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As a skeptic, am I missing out on real-life ‘Stranger Things’?

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few weeks back in this space, I publicly espoused my beliefs on “The Universe,” discussing how the world is spectacular enough on its own, how knowing scientifically about how it operates and how we all came to be makes the natural world more interesting; ignoring the complexity actually makes it less miraculous.

Ever since, a number of friends have not so much tried to convince me that I’m wrong, misguided, or lacking understanding so much as they have tried to convince me of how convinced they are of their beliefs, forwarding articles on the subject or sharing their testimonies – stories on how they came to believe what they believe.

At other times, “Universe” talk has come up and friends have apologized for discussing it in my presence, as if my sensibilities had been offended. For the record, I don’t judge (or I try my best not to); those beliefs just aren’t ones I hold. Nonetheless, among my circles, I’ve been branded the skeptic.

Sounds fine by me. Except, after re-watching the series “Stranger Things” in preparation for Season 2 (Oct. 27!), I came to the conclusion: When it comes to such shows – and boy do I love this one – I always hate the skeptic!

Take a show like “Stranger Things,” which takes regular people with recognizable worldly surroundings and, through a series of events, turns them into believers in the supernatural and paranormal.

Everyone always roots for the characters who believe in something otherworldly, as opposed to the stiff holdout who refuses to believe. Nobody likes that character – he’s always the boring dad, or the play-it-bythe-rules friend. Even when presented with adamant testimonies and evidence that is seemingly unbelievable, the stubborn skeptics still hold out, to the frustration of audiences everywhere.

Of course, everyone’s a skeptic at first.

In “Stranger Things,” Hopper is, and all the kids are, Nancy, Jonathan, all of them.

That is, until their skepticism is met with something they themselves experience and can’t unsee or unknow.

I’ve experienced this myself. I have

friends who span the spectrum of paranormal belief. Some are ardent skeptics, while some discuss the power of tarot and crystals as they would gravity and plate tectonics. I have friends who consider themselves ardent skeptics go to mediums – sometimes not on their initiation – and come out the other side firm believers, assuring me that if I had experienced what they experienced, I would believe, too.

It’s easy to nod and go along, to say, “Sure, maybe.” I don’t doubt their conviction or even the validity. I truly believe that they believe what they believe. I believe they totally experienced what they describe. I’m just not convinced that what they experienced comes from the origins they believe it does. That is, I hold out the possibility that the mind is much more powerful than we even know.

But what would it take for me to shed my skepticism on such topics? Encountering a glowing, gooey, gaping hole in a tree? Seeing a girl freeze a boy in mid-fight and making him wet himself ? Watching the same girl flip a speeding van on its side like a toy?

I wonder how the susceptibility of those who believe reinforces those beliefs (after all, if we are looking for an unexplainable phenomenon to happen and believe that it will, the chances of us experiencing that phenomenon go up). At the same time, I wonder how my skepticism could shield me from seeing or experiencing something because I have been predisposed to non-belief (see: the apocryphal tale about how the natives couldn’t see Columbus’ ships on the horizon).

I wonder to what extent my faith (if you will) in science and the scientific process is an impediment in participating in the magic of life. Just like in movies and TV, magic can be fun. And there are always people you love to hate (or just plain hate) who never believe, whether it be Santa Claus, or the underworld of “Stranger Things.”

Though I can’t see myself investigating every tin-foil hat theory I come across, I have definitely criticized others for refusing to give different belief systems a chance, dismissing them before they really tried to understand or experience them.

I wonder if I’m doing the same thing.

Of course there are things about boxing no one can like, much less love: The repetitive soft blows that essentially administer brain damage one punch at a time, or the waves of corruption that relegate the sport to a joke.

But my love and respect for boxing go back to an article I read at ESPN.com about 15 years ago. They called it “Ultimate Degree of Difficulty Grid,” and ranked virtually every sport out there, from fishing to gymnastics to tennis, baseball, and bull riding on 10 categories that feed into athleticism like endurance, strength, speed, and hand/eye coordination. They talked to sports scientists from the United States Olympic Committee, sports journalists, academics who study muscle and movement, as well as two-sport athletes themselves. After each sport was ranked, they totaled the scores to come up with each sport’s overall degree of difficulty.

No. 1? Boxing. Though it only ranked most difficult when it comes to durability, boxing ranked near the top in categories like endurance, strength, power, nerve, and hand-eye coordination.

I’m not the biggest fan of boxing, but knowing how difficult it is to be a boxer makes me love the sport and watch it in a way I never did before.

The second most difficult sport? Ice hockey, followed by football.

The least difficult sport? Fishing. I hate fishing.

—— David Holub

Hate it I am an effing sap. I don’t know how or when that happened, but apparently, somewhere deep inside me there is a nice lady. The kind, old crone digging outta my bones doesn’t like the whap of a fist connecting to a face.

I have an aversion to fighting. I have been hit in the face. I have broken up bar fights. I don’t like fisticuffs in real life or my entertainment, and so I don’t like boxing.

I don’t mind gore. Horror is fulla blood and bones breaking, and I adore the genre, but boxing – boxing is brutal. It is a real person receiving head trauma. That is not corn syrup blood running down their brow, it’s real. There’s something too ancient and ruthless about boxing for me to enjoy the sport, even if the sport includes agility, stamina, and years of training I’m under-appreciating.

Authentic blunt force ain’t my entertainment bag.

—— Patty Templeton

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Extra Life | Brett Massé

What ‘Grand Theft Auto’ taught me about planning, peace

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Again, we have experienced how uncertain life can be. The reminders are frequent and unsettling. The recent news is a solid right-cross to our routine, throwing us out of balance. It’s hard to remember, but soon we will regain footing.

I was playing “Grand Theft Auto V” online with some strangers, planning a heist and loading a getaway car with firearms. This Hollywood-style bank robbery job was a recent reminder of how carefully-thought-out plans don’t always come to fruition. The driver was clumsy, the drill over-heated while trying to break into the safety deposit box, and police arrived much quicker than expected after the alarm went off. Before we even had a moment to think, reaction took a white-knuckle grip to panic and we all started firing and running in opposite directions like bouncing footballs. This brought our immediate demise and half of the team left the game afterwards.

When we are knocked out of balance and everything is off-kilter, we tend to give way to our reactionary minds. The ability to combat this and find calmness is within all of us, but it takes some practice to develop this skill.

Now is the time to practice soothing yourself and finding that calmness. Giving way to our reactive minds usually leads us down a path of more chaos and decidedly less skillful methods of self-care. We saturate ourselves in fantasy, drink too much, oversleep, overeat – tried and true methods that usually lead to further suffering.

But you can fight this. Look and see that this is one of those times. This is the moment where

you can build those tools and regain your footing, to regain your calmness, to be more rational and less reactive. The tools you build will refine with experience. It will never be easy, though.

Had my heist team stuck with me, I would have asked them to calm themselves using whatever strategy works. You can close your eyes and focus on breathing, stretch your legs, look up at the sky, whatever it is as long as it works. I personally like to brew coffee: grind beans, boil water, pre-heat a mug, make the coffee, warm my hands, take in the aroma. After asking this of my squad, I would probably be

booted from the game and laughed at, but I can at least try. At the very least, I can ask you to find ways to calm yourself. It’s a nice skill to develop. Once calm, identify and understand that we are upset. Look at what bits of you are upset and comfort them.

Exercise compassion and kindness. This might seem weird, but it is dire that we learn how to be compassionate and kind to ourselves.

Now reconnect with your intentions. Where can we improve on the heist? What steps can we take to better prepare? Be clear with the design and recognize that you are not defined by what happened to you or how things went wrong. You may not be totally clear on what to do next, but you know who you are and where your values lie. For me, I’m going to ask that GO David Holub/D I drive the getaway vehicle this time.

