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he state’s legislators managed to make Wishing and hoping the roads and bridgit through this session of the Indiana es just would fix themselves; and MortgagGeneral Assembly without putting ing the future to find funds to pay for bandHoosiers at each others’ throats or aids to slap on the multiplying chuckholes turning the state into a national joke. and collapsing bridges. This is progress. The 2017 legislative This new measure — with its assortment session has been a quiet one. of taxes and fees to provide funding — inThere haven’t been any mass protests troduces a welcome dose of realism into the that had people waiting in long lines to get lawmakers’ world, a recognition that there inside the stone walls of the Statehouse or simply are things we Hoosiers must pay for spilling out into the streets of downtown if we want them to be safe and usable. Indianapolis. Nor have we seen lawmakers Beyond the roads and bridges, the of one party or the other flee the state for legislators didn’t accomplish much of weeks at a time. And the governor didn’t consequence. even make a disastrous national television They transformed the position of state appearance that turned Indiana into an superintendent of public instruction from international punchline for jokes built on an elected to an appointed office, a “reform” themes of intolerance and demanded by no one outincompetence. side the Statehouse. They The 2017 legislative voted to pump more taxFor a state that has endured brutal battles over money into charter session has been a payer right-to-work legislation, schools and school vouchquiet one. a proposed constitutioner programs, even though al amendment banning there is scant evidence that same-sex unions, the ill-conceived Relisuch initiatives are accomplishing much gious Freedom Restoration Act and a costly more than providing an expensive form of and ongoing war of attrition over education therapy for relative handfuls of parents. policy, the absence of pitched conflict And they figured out a way to maintain makes for a nice change. a complicated system of alcohol sales laws Instead of devoting prodigious amounts that read as if they were drafted by a person of time, money, energy and rancor to in the throes of dementia. divisive and often largely symbolic social Some of us might contend that the legisissues, lawmakers focused instead on lators’ nearly four months of labor amountmore prosaic issues, such as road funding, ed to little more than a shuffling of feet schools and alcohol sales. while the world around us and history itself If there was a success to come from the hurtle forward at a breakneck pace. session, it probably was the plan to start Instead, we should be grateful for the maintaining and repairing Indiana’s decaying respite. roads and bridges. The roads bill that emerged The lawmakers may have paraphrased was, as almost every legislative measure is, a Caesar in their own way — “we came, we collection of compromises that likely won’t be saw, we did very little” — but at least they entirely satisfying to anyone, but turned out to didn’t embarrass us before the rest of the be acceptable to most people. world or dance us close to the flames of Whatever the roads bill’s flaws might be, another civil war, this one marked by a it represented a considerable improvement cultural divide. over the previous means of dealing with IndiBut, with this bunch, we must be grateful ana’s crumbling infrastructure. Those were: for small favors. N For more opinion pieces visit nuvo.net/voices
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he Indiana General Assembly adjourned April 21 after concluding their business for this session. It was a relatively calm legislative session with nothing scandalous or discriminatory coming under fire. But there were areas of contention in terms of the budget, educational testing and funding for roads that did bring about some debate.
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The state’s $32.3 billion two-year budget heads to the governor’s desk for final approval this week. The largest issues surrounding the budget earlier this session included education funding, tax increases and tax shifts. Under the plan, the state’s On My Way Pre-K pilot program will receive $22 million annually in funding with $1 million going to a virtual, in-home pre-K program. The program currently receives $10 million a year. In January, Gov. Eric Holcomb and House Republicans sought an additional $10 million for the program, while Senate Republicans asked for just $3 million. Pre-K advocates previously requested an extra $40 million in funding. The pilot program will also expand from the five counties it is currently in — Allen, Lake, Jackson, Marion and Vanderburgh — to an additional 15 counties that have yet to be selected. Rep. Ed Delaney, R-Indianapolis called the pre-K move “a very, very modest step in the direction we need to go.” K-12 education will see an average increase of 1.6 percent in the first year and 1.7 percent the second year or a total of $345 million in new money. The budget also removed the proposed
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$1 cigarette tax hike, previously included by House Republicans as a means to fill a gap in the general fund. The gap would have been left by an immediate shift of all sales tax on gasoline to the State Highway Fund. Lawmakers instead decided to gradually shift the sales tax over the span of seven years starting July 1. Sen. Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville, called the upcoming biennial budget “big, bold and better for all of our Hoosier people.” Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Portage, said a number of items appeared in the budget overnight with no discussion, speaking specifically about a lethal injection drugs measure. The added measure would grant anonymity to pharmaceutical companies and distributors that supply drugs for executions. EDUCATION (BY KATIE STANCOMBE)
Indiana schools will administer its current ISTEP test for one more year before switching to its replacement, ILEARN, which would be the similar to ISTEP — just shorter and branded with a new name. “There’s less time on testing over all,” said Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn. “The test is given once at the end of the school year and will be an hour to an hour and 15 minutes.” He also said there will be faster results. Kruse also said the bill would also allow the State Board of Education more flexibility and power to select test products and establish different ways students can earn high school diplomas. But Sen. Eddie Melton, D-Merrillville, who voted against it, said he thinks they should remove teacher evaluations from the existing ISTEP as they transition to a new testing format. “If we made the decision as the General Assembly not to stand behind the test that
