Name: Driving with Whiskey and Air by FATHER L ROD
Duration: 3 min 2 s
Description: laptop recordings with banjo, found sounds, old mics, and sunshine

Laptop Recordings with various instruments and objects by Mark Shepherd

02 Pity Forest

Bloomsbury presents I Feel Love by Rachel Nuwer, read by Jennifer Cole.

The unlikely story of how the psychedelic drug MDMA emerged from the shadows to the forefront of a medical revolution--and the potential it may hold to help us thrive.

Few drugs in history have generated as much controversy as MDMA--or held as much promise. Once vilified as a Schedule I substance that would supposedly eat holes in users’ brains, MDMA (also known as Molly or Ecstasy) is now being hailed as a therapeutic agent that could transform the field of mental health and outpace psilocybin and ketamine as the first psychedelic approved for widespread clinical use. In I Feel Love, science journalist Rachel Nuwer separates fact from fantasy, hope from hype, in the drug’s contested history and still-evolving future. Evidence from scientific trials suggests MDMA, properly administered, can be startlingly effective at relieving the effects of trauma. Results from other studies point to its usefulness for individual and couples therapy; for treating depression, alcohol addiction, and eating disorders; and for cultivating personal growth. Yet scientists are still racing to discover how MDMA achieves these outcomes, a mystery that is taking them into the inner recesses of the brain and the deep history of evolution. With its power to dismantle psychological defenses and induce feelings of empathy, self-compassion, and love, MDMA may answer profound questions about how we became human, and how to heal our broken social bonds.
 
From cutting-edge labs to pulsing club floors to the intimacy of the therapist’s couch, Nuwer guides readers through a cultural and scientific upheaval that is rewriting our understanding of our brains, our selves, and the space between.

I Feel Love by Rachel Nuwer, read by Jennifer Cole

Good Times for a Change

Good Impression

laptop recordings with banjo, found sounds, old mics, and sunshine

Driving with Whiskey and Air

A friend lent me a Drumbrute and it had sat in my music room for months, untouched. This was finally an excuse to learn it (kinda) and add my own beats to a track I had been working on.

Unfamiliar Beats

FLR_WHY ARE YOU WAITING_

Collaboration with cold_elf.
Graphite Rainbow (2007).

Graphite Rainbow

Mutation Breeze

Collaboration with cold_elf.
Graphite Rainbow EP (2007).

The Sky of Someone

Tristan Shepherd at the laptop + guitar + other things.

01 Someone Is Always Watching Me

The Bruce Lee Dance Party's epic hit EP. Bruce Lee's poetry to the sounds of indie electro goodness. (mostly)4-track recordings from 2006.

Bluce Ree EP

Rain Interlude

Rough Mix

Holiday Unit

THE MAP IS NEVER THE RELATIONSHIP.
THE DIAGNOSIS IS NEVER THE PATIENT.
THE OBSERVER IS NEVER OUTSIDE THE OBSERVATION.
AND YOU CANNOT BITE YOUR OWN TEETH.

In the beginning there was a frequency.

Nobody knew what frequency it was.

So they built a machine to find out.

The machine produced a report.

The report said:

UNABLE TO DETERMINE FREQUENCY.
SUBJECT APPEARS TO BE LISTENING TO ITSELF.

And thus Father L. Rod was born.

Not from a virgin.

Not from a burning bush.

Not from a mysterious cloud.

But from the terrible realization that somebody had finally invented a machine capable of measuring everything except the person standing in front of it.

Father L. Rod understood immediately:

The machine was fucked.

Then he understood something worse.

So was the person operating it.

And this was good news.

Driving with Whiskey and Air

FATHER L ROD

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