Welcome to Detroit's cannabis college , recently opened with courses on how to grow marijuana - and harvest, cook and sell it too - after Michigan legalized the drug as a medicine. Students get instruction from horticulturalists, doctors and lawyers as well as hands-on experience cultivating plants and guidance on how to protect their stash from the criminal element. I wonder if the syllabus is printed on rolling papers. Word on the street is that the midterm on midgrades is a doobie ...I mean doozy. [...]
Welcome to my weekly roundup of inexpensive indie(ish) musical happenings in downtown Toronto, all for $10 or less. If I'm missing something you think I should list, or you have any comments, let me know. I star (*) shows that most interest me. Like this list? Join my Facebook group to get my weekly Toronto indie music listings. Subscribe to my podcast (or download the episodes) here , or through iTunes . The latest ones are here . [...]
The Guardian examines the shortlist for the 2009 edition of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The shortlist: Paul Theroux for A Dead Hand Nick Cave for The Death of Bunny Munro Philip Roth for The Humbling Jonathan Littell for The Kindly Ones Amos Oz for Rhyming Life and Death John Banville [...]
The Girl In Your Memory Luka Yuanyuan Yang This Mortal Coil Waves Become Wings Cocteau Twins Aikea-Guinea It is 1986. It always rains in Vancouver. Most girls in between the ages of 18 and 34 have stringy hair that they rarely comb, wear long tattered flower print dresses [...]
Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and always has been, a joint enterprise of British military intelligence and Satanic cults. On the one side, the Satanists control the major rock groups through drugs, sex, threats of violence, and even murder. On the otherside, publicity, tours, and recordings are financed by record companies connected to British military intelligence circles. Both sides are intimately entwined with the biggest business in the world, the international drug trade. The so-called "rock stars" are pathetic puppets caught in a much larger scheme. From the moment they receive their first recording royalties, the [...]
Last Friday (Nov 14) news broke that Dan Deacon had been ordered by the doctors to cancel his U. S after he was admitted to hospital with back pains. The Maryland-based musician had been promoting the release of his new album Bromst before he developed what was later diagnosed as 'acute sciatica'.
i grew so tired of movement so one day i stopped. how it happened; picture me as occam's razor. with tits. picture me as emmeline pankhurst. with catheter. how it happened; the opposite of awakening. the sun rises one morning and you don't. there are no more choices only slogans. you lay comfortable with the realisation that there is no freedom only consumption. medicine is an illusion. love is panic. it all fades. clouds lift. doors forced open in [...]
I love seeing people using their talents for a good cause. Quest MCODY hit me up with this , and I'll just post the information here: Quest for a Cure partners with Michigan Music Community to Dig Deep For Ben's Fight Detroit, MI—December 19, 2009—On April 23, 2009 Benjamin Martin, was diagnosed with Stage 4 Glioblastoma—a cancerous brain tumor. He is eight years old. Since being diagnosed Ben has undergone several brain surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation. He was doing well for a short time, but [...]
Beauty Monrose Could Get It The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs In America [24/7 Wall St.] What Were Black People Talking About on Twitter Last Night? [The Awl] OJ Da Juiceman Reveals Mixtape With Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka Flame [MTV] The 10 Worst Heisman Winners of All Time [Bleacher Report] Dwight's Critical Blogging Costs Him $15k [Slam] The Five Breakfast Cereals Most Ripe For A Big Screen Adaptation [Pajiba] [...]
Last night, PBS/Independent Lens presented D Tour , a documentary about Pat Spurgeon from Rogue Wave. He was born with only one kidney, and was lucky enough to get a kidney transplant only to have it fail as well. The doc focuses on his struggles to live the life of a touring drummer, all while administering dialysis to himself twice a day while on the road, not to mention his search for a new kidney donor. I learned about this doc through Adam from Beggar's Banquet, as he's friends with Pat and helped produce the documentary. Tying [...]
