I swear I'll take a break after this one :)
Out of Gatineau, QC, another good downtempo choice for a Sunday morning.
More west coast (of Canada) hip hop! Another wiki blurb:
Swollen Members is a four-time JUNO Award-winning Canadian hip hop group from Vancouver, British Columbia, consisting mainly of Madchild and Prevail. Frequent collaborators include vocalist Moka Only (who actually helped form the group in the mid-1990s, left, and then joined again from 2002 to 2005) along with the other former members Easy Roc & Zodak who were only in the group for a few years and producer Rob the Viking, an official group member since 2002. Swollen Members has released nine studio albums, one greatest hits album and 2 compilations, as well as numerous other singles. From 1996 to 2016, Swollen Members were the second best-selling Canadian hip hop artist in Canada (behind Drake) and were the best-selling Canadian hip hop group in Canada.
Often tongue in cheek country western band out of Ottawa, ON, headed by local legend and former House of Targ zine advice columnist Slo' Tom.
Good 'I'm hungover, sad, and walking to get a breakfast sandwich somewhere on Bank St' song, lol.
Hip hop straight out of Kitimaat Village, BC. Wiki blurb:
Snotty Nose Rez Kids, sometimes referred to as SNRK, are a First Nations hip hop duo composed of Haisla rappers Darren "Young D" Metz and Quinton "Yung Trybez" Nyce. They are originally from Kitamaat Village, British Columbia. Their 2017 album The Average Savage was shortlisted for the 2018 Polaris Music Prize, and for the Juno Award for Indigenous Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019. In 2018, the duo received nominations for Best Hip Hop Album at the Indigenous Music Awards, and for Indigenous Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards. Ever since their second release, The Average Savage, all of their albums have been long- or shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize.
I don't care that I'm responding 3 months later, fuckin' DO IT. He tours pretty frequently, and I don't care how many times I've seen his act, it's a great time every time.
(Swear I'm not trying to spam - just enthusiastic, I've heard a lot of great bands/musicians passing through Ottawa over the years and have few venues to share them :) )
Another group from Montreal, getting a lot of attention from the stoner/desert rock world over the past couple of years.
Amphibious jazz fusion from Montreal, QC! Have seen them a couple times and it's always been a blast.
Ribbit 🐸
Count from 1 to 10, then 10 to 1. With each number, relax your body a little more. When the mind strays, bring it back to counting. Repeat until unconscious.
If that isn't working at all, get up, go to another room, play soft music at low volume on headphones, and depending on the circumstances read a book, jot stuff down, or just contemplate stuff. Chill until sleepy, then either go back to bed or just curl up where you are.
Since I just found this community, first offering is a little tongue in cheek/some fun, but it is a great Saturday morning song!
Very cool visuals, but I thought it was a good anime to watch stoned, and obviously for me it isn't. I had absolutely no clue what was going on.
Need to sit down and give it another go.
Me again.
Story
It's 2014. I'm writing an ill-conceived paper about LSD as a kind of 'technological' advancement in psychiatry and how that idea connects to themes in some American novels from the 1960s.
While researching, I come across a blurb about Hollywood Hospital, a facility in Vancouver BC that conducted LSD trials with their patients. This eventually leads me to a finding aid for a collection of lecture notes at Purdue University's Archives and Special collections, where I learned the last person known to have the hospital's files was supposedly one Frank Ogden.
Frank Ogden is an interesting character. A flight engineer during WWII, after the war he ran an airplane company at Toronto Island Airport. In 1961, after reading an article about LSD in a magazine he became interested in Hollywood Hospital's activities. He sold his portion of the business, travelled to Vancouver and, in his words, "just knocked on the door". With no medical background, but offering three months of free labour, medical director Dr. J. Ross MacLean hired him. Ogden took LSD under supervision twice, which was a relatively standard protocol for staff working with these patients. He then started working along side staff supporting these patients, which included 'a large clientele from California' - mostly said to be celebrities and the like looking for a kick.
Fast forward. Ogden eventually transitions to a career as a futurist under the moniker Dr. Tomorrow, living in a houseboat in Vancouver. He did speaking engagements, wrote books, hosted a radio show, etc. He died at 92 on December 29th, 2012.
Super interesting guy, and worth further digging into if you're curious (I know I'm revisiting him now that I've written this, lol). But I noticed something interesting when I dug up his homepage. It was now redirecting to something called the Global Consciousness Project, a parapsychology initiative. This is a weird one - basically, the theory is that events causing widely experienced, shared emotions or attention could have an effect on the output of hardware random number generators, and fluctuations in output could be a measure of a 'global consciousness'. It's batshit, but fascinating at the same time. The questions I had at the time were "Why this, over anything else, as the redirect? What happened between May 3 2009 and February 17 2010 where this was the choice? Unrelated, but WHERE ARE THE FUCKING HOSPITAL FILES??".
I walked away. Ultimately, I had a paper to finish, and while fascinating this was becoming a timesink. But this man lives rent free in my head to this day
Yep. Tried to make it all about me too, what with the crying and shitting myself.
It's available via Wayback (albeit not fully functional), so you know what? Yes!
