Sinopsis
Musings on music, art, books, film, & fashion, commentary on culture and politics. Insight, philosophy & spirituality. Never scripted, always real, fly on the fly.
Episodios
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On Atheism ~ An Apology
11/07/2024 Duración: 07minI left a remark in a recent episode for a couple days. I thought I had edited it out. I hadn't. So, a few thoughts about it and an apology.
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Thinking About JFK, His Murder and What It Still Means Sixty-One Years Out
04/07/2024 Duración: 09minHis killing was just the first step to undo all the progressive and civil rights legislation of the twentieth century as well as take back all the wealth from America's middle class. So far it's working pretty good. They are almost where they wanted to be all those years ago. VOTE. The illustration, "X Marks The Spot," for this episode was shot at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. This is where the President's limousine was when the third bullet hit him from the front, knocking off a portion of his skull and brains, which are still missing, by the way.
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Are You A Garamond Guy? Baskerville? Palatino? Helvetica?
04/07/2024 Duración: 05minThere are people who identify as "Garamond Guys/Gals." Me, Baskerville. Others Palatino, Helvetica. There's room for everybody in the world. But, please, no "Eras" Font lovers. Useful links: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/magazine/garamond.html https://medium.com/@kateboothh/typography-john-baskerville-cee9d5e74bb7 Know Your Type: Baskerville
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An Excerpt from My Memoir, The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking ~ Cloud Stories Pt. 2
02/07/2024 Duración: 11minPart two of "Cloud Stories" from my memoir, "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking ~ The Rise and Fall of the HoneyBun Empire; Riding the Wild Bubble—Berkeley To Frisco To Hollywood To Vegas & Back; Intimations Of Immortality On The Technicolor Lam, Sober."
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An Excerpt From "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking" ~ Cloud Stories Part One
02/07/2024 Duración: 10minPorting over a few episodes from The True Hippie Chronicles Podcast. In this episode, a reading from my recently completed memoir, The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking, 'Cloud Stories, Part One.'
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The White Butterfly Revisited
01/07/2024 Duración: 06minEvery time I see a white butterfly, I take it to be a message from elsewhere that I am not alone and things are going to be okay. Is that crazy? Maybe. As John Lennon said, "Whatever gets through the night." And I guess I need help these days.
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The Final Word on the True Hippie Chronicles Podcast
30/06/2024 Duración: 06minThe not-so-obvious, even to me, reason I let the True Hippie Chronicles podcast go.
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Finished Demo For My Next Album ~ Baby Knows
29/06/2024 Duración: 05minI love this song. Of course I need to rerecord the vocal and guitar part. I need a sax player for the instrumental break. And I think I should bring a drummer and a stand-up bass player into the studio.
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On Naming My Next Album
29/06/2024 Duración: 06minSo far, I haven't come up with anything that seems right. I'm sure it will appear or manifest itself, as they say, one of these days. Nonetheless, I'm very happy with how the album is coming along.
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Keep Giles Martin Away From The Beatles' Music
29/06/2024 Duración: 07minLeave The Beatles' music alone. Stop. Right. Now. Keep this no-talent wannabe nepo baby away from their music. All anybody needs is the MONO MIXES—They contain every bit of information and musicality the Beatles and George Martin wanted to share with us.
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Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs ~ Please Stop Trying So Hard
29/06/2024 Duración: 06minEverything about this album smacks of trying to hard to be perceived as a bad boy. Good bad, not evil, as the girl said in "Leader of the Pack." Hipster rebellion signalling, forced, insincere, trying too damn hard. More appropriate for a guy fifty years younger.
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We Celebrate and Salute Juneteenth
20/06/2024 Duración: 08minThank you Black People for everything. Happy Juneteenth.Thank you, also, Willie Mays, my first real-life hero. You will never be forgotten.
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The True Hippie Guidelines For Living, Vol. I
29/05/2024 Duración: 08minInspired by the rules for living from the fake gangster of the YouTube channel Grim.Hustle, I thought I'd share some of my own rules. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy Grim.Hustle and agree with a lot of what he says. As I've always told my sons, any True Hippie can kick any OG butt any day of the week. I'm not a Deadhead, but I love this photo of them on the stoop of their apartment building in the Haight-Ashbury in 1966. I've always thought it hilarious that Pigpen is holding a rifle.
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The (Not) Last Episode
11/05/2024 Duración: 13minI'm creating a new podcast channel ~ Knox Bronson, The True Hippie Chronicles. I won't be posting so much here anymore, but I hope you will join on the True Hippie Chronicles.
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The Milk of Human Kindness
04/05/2024 Duración: 06minI witnessed a stranger's kindness to another stranger the other night in a Safeway parking lot. It was lovely to see.
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Pop Down The Years (acoustic)
04/05/2024 Duración: 06minIt's been over four years since I posted a version of this song. I listened to the album the other night for the first time in a year or more. Inasmuch that I don't like the sound most of my vocals—I paid a guy a lot of money to mix the album who did not know how to mix vocals (live and learn!)—the arrangements stand up. They are amazing, I don't mind saying. Available on iTunes, Pandora, Spotify, and Bandcamp, and everywhere!
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The Genesis of the Accomplished Roué
04/05/2024 Duración: 06minSomeone wrote and asked what a roué is. A French term, a roué is many things, mostly bad. But an accomplished roué? That's another story.
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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution ~ A History From Below
01/05/2024 Duración: 05minI'm halfway through this thoughtful and detailed biography of Candida Royalle, aka Candice Vadala, writer, singer, porn star, porn director. A renaissance woman gone far to soon.
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Mindful Dopamine Reset/Lou Reed On Frank Zappa
20/04/2024 Duración: 05minTwo half-baked thoughts in one podcast.