we want to administer across the state because we’re not confident in the actual test,” Melton said. “Why should we hold our teachers accountable for a test that we don’t even believe in?” INFRASTRUCTURE (BY ASHLEY STEEB)
House Bill 1002 will create $1.2 billion in additional revenue by 2024 through new taxes and fees, with $350 million of the revenue going to fund local roads and $850 million funding state roads and bridges. Hoosiers will have to pay an additional 10 cents per gallon at the pump, motor carrier surcharge taxes and special fuel taxes. There will also be a $15 annual fee per vehicle, a $150 annual fee on electric vehicles and a $50 fee for hybrid vehicles. The new taxes will take effect in 2018 and be phased in over the next seven years. In 2020, the remaining sales tax on gasoline will be gradually shifted to the State Highway Fund. “It’s about the safety of every citizen in this state,” said Rep. Ed Soliday, R-Valpariso, author of the bill. “Whether it’s a person riding in the ambulance, or a school child riding in a school bus or whether it’s a worker going to work.” Soliday said the other benefit the bill will create is 7,000 primary jobs within the first seven years and up to 100,000 in trickle-down jobs. House Minority Leader Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City, who voted against the bill, said it’s important for Hoosiers to work on the roads. “If Hoosiers are going to be paying for these roads, then, we would like for there to be Hoosier workers,” Pelath said. “And also, candidly, Hoosier workers that look like Indiana.” N
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Longtime tax resisters find renewed purpose after Trump’s Election BY MARY FINN // EDITORS@NUVO.NET
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od Nippert grew up on a farm with 40,000 turkeys in the Appalachian Mountains in Southeastern Ohio. He wanted to escape the life of a farm boy as quickly as he could. Nippert had big plans – become an engineer, move to the city, and buy a red Corvette. That was 1967. Forty years later, he and his wife, Linda, live and work on a 100 acre, community-owned raspberry farm in Appalachia. He spends his days puttering around in a stained glass shop that he runs with his neighbor. There’s no Corvette in his garage. Nippert’s life was fundamentally altered by his decision to break the law. He hasn’t paid his federal income tax, in full, since 1973. Nippert is one of approximately 8,000 Americans who openly choose to contest paying their full federal income tax owed to the government. They don’t consider themselves to be criminal tax evaders; they prefer to be called war tax resisters. President Trump’s refusal to release his income taxes has fueled interest in tax resistance for some anti-Trumpers. “Take a look at Trump. Did he reveal his taxes? No,” Jay Sordean, a war tax resistance counselor in Berkeley, CA, says. “I am sure he is hiding lots of crap. He is in this for himself and I am sure his taxes reflect his beliefs.” But, for long-time resisters like Nippert, the decision not to pay taxes doesn’t depend on who is in the White House. It is a matter of personal conscience. As a child, Nippert had
attended services at the Church of the Brethren. “When I was a kid, I knew my religion and stuff and I was involved in a youth group but I didn’t think too heavily about what was going on in the world or what that had to do with my religious beliefs. I knew things were going on in the world but they didn’t seem personally relevant,” Nippert says. But then, as for so many, the Vietnam War created a crisis of conscience for Nippert. He was lucky to get a draft deferment from the war by enrolling as a student at Ohio University and then transferring to Ohio State. The war plodded along and Nippert lived a parallel life as a Buckeye. He pledged a fraternity, but the brothers decided he wasn’t Beta Theta Pi material. “Looking back on it, I think they made the right decision,” he says. “That was a time when everything was changing. I was letting my hair grow a little longer but the frats were still pretty conservative. There were weird things they didn’t like about me. I didn’t hold my cigarette the right way. And, you know, really, I was just a farm boy.” Around the same time, someone gave him a copy of Joan Baez’s memoir, Daybreak. “Her book affected me a lot in terms of thinking about issues of pacifism and made me think about what I learned about nonviolence
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from Church of the Brethren,” he says. In 1968, Nippert started hanging out at political meetings at Ohio State where he learned more about draft resistance and non-violent protest. “I grew up being taught to think for myself and once I started going to meetings and hearing people talking and hold strong opinions passionately, it kind of opened me up,” he says. “It caused me to ask, ‘What do I really believe in passionately? How am I supposed to live my beliefs?’” Initially, he got involved with a campus group that was doing draft counseling for people who wanted to escape to Canada and helped them fill out forms so that they could register as conscientious objectors. But Nippert’s own conscience continued to gnaw at him. One night in 1969, Nippert broke into “the Shoe,” Ohio State’s 66,000 seat football stadium. It was midnight. He climbed all the way to the top bleacher and sat there, alone, for a few hours. Enveloped by the all-American scene, Nippert thought about
his relationship to his country. “I wanted to make the right decisions. I am not and never have been anti-my country. Not at all,” he says. “I love my country. I thought that if I am not truly a pacifist, I should go register for the draft and serve. I am not going to walk around saying I am a pacifist if I’m not willing to make a personal sacrifice. I am not a chicken. I can’t be just trying to get out of going to war. I have to really be for something. Sitting up there in the stadium alone, I came to my decision. I decided that I couldn’t kill anybody.” But there was more.
