Music: William Shatner collaborates with Canned Heat and does a version of "Let's Work Together." As a child of the 60's, this combination is hard to beat; try it on Spotify.
"Holiday" and "Song for a Deckhand's daughter" by James McMurtry
"Pancho and Lefty" by Townes Van Zandt
Netflix: "Waiting for Sugarman" is a documentary about an obscure folk-rock artist from the 60's. His story is fascinating and I for one, bought some of his music.
Podcasts: "Into the Zone." A Pushkin enterprise that finds a mixed race Englishman with a wonderful voice exploring a number of interesting historical and cultural facts. For example, President Trump was profoundly influenced (before he met Roy Cohn) by Norman Vincent Peale, famous for "the power of positive thinking." Consider many of President Trump's communications---they channel this concept from his point of view. Great Podcast, the last of which I heard included a mix of popular folk culture in England as it relates to Stonehenge and DNA evidence as to who built it.........it was NOT by ancestors of the modern English.
"Deep Cover, the Drug Wars" This is edited nicely and gives life to characters from minor bicker drug dudes to Manuel Noriega. I want the photo of the DEA chief under Reagan awarding Noriega for his anti-drug efforts. Priceless.
"What's up Doc?" from Radiolab, November 2012. Unbelievable story about Mel Blanc
Magazines: "The Bombing Breakthrough" from September's SMITHSONIAN. The right guy in the right place at the right time: a family doctor in Italy during WWII figures out that injured soldiers had mustard burns (a chemical weapon) and had to sort out not only the source (was it the Nazi bombs or in the holds of ships that blew up?) as well as the fact that the exposure caused dramatic drops in the white blood cell counts of those injured. And what did he make of that? Great article!
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