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Murder Mountain - Netflix
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A mini-documentary series on Netflix about the Marijuana Trade in Humboldt County, California. Of interest because I know a lot of growers from here that travel south to the same area to trim in the fall, the people, I know most if not all of them, not them, specifically, but them the type, there are a lot of parallels between the regions. However from similar beginnings they arrive at very different outcomes. Well done.
With my Father in Australia
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I'm with my father in Australia. We're in some sort of Disney World, or amusement park, and we're at a fitness facility, multiple stories high. The basement, filled with water, a swimming pool, deep, big, and I'm thinking it makes sense, because, Australia...
And then we're at the ground floor level, and there's a skating rink, and I'm thinking, "Hell Ya Pa's going to teach these Aussies how to play hockey..."
We're walking. There's a woman he knows that's fallen in step with us, he knows her somehow, and I'm thinking this trip to Australia, maybe I didn't I understand it completely?
She's trying to keep up with him, friends are joining her...
And there's other friends, on my left, I don't know them, and they're being joined by other friends, pretty, and dad is walking faster trying to outstrip them all...
I have this image in my head, all the maps of Australia I've seen, criss-crossed with red lines of the travels I should have taken....
... and now it's the world, from tropical islands off the coast of Africa, hot summer days visiting islands that exist only in my dreams...
(Weird, but not unpleasant. Dream places, that I recollect from dreams and so have that haunting familiarity, but no corollary in real life)
Days off, Work, Etc
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Last few days off, beautiful, still a bit chilly but the snow is vanishing. Sorted through a pile of my crystals and rocks to drop off at "Magic Rocks" kids house, some good specimens of Silver, Black Tourmaline, Fluorite, Quartz, the black tourmaline - looking at it, there are the streaks of aqua - I have to get back there this summer. There's too much possibility, it's been a couple of weeks since last I tried, maybe the snow is gone? I should lay a claim...
Talk to Chris, the restaurant will be opening...soon, maybe I have a week left, and I'm panicking. I need the money, for sure for sure, but - the hills are calling too...
Unboxing, the rest of Stormy's Scrolls, 2 hours to unroll, reroll approximately 200+ scrolls. The same as always, although he's got the phrase "Glittering Glory Hole", which I think is referring to the "Prospector's" variety of Glory Hole as opposed to the one seemingly depicted in his illustrations. He has a way of layering meaning in his pictures...
Today, to town to visit Dagmar, she's arranged an interpretive dance/movement class for us to attend. I'm a bit skeptical, the thought of doing all this with a bunch of 70 and 80 year olds isn't so appealing...fortunately at the last minute she reads my mind and changes it to doing some thrift shopping...
Whew...
And, for the moment, that's it!
5MEO & Other Picks
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So, down a few more worthwhile rabbit holes lately, thought I'd share.
First, Podcasts: The Apology Line - (Link Here), this so far, so good, apart from the ads but I understand they have to make a living. What's annoying though is when the podcaster has to read out the ad - as if it's some sort of personal endorsement, which - if it was - why are you reading it like an ad? Anyways, enjoying this but I need a studio or someplace to paint/be creative while listening to it - it doesn't work for me to listen to anything while trying to read or write.
Next - went looking for a trailer for 5MeO - (Link Here) - a documentary about 3 guys trying out 5MeO-DMT - apparently one of the most powerful psychedelics out there, derived from Sonoran Desert Toads. it looks promising but, jeezuz, $17.99? Am I buying a movie or a Non-Fungible token? Or do they take your address and send you out a dose? Bloody Hell. I'm sure I'll watch it but would be a lot more comfortable with a more accessible price point.
Naturally, searching around for 5MEO led to some other interesting discoveries, most noteworthy of were Hamilton's Pharmacopeia - (annoyed, I had considered "Shulgin's Pharmacopeia" for a little project I was working on myself, but - you snooze, you lose). I'd seen the one where he interviews Shulgin (Link Here), but I had no clue he had his own channel on Vice. Anyways - watched the episode "The Underground LSD Palace" - Good start, the subject - (pitching here own show - "Neurosoup"), some hilarious lines like her favorite episode "DMT Anal Colonic" - (WTF? I'll let you search out that one), amusing how she rails about the closed mindedness of middle-American life, and yet when he's interviewing her in her house - well, I expected a little more from the decor after all she's been through. From here to a fine series on the Zombies of Haiti in which Hamilton ends up interviewing the esteemed Wade Davis (Formerly from Calgary!!), travelling to Haiti and interview various personages in his quest to find the powder used to create Zombies. (Link Here).
Curious and Curious. He does a great job of interviewing interesting - and occasionally very sketchy - people, sort of a 21 Century Shaggy he needs only a giant dog to take along on his travels...
And, finally - Jordan Peterson's interview on Channel 4 (Link Here). He's been a lot in the news, for less than enviable reasons, so I went back and watched the interview to see what all the fuss is about. Essentially it's this: Reasonable, articulate, informed person holds his ground against rabid feminism. There is nothing about him that is even slightly inflammatory, and so you know you're in troubled times when every voice of reason is shouted down by people claiming that you're violating their rights. He held his own very well against someone who wasn't even rudimentarily equipped with the requisite intelligence to have a conversation with him. So, admirable in that he's brought uncomfortable truths to power and has the audacity to have done the research before having an opinion. And amazing how many people revile him having never heard him out, merely because "They Disagree". Not that I'm going to go full Joe Rogan or Bromance on the guy, but the people he's offending really need to examine why they're taking offense.
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