Finally, as we become clear on our intentions and reconnect, take a moment and remember that life is never what you plan for. Your personal experiences may be difficult at times, but that is not necessarily a mistake; that is normal. This is going to change as time moves on because everything is changing. Life is impersonal and your experiences are created through circumstances that are out of your control and reactions that are entirely your own.

Now, in the wake of trauma, I’m trying to remind myself of this. This moment is like this.

Where do we go from here?

Brett Massé is currently playing Midnight Scenes by Octavi Navarro.

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‘CANDLELIGHT: A CELEBRATION OF HALLOWEEN’

A dark arts showcase

»» Vampire art show

opens in Farmington

By Patty Templeton DGO STAFF WRITER

Greetings, ghouls! The bats are loose, jack-o-lanterns roll willy-nilly in the streets, and fanged freaks lurk down long alleys longing for your blood. In other words, it’s HALLOWEEN! Almost. It’s certainly an October with a Friday the 13th therein, and that, constant reader, should not get glossed over. Not one to let a spooky opportunity bleed down the drain, Time Essary, professional artist and tattooist, has created the second annual “Candlelight: A Celebration of Halloween” art show. It’s a dark art showcase that glorifies the gory, hallows the horrific, and opens at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 13, in the secondary suite of Jake’s Tattoo and Flash in Farmington.

With vampires being the theme of this year’s “Candlelight,” I have a question for you, boils and ghouls: What’s a vampire’s favorite fruit?

A NECK-TARINE! Don’t look at me like that. It’s better than asking about a vampire’s favorite sport. (that would be bat-minton). ::cackles:: There are near 20 artists peeling back the skin and ribs around their macabre hearts to create paintings, pottery, sculpture, and more, all inspired by bloodsucking fiends.

“I’ve always been a fan of horror movies and, this year, vampires stuck out,” Essary said. The self-confessed horror nerd was a vampire for six Halloweens in a row. “They’re mysterious and kinda sexy and they have almost eternal life, but with a human quality that other monsters don’t necessarily have.”

I don’t know if the carnage and camp give it away, but this ain’t an uppity art show where you’re gonna walk away empty-handed due to rich-people prices. “I’ve been to bigger art shows with price tags of thousands and thousands of dollars,” Essary said “This is more about enjoying the season, enjoying dark art, and putting it to the public at an affordable price.”

Though a revel of the dreadful and

»» Time Essary

GO! “Candlelight: A Celebration of Halloween” Vampire Edition Opening Reception Where: 101 S. Orchard St., Farmington When: 5-10 p.m., Friday, Oct. 13 Ages: All ages Cost: Free Info: www.facebook.com/candlelighthalloween

“Lost Boys,” for sure. It’s such a cult classic.

1931 “Dracula” or “From Dusk Till Dawn?”

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»» Art by Time Essary deadful, “Candlelight: A Celebration of Halloween” began because of a supportive, upbeat woman’s life.

Brenna Franklin, Halloween-lover and Essary’s mother-in-law, passed away in 2015 and, each year, “Candlelight” is dedicated to her.

“She was the biggest Halloween nerd I’ve ever met in my life,” Essary said. “I’ve always been a big Halloween fan, but when she passed away, it put the fire beneath me to say, ‘Hey, we need to do these things that we’ve been talking about for so long.’

“She was a huge supporter of my artwork and tattooing,” he added.

“I was a shy kid who drew in the bedroom by myself, but she was like, ‘Nah, you need to get that artwork out to people.’ Now, I’m a professional

tattoo artist and a professional painter and illustrator. All of that was because of her.”

The vampire edition of “Candlelight” will be held at 101 S. Orchard St. in downtown Farmington, near Three Rivers Brewery. The gallery space is in the basement of Jake’s Tattoo and Flash.

But back to vampires. DGO couldn’t let Essary go without throwing down about the everlasting cadavers.

What’s your favorite vampire movie?

By far, my favorite vampire movie is “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” with Gary Oldman.

“Near Dark” or “Lost Boys?”

Oh man. “Dusk Till Dawn” is one of my favs, but I’m gonna have to go with Bela Lugosi and “Dracula.”

Who would win in a fight, a vampire or a xenomorph alien?

The xenomorph alien. [Laughs] But maybe Blade versus a xenomorph – he could win. That’d be a fight I’d like to see.

Would you rather battle a single vampire or a gaggle of 30 gremlins?

I would take my chances trying to defeat one vampire.

What’s one more vampire movie you’d recommend for people who don’t normally watch horror?

“Interview with the Vampire.” It was a really good movie and a palatable entry point to horror for most people.

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»» Ben Tucker

DURANGO STREET STYLE:

Funky hats

The German polka beats of Funf Musikmenschen bopped about Oktoberfest at Purgatory, and Ben Tucker cut a lithe, handsome figure in the crowd. Is it possible for a walk to look cordial and contented? Tucker’s stride was as smooth as rain on a windowpane. He’s an eye-grabbing fella and, hot damn, he had a cool hat.

Amidst the din of stein-clinking merrymakers guzzling craft beer, DGO talked to Tucker about his “Saturday morning casual style.”

“This is my roommate’s hat. I went to a costume party last night and wore it. I was Smokey the Bear. I had a big ol’ bear coat and put this on top.

It wasn’t a real bear coat. That would be brutal. Really brutal.

I’ll probably keep the hat. That’s how it happens with hats. I’ve never seen my roommate in it. Maybe I’ll trade him one of my hats. I love hats. I think hats are cool. I think more people should wear hats. Funky hats – not just snapbacks and beanies. I feel like hats and how you dress can make people more confident.

My favorite hat is a cowboy hat that was an old family friend’s. I got it when he passed away. It’s fulla stories. I had another hat I loved, but I lost it. I put it on top of my car and drove off. I had bought that hat in London, carried it all the way across the world, and then I lost it here in Durango.”

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

—— Patty Templeton

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[sound] What’s new Downtown Lowdown | Bryant Liggett

Blue collar rocker Matt Hopper’s been everywhere. Durango is next

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t’s difficult to define, or even remember the idea of “home” when you stay on tour. That much time away and perhaps home is wherever you take your shoes off, brush your teeth, and lay your head in whatever state you happen to be standing in at that moment. Currently, musician Matt Hopper could loosely call Portland, Oregon, home, but he’s had the same on-again/off-again living relationship with Anchorage, Los Angeles, Madison, or Boise.

Those places could be where he has received mail, but he spends a lot more time out on the road. Since June, he’s been playing around his home state of Alaska, as well as Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Utah and British Columbia. Colorado is next.

Hopper, along with his band The Roman Candles, will play Saturday with Denver psychedelic-blues band Dragondeer at the Animas City Theatre.

Raised on a healthy dose of 1970s radio rock via his dad, along with a self discovery of The Beatles, heavy metal and hip-hop, Hopper’s musical tastes are wide. The caveat of being influenced by “everything but bluegrass” still offers a buffet of rock and jam that comes forth via psychedelic country and ambient noise sandwich»» Matt Hopper and The Roman Candles ing itself around lazy Laurel Canyon-like rock.

“I’ve always loved music from a very young Bryant’s best age, I’ve really enjoyed being around it, listening to it, Saturday: Rock music with Dragondeer, Matt Hopper creating it myself, encouraging it in others, and discov& The Roman Candles, 9 p.m. $12/$15. Animas City Theering new things all the time,” said Hopper. “Every year atre, 128 E. College Drive. Information: 799-2281. that goes by, there are new favorites that pop up, some Saturday: Old-Time music with Six Dollar String Band, you get a chance to catch live, some you never see and 9:30 p.m. No cover. The Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave. they break up.” upstairs. Information: 422-8008.