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“What do I really believe in passionately? How am I supposed to live my beliefs?” — ROD NIPPERT
“If I can’t kill someone, can I pay someone else to kill for me?” he asked himself.“I decided that I couldn’t do either and I really needed to live as a pacifist.” Two months later, Nippert dropped out of Ohio State and was called up for the draft. The draft board required documentation to validate his conscientious objector status. Nippert’s dad wrote him a letter of support. He had been a fighter pilot in World War II, captured and starved by the Nazi’s as a POW. In the letter, his father wrote, “As a farmer, we learn that each of us needs to plow our own furrow.” Nippert’s petition was approved and soon after he stopped paying his taxes. *** War tax resisters believe that we should be able to decide for ourselves when, if and how much we pay in federal tax based on our beliefs. They think we should able to decide how much we pay, or if we pay at all, when we don’t think the government is going to use our money to our liking. The IRS clearly does not agree. The IRS did not respond to our questions about tax resistance. IRS Code 6702 requires the agency to maintain a list of “frivolous filings,”which, according to the agency, “describes and responds to some of the common frivolous tax arguments made by those who oppose compliance with federal tax laws.” The IRS can fine a filer up to $5,000 for attaching a letter of protest or writing directly on a tax form about any of the frivolous filing issues. War tax resistance is on the list. “One doesn’t like to hear the word frivolous about an action we take so seriously, but I know it isn’t intended as a diss to us in particu-
lar,” says Ruth Benn the National Coordinator of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC, pronounced “New Trick”), a group founded in 1982 in response to nuclear proliferation. “Since they started the frivolous filing penalties as a result of war tax resistance, a lot of us did an action we called ‘cabbage patch filing.’ People filed dozens of 1040s instead of filing just one. The goal was to slow down the system.” One person’s frivolity is another’s necessity. Kesh (who asked to be identified only by her first name) a 38-year old Baltimore service industry worker didn’t pay taxes last year because she couldn’t afford it. “Because I couldn’t afford to pay for my insurance last year, they charged me a penalty for that — a penalty for being poor,” she said of the fine she would have to pay for not having health care under the Affordable Care Act. Then she started to wonder where the money went. “I know that my tax money is going to the police and I can walk down the street and get shot,” she says. Though local police forces are primarily funded through local and state governments, police departments do receive federal funding. And as an African-American woman in Baltimore, where Freddie Gray’s death in police custody in 2015 led to a police curfew that was enforced by the National Guard, Kesh was more concerned about the militarization of the police in her neighborhood than a far-away war. Trump made all of this worse. “I’m all the groups that are hated. I’ve decided to come to Earth in this body and be black, be a woman, gay, so you know, I get hit on every side of it. I was a teenage mother, I’m a NUVO.NET // 04.26.17 - 05.03.17 // THE BIG STORY // 9
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single mom — I’m all the things [Trump and Republicans] hate.” Unlike the other resisters, Kesh is new to this. She doesn’t know where it will lead her yet — hence her decision not to use her name. She has not taken workshops or been formally advised and she is at risk of being targeted by the IRS. So it is difficult to think of anyone’s decision to defy one of our fundamental civic duties as frivolous. But even some tax resisters think this way. “Some people who don’t pay taxes are just fruitcakes in terms of the reasons they are using to avoid paying taxes,” says Peter Smith, a war tax resister from Indiana. “You know, like things that are never going to work.” For instance, there are some people in the states’ rights crowd who believe the 9th Amendment protects them from the overreach of the federal government’s ability to collect income tax. For some odd reason, some filers claim that if they write the phrase “nunc pro tunc” on their 1040 form, they won’t have to pay income tax. “But the people who are out there who are honestly conscientious objectors and have legitimate reasons, we respect them and we say go for it,” Smith says. Some people, for instance, refuse to pay their first $5,000 in federal tax because of what they refer to as a “Black Tax,” a version of self-imposed reparations taking the place of the 40 acres and mule promised by General Sherman at the end of the Civil War. Still, military spending is the most common issue. NWTRCC publishes an annual analysis of the federal budget in which they determine that about 50 percent of the federal budget goes toward current military spending, debt on past wars, upkeep of the nuclear arsenal, and funding for homeland security. War tax resisters, like Nippert, use this figure as a guidepost when paying (or not paying) their federal income tax. But under Trump, military spending is poised to spike. “Interest in tax resistance has been unusually active because of Trump’s election,” says Benn. “We saw a huge jump in our web stats since the inauguration. It is tax time and we have a president we don’t like. I mean, we aren’t like the Women’s March with 100,000s of people coming out. But, around
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the country, we are finding more interest in our workshops where there will be 20 people attending instead of the usual two. Local networks that don’t usually contact us have been unusually active. Some of the groups out there who are anti-Trump have come to us for ideas.” While the current political climate may have created a spike in interest in war tax resistance, many war tax resisters interviewed for this story made it clear that their opposition isn’t grounded in partisanship but is based on a life of pacifism inspired by flashpoints like Vietnam War, the 1980’s nuclear arms race, American military involvement in Central America, and the more recent wars in Iraq. Like Nippert, resisters tend to start out as activists and protesters in anti-war movements and then, ultimately, they ask themselves, “If I am so against war, then why am I paying for it?” “These are all conscious people who have chosen to stay out of the system,” Benn says. Smith, the tax resister from Indiana, served in the military for four years in the early 1960s. “During the Vietnam War I knew that what the government needed to fight the war was money and people. I knew that I could resist with my money and so I did,” he says. For others, the catalyst was even more
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personal. Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, best known for her month-long 2005 tent encampment protest outside President Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch, lost her son Casey to the Iraq war in April 2014 and stopped paying federal income tax. “After Casey was killed in the Iraq War, I looked at my then-husband and said that is the last time I am paying taxes. I am not filing or paying taxes to this government because they took something from us that they can never repay,” she says. “For years, I had funded the murder of so many people, including my own son.” She has ongoing federal liens against her for any future assets she may acquire but the magistrate in her IRS hearing took a sympathetic stance. “The judge looked up at me at the end of the hearing and said, ‘What you’ve done sounds like a real reasonable response to something that happened to you that was so unreasonable,’” she recalls. Many tax resisters view what they do as a reasonable response to an unreasonable situation. But the 8,000 war tax resisters don’t necessarily believe that they will stop all war. Not any more, at least. Most of the people I spoke to for this article are now in their late 60s; they started their resistance wide-eyed and bell-bottomed, intending to starve the “war machine.” Now, most admit that’s not
