The white elephant song exchange - tonight!!!
The Shadowboxer Collective presents the second annual White Elephant Song Exchange!
The Shadowboxer Collective is a small group of people who are dedicated to putting on great shows in C-U. The second installment of the While Elephant Song Exchange will feature seven great local bands: Angie Heaton, Say it With a Smile, The Palace Flophouse, Jet W. Lee, You and Yourn, He and Him (Cole Rabenort and Ryan Groff), and Elsinore!
Mike N' Molly's, show starts at 10 pm, doors open at 9. The cover is $5, and all proceeds will be donated to A Women's Fund, which helps to provide safety and support to victims of sexual abuse in Champaign County.
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Is there more to it than just a show? With a name like “The White Elephant Song Exchange” it sounds like there may be some theme or gimmick about the performances.
Given the lineup, it should be a great show regardless, but the name had me a bit curious.
Tony C.
I believe part of the show will entail the prancing about of a well endowed pale fellow.
Will be there!
See...
There’s an Ernest Hemingway short story called “Hills Like White Elephants,“ or something similar. The whole story is a conversation in which exactly “what” the characters are discussing remains unspoken, but completely understood - the readers gotta figure it out. So So clever, eh? Lets quick the elitist indie rock literary references, eh? The Decemberists and Of Montreal already sound retarded doing it…
It was abortion, in the story, by the way.
thanks for sharing your vast knowledge. i suppose office workers and families around the country are intentionally making (semi-)obscure literary and indie rock references as they organize their white elephant gift exchanges as well, eh?
it is also said that the buddha’s mother dreamed of a white elephant the night before he was born…
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Naw, I think it was Hemingway, nice try though…wait,She and Him played, oh no, my mistake, sorry…
And we know Elsinore thinks their a “quiet fault zone” deep down - you can hear the passion in the voice. Just my ears, don’t blame me.
I had never heard of a white elephant gift exchange until now. I’ve participated in a similar exchange, but knew it as a cutthroat gift exchange.
I’m not sure if my question has been answered yet, though.
Here's what
white elephant
–noun 1. a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of
2. a possession entailing great expense out of proportion to its usefulness or value to the owner
3. an abnormally whitish or pale elephant, usually found in Thailand; an albino elephant.
Origin:
1850–55; from the perh. apocryphal tale that the King of Siam would award a disagreeable courtier a white elephant, the upkeep of which would ruin the courtier
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This also explains why I was starting to think Roses & Sake was a group of strange pagans from Vancouver. This is when it pays to be a local. My apologies to the true Roses & Sake, we’ll fix this ASAP!
Ahh, shame on me. I grabbed it directly off of Mike ‘N Molly’s website. I’ll see if I can’t get it corrected on here (and maybe pass along the word to them as well). Thank you, observant reader!
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Very sad I’ll have to miss this. It sounds sexy as hell & I’ll look forward to the recap.