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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Music fest cancellations due to climate?

    California Roots Music and Arts Festival 2024, Monterey County Fair and Event Center (Tixr)

    (Wyatt's Metal) May 4, 2024: Danny Elfman headlines Sick New World 2024 metal fest in Las Vegas

    Which will it be? We'll have both. But when?
    Poor rock 'n roll in all its forms. It needs music festivals to enjoy, and these fests are outside, but the climate chaos is making that impossible because of cancellations. This is what science would have us believe. Recently in LA, the big Beach Life Festival got cut short due to high winds and fear of the safety of attendees. The corporation behind it claims it will provide partial refunds. In a wet year, during the cool/cold spring, someone thought it was a good idea to go to the beach? The beach is for the summer because most days are good enough for the sand but not for the water. Only in the summer can one expect to have good weather, warm temps, low winds, few clouds, and other unpleasant symptoms of the off-season. That's why there is a "season." It's not as if a summer festival got ruined by unseasonal conditions.

    Death at devil Drake and Travis Scott's TX fest

    More festivals than anyone can keep up with
    A new analysis suggests that changes in climate are increasingly leading to disruptions or cancellations at music festivals. What's happening?

    As detailed by Inside Climate News, crowd safety researcher Milad Haghani discovered that extreme weather canceled or disrupted at least 22 music festivals in Australia between 2022 and 2023, a significant uptick from the 10 impacted from 2013 to 2019.

    "I think it's very clear that it's happening at an increasing rate, and the severity of the events, the impact of the events are more tangible now," said Haghani, who began his analysis after a series of weather-caused disruptions in the United States.

    Help! It's too hot by the stage!!
    Why is this important? While not all severe weather at concerts is the result of a warming planet, as Inside Climate News pointed out, the scientific community agrees that rising worldwide temperatures have caused more frequent and powerful extreme weather events.

    At music festivals or concerts, which often take place outdoors, these extremes can prove deadly. In November, dangerously high temperatures in Brazil led to the postponement of a Taylor Swift concert after the death of a fan during the event.

    It's hot indoors, but at least there's shade.
    The Associated Press (AP) later confirmed that heat exhaustion was the cause. "Extreme heat events are more extreme than ever," NOAA scientist Stephanie Herring told NPR after the American Meteorological Society released its annual report in 2023.

    "Research is showing they're likely to become the new normal in the not-so-distant future."
    • 'Nature' becomes an official Spotify artist (WION) A new initiative will recognize nature as an official artist
    Last year it was way too hot, too! (SNW Fest)
    Inside Climate News
    also pointed to a hailstorm in Colorado that injured nearly 100 people and a wave of heat-related illnesses at an Ed Sheeran concert in Pittsburgh as other notable instances of weather-linked safety hazards.

    What can be done about this? Haghani explained to Inside Climate News that further preparation and clear communication from event staff could help attendees stay safe in extreme weather, including heat waves.

    "One of the responsibilities of the organizer is to make [free] hydration accessible to people," he said. "I think that is one of the key factors and easy fixes."

    2023r's Sick New World 2023 was a mega nu-metal jamboree in Vegas
    (Wyatt's Metal) What happened at Sick New World 2023 in Las Vegas?

    Swedish activist Greta goes vegan for the climate
    Other experts pointed to the need for plenty of shade, water misting stations, and accessible areas to shelter from the elements.

    Alcohol [sugar] and caffeine also impact our bodies' abilities to regulate itself in high temperatures, so avoiding these drinks in severe conditions can help keep you safe.
    • Whales are ingesting up to 10 million pieces of microplastic per day: ‘Like training for a marathon and eating only jellybeans’
    Join free newsletter for cool news and actionable info that makes it easy to help yourself while helping the planet. New research shows concerning cause of music festival cancellations: 'It's happening at an increasing rate' (via MSN) first appeared on The Cool Down.

