Driven to Drink

I traveled most of my early life with horrible dental hygiene, multiple cavities, and somehow...zero dental anxiety.

That all changed in 2000, very near my 26th birthday.

This...is that story.

And also, fun with cats and a two man band named "America."

Yippie Kai Yay em effers.

Yippie Kai Yay.

Also, love yinz.

-G

Today we have the first pour of Southern Tier Pumking, vintage 2018.

TL;DL (too long didn't listen) - It's incredible.

We also have a tiny desk listening party with Dawn.

TL;DL - It's also incredible.

And just in case this introduction paragraph, which I've really kept quite succinct, is TL;DR, well...just listen!

Love yinz.

-G

For real, if you love soulful, skillful, passionate, honest, rhythmic, unapologetically Black music, you should check out Maimouna Youssef.

And you should check her out, as "Mumu Fresh," along with Blackthought from the LRC, on this Tiny Desk Concert.

Why not check her out along with me, here...with bonuses from the brain of Driven 2 Drink.  Then find the video and watch it.

I cry every time.  Tears of universal, human, goddamit-I'm-alive joy.

-G

What does TDLP mean?

Tiny Desk Listening Party.

Every now and again we need to disconnect from the world around us and reconnect with incredible art.

That's what TDLP is.

We listen to wonderful Tiny Desk concerts...yes, the NPR ones.  And we talk about them.  Well, I do.  And you listen.  I encourage you to argue with me as you listen.  And send tweets and whatnot.  But just please don't troll.  That's shitty.  We don't need to be shitty to one another.

Thanks.

G

This podcast is for anyone endeavoring to travel a path of human service, anyone attempting to shift away from a helping dynamic in which the power dynamic necessitates a savior and a person or community needing to be saved, anyone who wishes to travel with an inebriated truth-seeker with back spasms, anyone who finds the sound of snoring dogs soothing and amusing.

This podcast is for you.

Hang, will you?

I love having you here.

-G

The conversation I want to have now and forging into the future relates to the endeavors of intentional (social, cultural, economic, community) balance, intersectional representative inclusion, and a paradigm shift from "helping" toward "service" that challenges the savior complex that so often occurs in imbalanced, nefariously valued relationships.

WTF are you talking about, Greg?

I know, it's where my brain is tonight.  But just listen, I promise this is illuminated with greater accessibility, wit, and Gregness.

Gregness is a good thing, I promise.

Unless for you, it isn't, and then...well, you can always turn me off!

But hang out, will ya?

Love yinz.

-G

I appreciate you being with me, and I hope you will remain here. 

In the upcoming weeks we will discuss the idea of intentional balance and its three other quandrants (i.e. unintentional balance, intentional imbalance, and unintentional imbalance).  Also, how "service" and "help" relate and differ.

What drives you to drink?

And by "drink," I mean...engage in endeavors or substances that alleviate suffering beyond the baseline endeavors of your brain.

Please hang.  And engage.

I'm truly interested.

Love yinz.

-G

This is your brain on Gregory, the A'ight.

That is my Twitter name.

The handle is @driven2drink.

But it's also all me. That's Gregory Del Duca.

It's not entirely safe to be anything but entirely anonymous anymore, but that's not me. So...hang with me.  And us.  Cool?

Love yinz.

G

I got new speakers.

I fucked up several times.

A few grenades in the perpetual eight grenade cascade of existential crisis blew up in my face.

I take refuge in music.  And relationship.  And enhancement of the neurochemicals, transmitters, and receptors my brain does not do  so well on its own.

I appreciate you being here.

Love yinz.

-G

Do you know what the 10 most expensive liquids are, if you were to purchase them per gallon?

Have you contemplated your tendencies to interact in bad faith, particularly if you're projecting, deflecting, or otherwise unwilling to explore the being in the mirror?

Will you take a little journey with me as we discuss these things, with some levity thrown in for good measure?

I appreciate you.

-G