The man is prolific. Websites like Bandcamp, which house and sell albums, reveal numerous full-length reto get your work to the world; if you’re lucky, you tour to cords, the last being 2015’s “Grand Ole Hopry.” There’s some great towns and play in front of some great people. also extended plays and singles, all of which explore a “I wrote about 30 new songs over the last few winters large plane of genres that give a nod to the rock ’n’ roll and summers. I’m either going to do six five-song EPs, or canon while keeping some audio company with bands like just kick out a single with some extra stuff and give peoWilco, My Morning Jacket, or Richmond Fontaine. Shorter tunes maintain a rootsy vibe while keeping it simple; ple little short bursts with where we’re at musically, and longer cuts explore atmospheric improvisation – improvitry not to look at it like I have to bite off this huge chunk sation in this case not being the elephant in the room that and spend tons of money to get one album made when it’s keeps music fans away for fear of endless meandering or just going to be distributed overnight to the world, and people can instantly listen to it,” said Hopper. “I’m trying noodling. It’s less jam-band and more sound-track subtle. to keep positive about all of that stuff and just appreciate Like a contractor that bids for a job, gets hired, works the fact that I get to go to Durango and play a good show.” day to day to finish the job, and then starts the process all over again, Hopper’s approach to the day-to-day doings of music is blue collar. Write, record and tour while you find Bryant Liggett is a freelance writer and KDUR station manager. work where you can and make up new methods on how liggett_b@fortlewis.edu.

The Frightnrs,“More to Say Versions” Available: Friday, Oct. 20, via Daptone Records as a digital download in MP3, FLAC and WAV formats. There is currently no plan for compact disc versions and the vinyl versions are now available for pre-order in limited runs.

Opaque purple vinyl LPs are limited to 300 and the standard black vinyl LP is only getting a run of 3,000. Both LP versions have a snappy psychedelic 3D cover with custom Frightnrs 3D glasses included.

Back in December, I submitted a late review for one of my favorite records of 2016, The Frightnrs debut album on Daptone Records, “Nothing More to Say.” Next week we are fortunate enough to see the release get a proper dub mix by producer Victor “Ticklah” Axelrod.

For context: As a formative teen, a freshman in college, I came upon a garage sale in Lawrence, Kansas, where a trove of scrawled-on cassette tapes were being sold for next to nothing. I recognized some of the names, thanks to my best friend’s father, a German with impeccable taste in music. Turns out they were audio recorded straight to cassette from scratchy LPs, LPs by two of the most legendary dub reggae artists of all time: King Tubby and Augustus Pablo. Dub Reggae, for those unsure of the difference, is a subgenre of reggae itself, where original recordings are manipulated and vocals are removed, often resulting in an entirely new, often instrumental, version of a pre-existing song. So now, one of my favorite records from last year is getting a proper dub mix. To be totally honest, I’m almost more excited for this version than I was the proper release. I prefer dub versions of reggae tunes due to my affinity for instrumental music in general. These are going to be a treat for those the dug The Frightnrs debut, or for those that enjoy instrumental music of this nature, period.

Recommended for pre-existing fans of The Frightnrs but also the likes of Desmond Dekkar, Toots & The Maytals, The Specials, and The Selecter. Also recommended for those that dig the dub stylings of the great King Tubby, Augustus Pablo or Lee “Scratch” Perry.

—— Jon E. Lynch KDUR_PD@fortlewis.edu

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Crushing intolerance and saving the world ... with extreme music

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Oct. 13 Beck,“Colors” After a few years of teasing, Beck is finally releasing the follow-up to 2014’s critically lauded “Morning Phase,” an eclectic and uplifting burst of experimental pop that only an artist like Beck could construct and keep from falling apart under its own weight. To my ears, it’s almost a bit too happy, filled with a joviality that toes the line between sticky sweet and saccharine throughout the album to become tiresome. At the same time, some of the tracks are so goddamn strange that I’m not sure what exactly I’m supposed to be feeling. The track “Wow” is a standout, a weird reverbed-out boom-bap trap music song wrapped around a warbling synth line that would be at home with some modern hip-hop acts. There is only one definitive thing I can say about the record, and that is that it is a Beck record.

Robert Plant,“Carry Fire” Robert Plant is a rock legend who seemingly abandoned rock music wholesale. His last record, “Band of Joy,” did absolutely nothing for me. It was boring and lacked any character. “Carry Fire,” though, has character in spades. I have not heard a record more instrumentally lush in a long time; it calls to mind some of the later Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros albums, wholeheartedly embracing the mantle of world music, gathering inspiration from various walks of life. The opening track “May Queen” is a prime example, a foray into wonderful strings, droning synthesizers, naturally rhythmic drums and the soaring voice that anyone who has called themselves a music fan over the last 50 years will know.

Wu Tang,“Saga Continues” No matter your opinion on the state of the game of hip-hop, everyone stands up and listens when a new Wu album drops. This one is a proper crew album, featuring all the notable cast of characters propped up by astounding production by DJ Mathematics, who has been an unspoken hero in the tao of Wu since its inception. He even designed the W logo all those years ago. The production favors soul samples and piano, not getting bogged down by modern trappings and equipment to keep the soul of Wu Tang alive and fiery. On the few songs I’ve heard, every rapper has shined. I’m partial to Ghostface Killah myself, and always have a soft spot for RZA lines. Any fans of hip-hop won’t be disappointed with new Wu. Spectral Voice,“Eroded Corridors of Unbeing” This is one I have been excited about for a while, as Denver-based Dark Descent Records puts out some of the best metal around.

Whenever I flounder during my radio show, I know I can go to their website and find the best. “Eroded Corridors of Unbeing” has been on my radar, promising some of the best suffocatingly slow riffs and howls of terror this side of a Pallbearer record. Black Sabbath worship this is not. “Corridors” is the sound of a gargantuan lovecraftian deity ripping its way through our spacetime, unconcerned for the mortal worms who look up in awe at it. At times it lurches at a languid pace, gains its footing and sprints toward the listener, then steps back with the quiet calculation of a predator dissecting its prey.

Other notable releases: St. Vincent, Dirty Heads, Pink, Billy Corgan,King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Exhumed, Enslaved, Fozzy, King Krule, Stick to Your Guns, Mychildren Mybride, Gucci Mane, Tech N9ne Collabos, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile.

—— Cooper Stapleton

»» Two compilations – one local – show that

there’s heart in black metal and drone music Bullet belts, brutal makeup, spikes, headbanging, and hulking dudes howling into mics – these are the images that spring to mind when thinking about black metal. Meanwhile, drone music, well, it can call forth notions of chill, distant musicians exploring aural expanses by themselves. Neither seem all that welcoming to the outside world, but don’t get the wrong impression. There’s a lot of bleeding hearts in black metal and drone music.

Local musician (and radass DGO contributor) Cooper Stapleton was recently a part of Stapleton two different compilations that are shoving dollars at saving the world. “Crushing Intolerance, Volume 5,” is a black metal album with proceeds going to the Indigenous Environmental Network and, on Stapleton’s own dark ambient label, A Moment of Clarity Recordings, “Vibrations of Celestial” is a drone comp that benefits Doctors Without Borders (and they’ve already raised over $200).

Stapleton talked to DGO about subgenre hooligans and loners committing themselves to a better future for all.

How was the “Crushing Intolerance” compilation series brought about?

In black metal there’s a subset that has grown and been allowed to exist that express abhorrent belief systems, like Nazism, and the whole point of the compilation is to act in opposition to that. When you get down to it, fascism is so antithetical to what black metal is about ... With the current political climate, there is a lot of “Let them have their say,” and freedom of a speech as a justification for hatred, but that is something that there’s no middle ground on, in my opinion.

