Amanita Dream Figment is as figment does.So what does a figment do?It’s nil to you as first it dreamsto fit inside haiku. Then it seemsits vapor grows until it fills a room.So pungent as you breathe it inthis mind-bending mushroom. top image: “Amanita Mushrooms,” by Christine Marshall Lillian is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday….
Category: music
Friday Favorite Feature 36 nature and music, “Slight Return,” by The Bluetones
May has seemed to go by in a glorious whirl. Traveling over to fmg once a week and being out and about in nature, I’ve taken way more pics this month than there has been time to post. Including them here or a fair number of them. Also, a song at the end, “Slight Return,”…
To Chris, One of the Angels (was#FFFC — Angels Unaware)
I’m reposting this in remembrance of the passing of Chris Cornell 7 years ago today. First posted 11/25/2019. I was forty-two years old when the bus hit me. I died instantly, suddenly finding myself floating upwardly to that place that you only know is real once you’re headed there. One of the first things I…
Friday Favorite Feature 33 — Atlas Moth from fmg and “Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up,” by Them Crooked Vultures
Attacus atlas, the Atlas moth, is a large saturniid moth endemic to the forests of Asia. The species was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. The Atlas moth is one of the largest lepidopterans, with a wingspan measuring up to 24 cm and a wing surface area of about…
#MMB 19 — (repost) (was: “Gardenia,” from Post Pop Depression, by Iggy Pop (2016))
[Post Pop Depression] discuss[es] issues of what happens when your utility is at an end, and dealing with your legacy. – Iggy Pop Hello everyone. It is a real honor and pleasure to be invited to Hans’ song draft. Being a person who likes patterns and order, I was trying to figure out how to…
Friday Favorite Feature 32 “Lady Blue” by Lions in the Street
Lions in the Street (image from their website) This is a band I found on SRR and the more I listen to the band the more I like it. They have great vocal harmonies, good guitar work, and lovely progressions in their melodies. Their discography includes their eponymous debut in 2009, On the Lam EP…
MMB Week 18 (was Women Music March 2022 – Day 20 –) Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens. click on link to take you to a PBS interview Rhiannon Giddens (b. 2/21/77) is an American musician. She is a founding member of the country, blues and old-time music band Carolina Chocolate Drops, where she is the lead singer, fiddle player, and banjo player. Giddens is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina,…
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