tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post7902541659268366165..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: Drug Report: Matthew Gavin Frank's Pot Farm and Some Other Pot Booksmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-13756169469312462652021-11-24T22:25:03.850-08:002021-11-24T22:25:03.850-08:00Nice post. Well what can I say is that these is an...Nice post. Well what can I say is that these is an interesting and very informative topic on <a href="https://parents4health.blogspot.com/2019/02/jobs-for-people-who-love-cannabis.html" rel="nofollow"> Jobs For People Who Love Cannabis </a>Carmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666846059897087675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-21291887953330523222013-08-06T18:24:31.089-07:002013-08-06T18:24:31.089-07:00D for Dilemma, E for Effort, F for Failure.
But h...D for Dilemma, E for Effort, F for Failure.<br /><br />But he was maybe ahead of his time: See how Susie Ray makes her dough:<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jul/22/how-easy-copy-famous-painting<br /><br />A for Avant?michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-74564739684260787552013-08-06T18:20:48.147-07:002013-08-06T18:20:48.147-07:00It reminds me of the Elmyr dilemma. He could make...It reminds me of the Elmyr dilemma. He could make a good living imitating others, and he couldn't make a dime with his own style.<br /><br />F for Failure, alas.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-45131546001060392392013-08-06T18:18:56.261-07:002013-08-06T18:18:56.261-07:00Those bands get paid the best. And to cover the Ol...Those bands get paid the best. And to cover the Oldies? It doesn't add up.<br /><br />But I admit it: some of these guys can play. I saw this young guy play violin (Joshua Something?) and he was absolutely shredding stuff from the 19th century. <br /><br />The cover charge for those bands seems pretty high to me, but there's always a lot of guys (and some gals) in the band, so I guess it's warranted. What's with all that formal attire though?michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-91695500202508129382013-08-06T18:14:33.509-07:002013-08-06T18:14:33.509-07:00I also love cover bands like the New York Philharm...I also love cover bands like the New York Philharmonic.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-68247700920931405582013-08-06T18:04:30.438-07:002013-08-06T18:04:30.438-07:00When I was in Tokyo in November of 2000 I went to ...When I was in Tokyo in November of 2000 I went to to a club and there was a Beatles cover band (1965-ish Beatles in hair and dress) that played the same instruments, dressed exactly like them, moved like them, had the same haircuts...it was freaky. The only thing that jumped out at me was when they sang the word "love" as in "She Loves Me": <br /><br />She roves me<br />Yea yea yea<br />She roves me<br />Yea yea yea<br />With a rove rike dat<br />You can you should be glad.<br /><br />I talked to an American friend who lived in Tokyo and he said there are hundreds of bands exactly like that. Oh wow: these guys were good.<br /><br />In LA, Led Zepagain and Atomic Punks (Van Halen copy band) really impressed me when I saw them live. These guys make a decent living. <br /><br />I think the aim is to allow Boomers to pretend they went back in time? michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-30693261222522564582013-08-06T17:24:02.119-07:002013-08-06T17:24:02.119-07:00I enjoyed the experience of going to the mall and ...I enjoyed the experience of going to the mall and spotting people in tie-died t-shirts converging on the theater.<br /><br />Perhaps my Beatlemania cover band can make a living.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-4919258411964891692013-08-06T15:03:29.167-07:002013-08-06T15:03:29.167-07:00Oh...I'd made the unwarranted assumption you&#...Oh...I'd made the unwarranted assumption you'd gone to see a Dead cover band. "Simulation" cover bands (where the musicians try to not only play note-for-note, but dress like the originals and mimic the bodily appearances and gestures of the originals) are the only way for live rock bands to make a living these days, with a few exceptions.<br /><br />I liked your account of your own Stendhal moment.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-14900929519406963642013-08-02T17:25:51.001-07:002013-08-02T17:25:51.001-07:00Actually, I saw a film of a concert the Dead did o...Actually, I saw a film of a concert the Dead did on 8/27/1972 with a remarkable Dark Star. I found it a mildly religious experience. I saw a number of men in their 50's wearing tie-dies; at least two of them had seen at least 100 Dead shows. I left wanting to practice guitar more. I do love the way Jerry plays.<br /><br />I'd never heard of the Stendhal Syndrome before, but I did experience it the first time I visited the Louvre in 1985. I walked through every open room of the museum over the course of about six hours and returned to my room and collapsed, hallucinating room after room of neoclassical sculpture.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-35219097005402280012013-08-02T15:21:30.797-07:002013-08-02T15:21:30.797-07:00Thanks.
There seems not enough discussion out th...Thanks. <br /><br />There seems not enough discussion out there now or historically that explicitly links mental states attained during reading with mental states attained on drugs. Leary at Harvard said yes, his LSD experiments could affect the minds of students, but BOOKS had had a far longer history of having profound affects on the minds of readers...so lock up the library! You need to have...some special CARD or something, with rules in place, know what you're getting into.<br /><br />WSB talked about the Stendahl Effect: when the reader has PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS from something you wrote. I have had mild hangovers from reading Bukowski. I had a couple of weeks of free-floating weirdness and anxiety after I stumbled onto Fred Alan Wolfe's Taking The Quantum Leap, which was the first book I ever read on QM and it turns out he was one of the Hippie Physicists that David Kaiser wrote about. This was before I read RAW. I followed Wolfe up with The Tao of Physics, which made me connect Physics with all my reading Aldous Huxley, but I was really overloaded, and excited and my world turned upside down. I remember talking to my mom on the phone about all this, and she thought I was going insane. <br /><br />Then, not too long after that, I stumbled onto RAW.<br /><br />The Reader right now may be in that State of "I'm with one of the Weird Ones...maybe unhinged. I wonder if he takes his clothes off at the bus stop?"<br /><br />Aye.<br /><br />Hope your foray into the Dead was religious! Was there a guitarist who was adept at mimicking Jerry's style?michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-78578473907263437352013-08-01T18:20:09.063-07:002013-08-01T18:20:09.063-07:00Terrific piece.
Fortunately one can still read ...Terrific piece. <br /><br />Fortunately one can still read The Four Quartets out loud for a mildly altered state of consciousness and even drive afterwards. <br /><br />Tonight I head off to see the Dead's Sunshine Daydream, summoned for Jerry Duty.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.com