?
4. I loved how we ended on a Schrodinger’s cat cliffhanger. Gaze into the well, see the ridges, and good luck. Come on home Bean!
