Stereogum presents the Kilby festival in Salt Lake City on Instagram

Stereogum covered Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party, capturing the festival atmosphere with authentic Instagram photography and informative yet fresh hashtags. The festival featured acts like Vampire Weekend and Water from Your Eyes, who impressed with their music. The event’s connection to the punk rock film “Salt Lake City Punk” adds an intriguing historical dimension.

Water From Your Eyes, A Weird Band For Weird Times

Water From Your Eyes, A Weird Band For Weird Times

Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party Is The Real Deal https://www.stereogum.com/2263411/kilby-block-party-festival-recap/reviews/concert-review/

Stereogum is a website that presents music constantly. I subscribe to their email newsletter and am a member of their Facebook group, too. 

When Salt Lake City in Utah again hosted the Kilby festival, now twenty-five years running, Stereogum was there to document it, especially on Instagram. They did a good job. Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party Is The Real Deal https://www.stereogum.com/2263411/kilby-block-party-festival-recap/reviews/concert-review/

Vampire Weekend was at Kilby; and so was Water from Your Eyes. Stereogum remarks that some of the older acts went with the vibe that they did it right in the first place and it’s never better.

Water from Your Eyes is Rachel Brown and Nate Amos. Thanks for Coming is likewise Brooklyn pop.

Tonight was the first time I looked at Stereogum on IG and I appreciated the realism in their festival photography and the discrete but authentic captions. The hashtagging was suitably informative but fresh-feeling. Remarkable.

Salt Lake City is the setting for the 1990s punk rock film Salt Lake City Punk. I am not sure about the two things, neither Kilby nor SLC Punk have any other connection except for the locale, but if Kilby is twenty-five years running that puts its start date at something like the first release date for Salt Lake City Punk. Interesting that there was an indie rock scene at Kilby starting and, according to the film, some kind of punk rock culture, too.

I had thought the film had mostly employed Salt Lake City to highlight the irony that punk rock had spread to the far-flung reaches of Utah, where a religious element has its sway, I understand. I am not sure that religion and punk rock would be exclusive in any way, but I don’t know that punk rock would lend itself to any kind of conservative element in any way (I’m sure it wouldn’t). I’ve heard it observed that the fashion element of SLC Punk is savvy and charming for viewers who enjoy that dynamic, not just a cult music dynamic like the film has.

It was nice to see the Stereogum page. They have a great newsletter—you should consider subscribing.

New Wrinkles: ten years older than you were

Sometimes you can’t help but wonder what the bloggers of today go through when they reach a certain point in their lives.   At some point, life as an adult becomes more about taking care of others than actually raising your children (or at least learning to be OK with finally being an adult yourself). This can make family holidays fraught, and expanding on your own brood extraordinarily difficult.

Losing ten years in the wink of an eye would be a dramatic life change. If I were ten years older than I am now, I would be forty-seven years old. If my life hadn’t changed in all that time, I wonder if I would be able to steer my life.

If all of a sudden I were forty-seven, what would I do? Maybe I’d sign up for online dating, filling out my profile with such designations as:

Age: 47

Seeking: a woman

My occupation: cemetery volunteer and social media addict. Facebook would be as much interesting as it is in my thirties!

Interests: Watching the EastEnders serial

Enjoying the wisdom of getting old

Hopes for the future: Keeping aware of changes and developments in the world

And so on.

I’d be aware of the shorter length of time left in my life. I’d want to pay more attention to what’s printed in the Saturday paper, instead of hurrying through it. My astrology chart designation would seem all the more pressing, I think.

Try this and try that–I would try to be more aware that there is only so much time in the day and it goes in the wink of an eye.

Other than looking for love, I’d be all the more set on my vocation. There would be fewer opportunities, I believe, so getting additional education would be all the more remote a possibility.

Upgrading a skill set would be all the more unfathomable as well. But I think I’d be satisfied with what I’ve managed to do so far. I’d be all the more persistent.

Maybe something like that would go on my dating profile!

I don’t think I’d be any keener than I am on the ongoing changes in technology; I’d be all the more typical growing old, putting my faith in the past instead of the future. I know I would write on my profile that I want to stay informed about what’s new. Still, I think as a guy I’d be saying that in order to demonstrate a certain character of the rube in my personality, seasoned by the years but not necessarily completely astute.

I think I would want to devote some time to reading good literature. I am sure there are many fascinating books, and in my late forties, I would want to delve into more than I have.

I wouldn’t be optimistic that I would learn much more than I have, because time spent in a book can go in the wink of an eye. That being said, there’s an illumination that goes with looking at the pages of essential books and fun books, and strange books.

Live in the moment and be happy there

Coaching Positive Performance

Coach and trainer Carthage Buckley reminded me this year on the Internet that Wayne Dyer wrote in Dyer’s book Your Erroneous Zones that guilt and worry are useless emotions. Carthage writes this in a Coaching Positive Performance post discussing goals. Carthage argues in the post there is no goal worth too much sacrifice.

Even if I’d missed the last ten years of my life, at the age of only forty-seven, I would still find happiness in what remained to be lived.

Of course, at this time, I’m still only 37. If the next ten years disappear somehow, I will try not to be too disappointed. At later stages of life, there are still many joys to experience.

You might know more about those joys than I do! Ten years is a long time, but in human life, it can go all too quickly: in the wink of an eye.