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Tag Archives: rock and roll

Odds Are Against Me: Dementia, Sobriety, and the Excuses I Made to Avoid a Friend

Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, I heard that Gary had died from complications of early-onset dementia. Fireworks cracked through the night as the world welcomed 2025, but suddenly it all felt hollow. Gary Tyer was my friend. An artist and rock and roller through and through. He had a voice that could pull…

April 2, 2025 in 4) Music, by Nick Allison.

Breaking Metal – Piranah – Season 2, Episode 1

BREAKING METAL Featuring PIRANAH, piranahrocks.com Season 2, Episode 1 Hosts:  Matthew Edmondson (vocalist, Killing Grace, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Killing-Grace) Adam G. “Brick” House  (drummer, Outlaw Serenade, https://www.facebook.com/outlawserenademusic) Breaking Metal is recorded in front of a LIVE audience at Daisy Duke’s Bar & Grill in Nashville facebook.com/pages/Breaking-metal

July 13, 2014 in 4) Music, by A.G. House.

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“We were angry and righteous in those days, and there were millions of us. We kicked two chief executives out of the White House because they were stupid warmongers. We conquered Lyndon Johnson and we stomped on Richard Nixon… Our tribe was strong like a river. That river is still running. All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.”
— Hunter S. Thompson,
Rolling Stone, November 11, 2004

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“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
- Terence McKenna, attributed

"In the end, McKenna, the Stoics, Buddhists, Taoists, and Heraclitus are all pointing us toward the same truth: to live fully, we must learn to dance with chaos, not run from it. We must let go of our rigid need for control and open ourselves to the wild, untamed, and unpredictable flow of life. Only then can we truly understand the deeper currents that shape our existence, the very sections of life where chaos and order intertwine."
- The Fear of Letting Go: Ego’s Struggle for Control

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