You’re either opposed to hate speech or you’re allowing it to prosper.

How did “Vibrations of the Celestial” come about?

I organized it through Reddit ... I thought it would be fun to organize a release that showcased ambient, drone, and noise musicians.

I was inspired by what Chase (Ambler) was doing with the Black Metal Alliance and the “Crushing Intolerance” series.

GET IT! Where to pick up “Vibrations of the Celestial”: https://amomentofclarityrecordings.bandcamp.com Where to pick up the “Crushing Intolerance” series: https://blackmetalalliance.bandcamp.com There is this image of extreme music and it being people in corpse paint or scary and we wanted to not necessarily go against that image but against what people might think we get out of the music.

Talk about your track,“Destroying Angel // Universal Veil,” on the “Crushing Intolerance” compilation.

On this release, the track we made (“Destroying Angel // Universal Veil”) was focused on fungi. The idea, there’s an apocalyptic sense to it, but also hope. In the same way that, say, the human world can end, the plants won’t all die.

It’s growth in destruction and observance of the minutia that is often stepped on or ignored.

There’s a lot of the idea of bringing attention to things that are left behind or overlooked. You’re exploring a note or a chord in depth over the course of 20 minutes and you become super familiar with it and feel all of it.

How are these compilations attempting to heal our broken-ass world?

Beyond donating album proceeds to charity, I like to think that the music becomes self-reflection.

I went and saw this band called Sunn O))); it’s one of the loudest bands in the world. It’s a ritual of turning on their 15 amplifiers and there’s robes and fog, but after a point it’s so loud that the ground is shaking, your stomach is shaking, but it stops being new and becomes almost meditative. That’s my goal with the music – repetition that allows your mind to wander and focus at the same time.

So many people are just disenfranchised with being. I think my main goal is to bring self-reflection out of the music and to foster self-actualization, in myself and others.

Interview edited and condensed for clarity.

—— Patty Templeton

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First Draughts | Robert Alan Wendeborn

How the cultural capital of beer makes my life worth living

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ne of the biggest perks of beer making and working in the beer industry is the fact that you rarely have to pay for beer.

Your friends and associates also rarely pay for beer when you’re around. If you’re going to a friend’s house, you bring your free beer.

Going camping? Bring your free beer. Snowboarding? Backpack full of free beer. The great social lubricant also lubricates the beer maker’s social circles. People know you’re the guy that makes beer.

You’re the guy that always has free beer. You’re the guy.

When I lived in Durango, my neighbor grew weed (all my former supervisors at Ska, quit reading right now,

because I’m probably not the only one). When he needed beer, he would trade me a few nugs for low-fills of beer. It got to be such a good little arrangement that I would leave a stack of low-fills on my back porch and he would put nugs of weed in a mason jar in the tool cabinet next to the back door. Once, when I forgot to stock the back porch, he knocked, I didn’t answer, so he helped himself to a case of beer in the fridge. In its place was about an ounce of untrimmed outdoor bud. I was a little upset having someone just walk into my house, but that was probably the headiest trade I’ve gotten for a case of beer.

It wasn’t just my neighbor; everyone in Durango understood the value of delicious craft beer. The number of

barters I had in Durango was fantastic. You got hooked up at bars because you’re the guy that made beer. You always got invited to raft because you’re the guy that’ll have a case of good beer. You could get rides up to Purg super easy because you’re the guy with the beer. If I could have paid my rent in low-fills, I probably could have lived solo in a three-bedroom on the grid.

Pierre Bourdieu stated in the essay “Forms of Capital,” that “Capital is accumulated labor...” He argues that there are all sorts of labor – farming, painting, writing poetry, singing, dancing, being a good politician, etc.

– that can produce and accumulate capital for the laborer in his or her field. Before I go into this too much

and before I lose you, I need to say that Bourdieu was an idiot. No, he wasn’t wrong; it’s easy to see that a politician doesn’t need to work hard or have a good education to achieve a good living. His labor is political and social, not intellectual or economic (per se). I think what Bourdieu forgot was that exchange rates of capital, and rates of accrual exist. A dollar made in New York doesn’t go as far as a dollar made in Cleveland. A dollar made in Paris is worth more than a dollar made in Thailand. Some forms of cultural capital aren’t worth a damn thing.

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Travel stories worth telling

The UFO Watchtower in Crestone GET OUTTA TOWN Quirky & cool spots in the Four Corners and beyond “I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here,” said venerable sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. Well, it’s been decades since Clarke thought that and we think, hell, maybe there’s been time enough for aliens to tour through our sector of the universe.

If you wanna eyeball the skies for extraterrestrial life, head three and a half hours away to the UFO Watchtower, 2502 County Road 61 in Crestone.

Crestone is a town of less than 200 people. One of them is Judy Messoline, true believer, campground owner, artist, and alien enthusiast. What you get is a kitschy, bare-bones campground with random, wonderfully cheeseball signage and art created by Messoline.

Entry will cost you 2 bucks or a fiver for a carload of folks. Camping is only

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Wook, I guess). Nobody is going to give you rides in exchange for an interpretive dance inspired by the bronze work of Rodin. Nobody is going to trade you a raft trip for a critique of social forms of capital. But beer – beer is usually a good form of capital.

There’s a great exchange rate on beer.

At least there’s a good exchange rate in Colorado.

When I lived in Louisiana, beer had very little value to the general public.

“Beer” was just something at a store.

If you offered to trade beer for something, you might as well have tried to trade macaroni: I can get my own

$10. The watchtower is a fenced-in platform about a story off the ground directly next to the dome-shaped gift shop. Be sure to stop by the “Healing Garden” and to ask Messoline about her own alien sightings.

The campground doesn’t have all that many activities, so you may want to bring a good book, perhaps one to prep you for an outer space experience? May we suggest, “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World’s First Documented Alien Abduction,” by nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman and Kathleen Marden (Betty Hill’s neice!).

The summer after I graduated from college, I backpacked around Europe for eight weeks on a Eurail pass and $800, so I ended up sleeping a lot on overnight trains. On one such train, on one such night, I fell asleep in my cabin for a while and woke up in one of those where-the-hell-am-I-and-whileyou’re-at-it-who-the-hell-am-I dazes and felt like nothing in the world was more urgent than getting the hell out of the cabin. But there was no light in the cabin, no light in the hallway outside the cabin, no light switch to be found, and the handle to the door was jammed. The only light in the cabin was the moonglow reflected through the windows off the bypassing Alps.

Feeling around for a light switch, I found a lever above the door, which I assumed to be a release to open the door. I glanced at the only other guy in the cabin with me, who gave me

a very Italian shrug and grimace, which I took as permission to pull the lever. So I did.

The train came to an immediate, screeching halt – I had pulled the emergency brake. In seconds, multiple train conductors with guns (!) were racing up and down the aisle, chattering in Italian and French to everyone in the car. When they came by our cabin, my traveling companion announced with the sangfroid of a seasoned UN negotiator that I was the culprit they sought. The conductor looked me over, apparently resisting the urge to spit in my face, and walked away muttering “[Effing] Americans.”

—— Brian Clements Got a crazy travel story? Write it in about 400 words and send it to editor@ dgomag.com. If you’d rather tell your story, send a brief synopsis along with your name and phone number to the same address. Either way, your story should be true. Also, be sure to include your full name and town.

Bonus: There’s little to no light pollution to impede stargazing or seeing a flying saucer.

Also: Don’t forget to report your UFO sighting, if you have one, to the National UFO Reporting Center.