going to happen. “I don’t want to totally give up on change but I don’t expect it in my lifetime. What we do is going to someday turn things around. Like any conscientious objector, I think I have a role in showing another way. Through my tax resistance I am trying to show what is important,” Benn said. War tax resistance is idiosyncratic; there isn’t a prescribed way to do it. Resisters do all they can to make it difficult for the IRS to collect what is owed. But for most, being a war tax resister translates to creating a simple, asset-free life. Nationwide, NWTRCC affiliate groups offer counseling to those interested in committing war tax resistance. Participants are guided to reflect on what they believe and to articulate what they are looking for from their resistance. Then, they commit to the course of action that is the best for their life situation and their tolerance for risk. Jay Sordean, the volunteer war tax resistance counselor in Berkeley, CA is self-employed and doesn’t have withholdings taken directly from his paycheck. He also lives below the taxable income limit. Sordean files his 1040 tax form every year but he doesn’t include a check. He sends a letter of resistance with his form. In the 1990s, he got creative and sent palm-sized helium canisters that “looked like little cruise missiles” attached to his 1040, along with a letter of protest to the IRS, his senators, and the Clinton White House (Warning: Don’t try this in the post 9/11 era). War tax resisters who do receive a paycheck often hike up their withholding exemptions and end up having little or no money taken from their pay. Some people file and withhold $10.40 and they attach letters demanding a decrease in military spending, in an act of what is referred to as “symbolic resistance.” Like many resisters, Nippert put all of his assets in his wife’s name so that the house can’t be seized by the IRS. He doesn’t make enough money on the raspberry farm or in the stained glass shop to pay personal income tax. Every war tax resister I talked to donates the money that should have been paid in taxes either to charities or one of the 50 funds, such as the People’s Life Fund, that
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redistribute the money for “life affirming purposes.” Ann Barron, a resister since 2014 from San Diego, said, “I love paying taxes, but not for war. I pay my taxes, but not to the U.S. government.” The war tax resisters view what they do as patriotic. The openly commit civil disobedience, spawned by a love of country. *** Tax resistance isn’t easy. Most resisters live in fear and experience financial uncertainty. The IRS wants the money it is owed and agents will do everything they can to get it, including placing liens on assets, seizing bank and retirement accounts, and garnishing wages. For many resisters, the hassle and risk is worth the sacrifice. “It’s been worth it for me. One of the things about war tax resistance is that you have control over yourself. You can say no to the government and that’s not something many people can do because they feel kind of forced into paying. It is empowering for me,” Smith said. Nippert doesn’t worry so much about the IRS coming after him. “If you can be sympathetic to the IRS, it is getting much, much harder for them to collect taxes even for big amounts of money because the federal government is giving them less and less to work with,” he says. “I know that I am low priority
when they can’t even collect from people who owe a lot.” Still, the collection letters from the IRS can be relentless and filled with intimidating legalese. “I get the collection letters and they are a little scary,” Barron says. “One of the hardest things about tax resistance is that it is difficult to get the right legal information. My anxiety about the IRS was the first hurdle for me to get over in deciding to be a war resister. But now, I don’t feel fear. I made a decision to be public about what I’m doing. I feel a deep connection between what I believe and what I am doing.” What about jail? In 1846, in the most famous case of war tax resistance, the author Henry David Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay six years worth of back taxes because of his opposition to slavery and the Mexican-American War. Since then, only a few dozen Americans have been jailed for war tax resistance. “Jail for war tax resistance is a myth,” NWTRCC’s Benn says. “The IRS doesn’t come and take you away, they just want their money. They don’t want people in jail.” Tell that to Dr. Joseph Olejak, a chiropractor and natural healer from Chatham, NY. Joseph started withholding his taxes from the government in 1992. “At first the letters came more frequently from the IRS and the threats became more NUVO.NET // 04.26.17 - 05.03.17 // THE BIG STORY // 11
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“ I made a conscious choice not to participate in war. ” — DR. JOSEPH OLEJAK
regular until eventually someone from the IRS showed up and said, ‘this is a civil matter now, but it will become a criminal matter if you don’t pay,’” Olejak recalls. Armed agents ended up storming Olejak’s office and seized his computers and records. In 2013, Olejak was sentenced to serve weekends in county jail because he owed $242,000 to the federal government. The charges against Olejak resulted in a felony conviction that caused him to lose his chiropractor’s license. For 26 weeks, Olejak worked as a bookkeeper and advised clients on weight loss during the weekdays. On Friday night at 6 p.m., he checked into the county jail, changed into his jumpsuit and was fed “food that was so disgusting you couldn’t even call it food. It was a concoction of soy and meat-like substance over noodles. It was so disgusting, sometimes I just fasted.” He checked out of jail each Sunday night and returned to diet coaching. Any regrets about his choices? None. “Somewhere, somebody is not going to have a smart bomb dropped on their head because I withdrew some money from the system,” Olejak says. As part of his plea deal, Olejak agreed to pay taxes in $100 monthly installments when he has the income to pay and he was put on five years probation. Aside from his highly aberrational jail sentence, Olejak suffered financial ruin. He can no longer practice as a chiropractor in NY because of his criminal felony. Still, he sees himself as successful. “There are all kinds of success,” he says. “There is ethical success and financial success and the two 12 // THE BIG STORY // 04.26.17 - 05.03.17 // 100% SUSTAINABLE / RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO.NET
are not necessarily the same thing. This is not something that happened to me out of the blue, I made the choice. I made a conscious choice not to participate in war. I accepted the consequences and hoped that they would not be awful.” For Nippert, it’s turned out a lot better than “not awful.” “I don’t have any doubts about what I’ve done,” he says. “I think probably my overwhelming feeling is that this isn’t a direction I would have gone on my own, but it’s really turned out to be great for me.” Every morning, he walks the three-quarter miles to his glass shop with his dog Candy next to him. He spends his days in the shop listening to Emmylou Harris, the X Ambassadors, and Van Morrison. He and his wife, a recently retired elementary special education teacher, usually have an unfinished puzzle on the coffee table that they work on together in the evenings after dinner. They are grandparents to twin 4 year-old boys. He’s got a birthday coming up. “People ask me what I want for my birthday? I don’t know. I mean it is not like I wish I had more money to buy more and more things,” he says. “When I was younger, I wasn’t concerned with money so much, I was just in love with a ‘Vette, you know? But now, I’m just pretty happy. I am happy with the woods and my grandkids. I think the land is awfully healing.” But his son married a woman whose family owns a local car dealership. They usually have a few Corvettes in the garage. Maybe he’ll take one on a drive for his birthday. N Additional reporting by Brandon Soderberg
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ou have probably walked by Austin Falls’ artwork and not even known it — mostly his guerrilla-style art drops, which usually consist of small android creatures hidden around Indy, posted on Instagram and free to whoever can find them. Falls grew tired of existing in a silo though; so he decided to build tiny homes for artists to leave bits and pieces of free artwork. Currently, he has two small utility boxes screwed to telephone poles that have items free for the taking — and open to add to. “I have always been doing art, throughout school and stuff, but I never had a real outlet for it,” says Falls. “That was one of the goals in creating the project — to give myself something to do other than pile up in a back room or fill my house with artwork that I made… That’s another goal of doing free art, I am also poor and can’t afford art. If I can come steal [another artist’s] art, I can fill my walls with things I didn’t make.” Find the boxes in Fountain Square and South Broad Ripple. Make sure to take a picture of what you take and tag the artist on social media. Also, don’t be that guy to ruin it and take everything inside.
