Should've Stayed At The Bus Station

vaughan-williams 5

went to see They Live at the paramount last night. fuck me silly, it's even better than i remembered. also listened to shosty 5 for the first time yesterday; need more time with it before i know how i feel about it, he's new for me.

cushvlog "no cap 06.24.22" (22:30)

"art decorates space and music decorates time"

i went to see brandenburg concerto 3 and it was cool. also talk about the robert redford movie "sneakers" and its strange politics. also the dreaded third ad break that the simpsons added in once it lost its way. RIP the simpsons man. mostly just talking about classical music in this one though. 

(the composer's name i was looking for was Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges geez louise what a fucking flamboyant name lmao)

Music: Total Recall main titles

Topics: Bikram & Baptise yoga sexual predator history and Catholic Church sexual predator history; Christian Guzman is on PEDs and is going full Steve-Cook-mode; yin yoga; COVID is surging; Joe Rogan influences young military kids (3:10); wheel pose; Total Recall and Jerry Goldsmith; existentialism; Joe Manchin; Amber, Virgil, Jamie, and Michael;  Alamo Drafthouse Workers United; David (K)-ronenberg *wink wink* & the implications of drug legalization (8:10); Austin crypto propaganda billboards; the Austin Chronicle & Greg Casar; me and Tom Cruise have a fear of aging; Nancy Mace (14:00); Junteenth, the 4 day work week & how Paul Verhoeven’s vision of military socialism is actually pretty tight

Morning after *better audio* (15:10): Crimes of the Future review; some thoughts on creativity, Joseph Campbell, being stuck inside your body, and how David Frum is an extra in Crimes of the Future btw

Ghost your friends. The pose for today is Lying Supine Twist.

(5:31 – 29:00) classical music yoga: Symphony 96 haydn. Open the chest and the lower back, find leverage on outstretched hand using a small weight or doorjam.

Then we draw together for the art therapy segment.

musical segments:

(29:40 – 40:30) escape from new york

(41:00 – 53:30) heat and moby. savasana. it’s time to let go!

(54:45 – 1:02:40) Scarlatti concerto grosso 4

(1:03:40 - end) handel concerto grosso 7

Topics: stan efferding, stuart mcgill, doing yoga on cannabis, ketamine, haydn vs mozart vs beethoven, ridley & tony scott, brief interviews with hideous men, inking (in drawing) as metaphor, arnold’s veganism, the VA, verhoeven military life socialist utopia, the first noble truth, sex and the city, Yoga Alliance and the GI Bill, Jocko Willink.

Later tonight, work on your own improvised practice and listen to the movie Enemy (2013) very lightly in the background as though it were a podcast.

0:00 – 2:20 getting music all set up.

2:20 Symphony 31 by Mozart while doing guided meditation and foam rolling. Start by hugging the floor, hips open like frog stretch and arms out to a T with lacrosse ball smash into either pec. Classical music yoga :)

Topics  included: rogan, the church and supreme court, drug laws, peter attia, tim ferriss, the New-Texas rich-tech-psycho dystopia, influencers, hunky European Nadal types, composers wrestling with god. Musical interlude 10:50 – 13:20

24:50 Morning after: better audio

Topics included: hans zimmer, starbucks at 45th and lamar officially unionizing, unionizing workplaces, opinions not being political actions, top gun maverick, Kubrick, multiplexes vs alamo drafthouse, Bukowski, Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous, lectoring at church, watching Cronenberg on ketamine, peter attia’s “stability training” grift, ido portal, pet parenting guilt.

We end with a prayer.

some gentle stretching and foam rolling for upper back, scapula, traps, and neck. Eventually making our way down to calves and hips as well, sure.

Topics include: Kelly Starrett, Stan Efferding, Tim Ferriss & Kevin Rose, Bill Maher, Frank James, and Grantland.

Movies mentioned: Kicking and Screaming (1995), watching The Fly (1986) on ketamine, Singles (1992), and Children of Men (2006). Quietus baby!

At the end we listen to a portion of Sibelius 5 together and consider Jean Sibelius composing while in the schvitz (35:50 - 41:18)

Then we listen to a portion of Beethoven 5 (42:45 – 46:08)

Will try to use a mic or get better audio somehow next weekend.

thoughts on alex garland's new movie until minute 9. caffeinated. morning after. 

after minute 9, it's last night random thoughts, much worse audio, foam rolling, vaping.

just in a matrix pod with a tube connecting your asshole to your mouth, one closed loop of content.

Ben Hawes (not Ben Hosley) is an acupuncturist living in Denver, CO. The outro music is Beethoven 8. 

The outro music is Beethoven 5.