Punks, Blessings, Burlesque and Lotus Flowers: The Moth Radio Hour
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What themes are explored in the stories shared on this episode?
This is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm your host, Suzanne Rust, the Moth's curatorial producer. Sometimes people ask me what moth stories are about. I tell them they are really about everything and anything, which explains the title of this episode, Punks, Blessings, Burlesque, and Lotus Flowers. Like this title, moth stories are like life itself, a variety show with every act imaginable. But what often unites them are common themes, like self-discovery, finding sanctuary, learning to forgive, and acknowledging blessings of different kinds. Our first story is from Eddie Laughter, who discovers just what she needs in a most unlikely place. She told this story at our Moth Teacher Institute. Here's Eddie.
I'm on my way to see live music for the first time, and I'm so much more anxious than I think I have any right to be because this band I'm about to see, I'm completely and utterly obsessed with, and I have seen every interview YouTube will physically let me watch, and I listen to them so much. At this point, it's probably doing something unhealthy to me. I don't know how that would work, but it's happening. And when I listen to, and this is because when I listen to them, all of a sudden I feel like I'm big and like I'm powerful and like nothing can touch me when I'm walking down the street, which is really not something I feel at this, like ever at this point in my life. And I feel like so small and clunky and like I don't fit into my own body right.
And I'm kind of starting to think that the middle school mentality that I'll never fit into any scenario I go to is just gonna be how I live my life. And I feel like I'm, like I just have to accept this at this point. So it doesn't make any sense that I'm this anxious to see this band. But I'm trying to think about what I can expect. And I'm just kind of thinking about how in movies, punk shows are always like a bunch of loud, aggressive, intoxicated white boys. And that doesn't really seem like my scene. And I'm spiraling a bit. And I'm looking around on the train. And I see this girl who's about like 9 or 11. I don't know how age works. But she's there. And she's with her dad. And I'm like, wonder if they're going to the punk show.
And then... and I'm more of a mess, and I'm still spiraling, and then I get off the train, and we get to the venue, and it doesn't look like a venue, but it definitely is a venue, because I get inside, and it's dark, and everyone's bigger than me, and it's really loud, and I pick a direction, and I just start walking, and I see my eighth grade math teacher, and, because of course I see my eighth grade math teacher, So I go up and talk to my eighth grade math teacher, because that's who he wants to spend his Friday. And I get up to him, and it was a lot less awkward than you would think. And he asked me about music and what bands I listen to, and I forget every single band I've ever heard of ever, and I'm like, this one.
And thankfully, I'm interrupted by the first band that's up, and they have this very, they introduce themselves, and they have this very nice, welcoming, like, speech about just like accepting everyone who's at the show and I'm like oh wow and then they start screaming and they sound like they're wounded animals and but then there's this weird pop music playing underneath it and they're still screaming and then after each song ends the front person goes thank you and then continues screaming for the next song and it's awesome and then this goes on for a bit and it stops and then I kind of creep out of the corner that I'm in and the next band is up and They again start screaming, of course, as you do.
But these guys, they legitimately sound like they're demons. And just from how they're moving to the way this man's eyes look and whatever the noise is that's coming out of him. And for some reason, I start to relax a bit and people are starting to dance around me and in this sort of way where it feels like there's a big sense of unity in the room and I don't know where that's coming from.
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