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Business and Friendship

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That ‘business’ and ‘friendship’ are separate is a myth. Life is a dialectic of utility, pleasure, and virtue, and there are always trade-offs and repercussions in all realms based on how one conducts oneself— based on one’s intentions and actions.


After all, money is a man-made illusion, a game (‘the Money Game’), a grossly inadequate solution for quelling the power struggles that have beset humankind since inception, that typify all species in certain epochs of their development.


Still the way of the world: Most people say they will do what is right, and then usually do what is most convenient for them in terms of utility and pleasure. Will it ever be otherwise?

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Marianne Faithfull – Scarborough Fair

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In 1966, Marianne Faithfull recorded and released her own take on “Scarborough Fair,” about six months prior to Simon & Garfunkel’s version. Her version is equally, if not more, poignant.

 

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Neutral Milk Hotel / Jeff Mangum – Oh Comely

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If you haven’t heard this album, you should. One of the best of the ‘90s. Can’t find a good live recording of this, arguably the magnum opus song, so resort to the album version.

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Nico – My Only Child + All That is My Own

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Two haunting and hallucinogenic songs by Nico, visionary songstress, now best known for singing with the Velvet Underground (and maybe for her songs in The Royal Tenenbaums), appearing in the film La Cicatrice Intérieure / The Inner Scar (1972) by French auteur filmmaker Philippe Garrel

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David Bowie – ‘My Death’ – live 1973

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This is one of David Bowie’s best songs, and few know about it. . .  A very loose cover of La Mort by the great Belgian bard Jacques Brel. Lyrics by the American musician and songwriter Mort Shuman. Someone— probably Bowie, either improvising or intentionally— also changed a fraction of Shuman’s lyrics. 

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Glenn Yarbrough – The Greatest Adventure

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The original animated The Hobbit film (1977), by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr., with its tiny budget, unassuming character animation, and beautiful watercolor backdrops, is actually a lot better than the newer live action trilogy (2012-14), with its massive budget, endless special effects, and 3D, IMax, IMax3D, HFR3D, and IMAX3D-HFR etc formats. The soundtrack, featuring several songs by luminary and then-famous folk singer Glenn Yarbrough, is also great. Lyrics by Jules Bass and Maury Laws, adapted from Tolkien’s songs in the novel 

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