    Thursday, May 2, 2024

    George Carlin: USA lies, we get fooled


    America is one big lie and we are fools for believing in it
    (Mr.President 420) This is a composite by Mr.President 420 of his favorite George Carlin standup comedy. It consists of portions of his hero George Carlin's various specials, assembled to help me explain the title. This is pure truth and much like the audience, everyone would rather acknowledge it and just laugh than to do anything to fix it. Do yourself a favor: watch it then decide if you, too, are going to continue to accept that this is what the world is because it's all people allow it to be.
    • George Carlin, Some People Are Stupid (Parental Advisory), July 17, 2013, via Mr.President 420; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

    Thursday, April 18, 2024

    Tortured Poet Taylor Swift @ midnight (listen)

    Swifties revel in the ‘crazy’ parts of Taylor Swift fans' culture (Los Angeles Times/latimes.com)
    Taylor ‘Nazi Barbie Swift drops clues for new Tortured Poets Department album
    Who's T-Swift? She's a U.S. royal like Meghan
    (TODAY) April 18, 2024: Travis Kelce's lucky charm Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, is set to be released Friday (right at midnight on Thursday night) and speculation continues to grow over music industry public relations and marketing department clues for lyrics, song titles, and the album’s first music video. An alleged leak of the new project prompted many Swifties to ask fellow fans not to disrespect her work by being greedy but to instead wait for the official release so Taylor can make the most money and control her own narrative and corporate branding. NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports for TODAY. #TaylorSwift #Music


    Are you serious, Mom? I prefer Olivia's music.
    For lesbians, mother-daughter incest survivors, and women with dogs who hump their leg, the Swift Corporation is putting out a new album in vinyl to make a killing at Target or Walmart or some big box retailer with a lucrative exclusive contract.

    Buy the store version and get extra tracks of "Nazi Barbie" passing wind, burping, struggling like only tortured poets struggle (to come up with AI-quality songs for the masses) with just a touch of narcissism, juvenile pettiness, self-aggrandizing "Ah shucks, I'm just a country girl and pro-LGBTQIA+ Biden-voting, Christian on the right side of history," and a je ne sais quoi, or maybe an "oh 🙄 brother" factor.

    Seacrest's so excited he sent Sisanie to promote it
    But for dyed in the polyester fans, tune in to Los Angeles' "Swift FM" (KISS 102.7 FM) right at midnight tonight to hear cuts from the album curated by Miss TrayLor herself, Taylor Swift. It will be replayed tomorrow and then for the rest of our lives like a bad Madonna or Milquetoast release. Never has so much been done by so many for so little.

    I'm still a child at head. I never grew up.
    Song 1, "Fortnight," features Post Malone to help her sell the Lana Del Rey sound-rip off. As the first track, it should be the first single on the record. Is that how it works? Or will it be Post Malone's fans wanting to see what he did (which ain't much) that'll drive sales? "It's very fatalistic," Taylor claims, because it's about fatalism (the anti-karma idea that everything that happens is fixed in advance by fate).

    Song 2, "Tortured Poet's Department," is the same gaar-bahge, complaining, talking about things a highschooler would be getting over by graduation at the latest. Are any college coeds aware of her? They like Miley Cyrus, but Swift seems like it's composed by AI for children, nothing much catchy about it like that "sick fat beat" song.

    Song 3 is a metaphor, whining about relationships. She's a one trick pony going on about denial and toxicity: "My Boy Only Breaks His Toys." This song is more promising, with a "whoa whoa whoa" refrain and a new drum machine setting, some inflection in the singing, lacking emotional depth or a hook but good confection, instantly forgettable. Eight-year-olds are bound to like it.

    Song 4, "Down Bad," is another metaphor, about alien abduction from the time she was "love bombed" by a narcissist then dumped. She's crying, talking about being a suicidal teen too depressed to get out of bed if the ETs won't come back for her. She sure must've gotten her heart broken a lot to whine about it song after song. Female country music singers must hate her. "What if I was in love?" she asks and has no one to tell her to use the subjunctive: "What if I were in love?" She dumbs it down for the kids and the Heartland maybe?