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EMILY TAYLOR: When did you start doing your own drops? AUSTIN FALLS: I have been doing free art stuff myself for the last two years now — just putting things out randomly in the city, hashtagging it, putting it on Instagram or whatever. I have always wanted more people to join in and build community around it. But it’s been a little tough getting people to sign on. I have people who want to come out and drop with me, but I’m not always available to do that. I thought maybe if we created a space [or location] that would make it easy for people [to] bring their art and put it, it might make it easier for people to come out and share their art.
EMILY: When did you get started with Indy Droids? AUSTIN: I think it was the beginning of 2015. I think I started building stuff and started stocking up to do drops in January or late December. By late March, I started trying to drop on a regular basis. EMILY: I think the way you put them out there, almost like a scavenger hunt, is fun for people. AUSTIN: Yeah, I think it gives people something to go out and do. I like that it gets people out to parts of the city that they don’t normally get to sometimes. Then at the end they get a little trinket to take home. EMILY: What drives you to make and put out free art? What is the motivation behind the free element of it and that kind of open access? AUSTIN: It started with, I was unemployed and looking for a side project to do to keep myself busy, and just kind of build up myself as an artist. Nobody cares about me making robots in my basement, so just branding myself as an artist, getting my name out there. I like the idea of not necessarily knowing who you are giving it to; it could be someone with complete opposite views on everything as you, and you have given them this thing. Then it lightens up their day a bit. EMILY: The target areas you mentioned (Fountain Square, CCIC, Harrison Art Center, Broad Ripple) all seem like good starting locations. AUSTIN: Yeah, I wanted to at least start in areas where there is a concentration of artists. I don’t live in a super cool part of town or anything. If there was enough momentum, it would be cool to expand to lesser known areas to see what they have to offer, rather than just sticking around the three points of interest in town or whatever. N
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hen one of the city’s premiere choral groups was planning its 2016-17 season last spring and summer, the presidential election was looming. But no one could predict how much things would change after November 8. Last summer, the Indianapolis Men’s Chorus’ (IMC) artistic director Greg Sanders, and others involved with programming were focused on themes to reflect Indiana’s bicentennial. The fall show featured songs about Indiana and songs with Hoosier composers; the holiday show theme was Home for Christmas
to invoke a feeling of coming home to Indiana for the holidays; and the spring show was to be Hoosier Hoedown, featuring country and western songs. But shortly after the election, the IMC leadership decided they’d rather produce a show to address the current social and political climate. The chorus will perform My American Song, a collection of 1960s peace anthems, patriotic songs, political satire, hymns and poetry at Marian University. The songs, selected by Sanders, focus on themes of justice and injustice in America. Thanks to the idea of managing
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director Sam Locke, patrons will be able to select from one of almost 20 charities to donate $5 of their ticket price. Part of the reason to change the theme, said IMC President George Hanlin, stemmed from seeing not only President Trump’s actions, but also those who were speaking up in protest, such as the Women’s March the day after the inauguration and other demonstrations of resistance and empowerment locally and around the country. Social justice is not a new idea to IMC. “When the IMC started in 1990, it was primarily a gay men’s chorus,” Hanlin said. “The mission was to build bridges as men were dying of AIDS and gay men were ostracized from their families.” There has been a shift in attitudes over the last two decades. “After the inauguration there has been anxiety and uncertainty as there appears to be a rolling back of that progress,” said Hanlin.
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Sanders added that was apparent when IMC members would be talking amongst themselves during breaks about how to get more involved following the 2016 election. “It felt like the right move at the time to change the theme,” said Sanders, adding it was in line with the IMC’s mission to entertain, educate and promote inclusive community through musical excellence. “But it isn’t meant to be a negative political statement,” he added. “It’s meant to be a voice of empowerment and solidarity and community and claiming what is America for all of us. Claiming that space. … It’s meant for the members of the IMC to claim American citizenship for themselves and for anyone who might feel disenfranchised.” N
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GOOD INTENTIONS AND BAD RESULTS Romanian flick Graduation is a low-key story about ethics BY ED JOHNSON-OTT // EJOHNSONOTT@NUVO.NET
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omeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni), a well-respected doctor, hates living in his homeland of Romania. His current focus is not on himself or his wife Magda (Lia Bugnar), however. Romeo's daughter Eliza (Maria Dragus) has been offered a scholarship to a highly-regarded university in Great Britain, contingent on her doing very well on her final exams. Eager to get to the home of his mistress, Sandra (Malina Dragus), Romeo agrees to Eliza's request that he drop her off by a construction site close to her school. Later that morning he receives a call notifying him that someone attacked the teenage woman and tried to rape her. At the hospital, Eliza is shaken. Written and directed by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days), Graduation follows Romeo as he tries to make things better for his daughter. There is a system in place to deal with sex crimes, but Romeo knows that in corrupt Romania, those with power and influence get more attention from the police. As far as Eliza and her final exams, Romeo hears from those in charge that there are other options for the traumatized youth, but he fears that delaying her exams could queer the whole scholarship deal. So Romeo, who has such disdain for the rampart corruption in Romania, starts making deals and calling in favors on behalf of his precious daughter, who just wants her father to keep his machinations out of her life. In Graduation the deals certainly aren't comical, but they make it clear that a corrupt government is built out of corrupt
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individuals, many of them twisting and turning their personal value systems to rationalize their actions. So why should you cough up your hardearned money to see a subtitled Romanian flick about good intentions and bad results? Because movies about ethics don't come along that often, especially ones as well-crafted as this. Cristian Mungiu uses long takes where the camera doesn't move, allowing his fine cast plenty of time to create a realistic feel. Those extended shots invite us to explore the details of the scene, drawing us closer to the world in which these characters live. He uses almost no music, save for that heard on car radios and the like. As for action, the assault scene at the beginning of the story is not seen. The only violence we witness is the rocks that someone throws through the apartment window and the car of the doctor. I wonder who threw those rocks? Graduation isn't the kind of film that jumps up and down and shouts “Look at me!” That's part of the reason I like it. We routinely go to the movies to be bombarded by dazzling images, outrageous action, an abundance of quips and flashy resolutions to contrived problems, in IMAX if possible, and — even better — in 3D. Nothing wrong with that, but what a welcome change of pace it is to see a low-key story about the choices we make and the ramifications of those choices. N
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Eight things we’re looking forward to at Indiana’s Next Hop Model 2.0. BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET
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e’ve spent weeks talking about the beer and fashion fest on this Friday, April 28. These are just a few of the things we’re most excited about.
