From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #892 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, September 27 2013 Volume 16 : Number 892 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Julia Holter, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 9/24/13 ["Ella McCrystle" <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:17:27 -0400 From: "Ella McCrystle" Subject: Re: Julia Holter, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 9/24/13 Recently there was a big brouhaha made about Dr. Sanjay Gupta changing his mind about Mary Jane. He decided it wasn't all death and destruction. I guess, in an effort to make up for years of terrifying parents and other republicans, he did a long special about ganja and they did a test of people who smoked on a regular basis driving a difficult off-road course, then they allowed some "casual user" to smoke and drive. He was a disaster. The young woman who smoked regularly was PERFECT in her driving. Later in the show, a visual artist was featured (he was a working, well-paid artist, and I forget his name) and he swore by the dinkie dow -- why? B/c, as we all know, it lowers inhibitions. This is crucial to creativity, but it can also be helpful to many performers who experience issues being authentic in front of an audience, and finally, it allows those crucial "mistakes" that lead to genius. Even later we met the awesome Dr. Carl Hart of Columbia University faculty ( http://surc.columbia.edu/hart.htm ) who had all sorts of amazing things to say about how stupid we are about giggle gasper. I'd agree that if you play piano like, say, ME, then any sort of mental alteration would only make it worse, but if you are someone who plays with good muscle memory, you are likely not to be terrifically impaired IF you smoke regularly enough for it not to just make you silly, again like me. B/c I'm old and even a glass of wine just makes me sleepy these days. Finally, I'm dying to know what autocorrect "fixed" to be Kansas. There'll be peace when we are done -- Ella E "Art, to me, is a question mark. I don't think it should ever be an answer." ~ Marilyn Manson - -----Original Message----- From: Kerry White Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:20 PM To: Robert Lovejoy Cc: Ecto Subject: Re: Julia Holter, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 9/24/13 If not "Kansas" then what? If a person has years in both the playing of their instrument _and_ in the inhalation therapy, _then_ they can play quite well. More and more American high schoolers are doping and driving, according to a recent article. They are neither used to driving nor smoking for long enough and can be looked at as legitimate threats to public safety and themselves. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Robert Lovejoy wrote: > Robert Lovejoy wrote: > > The herb is infamous in musicians' > >circles (Kansas has been for quite a bit of time) > > How my phone put Kansas in there I'll never know! I was not under the > influence at the time... > > I shall carry on, my wayward sons... > > Uncle Autocorrect > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Not that it matters... ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #892 ***************************