My uncle Jamie is a vocational therapist out in Salem, Oregon. A while back, he related to me the concept of risk and how it relates to developmental wellness. If someone is regularly taking emotional, mental, physical and spiritual risks, generally speaking, they are healthier people on a number of levels. This doesn't mean necessarily that individuals should go jump off a cliff or rob a bank. It does mean that people should try to stretch themselves out in all four of these areas as frequently as they can. How far one stretches depends on the person. Saying [...]
Valentina de Andrade received her gift of prophecy in 1981. Her neighbors found her talents of clairvoyance and fortune telling remarkable, and she became a trusted seer in the backwater Amazonian town of Altamira. She was also the leader of "Lineamiento Universal Superior" (L.U.S. -- Superior Universal Alignment), a group that believed that the end of the world would come in 1986, with extraterrestrial space ships saving only the sect's followers. Valentina's preaching started in 1981 after having received extraterrestrial messages through divine cosmic beings. Valentina embarked upon her mission [...]
The day is cloudy but warm even without the sun. I'm late today because I had an early morning meeting. In the old days that would have meant 7 o'clock. Now it means 9. My new definition of early reminds of the Mother Goose rhyme, "A dillar, a dollar a ten o'clock scholar, What makes you come so soon? You used to come at ten o'clock, But now you come at noon." Irony escaped me when I was little. I never understood that rhyme. When I got older, I realized it was an admonishment to [...]
Ray Davies Appears at the Orpheum on Saturday Night I didn't get up to as much as I'd hoped last week, but did catch Julian Casablancas and the Happy Hollows at Spaceland. Casablancas didn't do anything to win me back, but most of the crowd seemed really into it. I'll definitely be at Ray Davies this Saturday and I'll most likely check out more of the Happy Hollows tonight. Monday 11/9/09 [Pick of the Night] [...]
oh sweden, land of everything that magically goes pop, how i've neglected you, after all you've done for me, convincing me that loving good ol' catchy pop music is nothing to be ashamed of, let alone dance along to. if not for you, i'd never have gotten to listen to doctors & dealers , which really is the music of a little girl called sparrow who roams the wilderness of your land. and if not her wonderful album lost friends and newfound habits , i would have never heard the delightfully groovy "on the dancefloor", a song that [...]
This sucks : "In 2005, newlyweds Julie and Mike Boyde of Ambridge, Pennsylvania spent their wedding night at a bed and breakfast, where, for the first time since becoming a couple, they had intercourse without a condom. Immediately afterward, Julie was in excruciating pain. Doctors would eventually diagnose her with a rare and incurable disorder known as seminal plasma hypersensitivity , meaning Julie is allergic to her husband's sperm." She goes on to say on a scale of 1 to 10, the pain is about an eight or nine for a full 24-hours after intercourse. I don't [...]
On an evening when the attention of an entire city - and most of the Northeast - was turned to a small baseball game in the Bronx, jamband veterans Blues Traveler returned home to The Filmore New York at Irving Plaza for the first time in over a year. For over two hours, the band treated the packed house to classic covers, special guests, and their own hit singles. Mixing Sublime's, What I've Got and Cheap Trick's, I Want You to Want Me, with Hook, The Mountains Win Again, [...]
Read more via the LA Times . Wow! First the Public Option comes back from the dead and now these endorsements. This is really gonna happen! Hopefully....
TV's Mr Nasty Simon Cowell has shown off his generous side - after giving £100,000 to help save the life of a cancer-stricken youngster. Cowell has donated the money for 18-month-old Sophie Atay, from the UK, to fly to the US for pioneering treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York. He acted after learning the youngster's family launched a last-ditch appeal for £500,000 to pay for the treatment last week after they were told Sophie was suffering from a rare form of neuroblastoma and needed treatment within days. Alexandra Burke, last [...]
You know, just when we give Smashing Pumpkins' front man Billy Corgan an ounce of credit for doing something halfway decent , he decides to go off the deep end once again. In case you missed it, Corgan launched a spirituality-based blog titled Everything From Here To There earlier this fall. Now he's taking to the blog to stick it to the man...er, uh...doctors and their crazy propaganda machine known as this so-called, "H1N1 vaccine." Here's some [...]
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
Friday Five: Surf Songs
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