1. BEAUTIFUL BEERS With beer offerings from 13 breweries around the state there will be no shortage of tasty brews to sip on throughout the evening.
hope he returns in even higher fashion this year. Will he reign again? Only time will tell.
5. THE NEW CLASS While we have many fashion icons returning, there are some new faces on the runway this year including Wooden Bear Brewing, Kopacetic Beer Factory, Four Day Ray and more. We’re excited to see what they bring to drink and to the stage.
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2. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. You’ll be there, won’t you? And we all know no one is more beautiful than you; especially once we all get a beer or two in us.
3. BEAUTIFUL FASHION Brewers will be showing off their fashions on the runway, but the audience will be dressed to the nines as well. Put on your favorite fashion-forward attire — think brewery fashion — and walk the hallways like a runway.
4. THE RETURN OF INHM CYCLE 1 WINNER, DAN GOHR Dan looked Gohr-g-ous last year in his Captain’s hat and sailor’s shorts and we can only
6. NIKKI REED This badass lady from The Smiley Morning Show will be leading the night with her unforgettable humor and vibrant, highly-fashionable hair. Be ready for a night of laughter as she is sure to be even more riotous with a beer or two in her.
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7. ED WENCK We’re excited to see the wittiest NUVO alum and shiniest head in the room return to the stage. After years on the radio as Wank from The Wank and O’Brien Show, he will fall perfectly in sync with radio-queen Nikki as the co-host for the evening.
8. YUMMY FOOD Beer and food go together like chinos and chukkas, so it would only make sense to have tasty food on-site to pair with all that beer we’ll all be drinking. There will be sliders, fried cheese curds, pretzels and more for your delight. N
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he crossroads story is one of the most important legends in blues mythology. According to one famous tale, the late-great Mississippi blues singer Robert Johnson made a midnight pilgrimage to a Delta crossroads and struck a Faustian deal with the Devil, trading his soul in exchange for a prodigious musical talent. For some practitioners of West African-derived religions in the Americas, the crossroads represent a space of paranormal communication, a symbolic union between the physical world and the supernatural. The crossroads are a vehicle for communication with spirits, perhaps to cast a spell or to strike a deal. In blues mythology, a significant portion of the crossroads legend centers around Johnson’s 1936 recording “Cross Road Blues,” which captures a very human moment of existential crisis. For me, Johnson is singing of a metaphorical crossroads, where all the sweat and toil of a hardscrabble life adds up to nothing. “Cross Road Blues” sold poorly at the time of its release in May of 1937, and a little over a year later Johnson was found dead at 27 years old. Like many blues artists of his era, Johnson died poor, with relatively little public knowledge of the importance of his work. Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues” entered the global consciousness 30 years later when Eric Clapton and Cream’s acid rock version of the tune became a massively popular hard rock classic. The success of Cream’s “Crossroads” ignited new interest in Johnson’s work, and many attempts were made to identify the exact Mississippi crossroads that inspired Johnson’s composition. The convergence of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi is the most famous of these purported crossroads sites. A few years ago I found myself standing in the center of an Indianapolis blues crossroads. It all started in April of 2015, a month that
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marked the 80th anniversary of the death of Indianapolis blues pianist and singer songwriter Leroy Carr (March 27, 1905 – April 29, 1935). I was digging through the archives of the Indianapolis Recorder, hoping to find more information on Carr’s death from nephritis at the age of 30. I’ve written frequently about Carr in past editions of NUVO, outlining the importance of the music he recorded with guitarist Francis “Scrapper” Blackwell (February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962). Carr and Blackwell released their debut disc “How Long, How Long Blues” in 1928, launching one of the most influential artistic partnerships in American music. Carr and Blackwell’s music helped establish a more urban direction for blues music, and inspired many future greats, including a young Muddy Waters. Robert Johnson also fell under the spell of Carr and Blackwell, a few of Johnson’s iconic blues classics were modeled directly from Carr and Blackwell creations. Blues archivist Edward Komara has even suggested that elements of Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues” were lifted from Carr and Blackwell’s 1929 recording “Straight Alky Blues Pt. 1.” As I was digging through the recorder’s archives, I found a beautifully written obituary for Carr in the paper’s May 4, 1935 edition, with the address of the Indianapolis home where Carr died listed. I decided to load the information into my smartphone’s GPS, and pay the location a visit. I was led to the intersection of 16th and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Streets, and as I arrived on the scene I discovered all remnants of Carr’s 2408 Northwestern Avenue address were gone. While I soaked up as much ambience as I could from the area, my thoughts turned to Carr’s creative partner Blackwell. I recalled that the site where Blackwell was murdered in 1962 was in the same general area. And so I wondered how long it would take me to walk to the site of Blackwell’s death. So I entered the 527 W. 17th Street ad-
dress into my GPS and headed toward the space where Blackwell spent the final few moments of his life … and found it, literally across the street. As I walked along the intersection of 16th and MLK, it occurred to me that though Carr and Blackwell’s deaths happened 27 years apart, Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell died on opposite ends of this Indianapolis crossroads. I couldn’t stop thinking about the crossroads when I went home that night. It seemed like such a wildly improbable coincidence that these two men’s lives ended at the meeting of this crossroads. I started wondering if maybe Carr and Blackwell had practiced voodoo early in their lives. I wondered if maybe they’d struck some sort of supernatural deal together at that fateful location, trading their souls for the groundbreaking talent displayed on their massively popular records. I wondered if maybe Carr and Blackwell’s Faustian exchange required that they return one day to that same crossroads to cash in their souls. I decided to return to the crossroads at the stroke of midnight on April 29, 2015, the 80th anniversary of Blackwell’s death. I brought two candles with me that night, and lit one on each side of the crossroads. One for Carr, and one for Blackwell. I stood for a few minutes in silent observation of the moment. But something strange happened as I moved to leave. I know very few will believe me, but above the droning noise of cars speeding down I-65, and the sounds of screaming ambulance sirens rushing in and out of Methodist Hospital, for a few brief seconds I heard the faint hum of Leroy Carr’s voice singing from the center of the crossroads. I know some of you reading this probably think I’m crazy, and I bet some of you might think I’m a liar. But I’d wager that a few of you reading this story will be curious. And maybe I’ll see you at midnight, this Saturday, April 29 on the 82nd anniversary of Leroy Carr’s death, down at the crossroads. N
