Fate Music

Category: Europe

  • Circular on Mickey Hart and Rolling Thunder

    “Mickey Hart: Off the Road and Into His Head,” Circular 4, 36 (September 11, 1972), 2 pp. Warner Brothers pimped Mickey Hart’s Rolling Thunder (BS 2635) in its “weekly news device” Circular for its September 1972 release. As I found with an earlier edition of Circular (“Keith. And, Modernity”), this one holds various pieces of…

  • Best no. 47 (June 1972)

  • GD Europe ’74

    Just wanted to give a shout out to “Cliff Hucker” for ploughing through the GD’s Europe ’74 tour and reporting back. I seem to recall always feeling that these shows had a weird, dark vibe to them, even before reading Rock and Dennis and Phil and Blair and all the rest, who confirm that. Anyway,…

  • GD: 1970 “Caravan of Love” tour

    Found this fascinating little tidbit (1) that evokes a number of things worth mentioning: The Grateful Dead are traveling eastward across the country on their Caravan of Love, en route to an Aug. 25th appearance at the Isle of Wight Music Festival. The Dead would like to liven up the Washington area with a free…

  • “Belgium”

    Always struck me as a fictional place, especially after having lived in Brussels for a year. Ingrid Robeyns has a great analysis.

  • Parlez-vous EU?

    This here is some classic EU-speak. Still, it’s amazing and imporant to see ridiculous, artificially-precise and seemingly legalized procedural arcania representing the presumptive response to disagreement — as opposed to, oh, I dunno, war. In addition, until 31 March 2017, if members of the Council representing at least 75% of the population or at least…

  • Right On, Francis

    The EU’s attempt to transcend sovereignty and traditional power politics by establishing a transnational rule of law is much more in line with a “post-historical” world than the Americans’ continuing belief in God, national sovereignty, and their military. So saith Francis Fukuyama. HT: Sully.

  • Europe: Successes and Limitations

    Moravcsik has a piece in Newsweek International which I have only skimmed but which, on that basis, I largely agree with. The Europe of 2007 reflects a truly remarkable set of achievements which my Tata Madeleine (nee 1909) would never have considered possible. Let’s not let its pathologies, complexities, etc. obscure this from view. Drezner…