The Creatively Maladjusted: Just found a beautiful writeup on this by someone with similar medical issues: karriehiggins.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/p...

OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?

Reminds me of how almost all the French dadaists and surrealists were WWI veterans of the trenches seriously exploring alternatives to conventional thought and language.

Prince obviously took inspiration from Jimi Hendrix and James Brown, but one of his favorite musicians was Joni Mitchell.

And his cane was not an affecation. He was disabled.

Just found a beautiful writeup on this by someone with similar medical issues: karriehiggins.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/p...

Prince and the Sparkle Brains (cw: disability, ableism, sexual abuse)karriehiggins.wordpress.com The day Prince died, I was walking to the audiologist office to pick out hearing aids, Purple Rain playing on my purple iPod, my lipstick-red walking cane tapping its drumbeat on the sidewalk, vibrati...

@acidlich.bsky.social I suspect you can relate - it's about growing up with epilepsy

...oh snap, I know that person. Karrie is one of the coolest people I've met on social media.

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