    Song 5, "So Long London," is a dreamy kind of Lana Del Rey tremolo talker. Who taught her rhyme? Teach her more. Rhyming couplets of pining, longing, yearning, and being pathetic and clingy but indignant and hot and I will survive, it's a tragedy. Are Lana's attorney's tuned in? This song seems actionable. Big artists have gotten in trouble for less. How hard can it be to write one catchy tune?

    Song 6, "But Daddy I Love Him," a string of facile rhymes, end of the world love lost with some emotion but "precocious" "tendrils"? It's like how Shakira had her thesaurus out to help her translate from Spanish to English for Laundry Service. What's Tay Tay's excuse? There are ten more of these junk heap discards pulled out, dusted off, and assembled into "sanctimonious" "soliloquies"? This is the least bad one so far.

    Song 7, "Fresh Out the Slammer," is a metaphor of being in jail or prison and getting out to run to a sweetheart with more lameitude in rhyme, as if she finds herself clever and listening to so much Lana that she's drenched in the talent of a single-minded vision and not getting it in any dimension but one, superficial.

    Song 8, "Florida," featuring Florence and the Machine, about reinventing herself after heartbreak (again). Where would anyone go to blend in and reinvent oneself? America's dangling participle peeing in the Gulf, right, T-Swift? Florence adds some verve at least and so meta. "Is that a bad thing to say in a song?" "Florida is one hell of a drug," and we drink -- and here the rhyming problem comes up again (yet again), just taking a bunch of rhyming words and say them close to each other like a rapper in the flow just pulling anything in to fill space. Short and sweet. If Lana doesn't sue, this is a good one. Taylor has found the secret, feature Ice Spice, Florence, Post Malone, or anyone to extend her range.


    The craze behind tall blonde beauty | Harvard lecture, $64 bil in concert revenue | All About Taylor Swift
    (LASSI Studio) March 1, 2024: A lecture called "Taylor Swift and Her World" opened at Harvard. Taylor's concerts generated a $63.5 billion economic impact, also known as "Swiftonomics." She has won the Grammy for Album of the Year three times. This is a video on the ultimate [AI] songstress.

    Song 9, "Guilty As Sin," is about crying, whining about a boy, using big words ("paradox"), and having no success in relationships. Is this causing all the bad relationships in the country, or are there so many bad relationships that Taylor is "the voice of an unhappy generation"?

    Song 10, "Just Hold Me" (?), a sad song asking, "Who's afraid of little old me? You should be!" The way she makes everything so obvious an pat, the name of this song must be "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" because she repeats, so emo and slightly goth with imagery of death, drugs, and depression. There's something here; I can see how this one could be included in 1980s flashbacks or retro emo song lists with what sounds like a live drummer.

    Song 11, "I Can Fix Him, No Really I Can," more complaining about a man she loves ("He's my man... I can fix him, no, really, I can.") This is Lana gone West, a real song, a rip off. Does no one else listen to enough Lana to see it? How could the Eras Tour stand having three hours of this pissant urine?

    Song 12, "LMNL" (?), more complaining about a bad man she loves against her will, and she adores him, and she criticizes him, and oy vey, does she never stop complaining? This is cr*p, but kids love cr*p, so it will be interesting which of her masterpieces the focus groups will tell the corporate stations to put on rotation and overplay.

    Song 13, "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart," almost danceable at the crying party, when we go to comfort Patty who got dumped by Brad. "You're better than him, Patty! Get out of bed and shake him off. C'mon let's go dance and celebrate our broken hearts. It's all a test. You're a tough kid." Wow, it's Sweet Valley High for every song, the weak sauce, celebrating the miserable. At least it's almost over.

    Song 14, "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived," about a Jehovah Witness suit wearing guy who tries to buy some pills from her drug dealing friends, complaining and complaining, calling a man small, with venom and anger become more depression and resentment. This song is dangerous because it's really a crying complaint...

