Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • Rum, Sodomy and the Lash by the Pogues. Seemless blending of punk and traditional irish music that’s still as raw and refined today as ever.

    Pretty much anything by the Velvet Underground. They’re the quintessential “barely anyone came to their shows but everyone who did started a band” band.

    Early Pixies - Surfer Rosa or Come on Pilgrim. Basically no grunge otherwise.

    Probably everything by Sun Ra, but his earliest wrangling of electronic keys into jazz in like the 40s or whatever seems pretty consequential. Plus probably no P-funk as we know it without Sun Ra, which has heaps of knock on effects.








  • Cannabis use was more common among: … Youth on Medicaid or living in more deprived neighborhoods

    Regular reminder that correlation =/= causation. Living a more stressful life due to poverty makes both mental illness and adolescent cannabis use more common.

    That said there is a credible biological pathway to cannabis use having a causal role:

    THC acts on CB1 receptors, which are highly expressed in the adolescent brain and play a key role in emotional regulation, motivation, and cognitive development.

    However we still don’t have definitive evidence of causation:

    Q: Does this study prove cannabis causes mental illness? A: While causation can’t be definitively established, cannabis use was associated with an increased risk of developing psychiatric conditions