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urrounded by hundreds of thrashing metal fans as I aimed my camera to take an up-close shot of Goatwhore, I was suddenly punched. In the balls. Twice. Being the professional that I must be in order to remain a music reviewer in good standing, I made sure I had my photo, protected my camera, and then turned and punched back. Then I extricated myself from the situation to the 5th Quarter’s bar, where I ordered a shot and told Mona DeMaggio what had just transpired. “Don’t worry,” she said, handing me the bourbon. “I’ve got your back!” I’ve only lived in Indianapolis since November of 2014, and I attended my first 5th Quarter show to check out Catalytic after I’d interviewed them about their album The Voice of Reason. I remember asking Dustin Strole whether this bar was any good. Their new drummer at the time, Alexander Farrington, told me about seeing Skeletonwitch there, and I was sure I’d be right at home. Wasn’t that the truth! I’ve lost track of all the shows I saw at the venue, which celebrates its final shows this weekend as DeMaggio and company plot their move to the new Taps Live location in the basement of Taps and Dolls at the heart of Downtown. But every show I saw there offered resounding proof that Indianapolis is truly a metal city. Punk is at our roots, but when push comes to shove, Indianapolis loves to bring the doom. Especially the doom. I never had the opportunity to play the venue with a live band, as I’ve never had a knack for keeping live bands together for long in any capacity. But I did get to sing on the stage during several of their Metal Karaoke nights.
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I also got to see what happened then the 5th Quarter family came together in the wake of Jeremy “Worm” Dreher’s untimely death, a show where all the local bands — originally intending to be there opening for Crowbar on an otherwise normal Tuesday night — united behind their friend, playing the music he loved for an audience of his closest friends. That was the night I was introduced to Void King, another local band I’ve become a definite booster for. It’s also the night I learned what Indianapolis’ scene can do when given a chance to stand up and represent something beyond mere music. It’s a shame to be losing the 5th Quarter Lounge, but in the end while the venue is hosting its final shows, the heart of the place has always been the people who showed up, even on a Monday night, if it meant seeing a band like Goatwhore come through town to play an intimate venue. It was a place where those national bands, even when out on tour playing other venues like Old National Centre, would then come in after the show to see their favorite bartender and just shoot the shit. It felt like home, no matter who you were, and that’s what makes spots like this worth holding on to. So we’ll fight to keep the spirit alive and fall in love with a whole new dank basement, this time Downtown when Taps Live opens May 4 with a series of summer metal shows. And we’ll support the notion that in Indianapolis, when push comes to shove, our scene supports great music. And for that, I’ll take a shot to the balls any day of the week. N
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FRIDAY // 4.28 Joe Marcinek Band, Max Allen Band, Mousetrap, 21+ Bigfoot Yancey Album Release, Luke Knight, Jeff Kelly, Square Cat Vinyl, all-ages Left Land Cruiser, ToeKnee Tea, Werewolf with a Shotgun, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ My Yellow Ricksaw, Britton Tavern, 21+ Big Smo, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+ Farewell to the 5th with Black Dali, Tracksuit Lyfestile, American Bombshell, Join The Dead, Eyes on Fire, Fleshsuit, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Oak Ridge Boys, Hoosier Park Racing and Casino, 21+ Fire Fridays, Cadillac Ranch, 21+ Blaire Hanks, Tin Roof, 21+ Hackensaw Boys, The Tillers, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Gnash, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages Jason Aldean, Allen County War Memorial, all-ages Amina Figarova, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Hillbilly Happy Hour, Melody Inn, 21+ Eyes Set To Kill, Emerson Theater, all-ages Pluto Revolts, Kids, Young Kingdom, Fountain Square Brewing Co., 21+
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SATURDAY // 4.29 Farewell to the 5th with Cabin Pressure, Smokering, Whiskey Supercharger, Void King, Drude, Catalytic, Hell Came Home, Bionic Monks, Lo-Pan, Threat Level, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, all-ages Northern King, Pstelero, URB, Birdy’s, 21+ Scott Tuma, Mike Weiss, LUNA Music, 21+ Keller and Cole EP Release Show, Katie Pederson, Chad Mills, Fountain Square Brewing Co., 21+ Michael Feinstein, The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, all-ages The Easthills: 5th Anniversary Concert Celebration, The H-Fi, 21+ Lateralus, Bulls on Parade, Vogue, 21+ Unknown Hinson, Radio Radio, 21+ Hank Haggard’s Free Country Night, State Street Pub, 21+
SUNDAY // 4.30 Argyle Goolsby and The Roving Midnight, Melody Inn, 21+ Low Pone Queen Dance Party, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Noble Roots, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Charlie Ballantine Trio, Flat12 Bierwerks, 21+
