Tracking The Dread, Plus
The all-star ketamine playlist
Tracking The Dread
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has introduced their Federal Policy Watch, a feature that helps you track what atrocities are being visited upon which policy arenas by what agents of the regime, including the legislative branch and the courts. It allows you a very granular view of what’s happening, and although I hate to say it, it’s vastly superior in some respects to my boxes of horrors.
The all-star ketamine playlist
When I first began ketamine treatments for my depression—typically once or twice a month now, depending upon how close I am to drowning—I made up a playlist for the sessions with the intention of imprinting the experience on it so that I could listen at home in the hope of replicating some shadow of the thought-free experience that works so well to ease my mind. Somewhat surprisingly, it works, to such an extent that, for instance, I can’t listen to any of the tunes while driving because I start to zone out.
I’ve made a couple of changes during the course of the treatments—Sonny Landreth’s “Yokamoma” was on it for a little while, and Eric Johnson’s “Cliffs of Dover”—but most of the list is unchanged.
Funkadelic, Maggot Brain, “Maggot Brain”
Pink Floyd, Pulse, “Comfortably Numb” live
Bill Frisell, Good Dog Happy Man, “My Buffalo Girl”
Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age, “Pipeline”
David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, “Everything That Happens”
Simon and The Bar Sinisters, Look At Me I’m Cool!!!, “Surf The Wild Gowanus”
Jeff Beck, Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop, “Where Were You”
Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble, Texas Flood, “Lenny”
Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age, “Rumble”
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté, Ali & Toumani, “Ruby”
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster, “Blues for Yolande”
Cocorosie, Put The Shine On, “Hell’s Gate”
The high expires before the playlist does so I rarely listen to the whole thing, but sometimes I’ll skip a tune or two to get to the ones I usually don’t.
And now, having subjected myself to EPI’s Policy Watch, I’m gonna do some chores and lay me down with the ‘phones for a while.
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