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It’s 4/20 today woohoo haha hehe! This would maybe be a little more significant if we hadn’t been holed up inside getting high for the last month. The only good 4/20 I really can recall or when I did something creative was like my freshman year of college where I celebrated by getting high in as many different ways (bong, joint, vaporizer, edible) and I think I counted like 7 or 8 by the end of the night.
Anyways I’m older and therefore way less fun so instead of getting high and celebrating cannabis culture (don’t worry I’m still going to put on the Big Lebowski and attend this concert live-stream) I instead think about the progress made and how we still aren’t close to a perfect system but have made some good leaps and bounds and I can’t believe we’re putting and have put away in jail all the people that we did and I still can’t look at weed seeping into normal culture as awesome because I’m busy thinking about all the mistakes we made and its’ impact today.
Watch
I saw a fairly disappointing list from Rolling Stone (c’mon Rolling Stone) of their 10 best stoner movies so anyways I thought I would list five favorite stoner flicks or what I consider to be anyways haha super sick anyways…
American Beauty
Pineapple Express
Half Baked
The Big Lebowski
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
The Last Dance started off with a tremendous bang and this montage of Jordan going nuclear to LL’s ‘I’m Bad’ was my favorite part, giving me nostalgia for a time I wasn’t even alive for and I suppose that is good film making.
Listen
This video felt fitting for today and yeah I’ve been listening to a lot of Phoebe Bridgers through this quarantine.
It feels good to discover a new artist in the wild like not necessarily from a suggested playlist or radio but anyways I came across Anna Burch while watching a live concert series the other week from Noisey and her new album is great.
And then there’s hearing about an artist for the worst reasons. Philly rapper Chynna passed away the other week and while I was somehow never hip to her music I regret that and to see a young artist in particular explore so much death and mortality only for it to come is a little eerie because rather than possibly seeing it coming it already happened and I don’t have a great answer besides better health care and mental health resources but man we gotta take care of our young artists.
Advertising has still reared its’ also mostly ugly self and car commercials especially/particularly have been blowing it like c’mon…
Drink
I’ve been drinking lately too. My go-to Quarantine drink is only three ingredients, easy stuff, nothing snooty. Bourbon/whiskey + lemon + honey.
Bang. Enter the Gold Rush - basically a cold version of a hot toddy and a cousin of the whiskey sour. You’ll need a cocktail shaker but basically combine 2 or 3 Oz. of bourbon, a squeeze of a lemon and like 1 Oz. of honey. Combine, shake, strain over ice. No garnish necessary.
Across the nation people are becoming increasingly and understandingly impatient but also unfathomable childish and downright stupid which took place in my own backyard. I’ve been seeing people this week protest at empty capitol buildings but Texas will always try to be real Texas and bring it to a whole other level that they can brand as Texan and boy howdy did we do it:
It’s not even crazy anymore how far gone and lost some of these people are but the fact they don’t even know who to be mad at or direct the blame and can’t understand how it’s all coming from the top. It’s really just a cheap excuse for Trump and Infowars/Q Anon meetup but the whole point of this thing is that the government is to blame for us not being open but only the government they temporarily are against and not seeing the errors of the highest levels of our government which they like now and how the initial response from the federal government got us here when we really didn’t have to and it’s them who is these people protesting on Saturday instead of getting into an argument with a clerk at Bass Pro Shops and that t/he one person they love very so happens to be in charge at the highest level and could lift the restrictions despite the chance of setting us back further and really forcing us into a lockdown is somehow the fault of the libs or anyone with a (D) next to their name but when you are committed to the spin, well you know carry on.
Anyways, a big condo building that everybody pretty much hates for being an eyesore is flying American flags outside condos in case you forgot what country you were quarantined in. This felt appropriate for 9/11 but not now. When I think about America in a time of weird tragedy like this I see all of those people out protesting and how we aren’t united no matter if we fly the same flag but then again I saw more Confederate/Don’t Tread on Me/Trump 2020 flags than America ones and hey credit to them for at least knowing what they want and not pretending.
Millions are unemployed and it’s growing and our safety net that has eroded from focusing and benefiting a handful of people has fallen apart like a cheaply tied bandanna you tie around your face to get canned foods and toilet paper. We definitely didn’t double-knot it.
On a bright side, people on the street have been really kind and step out of the way and smile at you and look not everybody is bad but still a majority haha.
Here’s the ugly Jenga-lookin-ass building and the flags.
I also like this spot because there’s this little clearing over the bridge that looks like some real post-apocalyptic I Am Legend vibes especially when empty as hell.
Happy 4/20 and have a good week.