Period of Change
Undergoing a period of change: I had surgery, I got published and I went on vacation. Plenty of new music reviews in this episode.
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Shout outs
Shout outs to Marchandspetrat, hockey s-poster living with MS
Shout outs to Rocky, Cousin Eric
Gotta write up questions
Upcoming interview subject Dax Pierson
Shout outs to the Sandman who turned me on to James Wavey Snowy Beach, which was added recently at KFJC.
Psychedelic hip-hop from San Francisco
Publication Dream Comes True
I was accepted on a piece of writing, and for the first time I made a signed agreement. Follow JWH Live! to hear more about the writing.
In the days before surgery
In the run-up to surgery, in a lot of trigeminal neuralgia pain, I increased my dosage and I felt like it was too much. Trying to even things out, I reduced by 25% overall, and it helped return me to the land of the living.
No coffee, no ibuprofen.
On a day when I would usually be recording, I went to the hospital to have surgery, my third RF Rhizotomy and fifth neurosurgery on my trigeminal nerve overall. I had two MVD (microvascular decompression) surgeries to begin with. Recovery is much easier with rhizotomy. MVD literally bores a hole in your skull, and it takes a lot of recuperation to heal. Hospital stay from rhizotomy can be as short as a few hours.
New tunes
In advance of surgery, maybe to take my mind off it, or to give myself something to look forward to, I bought some tunes.
Opera Glossolalia
Robert Ashley is a composer of 1980s opera. There’s a lot of talking in the libretto. The gatefold record comes with a cool book with photos. I really like the Recital label because they have interesting packaging. The record is one of 350.