Driven to Drink

Today?

Voice as instrument.

The vocal mechanism; diaphragm, lungs, vocal cords, velum, nasal and oral cavities, mandible, tongue, teeth, lips; is an instrument, and some people are vocally virutosic.

Lau Noah is one of those people.

But also, she is self taught on guitar and, as the story goes, she picked up her first guitar in 2016.

She is in her early twenties.

It's all improbable to the extent of impossible.

Noa is not a zebra.  She is a unicorn.  A solitary voice and talent incomparable.

Please hang, you won't regret it.

-G

Seems Driven2Drink is becoming a bit of a music appreciation podcast, and I'm fully in.

Of course, I still love having amazing conversations with amazing people and if any of you amazing people would ever want to sit and talk with me, over drinks or tea or (wink) tea or whatever floats your boat, let me know.

Anyway, do you know about Blood Orange, a.k.a. Dev Hynes?  You should.  Oh, you do!  Well great, hang out with us during his Tiny Desk.  Also, a little injection of Phillip Glass as well as couple D2D Gregory the Extra (...that really should be my Twitter handle...) tags.  And the incredible theme music by Deck of Jack.  "Party at the Airport," video...right here! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDTDCusOS-o)

Hang aht, yinz guys!

-G

Today we meet Carolina Eyck and Clarice Jensen, the former with voice and theramin, the latter with cello.  Both coordinating effects peddles and looping technology, a really amazing concert.  Oh, and today we meet the theremin.  It's a very cool instrument played without ANY physical contact between the artist and the instrument.

Today we also engage in a dramatic reading of "Yinzerotica," with a very romantic soundtrack.

It's win-win, truly.

Love that yinz're here.  Hang aht, 'n'at.

-G

Today we hang with emo post-industrial prog-neo-soul synth-pop one-man-band Nate Wood and his project: fOUR.

Today we talk about that Gillette commercial...which D2D endorses entirely.

Next week we hang with and learn about the theramin.

But for today, please just pop in your headphones, hit [play], and have some treadmill time.  (If that's how you do this.)  Or drink.  (If you do that.)  But not both of those things together.  (Unless it's in your basement, in which case who am I to tell you what to do?  I'm not the boss of you.)

-G

Please hang with me.

And Buddy.

Dude is smooth af.  And his band is exceptional.

It's a funky, chill, soulful, church-bred, West Coast, four hundred and twenty degrees vibe.

Really, it's good.

So hang.

Love yinz.

-G

Do you dig jazz?

Also laughing?

Also finding ways to lead with love and achieve personal homeostasis in this world we are all experiencing and enduring?

Do you follow me on Twitter or dig me on Facebook?

Let's hang.  Have a listen.  Share a laugh and some art.

-G

My hope for every human not actively harming others on a superiority trip is a happy and healthy new year.

Let's strap in for 2019, and do the work necessary to make our surrounding evironments as safe, loving, healthy, inclusive, and accessible for all as we can manage.

I give you, here, a few minutes of respite from the timeline or deadline as we listen to H.E.R.'s Tiny Desk Concert and vibe on the musicianship and depth of art and soul.

I love that you're here with me.

-G

I am who I am.

I apologize for that, no longer.

I do what I do.

I'll be apologizing for that, in earnest, as often as what I do brings harm to other humans.

The goal?  That I reduce the harm I bring to others until it is non-existent.

Also?  That I reduce the harm I bring to myself similarly.

Souls who were near to me, dear to me, extricated themselves this year, leaving my inner circles freer and clearer.  And in losing emotional and relationship dysfunction, I am better able to continue my Boddhisattva path.  Alleviating suffering.

I am trying.

Please hang with us, our 201st episode of the podcast.

Love yinz.

-G

Hi!

Yes, next week you'll hear the conclusion of 2018.

That clause brings me such joy.  The conclusion of 2018.  That's my Santa Clause, if you will.  (And why would you not?)

But for today, a holiday gift for one and all.  Or likely closer to 24 or so.  It's 23 minutes in total.  The core portion, after the intro and theme song, is 20:19.  (I thought it was 20:18.  Either way, be it luck or serendipity...which I've always thought of as, "luck plus some unknowable/imperceivable help"...good riddance to bad rubbish.

See yinz next week.

-G

It's been a year.

Hasn't it?

(It's not over, yet.)

I know.

(So don't jinx it.)

Sorry.

(What are we talking about anyway?)

Oh, here is the first part of a conversation with Mark.  And some outtakes, tomfoolery, and shenanigans.

(K, cool.)

Thnx.

-G