Some thoughts on a day
Added 2024-11-07 00:27:59 +0000 UTCI don't have much useful to add. I was confident about the outcome of this election and I was wrong so I don't feel confident about anything else.
But I just wanted to offer two things: a memory and a gift.
When the 2016 election happened, Meg and I were living in a cramped AirBnB in London while Meg and Jeffrey helped start the London neo-futurist theater company. I wanted nothing more than to shut down for a few weeks after that terrible night, but I was too busy. We were in final frantic edits on our second novel, It Devours!, and then we had to jump right into writing our next live show.
As you imagine, my mindset at the time heavily informed the content of that live show, which we eventually titled "All Hail". All Hail is a show about the Glow Cloud. But it's also a show about feeling helpless, and about the unbelievable power that comes from having to rely on your friends and neighbors. It's a show about solidarity, and it's also a show about a sentient cloud that controls minds. It has layers, I guess you could say.
I can't promise that this show will be helpful to you. Certainly the two guys that wrote it during that difficult period in history had no idea how to help themselves. But it is a work that speaks from one moment and maybe speaks directly to this moment.
So for that reason I have temporarily made it free on Bandcamp. You can still put in a price if you want to pay us for it, and that's appreciated, but don't feel like you have to. If it's useful to you, then that's all I'm looking for.
-Joseph Fink
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All Hail
Zoe Midlands
2024-11-08 07:19:01 +0000 UTCNever got the hate Carlos has for him is it because he married his sister?? 🤣
Eric Sowder
2024-11-08 04:24:34 +0000 UTCWhile I don’t want to bring politics in here I been listening to the 2013 episodes not saying but woah spooky almost predicted the future!🤣🤣
Eric Sowder
2024-11-08 04:22:54 +0000 UTCI saw All Hail at the Apollo Victoria and loved it. I recently bought it to share it with my spouse because she didn't come with me, and we both cried. Truly one of my fave WTNV moments. And thank you for sharing it widely this way.
Kate Harford
2024-11-07 20:29:44 +0000 UTCOne strange thing about Bandcamp though... I put All Hail in my cart and The Attic was there as well. No way to change it, no cart in sight. Not even when checking out with PayPal. I set the price when I checked out and it was doubled because there were two albums. It was a bit surreal, as if they knew what I would need and then force it upon me. "Customers can pick up there ready-filled carts after checkout." Like finally getting your papers ready at City Hall and then finding out everything is double and there is no way back. I wonder, can an audio production be sent to the 'new' (well old now) landfill after use? I mean it is not physical or how you say that. You cannot touch it. But the audio-information, like data in an MP3, would need to be stored somewhere. I could bring my memory of listening to it to that landfill, but I don't want to part with it. And I have not listened yet.
EJ
2024-11-07 18:11:41 +0000 UTCI’ve been listening since the age of not-quite 13 back in early 2013. Needed to feel something but dread and despair so I restarted WTNV again. I can’t thank you enough for giving me something to rely on since before this nightmare began. “A friendly desert community….” And some of the fear in my heart subsides. Cecil’s voice is my baby blanket.
Lacey H
2024-11-07 17:21:47 +0000 UTCTo all my night vale family in the US. Remember at the end of the Empire strikes back the rebel alliance was scattered and felt lost and broken. Just find the Jedi that is in all of us.
Craig Hewitt
2024-11-07 14:41:58 +0000 UTCThanks for this, really warms the soul. And yes, good to know we are not alone. Greetings from Holland
EJ
2024-11-07 08:08:32 +0000 UTCWell looky here... even now you remember all that, years later!
EJ
2024-11-07 08:04:13 +0000 UTCWell, you say some people don't seem to want you in this world? Look at it this way: you feel you don't fit in sometimes. You feel different? Be glad to be different. Congrats with that! It is a compliment when people notice that. I knew a man who did not like the sight of me, even if I never did anything. Some people have rules in their head and they feel I don't fit in. Nowadays I laugh at people like that. They are nothing to be jealous of and certainly nothing you want to hang around with. Maybe you're not really from this planet, like I feel sometimes. I mean I feel like I'm not from here, except for nature of Mother Earth of course. Hey... come to think of it... would you like to be Dragon somtimes? Like in Night Vale? If yes, how many heads? Or maybe an Angel? If so, what colour Wings would you have?
EJ
2024-11-07 08:02:03 +0000 UTCAll Hail has helped me in the past to feel more confident in myself, and continues to do so today ❤️ ive already bought the live recording, but ive sent the link to my friends who hadnt yet. im fortunately from Europe, but my heart goes out to the USA right now, especially BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled people, etc, this is truly soulcrushing news :( stay strong everyone 🩷🫂
Thot Izzy
2024-11-07 07:41:02 +0000 UTCIt definitely helped, thank you. I know that, objectively, things overall are so much better than they were decades ago. I still increasingly feel that there is a large amount of people in the world that don't want me, or people like me, in it. It helps a lot to hear that I am not alone. We exist. We hold each other.