Reporting can be done online through www.nuforc.org.

For details about the UFO Watchtower, visit www.ufowatchtower.com.

—— Patty Templeton

macaroni, thank you. Beer in Louisiana is generally not a form of capital, but a commodity. As the writer Malcolm Harris said, “If you can’t turn it into money, it isn’t ‘cultural capital.’”

I’ve since moved, and the beer-as-capital is, thankfully, back!

Upstate New York loves its craft beer, and loves its brewers. I’ve already got the hookup at a pizza place and coffee shop and an organic deli. Now I just need to find someone with a snowmobile and someone with nuggs...

Robbie Wendeborn is the head brewer at Svendæle Brewing in Millerton, New York.

He is also a former beer plumber at Ska Brewing.

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here are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” said William Shakespeare through Hamlet. The world is wide, the universe deep, and the expanse of profound energy and experience therein is infinite. Who’s to say that the human experience ends at death? Durango medium Trena Kirkland, of The Healing Tree, believes that life goes on. Why? Because she spends her days talking to the dead.

Kirkland is booked eight weeks in advance and advertises only by word of mouth. (We heard of her from a friend of a friend.) She works in white light and uses her channeling ability to bring good into peoples’ lives.

DGO spoke to Kirkland to find out what her abilities are and what the life of a medium is like.

How would you describe your ability?

I refer to myself as a medium. I can speak to your loved ones on the other side. I read tarot and animal medicine tarot. I read some stones as well.

A reading with me consists of you pulling three stones and I ground you. I channel through Earth energy and that helps me separate me from you. I automatic write and pull tarot cards, but mainly I use the cards to help communicate the messages from your loved ones on the other side.

How would you describe the energy and information you receive?

I channel light energy. Every bit of information that comes through to me is from a divine source, for the highest good for all involved ... I think it is all about centering yourself and manifesting for the highest good. There is no dark energy that comes through for me. I can’t even see in those directions.

When did you first notice that you had an extra sense?

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Day one. Me being 6 months old, communicating with some pigs we had on the farm that I grew up with. My next memory is at 8 months old, a horse that my dad had, her name was Lady T.

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My dad is primarily my guide on the other side. I lost my dad when I was 19. He is my strongest spirit guide. He always stands with me when I do readings and brings people over. I use his energy a lot. He taught me a lot about being able to communicate with animals.

living in light and using your gifts

How do you communicate with animals?

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It’s very telepathic. It’s like, if you’ve ever had a best friend, the way they look, their body language, their tone of voice, and even how they sleep – you understand what is going on with them.

I believe all of us are empathic and telepathic. It’s not so much hearing the voice as (it is) a knowing.

For example, I did a reading on a horse. A lady had moved her horse to a different barn. She’s never had problems with the horse before and now the horse never wanted to go to the new barn and get fed. She was running away. I went and communicated with the horse and what the horse was showing me is people being rough with their horses. There was an image that I saw. I communicated it with the lady and she then observed the other riders in and around the barn and realized they were quite heavy-handed with horses. Her horse was so sensitive and telepathic about what was happening and then we were able to move the horse ... Sometimes telepathy can come in pictures, at least with animal communication.

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Say, if you lost your mother or a sibling, I would see those things to help. If it doesn’t help, I don’t things and say it out loud and it would talk about it. I don’t advertise it, ever. It’s scare people. My dad taught me from all word of mouth. One of the reasons a young age to not tell people unless it why I don’t advertise is that I’m booked was absolutely necessary. eight weeks out. It’s a long list and I’m very grateful. Just like my dad told me, In my later teens, prior to college, the universe will send me people that I felt the need to say something to I’m supposed to help in some way. He people. The spirits do have messages. always used to say that the gift was on Sometimes people live in grief and loan. I was given a gift so I could use it. regret or fear or anxiety about their

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Is there an on/off button to your ability? Is it overwhelming?

The older I’ve gotten, the easier it has gotten. It was very confusing at times, as a child, around the 7- to 8-year age up through my mid-teens. I had a hard time dealing with people so I hung out on my farm. I grew up on a farm and I have a farm now and that is my center.

I will tell you one thing, grocery stores are hard. Hard to shut it on and off.

What is your daily work life like?

I pretty much work five days a week, 10 to 6. I do a multitude of things in my business. Reading is about 60 percent of it. I’m also a licensed neuromuscular therapist. I work on people that are pre- and post-surgery. That’s another part of the business. I’m also a doula and a childbirth educator. I help women in labor and deliver babies. I don’t do any of the medical, I’m just the coach.

That’s a really fun aspect. I so love it because I think, for lack of a better phrase, speaking to the dead most of the day, I like bringing life back in it.

When I’m not working and riding my horses and dealing with my farm, I’m helping my kid get into college.

What’s the biggest burden in dealing with this gift?

I’ll tell ya, when parents come in and they want to speak with their children who have crossed over. That seems to be what I’m doing quite a bit of. I never know who is coming in. When

you call and make an appointment, I don’t ask any questions. I just get your name and your telephone number and you show up. The readings are about an hour and a half to two hours long.

It’s a lot of information that comes through. I usually have people record it. I think that the burden, and I don’t know until it happens, until the spirit comes through, that someone has lost their child to, you name it, car accident, suicide, whatever it is. Those are really hard. It takes a minute for me to clean it out. Because I’m a mother. I try really hard to ground against that. It happens sometimes. Other than that, I don’t find it a burden. Sometimes jobs are difficult and you just have to do them.

Have you ever felt like you were in a dangerous situation?

No. My readings are in light and pretty positive. I have, however, in my life but not with a client, personally experienced an entity on a person close to me that was very dark. That’s when you just run away.

Those things do exist, but I’ve never felt like I’ve been compromised or in danger from it. I feel very protected. One reason is that my dad is my protector. He was a police officer, a lieutenant on the Atlanta mounted PD. He oftentimes stands next to me in uniform. I can feel him, I can smell him, I can see him. He’s not corporeal, doesn’t have a body – it’s not like that – but I know he’s there.

Is there information you don’t get or receive and don’t pass on?

There’s definitely information that comes through that I hold back if I don’t think it will be helpful. For example, if someone wants to know when someone is going to pass. They want to know, “My mom is really sick, when is she going to die?” I telepathically ask my spirit guide, my dad, “Can I have this information?” ... Sometimes my dad will show up in his uniform and be real stern with me and tell me it’s out of my pay grade. [Laughs] So, sometimes I’m not allowed to have the information.

Some things you’re not supposed to know and I may have caught a glimpse of it but it’s not time to convey the information.

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I’m able to connect with the spirits that I speak to because you’re sitting in front of me and I can channel through you and get connected. Those spirits aren’t stuck. Those spirits are there because I’ve asked them to come to have a conversation.

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Sometimes spirits can get stuck here. It’s so rare. They can become kinetic where they can move objects.

For example, I was in Portland, Oregon, renting this house and my daughter was 3. We used to hear a little girl crying in the house. Even my daughter would say, “Do you hear her crying?” We figured out it was a spirit coming through and sometimes she would move and it would sound like she was running across the roof. She was very kinetic.

She didn’t do anything wrong. She didn’t break anything. She was a lost little girl. I had a hard time connecting with her. My daughter and I would read her stories hoping that she would hear them or feel them. She would sing songs. It was crazy. Me, the believer, was also the skeptic. I felt like she was stuck and I couldn’t connect with her.

I’m able to connect with the spirits that I speak to because you’re sitting in front of me and I can channel through you and get connected. Those spirits aren’t stuck. Those spirits are there because I’ve asked them to come to have a conversation.

