Got a great email yesterday: "Greg Spero here. I'm a nobody from Chicago, IL….my most recent project had some little hit of viral publicity and got 52,000 views over the past couple months…so people seem to dig it. Not sure if anything could come of this, but I wanted to see if you happen to like it. If you're interested in supporting me in some small way, I don't eat much and I can live out of a van for months at a time. I'm a huge fan of John Medeski by the way…rock on".  I did check it out and I did rock on - shit's dope.
 

Louis always sends me links that transcend basic bullshit.  Like this one on American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse. Next day he follows it up with top it off with some Dylan Crackers. Deep. 
 

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