JB
2024-11-07 07:04:13 +0000 UTCSending love from Scotland. We are devastated for you over here. Holding space 🕯️
Vivika Kerridge
2024-11-07 06:28:13 +0000 UTCMy mantra today was, "Be the Glow Cloud to you want to see. Rain the dead creatures you would like to be dropped on you." It helped a lot.
Souls Are High Protein
2024-11-07 03:16:06 +0000 UTCListened to A Spy in the Desert on the way home from work today after trying to pretend I wasn’t falling apart. It helped. Tremendously. Thank you for what you put into the world. ♥️
Hannah K. 🌲
2024-11-07 02:31:20 +0000 UTCOkay, I thought Tamika should be mayor. Perhaps Steve should be considered?
Heather Fidler
2024-11-07 02:24:29 +0000 UTCThis is why we need a new mayor election!
Heather Fidler
2024-11-07 02:23:01 +0000 UTCThank you so much! Nightvale has always felt like a, welcome break from real life and yet has so many lessons you can apply to real life. Yall have an amazing ability to talk about subjects without ever actually talking about them directly and by looking at them in a new light. I'm gonna be relistening to the StrexCorp arc, and I've never listened to All Hail, but I'm going to now Thank you for reaching out and taking the time to share this gem to make us feel connected again. It's easy to isolate and feel isolated in these times. Stay safe
Louis
2024-11-07 02:18:04 +0000 UTCBut also want to thank you all staying away from politics in the show other then night vale politics!🤣 can escape from this crazy world for awhile and just laugh and enjoy the show
Eric Sowder
2024-11-07 01:51:36 +0000 UTCGlad I’ll be far away in the Caribbean this week get away from the madness
Eric Sowder
2024-11-07 01:36:54 +0000 UTCWe all are so blessed to be involved in your Nightvale universe. Thanks for all the hard work you do to entertain us.
Richard Gilbert
2024-11-07 01:04:09 +0000 UTCI’m very scared about the future of the world. A lot more than in 2016. Dictatorships often start with elected officials and the democracy in the US keeps eroding. The US is such a huge power in the world and while it’s definitely not perfect I can’t help but imagine that what’s to come will be much much worse (whether it be the US as an even worse version of itself or another power becoming more dominant or total chaos)
Brenna Epp
2024-11-07 01:03:02 +0000 UTCThe Vague yet Menacing Government Agencies are about to be very real. Make no mistakes
KorsadOakenbrow
2024-11-07 00:56:27 +0000 UTC💜
Leah Fenner
2024-11-07 00:55:22 +0000 UTCAnd all of you, please stay safe ❤️
Jamie V
2024-11-07 00:50:47 +0000 UTCThanks Jeffrey and co, you all helped me stay okay during lockdown and now this. 🥲
Jamie V
2024-11-07 00:49:29 +0000 UTCI also felt confident Kamala Harris would win the election. I have been experiencing so many emotions: fear, anger, sadness and hopelessness. Thanks for sharing this.
Sarah Duzynski
2024-11-07 00:46:28 +0000 UTCThis show actually is helpful today. Thank you Joseph et al. You always find time to make a weird and lovely place for us. We appreciate it, and it's w w w w w wait...Steve Carlsberg!???
Zoe Midlands
2024-11-07 00:45:11 +0000 UTCThank you. This act of kindness helps me feel less alone and more cared for outside of my little queer bubble.
YOU-lee
2024-11-07 00:44:09 +0000 UTCThank you so much, for everything. 💜
Mariah
2024-11-07 00:42:14 +0000 UTCThank you. You guys are amazing. <3
Lisiqe
2024-11-07 00:39:38 +0000 UTCPlease be confident that the community you co-created is sitting with you. If you happen to pour your collective frustration into the next season or two, so be it. That being said, wouldn't Tamika be an amazing new mayor?
Heather Fidler
2024-11-07 00:38:32 +0000 UTCThank you. I will listen to it tonight. Night Vale has gotten me through some difficult times in my life, and it will help me get through now. You don't know how much this world you all have created has meant to me.
Julia Diem
2024-11-07 00:36:29 +0000 UTCThank you. I saw that show, and I remember shouting nice things at the stage. Thank you for that show, and the reminder of it right now. It's good to know I'm not alone.
Chris Napolitano
2024-11-07 00:31:42 +0000 UTCthank you so much, you guys are amazing! make sure to take care of your mental health
Sparrowo
2024-11-07 00:30:52 +0000 UTC