Some (spirits) do jump out. I was at a barbecue last year and met a new friend and her dad was there and he was shaking paperwork at me. Shaking paperwork. I did have to say something to her. The vision he gave me, her dad had passed, and I said, “Your dad is here and he’s shaking paperwork at me. What’s going on? What needs to be taken care of litigiously?” She was like, “Oh my god,” and told me the whole story of what was happening and I understood why her dad was showing me that. Some spirits are connected to you not because you hold them here but because they have a message to

What do you have to do to prepare yourself before a reading?

It’s something you do daily. It’s not just before the client comes in. It is making sure that I am happy and I am healthy and I am feeling harmonious ... Horses are my thing. I have four horses. I go on pack trips. I camp. I feed my spirit in that way – daily. You can’t just eat once a week and be fed. You have to do it daily. I exercise. I eat well.

I laugh a lot. It’s good. My daughter and my family help me out.

As far as right before the reading, before I begin my day, I check in and sit down with my dad for a few minutes.

We run through the list of what’s gonna happen.

I pull some cards for myself to help me. I pull cards for each person that comes in. I pull one card. That will help me figure out where I need to set my energy before that person walks through the door ... It helps me see, “Oh, the nine of cups, this person is doing really well. They’re on the upswing and come in in a good mood,” and they do. I usually wear some sort of tourmaline, which is a great protector, or black obsidian. I wear protecting stones to help me. That keeps me grounded.

What’s the biggest blessing that comes out of your gift?

I think in the end when I say, “I hope you found this helpful,” and people do and I see them take a sigh of relief.

That’s the payoff.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

—— Patty Templeton

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[ weed ] Seeing Through the Smoke Christopher Gallagher

How Bob Marley became the ultimate cannabis “Legend”

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here are cannabis activist out there and supporters of the plant who operate from many angles: Growers who have pushed the limits of what is possible for Cannabis sativa l., crusaders seeking to allow access to all for its many medical applications, folks involved in the ever-expanding “industry” that has exploded over the past decade, legislators who have seen past the propaganda surrounding it to pass laws that have turned the tide in a sensible direction, regular Joes and JoAnnes who just want to mellow out with a few tokes every so often to wash their cares away or to enjoy a special event. But there is only one herbalist who took the message and brought it to every corner of the globe, one man who fronted a religion partially based on the wonder and beauty of marijuana, one man whose name has become synonymous with clouds of ganja smoke, the man who said, “When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself”: The ultimate CannaBoss: Robert Nesta Marley.

Bob Marley. How many metric tons of bud have burned while “Legend” played in the »» CannaBoss Bob Marley is shown performing in 1979. background? How many firsttime experiences have taken place beneath a green, yellow, was to become a worldwide icon was the son of an and red Bob tapestry in dorm rooms or first apartAfro-Jamaican teenager named Cedella Booker and ments? How many out-of-towners or concert goers an older plantation overseer of English and Syrihave approached stoners wearing Bob-emblazoned T-shirts to ask where they can get what they need to an Jewish descent named Norval Sinclair Marley. get their heads right? How many people, regardless Norval is said to have provided financial support of demographics and sometimes against the laws of to Cedella and Bob, but he was an absentee father sensible fashion, have grown their hair into a patch who died of a heart attack in 1955. This change in of resplendent dreadlocks to pay spiritual homage fortune soon prompted her to take her 12-year-old to the man who brought the creed of Rastafari to the son to leave their home for the slum of Trench Town world? in Kingston, the island nation’s capital. It was in Born on Feb. 6, 1945, in the village of Nine Miles Trench Town that the future Lion of Zion began in rural Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, the child who his rise to international fame on the twin zephyrs

of reggae music and Afro-Caribbean religious devotion. It was there in the small country’s toughest neighborhood that he was reunited with Bunny Livingston, a childhood friend from Nine Mile, and his introduction to reggae music and the belief system of the Rastafari began.

See, reggae music in Jamaica is more than a genre, it is a way of life inextricably linked to the Afro-Abrahambric faith, which has its roots in the Old Testament of the Bible, especially the Vow of the Nazirite (also taken

by Samson) with its admonition against the taking of a razor to one’s hair – the recipe for the dreadlocks that have become synonymous with Bob and his brethren. And central to that way of life is cannabis or ganja, a sacrament to the Rastafari celebrated publicly by Bob, Bunny, and Peter Tosh, the three primary founding members of Bob’s backing band, The Wailers. Their religion was the core of their being, and the timeless music they made was the vehicle by which they distributed their spirituality to the corners of the globe.

You know the songs, DGO. You know the portal they open in our hearts and how we feel when we hear Bob preaching from his heart. Whether it is Associated Press file the legendary tracks contained on “Legend,” possibly the most aptly named album in the history of the music industry, or Junior Marvin and Al Anderson’s echoing guitar on “Live Forever,” the recording of Bob’s last concert (Pittsburgh, Sept. 3, 1980) before his way-too-soon passing in May 1981, you know that when you listen to Bob Marley, you are listening to the ultimate CannaBoss. So, go ... go to your stereo, your computer, your phone, your whatever; load up some Bob, roll one, and smoke one to The Man. Christopher Gallagher lives with his wife and their four dogs and two horses. Life is pretty darn good. Contact him at chrstphrgallagher@gmail.com.

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A Durangoan’s travel memoir/history lesson

White Rabbit book review: “Yoga Mama’s Buddha Sandals: Mayans, Zapatistas, and Silly Little White Girls,” by Donna Stewart

of hard knocks to reinvent herself here in the mountains of Durango.

This little lady’s got spunk. She put herself through college with honors, shook off traces of the southern accent that didn’t suit her, and set off for the jungles of Mexico, on a journey fueled by her childhood devotion to Indiana Jones and all things adventure. Far from Colorado with no cash and no one who spoke her language, Stewart’s experiences alternate between conquering her worst fears and embracing the journey of a lifetime.

Half travel memoir, half history lesson, and detailing the Zapatista movement Stewart found herself in the thick of, “Yoga Mama’s Buddha Sandals” is a delightful read.

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[love and sex]

Savage Love | Dan Savage

Is a life of poly always filled with folly?

I’m a 25-year-old woman currently in a poly relationship with a married man roughly 20 years my senior. This has by far been the best relationship I’ve ever had. However, something has me a bit on edge. We went on a trip with friends to a brewery with a great restaurant. It was an amazing place, and I’m sure his wife would enjoy it.

He mentioned the place to her, and her response was NO, she didn’t want to go there because she didn’t want to have “sloppy seconds.” It made me feel dirty. Additionally, the way he brushed this off means this isn’t the first time. I go out of my way to show him places I think they would like to go together. I don’t know if my feelings are just hurt – if it’s as childish as I think it is – or if it’s a reminder of my very low place in their hierarchy. I hesitate to bring this up, because when I have needs or concerns, they label me as difficult or needy. Is this part of a bigger trend I’m missing? Should I do anything to address this or just continue to stay out of their business and go where I wish with my partner?

Treated With Outrage I’m having a hard time reconciling these two statements, TWO: “This has by far been the best relationship I’ve ever had” and “when I have needs or concerns, they label me as difficult or needy.” I suppose it’s possible all your past relationships have been so bad that your best-relationship-ever bar is set tragically low. But taking a partner’s needs and concerns seriously is one of the hallmarks of a good relationship, to say nothing of a “best relationship ever.”

That said ... I don’t know you or how you are. It’s entirely possible that you share your needs and concerns in a way that comes across as – or actually is – needy and difficult. Our experience of interpersonal relationships, like our experience of anything and everything else, is subjective. One person’s reasonable expression of needs/concerns is another person’s emotionally manipulative drama. I would need to depose your boyfriend and his wife,

TWO, to make a determination and issue a ruling.