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I have misgivings when I witness bears riding bicycles or tigers dancing on their hind legs or Aries people wielding diplomatic phrases and making careful compromises at committee meetings. While I am impressed by the disciplined expression of primal power, I worry for the soul of the creature that is behaving with such civilized restraint. So here’s my advice for you in the coming weeks: Take advantage of opportunities to make deals and forge win-win situations. But also keep a part of your fiery heart untamed. Don’t let people think they’ve got you all figured out. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “One of the advantages of being disorderly,” said author A. A. Milne, “is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” I wouldn’t normally offer this idea as advice to a methodical dynamo like you. But my interpretation of the astrological omens compels me to override my personal theories about what you need. I must suggest that you consider experimenting with jaunty, rambunctious behavior in the coming days, even if it generates some disorder. The potential reward? Exciting discoveries, of course. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to my reading of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to take a break from the magic you have been weaving since your birthday in 2016. That’s why I’m suggesting that you go on a brief sabbatical. Allow your deep mind to fully integrate the lessons you’ve been learning and the transformations you have undergone over the past eleven months. In a few weeks, you’ll be ready to resume where you left off. For now, though, you require breathing room. Your spiritual batteries need time to recharge. The hard work you’ve done should be balanced by an extended regimen of relaxed playtime. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Apparently, a lot of kids in the UK don’t like to eat vegetables. In response, food researchers in that country marketed a variety of exotic variations designed to appeal to their palate. The new dishes included chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn, and cheese-and-onionflavored cauliflower. I don’t recommend that you get quite so extreme in trying to broaden your own appeal, Cancerian. But see if you can at least reach out to your potential constituency with a new wrinkle or fresh twist. Be imaginative as you expand the range of what your colleagues and clientele have to choose from. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In speaking about the arduous quest to become one’s authentic self, writer Thomas Merton used the example of poets who aspire to be original but end up being imitative. “Many poets never succeed in being themselves,” he said. “They never get around to being the particular poet they are intended to be by God. They never become the person or artist who is called for by all of the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet. They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else’s experiences or write somebody else’s poems.” I happen to believe that this is a problem for non-poets, as well. Many of us never succeed in becoming ourselves. Luckily for you, Leo, in the coming weeks and months you will have an unprecedented chance to become more of who you really are. To expedite the process, work on dissolving any attraction you might have to acting like someone other than yourself. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): On numerous occasions, French acrobat Charles Blondin walked across a tightrope that spanned the gorge near Niagara Falls. His cable was three and a quarter inches in diameter, 1,100 feet long, and 160 feet above the Niagara River. Once he made the entire crossing by doing back flips and somersaults. Another time he carried a small stove on his back, stopped midway to cook an omelet, and ate the meal before finishing. Now would be an excellent time for you to carry out your personal equivalent of his feats, Virgo. What daring actions have you never tried before even though you’ve been sufficiently trained or educated to perform them well?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Ready for some subterranean journeys? They may not involve literal explorations of deep caverns and ancient tunnels and underground streams. You may not stumble upon lost treasure and forgotten artifacts and valuable ruins. But then again, you might. At the very least, you will encounter metaphorical versions of some of the above. What mysteries would you love to solve? What secrets would be fun to uncover? What shadows would you be excited to illuminate? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Why would you guzzle mind-clouding moonshine when you will eventually get a chance to sip a heart-reviving tonic? Why spoil your appetite by loading up on nonnutritious hors d’oeuvres when a healthy feast will be available sooner than you imagine? I advise you to suppress your compulsion for immediate gratification. It may seem impossible for you to summon such heroic patience, but I know you can. And in the long run, you’ll be happy if you do. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “You’ll always be my favorite what-if.” Many years ago, I heard that phrase whispered in my ear. It came from the mouth of a wonderful-but-impossible woman. We had just decided that it was not a good plan, as we had previously fantasized, to run away and get married at Angkor Wat in Cambodia and then spend the next decade being tour guides who led travelers on exotic getaways to the world’s sacred sites. “You’ll always be my favorite what-if” was a poignant but liberating moment. It allowed us to move on with our lives and pursue other dreams that were more realistic and productive. I invite you to consider triggering a liberation like that sometime soon. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’d love to see you increase the number of people, places, and experiences you love, as well as the wise intensity with which you love them. From an astrological perspective, now is an excellent time to upgrade your appreciation and adoration for the whole world and everything in it. To get you in the mood, I’ll call your attention to some unfamiliar forms of ardor you may want to pursue: eraunophilia, an attraction to thunder and lightning; cymophilia, a fascination with waves and waviness; chorophilia, a passion for dancing; asymmetrophilia, a zeal for asymmetrical things; sapiophilia, an erotic enchantment with intelligence. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You could go online and buy an antique Gothic throne or a psychedelic hippie couch to spruce up your living room. For your bathroom, you could get a Japanese “wonder toilet,” complete with a heated seat, automated bidet, and white noise generator. Here’s another good idea: You could build a sacred crazy altar in your bedroom where you will conduct rituals of playful liberation. Or how about this? Acquire a kit that enables you to create spontaneous poetry on your refrigerator door using tiny magnets with evocative words written on them. Can you think of other ideas to revitalize your home environment? It’s high time you did so. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Among America’s 50 states, Texas has the third-highest rate of teenage pregnancies. Uncoincidentally, sex education in Texas is steeped in ignorance. Most of its high schools offer no teaching about contraception other than to advise students to avoid sex. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you can’t afford to be as deprived of the truth as those kids. Even more than usual, you need accurate information that’s tailored to your precise needs, not fake news or ideological delusions or selfserving propaganda. Make sure you gather insight and wisdom from the very best sources. That’s how you’ll avoid behavior that’s irrelevant to your life goals. That’s how you’ll attract experiences that serve your highest good.
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