    Song 15, "The Alchemy," is about a boy she is not happy with and is telling him she'll get over him and recover and be better than ever for the bad experience. Whew, what a slog. Were there 100 songs like this, and these are the winners? One has to feel what one sings for the singing to sound good. So does she feel this way all the time, year after year, track after track, or is it an act and what the fans want? It's odd to see someone with such a fixation. When Lana does it, singing about dark love all the time, she finds a way to make it interesting. Hooray, it's over, just one more to go:

    Song 16, "Clara Beau," is about a girl she's comparing herself to, a remarkable Clara Beau, bringing back themes of dazzling, sparking, rusting as a kind of theme, shining, eclipsing, dying, exaggerating, New York and a small town girl. Taylor in the big city. "You look like Taylor Swift in this life," she says. Could that be right? She's so full of herself that Clara Beau is Tailor Slow? It's SO deep. What was the two theme all the buildup hinted at? We'll leave that to the kiddies on TikTok to figure that out. Is this the world we've come to, violent Kelce with fainting waif Taylor, American royalty? Bleh. 🤢🤮

    The first song to be played following all of the others is "Florida" (feat. Florence) and some interesting kind of drumming or bass tapping. Yes, this is one of the better ones with its big bang drumming and Lana theme.

    Saturday, March 30, 2024

    Pope too sick for Easter this year


    Franny's sick.
    In previous years, Pope and future San Francis[co] was happy to rub women's feet during Holy Week.

    This year, he's not feeling so well. In fact, he's going to sit this Easter out if that's alright with the Catholic world. He's busy attending to his body.

    God has not given him the health to head the world's oldest corporation in charge of making God's will known to sinners or how to pay indulgences or say Hail Marys to make up for their wicked and evil sinfulness.

    Didn't know you had a fetish, Father. - It's Pontiff
    One would think Satan would lay off the pontiff during this most glorious part of the liturgical calendar, but there's no rest for the wicked, proving that Pope Francis deserves the sainthood headed his way as his golden parachute when he steps down from the Vatican, Inc. (Unlimited).

    • Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

    Thursday, March 14, 2024

    RAP: Rolling Loud Cali Festival (livestream)

    Rolling Loud (RollingLoudCa.com); Bela, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
    Single Day Passes


    Performing: Kanye West
    It's funny how rock 'n roll, which really isn't that popular but has diehard fans, can manage massive festivals. Pop stars are obliged to perform at well-organized exhibition shows for radio station conglomerate that play their songs by pay-to-plays schemes or tit for tat arrangements. But what about rap and hip-hop? Rolling Loud California  has it covered with the biggest rap festival we have ever heard of, stretching from March 14th opening night to St. Patrick's Day March 17th, 2024. Plenty of Irish will attend fo'shur because there are only so many times one can see Flogging Molly. There probably is no way to sleep on the grounds, but the hotels and Airbnbs are full or charging so much that it would be better and cheaper$299-$799 (plus fees, taxes, charges, nonrefundable processing stipends, associated remuneration add-ons, and of course wharfage). But WAIT! There's an easier way: scroll down and watch it HERE for FREE! We're sure the Devil would be happy, the Devil being the owner of Nicki "Roman" Minaj's soul, one Lil Wayne of Young Money Entertainment record label.  to fly back home and return each night. But there are packages to cover sleeping arrangements. Good luck parking (take a shuttle). Must be at least 16 to attend and no drugs (lol), but there will probably be drugs. Inglewood used to be the ghetto, but now the price of houses has tripled to live next to the freeway and under the airport. The show doesn't really start until Friday. Bottom line, how much is this going to cost? How about all this and less for Rolling Loud 2024

    What's the big deal? The lineup:
     Is there any chance Trump will be there? Yes, he needs the Black vote real bad.
    WATCH HERE (3 STAGES)
    Rolling Loud California 2024 | March 14-17, 2024 | Hollywood Park