That said ... It’s a really bad sign that your boyfriend’s wife compared eating in a restaurant you visited with him to [effing] a hole that someone else just [effed], i.e., “sloppy seconds.” It has me wondering whether your boyfriend’s wife is really into the poly thing. Some people are poly under duress (PUD), i.e., they agreed to open up a marriage or relationship not because it’s what they want but because they were given an ultimatum: We’re open/poly or we’re over. In a PUD best-case scenario, the PUD partner sees that their fears were overblown, discovers that poly/open works for them, embraces openness/polyamory, and is no longer a PUD. But PUDs who don’t come around (or haven’t come around yet) will engage in small acts of sabotage to signal their unhappiness – their perfectly understandable unhappiness.

They didn’t want to be open/poly in the first place and are determined to prove that open/poly was a mistake and/or punish their ultimatum-issuing partner.

The most common form of PUD sabotage? Making their primary partner’s secondary partner(s) feel uncomfortable and unwelcome.

That said ... As you (probably) know (but if you don’t, you’re about to find out), poly relationships have all kinds of (sometimes incredibly arbitrary but also incredibly important) rules. If one of their rules is “My wife doesn’t want to hear from or about my girlfriend,” TWO, then your restaurant recommendations are going to fall flat. Being poly means navigating rules (and sometimes asking to renegotiate those rules) and juggling multiple people’s feelings, needs, and concerns. You have to show respect for their rules, TWO, as they are each other’s primary partners. But your boyfriend and his wife have to show respect for you, too. Secondary though you may be, your needs, concerns, feelings, etc., have to be taken into consideration. And if their rules make you feel disrespected, unvalued, or too low on the hierarchical poly totem pole, you should dump them.

My wife said she didn’t care who I slept with soon after we met. At the time, I didn’t want to sleep with anyone else. But we eventually became monogamish – it started as me texting her a fantasy while I was at work, and that fantasy was waiting for me when I got home – it was fun, but it wasn’t something I needed. After a couple years of playing together with others in private and in clubs, she said she wanted to open our relationship. I got a girlfriend, had fun until the new relationship energy (NRE) wore off, and ended things. Then my wife got a great job on the other side of the state and I stayed behind to get our house into a sellable state. Right now, we see each other only on weekends.

I also got a new girlfriend. The NRE wore off, but we still really like each other, and we’ve discussed being long-distance secondaries once the move is complete. Here’s the problem: Last night, my wife confessed to me that being in an open relationship was making her miserable. Not just my current girlfriend, whose monopoly over my time during the week could be a legitimate cause for concern, but going back to the previous girlfriend I saw only one night a week. I told my wife that I would break up with my girlfriend immediately. My wife is the most important person in my life, and I don’t want to do anything to hurt her. But my wife told me not to break up with my girlfriend. I don’t want to string my girlfriend along and tell her everything is fine – but my wife, who doesn’t want to be poly anymore, is telling me not to break up with my girlfriend. What do I do?

Dude Isn’t Content Knowing Priority Is Crushingly Sad Your wife may want you to dump your girlfriend without having to feel responsible for your girlfriend’s broken heart, DICKPICS, so she tells you she’s miserable and doesn’t want to be poly anymore, and then tells you not to end things. Or maybe this is a test: Dumping a girlfriend you didn’t have to dump would signal to

your wife that she is, indeed, the most important person in your life and that you will prioritize her happiness even when she won’t. Or maybe she’s watched you acquire two girlfriends without landing a boyfriend of her own.

But there’s a middle ground between dumped and not dumped, DICKPICS: Tell your girlfriend what’s going on – she has a right to know – and put the relationship on hold. Get the house sold, get your ass to your wife, and keep talking until you figure out what is going to work for your wife going forward: completely closed, open but only to sexual adventures you two go on together, i.e., “playing together with others in private and in clubs,” or open with GFs (and BFs) allowed. Good luck.

I don’t know if I’m poly or not. I mean, Jesus H. Christ, this has been so difficult. How do I know when to go back to monogamy?

Pretty Over Lusty Yearnings I don’t think you’re poly, POLY, because I don’t think anyone is poly.

I also don’t think anyone is monogamous. Polyamory and monogamy aren’t sexual orientations, IMO, they’re relationship models. And if the polyamorous model is making you miserable, POLY, it might not be right for you.

But you should ask yourself whether polyamory is making you miserable or if the people you are doing polyamory with are making you miserable. People in awful monogamous relationships rarely blame monogamy for their woes – even when monogamy is a factor – but the stigma against nontraditional relationship models, to say nothing of sex-negativity, often lead people to blame polyamory for their misery when the actual cause isn’t the model, POLY, it’s the people.

Dan Savage is a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist writing for The Stranger in Seattle. Contact him at mail@savagelove.net or @fakedansavage on Twitter and listen to his podcast every week at savagelovecast.com.

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DGO’s picks in and around Durango Telluride Horror Show If you don’t have a horror movie marathon planned, you’re doing October wrong. The Telluride Horror Show is a three-day dark film fest with over 20 feature films, 50-plus short films, creepy campfire tales, killer karaoke, Q&As with filmmakers, and a free pig roast/cash bar party. Get ye to Spooky Town. You can buy an all-weekend pass, a sixpack-o-tix, or run the risk of buying singular movie tickets at the door after pass-holders have had first dibs.

Details: $15 single shows to $150 for 3-day pass, 18 and over, Friday, Oct. 13 through Sunday, Oct. 15, various Telluride locations, TellurideHorrorShow.com

Farmington Pride Fest Pride Fest is going loud and proud in Farmington. Set up

by LGBTQ community center Identity, Inc., Pride Fest includes a coming-out party on Wednesday, drag shows on Thursday, separate youth and adult dances (with costumes encouraged) on Friday, and a parade that ends with a party in Brookside Park on Saturday.

Details: Free, ages vary depending on event, Wednesday, Oct. 11 through Saturday, Oct. 14, venues vary, check the “Farmington NM LGBTQ Pride Inc.” public group for event details at www.facebook.com/groups/739566376183195

10-minute plays take over DAC The Seventh Annual 10-Minute Play Festival seizes the Durango Arts Center’s stage for the weekend. Six short plays were picked from a pool of over 100 submissions for this year’s fest. Your own DGO correspondent, The Dread Templeton, even slithered into the locals spotlight category. Get yer theater on.

Details: $10 DAC members, $12 GA, all ages, 7:30 p.m on Friday, Oct. 13 and 14, 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 15, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., http://durangoarts.org

A ghoultastic shake and shimmy Twenty dancers are gonna slither till you quiver at Mataholla Moon Belly Dance’s Ninth Annual Gothla Belly Dance Show. The show’s theme is Halloween and costumes from all attendees are encouraged. Get in a macabre mood, all ye maggots and madams, ’cause there’s a dance party directly after the show.

Details: $13, 18 and over, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. plus after party, Friday, Oct. 13, Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave., www.henrystratertheatre.com

Rumble in Farmington Indigenous people are often overlooked as having had a massive impact on the face of popular American music.

Jimi Hendrix, Link Wray, Charley Patton, and more are explored in the revelatory documentary “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World.” Winner of the 2016 World Cinema Documentary category at Sundance.

Details: $5, all ages, 7 to 9 p.m., Friday, Oct. 13, San Juan College Little Theatre, 4601 College Blvd., Farmington, https://farmingtonnm.org/events

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Main Exhibit Gallery Tours,

Eli Cook, 7:30 p.m., $12, Sunflower Theater, 8 E. Main St., Cortez.

Gothla Belly Dance Show and Dance Party, 7:30 p.m., $13, Strat-

er Theatre, 699 Main Ave., 375-7160.

