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An unintentional libertarian anthem/meditation from Sully at the Dish:
By then, the subtleties, the mixes of CBD and THC, the nuances of sativa and indica strains will all be turned by the genius of the free market into something quite marvelous. We will finally have made of this weed what was long made of the simple grape. And we will all be happier.
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It’s been a while since I offered up some truly mindless aural curiosities. I’d never heard of this “Robyn” character prior to a couple of days ago.
The West is all about hidden treasures embedded in its vast nothing. To wit, the Basques — as depicted in the documentary Amerikanuak about former Basque shepherds in Nevada.
(What the below trailer doesn’t do but should is give you a feel of how uproariously full of raunchy humor the film is. Old guys reminisce about coming to town, each after spending the whole year alone with 2000 sheep, a couple of horses, and all the rattlesnakes they could dodge.
If Lithuanians played the dozens, you’d get Amerikanuak.)
The soundtrack by Audience is outstanding. too.
I got this in the email:
Clearly they have my musical taste down to a tee. Maybe Bill-O has a very similar email address to mine?
But unlike Ticketmaster, I believe in alerting people to actually good music. Since David Bowie’s new album comes out next week, here’s his second album, which IMO is shamefully underrated. There are still some fairly strong traces of his original hippie/acoustic setup, but it’s also different from what he’d do later in so many ways. It’s a lot more personal and heartfelt than most of his work, which was more theatrical and hard-hitting. But it’s another sign of the man’s genius–who could write both “Suffragette City” and “Letter to Hermione”?
Clearly they have my musical taste down to a tee. Maybe Bill-O has a very similar email address to mine?
But unlike Ticketmaster, I believe in alerting people to actually good music. Since David Bowie’s new album comes out next week, here’s his second album, which IMO is shamefully underrated. There are still some fairly strong traces of his original hippie/acoustic setup, but it’s also different from what he’d do later in so many ways. It’s a lot more personal and heartfelt than most of his work, which was more theatrical and hard-hitting. But it’s another sign of the man’s genius–who could write both “Suffragette City” and “Letter to Hermione”?
You know how maybe you’ve loved something in the past, but what with life’n'whatnot haven’t looked in on it in a while? Belgian waffles, maybe, or Justified? And then you poke your head through the door for a hey-hi-howdy, and everything’s even sweeter than you remembered?
Just the now, I checked out the latest on DJ Steveboy’s Groovelectric channel, “Glitch in the System,” and man, it’s cherce.
(Steven Boyett (DJSB) is one of those frustrating polymath-types who not only spins great music (including at Burning Man) but who also has written both one of the best recent fantasy novels and one of the best of all time.)
Despite sounding like a Corky St. Clair original, this is, in fact, a real thing: Dead Man Walking, an Opera in two Acts, Music by Jake Heggie, Libretto by Terrence McNally.
Video via the Houston Grand Opera.
THE GRAPEVINE