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
(I was hoping for cool little weird corners of internet history, or just regular people who used to have websites for interesting reasons, but I'll take proto-memes too)
Damn, that's a good question. Like a 6 or 7 on this scale, all told? Parents were good, wasn't spoiled but didn't want for much, some tension with my dad at times/impact of necessary absences due to military lifestyle, but he was generally a good dude.
Idk - I look back on my childhood fondly more or less.
Probably going to come back with other Wayback links of interest between today and tomorrow, but in the spirit of some of the responses so far:
Best paired with the following on repeat: https://youtu.be/zh1GCx2CcKM?t=0m48s
Dang! Works for me, but admittedly takes a bit longer to load than other links I've used. Is it giving a specific error, out of curiosity?
If truly hopeless, bask in this glorious homepage image:
I mean, I have reason to believe they're not the most recent, but recentish:
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Matrix
Julie Kavner
LAGEOS
Church of the Universe
A&M Records
Paris Syndrome
List of films featuring hallucinogens
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin
Ryan Juanzemis
I've been sitting on this question for a while, but got inspired to post by the Wikipedia question.
I. Love. Web 1.0 shit. I think a decent chunk of us using Lemmy do. Do you have any Wayback links you want to share? Bonus points if you have a story with them (mine, due to length and meandering, are in spoiler tags as an act of mercy).
A couple of mine:
Story
Several years ago, my wife and I were looking at places to move. One house we looked at was peculiar. There were bars on the basement windows (very rare here), big bookcases along every wall of the basement, and some weird fixtures that looked like they once housed electrical equipment. We passed on the place, but I got intensely curious about the former owner and started digging.
It turns out it was the home of Fred Ennis, a journalist and former Parliament Hill Bureau Chief. He created nepean.com as, in his words, "the first Internet community newspaper, with all the news but none of the paper". He covered local events and goings on, and worked with columnists including one Don Nox, who wrote the linked article. Don's quote here has stuck with me for a while:
Society is a very perverse device. If you stand in front of it and call it a stupid excuse for a machine, and a designer's bad dream, it will suck you into it's beater and turn you into dust and moldy straw. All anyone will ever remember is that you were weird. On the other hand, if you position yourself carefully and strategically off to one side and call it these very same names, it will shower you with candy, and sometimes loose change and small denomination bills. People in this position are called eccentrics. Now you know the difference.:::
Next, the homepage for The Church of the Universe, circa 2002
Story (spoiler tag removed due to formatting weirdness, mercy suspended)
To this day, there is nothing I find more interesting from a distance than new religious movements, and the early web was lousy with pages for them.
I came across this one while looking for backissues of Cannabis Culture, a once renowned underground publication out of Vancouver, BC, lead by activist-cum-political prisoner and libertarian weirdo Marc Emery. He's an interesting character himself, but not the focus today.
While it seems you can only get physical backissues of CC from Ebay these days, they still host articles from way back, and these two from 1994 caught my attention. Checked out the organization's website, and oh boy - if you like web 1.0 design and content quirks, you're in for a treat. It's a fascinating look at a group from a time when cannabis activism was filled with freaks and weirdos (said lovingly) - kind of miss those times v. the more corporatized cannabis 'culture' post-legalization.
Have a few more in mind if I can dig them up, but I'm curious what people end up sharing here!
Edit: Apparently I suck at spoiler tags.
Back in the Xtreme days, former Rollerblade employee Chris Morris developed a shoe with a plate in the sole for grinding rails and curbs. This video oNe was a showcase.
I wanted these more than life itself, but they eventually disappeared from shelves and skateboards had to suffice.
Ngl this was my first thought. Or dig out a pair of those ol' soap shoes and do a sick grind (practice first with both of these).
I swear to god, there's a section of the population that just straight-up forgets headphones and/or white noise generators are things...
The amount of bitching I've heard about ambient noises I've been blissfully unaware of with an mp3 on loop and a $3 pair of headphones is crazy.
Don't quote me on this (haven't seen it and only pulled partial clips before answering), but I think the audio just runs as per normal. Though it'd be kind of cool to have reverse audio as an option (if in a theatre, idk, have a set up kinda like what folks do for silent discos/some bluetooth device with serious multi-connection capacity or something, and people who opt for it have one earpiece in while the vanilla track plays in the room).
Only aware of it 'cause the rep theatre here did a screening once. Seemed cool.
I mean, this exists, so why not? https://www.screenslate.com/articles/shining-forwards-and-backwards
There's an in-universe argument to be made that the Devil has successfully corrupted the Christian church, its teachings and materials, and has for a long time. It's not a new idea, though contexts have been different.
Not a Christian myself, but I'd see loud propagation of this idea as an interesting counterforce to the current evangelical climate. For those folks who, for whatever reasons, remain Christians but think the outcomes of popular Christianity are fucked, this is a position to fight from.
Anything that bolsters resistance against these particular chucklefucks is a good thing.
More killin', now featuring gangbangin' and dope dealin'.
If for no other reason than to fill the 'Ottawa in the Fediverse' space :) Found this recently, it's apparently hosted on an ActivityPub compatible service. No idea if direct Lemmy cross-compatibility would work (probably not), but still something interesting/that some users passing through may want to contribute to in some form.
Just sayin'.