10-Minute Play Festival, 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m., $10-$12, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

George Winston, 7:30 p.m., $35$45, Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave., 375-7160.

10:30 a.m., $3, Anasazi Heritage Center, 27501 Highway 184, 882-5600.

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Montezuma County Republican Women, noon, Shiloh Steak-

Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m. Sorrel Sky Gal-

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lery, 828 Main Ave.

Piano Thursdays Sing-ALong and Musician’s Jam, 5

Durango Farmers Market,

lery, 828 Main Ave.

p.m., Cerda 7 Cantina y Comida, 639 Main Ave.

9 a.m.-noon, First National Bank of Durango, 259 W. Ninth St., www.durangofarmersmarket.com.

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Pete Giuliani, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing

Intro to Pastels, 9 a.m., $200-

Adam Swanson, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

$225, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

Classic Movie Monday: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter (1957), 7 p.m., Pine River Library,

Journey of Hope 5-K, 9 a.m., $25,

395 Bayfield Center Drive, 884-2222.

Mercy Regional Medical Center, 1010 Three Springs Blvd.

Tuesday

Adult Workshop: Acting in the Boxes, 10 a.m., $32-$36, Du-

Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m. Sorrel Sky Gal-

Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792.

Beginning Genealogy Series,

6 p.m., Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, 884-2222.

Rob Webster, 6 p.m., Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200.

ObamaCare, TrumpCare and HealthCare: Facts and Fiction, 6 p.m., Durango Public Library,

1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380.

Introduction to Fusion 360,

6 p.m., $15-$30, MakerLab, Powerhouse Science Center, 1295 Camino del Rio. Burros of Grand Canyon National Park, 6:30 p.m., Dolores

Public Library, 1002 Railroad Ave., 882-4127.

Robin Davis, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 375-7260.

Friday Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m. Sorrel Sky Gal-

lery, 828 Main Ave. Durango Friends of the Arts fall luncheon and silent auction, 10 a.m., $45, Strater Hotel, 699

Main Ave. Art and design alumni exhibition, 10 a.m., Art Gallery, Fort

Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive.

Metalsmithing Workshop with Catherine Thomas-Kemp, noon, $200-$225, Du-

rango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

Henry Stoy piano, 11 a.m., Jean-

Pierre Bakery and Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave., 247-7700.

Mozart Die Zauberflte, 11 a.m.,

$5-$23, Fort Lewis College, Student Union, Vallecito Room, 1000 Rim Drive.

Peanuts Great Pumpkin Patch Express, 1 p.m., $35-$49,

Railroad Depot, 479 Main Ave. Adam Swanson, 5:30 p.m., Di-

amond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Wordstock, 6 p.m., $10, Cortez

Public Library, 202 N. Park St., Cortez, 565-8117.

Celebrating the Arts Benefit,

7 p.m., $12.50, Artifacts Gallery, 302 East Main., Farmington.

Greg Ryder, 7 p.m., Office Spiritori-

um, 699 Main Ave., 375-7260.

George Winston, 7:30 p.m., $35-

$45, Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave., 375-7160.

10-Minute Play Festival, 7:30

p.m., $10-$12, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

“Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” 7:30 p.m., $25,

rango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave.

The Barn, 123 Mama Llama Lane.

STEAM lab, 3:30 p.m., Durango

p.m., Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave.

Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380.

Adam Swanson, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431.

Six Dollar String Band, 9:30

Sunday Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m. Sorrel Sky Gal-

Robby Overfield, 7 p.m., Office

lery, 828 Main Ave.

Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 375-7260.

Intro to Pastels, 9 a.m., $200-

Black Velvet Trio, 7 p.m., Derail

$225, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

Pour House, 725 Main Ave. 10-Minute Play Festival, 7:30 p.m., $10-$12, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

Peanuts Great Pumpkin Patch Express, 10 a.m., $35-$49,

“Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” 7:30 p.m., $25,

Henry Stoy piano, 11 a.m., Jean-

The Barn, 123 Mama Llama Lane.

Railroad Depot, 479 Main Ave. Pierre Bakery and Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave., 247-7700.

Monday Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m. Sorrel Sky Gal-

Reading Room, 1166 East Third Ave.

lery, 828 Main Ave. Master Minds meeting, 11:30

a.m., Three Springs Plaza, 175 Mercado St., 764-6000.

Watercolor Painting 101, 1 p.m., $150-$175, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606.

MSPERA fall meeting, 1 p.m., Cortez Elks Lodge, 2100 North Dolores Road, Cortez.

Tuesday jam, 6 p.m., Steaming

Bean, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200.

Pine River Garden Club meeting, 6 p.m., Pine River Library,

395 Bayfield Center Drive, 884-2222.

The Story Never Told: A Holocaust Presentation, 6 p.m., Du-

rango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380.

Tim Sullivan, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 375-7260.

Wednesday Sorrel Sky Gallery 2017 Workshop Series, 9 a.m. Sorrel Sky Gal-

lery, 828 Main Ave. Developing a Communications Plan with Purpose, 10

a.m., $0-$65, Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380.

Introduction to Vinyl Cutting,

6 p.m., $15-$30, MakerLab, Powerhouse Science Center, 1295 Camino del Rio. Terry Rickard, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 375-7260.

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Horoscope ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Expect the unexpected this week!

Small appliances might break down this week or minor breakages could occur because something will upset your home routine. Nevertheless, someone older will be helpful to you this week.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Pay attention to everything you say and do this week because this is an accident-prone week. This includes physical accidents as well as verbal gaffes. (Ouch.)

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Keep an eye on your money scene and your possessions this week because something unusual might happen. You might find money, or you might lose money. Guard what you have against loss or theft in order to keep your things safe.

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CANCER (June 21 to July 22)

This week, the Moon is in your sign, dancing with several planets. Notably, it is at odds with Uranus, which makes you impulsive, restless and full of nervous energy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)

Something going on behind the scenes might catch you off guard this week.

Just be aware of this. Try to imagine having eyes in the back of your head that are watching everything.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) A friend might do something that catches you off guard this week. Alternatively, you might meet someone new who is a real character! It’s not a boring week.

Travel plans will be canceled, rescheduled or changed this week. Something unexpected might affect legal matters or something to do with medicine.

Keep an eye on your bank account and your assets because an unexpected error might occur. Stay on top of all details regarding inheritances and shared property.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) A friend or partner might demand a change in the relationship this week.

Perhaps he or she wants more freedom? Be ready for a few surprises.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)

Relationships with partners and bosses are full of surprises this week. If someone says something that puts you off, don’t quit your day job. Easy does it.

Your work routine will be interrupted this week because of staff shortages, power outages, computer glitches or canceled meetings. Give yourself extra

time so you can cope with the unexpected.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March) This is a mildly accident-prone week for your kids or children you work with.

Meanwhile, social plans might change suddenly. Perhaps you’ll get a surprise invitation somewhere?

BORN THIS WEEK You are free-spirited, active and energetic. You also are generous and dependable. This is a year full of excitement and change! Opportunities will present themselves, and when they do, you must act fast. Your personal freedom will be a top priority. You also will travel this year and do things to expand your horizons. Enjoy this busy, fast-paced year! © 2017 King Features Syndicate Inc.

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Beer, bratwurst, and puppers at Oktoberfest Beer steins clinked mightily at the base of golden-treed mountains at this year’s Oktoberfest, hosted by Purgatory Ski Resort on Saturday, Oct. 7. German polka band Funf Musikmenschen played, along with Radio Voyeur and headliners Diabolical Sound Platoon. It was a bratwurst heaven and a pupper wonderland: Every other step and there was a furball DGO just had to pet.

Photos by Lucy Schaefer

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