    Monday, February 26, 2024

    Trump on Blacks, Haley lost, Apple Vision prank

    Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

    Trump tells Black people how beloved he is by Black people, Haley loses SC, and cousin Micki Apple goggles prank
    (Jimmy Kimmel Live) Feb. 26, 2024: Trump was given the “Champion of Black America” award over the weekend at a gala for the Black Conservative Federation, he spent his time freestyle "rapping" on a variety of topics designed to let Black people know how beloved he is by Black people (only his audience was actually nearly all white), he currently owes the state of New York $455+ million and counting because he lost his business fraud case, Trump beat Nikki Haley by 20 points in her home state of South Carolina, he made an appearance at CPAC where he brought back one of his classic entrances (and abysmal exits), Mark "Facebook" Zuckerberg was in Japan over the weekend and showed off his hobbies online, and Kimmel pull an Apple Vision Pro prank on Jimmy's cousin Micki.

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    Saturday, February 24, 2024

    Trump BEGS judge over $454m! He's denied

    Rey Harris, TAG24 News/MSN, 2/22/24; Pfc. Sandoval, S. Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
    Judge gave Trump 30 days to pay $454 million civil fraud judgment or post a bond to cover the amount to be able to appeal it. He'll owe an additional $112,000 in interest each day he doesn't
    How Democrats could disqualify Trum if the Supreme Court doesn't (The Atlantic)
    What could he have said? Please, Judge, please! I've got cash flow problems right now. I'm trying to get back in the White House. My wife hates me and won't touch me. My kids just want an inheritance. My daughter will no longer date me. For the love of Money, give me a break!

    Judge, please, I'm trying to get reelected.
    NEW YORK, New York - Former President Donald John Trump has asked the judge in his civil business fraud trial to delay the penalties attached to the damages he owes [which amount to between $355 and $454.5 million when back dated interest is included].

    But the New York attorney general insists it shouldn't happen.

    On Wednesday, Donald Trump and his legal team filed a request for a judge to delay penalties attached to damages he owes in his New York fraud trial.


    I'm sorry, your Honor. I'm fundraising online.
    According to ABC News, Trump's attorneys submitted the request on Wednesday for Judge Engoron to delay the enforcement of penalties by 30 days, citing the "magnitude" of the ruling on the trial as presenting a need for an "orderly post-judgment process."

    "The Attorney General has not filed any motion on notice, nor moved to settle the proposed Judgment," the filing states regarding New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has led the case. More:
    Trump’s mad at Jimmy AGAIN, right wing’s nuttiest Republicans gather, and MyPillow Mike falling apart
    Order! This court will come to order! There's nothing funny about this deluded man's fine.
    .
    (Jimmy Kimmel Live) Feb. 22, 2024: Our worst and dimmest gathered for the annual CPAC convention in Washington DC, Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara (nepotistic wife of Eric) was the bigly speaker today, there were a bunch of crazy seminars run by the best in the business, Donald gave Jimmy a shoutout on Truth Social, blundering dotard Pres. Biden touched down in San Francisco today, according to CNN his German shepherd dog "Commander" was involved in far more biting incidents than was previously reported, MyPillow Mike Lindell has been ordered to pay 5 million for the “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge,” which he lost when he was proven wrong about election interference, and Mike’s out there promoting fellow election deniers like Blake Masters who is running for Congress in Arizona. #Kimmel

    Saturday, December 23, 2023

    Israel is against the whole world: How?

    Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Shauna Schwartz (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

    Gaza is a weapons lab for the arms industry w/Antony Loewenstein
    The Palestine Laboratory
    (The Real News Network) Dec. 8, 2023: Whether it's drone technology or the infamous Pegasus spy software, Israel has long developed and refined repressive technologies used by governments around the world by testing them on Palestinians.

    Antony Loewenstein, journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a deep dive into the disturbing links between Israeli Apartheid, its arms industry, and global repression of civilian populations.
    Studio production: David Hebden, Adam Cole, Cameron Granadino. Post-production: Adam Coley, Kayla Rivara. Opening sequence by: Cameron Granadino.  Watch The Chris Hedges Report live YouTube premiere on The Real News Network every Friday at 12:00 pm ET.

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