Another band discovered by watching a cover over at Youtube.
Thanks Ani Lyn for your cover of “Myth”. The genre is described as “Dream Pop”
and is strong medicine for those legitimately in need of an escape. If you’re
like me and spend too much time enraptured by musicians dallying in minor keys,
you will be delighted by this experienced group. Some youtube commenter has
referred to the album “Bloom” and going from one great song to a better one.
Two young scholars came together in Baltimore’s Indie Rock
scene and wrote music fervently only to
have a block on the defining of a band name. As you would expect with “Dream
Pop”, we’re talking organs, synthesizers and slide guitar with an underlying
soft mellow beat. Both Victoria LeGrand and Alex Scally are versatile musicians
deploying various instruments. Can one draw a parallel between “Shoe Gaze” and “Dream
Pop”? Well, Scally with Beach House employs D flat tuning as does Slowdive.
As I write this piece, I’m listening to “Wishes” from “Bloom”.
I’m tellin’ ya…this group is spectacular.
LeGrand has a soothing voice and fans were avid enough in 2016 to
suggest that Pitchfork make them the headliners in Chicago. If distant travel
beckons, book your ticket to Beach House and a dream theatre by the water.
This is
just one more example of how your tax money is wasted. Apparently convicts who
have supposedly lost their autonomy get to “shoot up” and possess an injection
kit in their cells as authorized by your country’s “Prison Needle Exchange
Program” (PNEP). Correctional Services Canada is now mandating that guards
facilitate to “shooting gallery” and rightfully the union of guards has said
no. “This is not our job”.
I believe
in the humanitarian rights of prisoners and your country unfortunately has ethically
abused the duration of time in which they’ve permitted prisoners to be held in
solitary confinement. This has been addressed in lieu of the Ashley Smith
debacle..
However; as
is common with wrongs made right from an apologetic landscape of a government over
extending rights, there is now this new “PNEP” program that you the taxpayer
get to pay for. The policy is not only fiscally irresponsible but it’s
detrimental to the health and welfare of convicts. When a convict has lost
their liberty, certainly they should lose access to illicit mood altering
drugs.
It’s a newsletter written by John
Williams. John received his degree in economics from Dartmouth in 1971. He
considers it his duty to help the interested understand street level economic
indicators in real terms as opposed to the terms expressed through nuance by
government agencies. For example, John will take the unemployment statistic and
incorporate variables filtered out unjustifiably by the U.S. government. If
somebody is a “discouraged worker” without a job should we then consider them
not to be unemployed? No. John believes as you and I do that this government
approach is nonsensical. Hence; he infuses the common sense into his analysis when
recalculating economic statistics.
He also has enough experience
with the numbers to see trends, trend reversals, and anomalies. When a couple
of figures travel in line over time but then diverge, you acquire knowledge of
your investing landscape. While CNBC is regurgitating tainted data, you can
access Mr. Williams through (www.shadowstats.com)
and you need not even subscribe. He gives you some links for free on his page.
I’ve just wrapped up listening to
his interview with Greg Hunter and his reference to the sustainability of debt along
with the consequences of default. What I like best about Mr. Williams is his
hopefulness in spite of dismal statistics as well as his humble disposition. Here’s
the youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOos-Ae0qGI
It’s
happened again. In Cambridge Ontario a young girl has endured nineteen stitches
in the face from an attack by a neighbor’s dog. The full extent of the injury
is yet to be determined. Common sense suggests that vicious dogs as pets in
communities are more of a risk to citizens than they are as benefits to owners.
If communities and their bylaws are not going to serve citizens with common
sense solutions to unnecessary hazards then the penal code should step in. It’s
that simple. I’m all for liberty and rights of the individual but not to the
detriment of the quality of life of others.
Your tax money is getting spent once again on a
special interest group. I am not prejudiced against whomever fits into the
acronym of LGBTQ and whatever other letters get added in the future. In fact, I
don’t think there’s consensus yet with respect to which letters should fit at
the end. However; I am strongly against sending money to Ottawa in order to
appease a group who may have legitimate social challenges in the context of the
expression of their identity. I do not elect a government to propagate social construct.
However; I do expect my governments to enforce common sense law including
legislation around “hate”. If a parent responsible for the livelihood of
someone associated with this elongated acronym fails to provide the necessities
of life in consequence of the individual’s sexual preferences, then parent’s
wages should be garnisheed to pay for public housing in association with said
parent’s discriminatory conduct. Not the taxpayer.
At every turn, our current federal government operates
as if it has a moral authority superior to yours. It apologizes, acquiesces, and
spends as if there are no limits to your capacity to pay tax. Our current
federal government lacks the backbone to say no to any special interest group
likened to themselves on the political spectrum.
It was Justin Trudeau’s father who in fact stated that
the government has no interest in the bedrooms of Canadians. Today his son sank
your money into a program aimed at appeasing yet another group claiming victimhood
but this time because of the group’s alternate sexual appetites.
