A bed
of needles under the pines
You gave me
some of your new lines
Slow and low
You made them for me
A song where we could always be,
A place where we could live

You've seen
what it is that I have
Can you say what it is
that burns so hard
Burns so hard in me
A fire that you've always seen,
Tireless, trembling

I hold those words in my heart
like gold in my hand
In my hand
You left like desert heat at dusk,
The memory lives darkly in me...

I crave
and the more that I crave
the more you elude me -
like trying to net not a fish,
but a wave of the sea.
I can't chase you
I cannot undo
I can't chase you
I cannot undo... 

BED of NEEDLES

In celebration of our mutual birthday, here is my cover of Frank Zappa's Treacherous Cretins, from his album, "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar." As with all of my SoundCloud covers, I'm playing all the instruments here. I really had a lot of fun playing this one and I hope you enjoy it. Happy Birthday to us, Frank!

Both the rhythm and lead guitar were played on my small Ibanez (aka
"Steve") mic'd with the Vox VT 20X, plus a stereo effect from cakewalk
 "Sonitus' Classic Sweeping Flanger." The drums are "Session Drummer 3
 Sizzle Kit" played on the Nord 88 keyboard. The Rhodes piano,
 orchestral percussion (gongs, cymbals and glockenspiel) from the
 Sonatina Orchestra Percussion, and Chamberlin female voice (also
 using a cakewalk stereo effect "Sonitus' Black Metal Vocal") were all
 from the Nord piano HA 88. The acoustic guitar and sitar were played
 on the Yamaha M06. And the bass was the fretted jazz bass using the
 bass pod with an amp model preset called "360." The wild sounds at the
 very end when the song stops were three different voice recordings
 from my iPhone. On the original, Frank uses some wild tape dialogue
 stuff in between songs to go to the next one.

Hope you all enjoy this! ~ Rachel Flowers

Treacherous Cretins - Frank Zappa (cover)

Boosters for the young and healthy? Is Pharma dictating public health policy? What's up with VAERS? Did Robert Malone invent the mRNA technology? AND MORE.

Transcript, video, and links to more with the amazing Dr. Paul Offit: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-8

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Topics covered: 
00:00 Intro
01:07 Boosters, the CDC, vaccine advisory committee & 3rd dose drama
05:25 Offit's son, The Atlantic article​, booster coverage & mandates
08:34 4th dose, vaccine politicization, childhood vaccines & the anti-vax movement
16:40 mRNA spacing considerations, tribal loyalty
20:25 Pregnancy & COVID-19 vaccines
23:07 Vaccine safety reporting, VAERS pros & cons, PRISM, Vaccine Safety Datalink
26:58 Drug safety, Pharma dictating public health, vaccine effectiveness
30:40 Walenski and CDC, bureaucratic transparency & swine flu lessons learned
36:34 Yearly COVID-19 vax, Omicron parties, chicken pox tragedies & the role of natural immunity
41:53 COVID-19 testing, policy (who it helps, who it hurts)
44:00 What Robert Malone did (and didn't do) with mRNA technology, what it takes to build a vaccine
51:10 Spike protein misinformation & real-life correlation with mass vaccination
56:25 Myocarditis in adults vs. kids, polio in children
103:00 The Army's "super vaccine", discussion of gain of function research
106:13 Final thoughts

Vaccine Nonsense, Debunked (w/Dr. Paul Offit)

From Traveling Wildfire, out 3/24 on Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/dom-flemons/traveling-wildfire

Dom Flemons has built a reputation on presenting 100 years of American roots music, but now, with Traveling Wildfire, his own songwriting prowess comes into the spotlight. Carefully selected from his personal repertoire, these original songs reveal his love of country, western, blues, Americana, bluegrass and folk music as they tell of true love, family legacy, survival, time travel, and the juxtaposition between light and dark. Traveling Wildfire weaves through the themes of hope and humor as it rises above the hard times with strength and lightheartedness.

Dom Flemons - Guess I'm Doing Fine (feat Sam Bush)

Holiday

The boys are back in town! Topic list:

00:00 Verbal & non-verbal communication, listening & presence
02:43 The future of social media, Zuckerberg, Elon's authenticity, Twitter & the blue checkmark disaster
10:49 Z's alleged 30-millionaire status, calculating net worth, the importance of supporting content & creators you care about
14:54 Sensible Medicine & VP's Misinformation Police article, suppression of ideas vs. presenting a better counter-argument, the far left & tribal identity
27:08 Terrible midterm election predictions, Dr. Oz's inauthenticity & subsequent loss, pseudo-science "influencers"
33:26 America's Frontline Doctors & Simone Gold's alleged implosion
35:02 Masking kids & NEJM's paper, observational vs randomized control trials, bad science & its overlap with politics, myocarditis, MedScape & the attack on Mandrola
46:30 Insulin resistance, the pros & cons of glucose monitoring as "health entertainment", metabolic health, cold plunge
1:07:53 Bob Califf tweets & long Covid claims, Ashish Jha changes his tune
1:13:36 Authenticity, being seen for who you authentically are, ZDadd tech support, post-meditation retreat realizations
1:25:23 Predictions on the approaching world shift, final thoughts

Video: https://youtu.be/3Td098-gqpw

Check out our new Substack collaboration, Sensible Medicine: https://sensiblemed.substack.com/

Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast: vinayakkprasad.com/plenarysession
Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast: zdoggmd.com/z-blogg

More info for Vinay and Zubin at https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd and vinayakkprasad.com/bio

Ep. 29: The Misinformation Police Strike Out (& More)

Duo Althea

clarinet: Paolo Pellegrini
piano: Nicola Possenti

Dawnings (2022)

Spencer Zahn, Dave Harrington & Jeremy Gustin - Daydreaming

Garry Robson discusses the deep history of cybernetics and how the goal of the internet was always to create a surveillance man-machine system. Humanity is close to being automated in a closed cybernetic system. The internet and smart phone are the twin pillars. The youth are the key to implementing technocracy. We already have a deeply entrenched enforcement system (e.g. ESG, social credit). However, what they're attempting to implement does look terribly precarious with too many moving parts. Garry remains optimistic.

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Virtually Lost: Young Americans in the Digital Technocracy https://www.routledge.com/Virtually-Lost-Young-Americans-in-the-Digital-Technocracy/Robson/p/book/9780367418588

About Garry Robson
Garry Robson is Professor of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University's Institute for American Studies in Krakow, Poland. He has taught at universities in the UK and Poland since 1995 and written widely on a variety of subjects including class, masculinity, and community in the context of sport cultures in No One Likes Us, We Don 't Care: The Myth and Reality of Millwall Fandom (2003); class, gentrification, and the social structure of London, in London Calling: The Middle Classes and the Remaking of Inner London (2003); intercultural experience and
social media use among sojourning international students in Digital Diversities: Social Media and Intercultural Experience (2014, with Małgorzata Zachara); and numerous articles and book chapters on race and football; social class, accents, and dialects in Britain; the British New Labour government and therapy culture; Poland in the European Union; and, latterly, the philosophy of technology, surveillance capitalism, and technocracy

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Garry Robson: Humanity Close to Being Automated in Cybernetic System #393

Through The Clouds

All Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed.

Big Muffs

Healthcare's only unfiltered voice. Interviews, medical deep-dives, and uncensored rants on a broad range of health and wellness topics hosted by UCSF/Stanford-trained physician Dr. Zubin Damania (AKA ZDoggMD). https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd

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