Category: StudioB Podcast (Page 5 of 26)

I hosted River City Limits on Richmond’s independent radio station WRIR on Saturday night. It features artists from in and around RVA. Here’s a playlist of the the songs and artists played who have a presence on Spotify -plus a few more that I had planned to play but ran out of time for. There are a few who are not on Spotify and are not included here. Check the WRIR logo below for the full playlist. See who else was on the show and go and support them too.

FULL ARTICLE: 4 Signs You’re Culturally Appropriating Buddhism

This is a really interesting article.  It makes some great points, but it also seems to be taking the signs, tokens, symbols, and cairns of spiritual practice too literally.  I cringe when I see yin yang symbols on word burnings at Target and on cocktail sets at Crate and Barrel, and cultural appropriation always sucks. But if you take Buddhist teachings at their word, non-attachment and impermanence would dictate that the symbols of Buddhism, “religious” or not, should be seen as just that, symbols. And symbols are subject to non-attachment and impermanence. They’re just physical-worldly markers.. reminders. And as such, any inappropriate or purely aesthetic appropriation only amplifies the distance the user has yet to travel on their path to enlightenment, whether they consider themselves on that path or not. Which would thereby make the appropriation itself useful as a teaching tool – which is actually the intended purpose of the symbol/marker/lesson in the first place and brings us full-circle, to this article. Two steps forward, one step back as a practically newborn species on the timeline of spiritual, intellectual and physical evolution.  Thanks to Rachel Douglas of The Innerwork Center in Richmond, Va. for sharing this article.  It got me thinking, and reflecting, and meditating.  Which is good.  Oh, and for obvious reasons, it was an intentional choice not to provide an image to accompany this post.  What’s one less symbol?

Alice and The Reverie and the Prabir Trio play live at Orbital Music Park.  This was a last-minute shift so we threw together a StudioB Live episode, played live, chatted, hung out and had some fun.

ALICE AND THE REVERIE – Midnight Hour
-The Way We Go
https://aliceandthereverie.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-we-go
Miriam Martin
Evan Surmaj
Casey Sanders
Nate Griffin
Scott Milstead

ALICE AND THE REVERIE – The Way We Go (Live)
-The Way We Go

ALICE AND THE REVERIE –Awakening (Live)
-The Way We Go

Alice and The Reverie Events
New York Deli May 26
https://www.facebook.com/events/395391417712796/

Dark Room (The Hof) May 31 with The Prabir Trio and The Wimps
https://www.facebook.com/events/381853815997629/

PRABIR TRIO – That’s How We Built America (Live)
-Prabir and Kelli Strawbridge

PRABIR TRIO – Bamboo
-single
released March 13, 2019
Song by Prabir Mehta
Guitar/Vocal – Prabir Mehta
Drums – Kelli Strawbridge
Bass – Russell Lacy
Recorded by Russell Lacy and mixed by Bryan Walthall
https://prabir.bandcamp.com/track/bamboo

Prabir Trio Events
Dark Room (The Hof) May 31 with Alice and The Reverie and The Wimps
https://www.facebook.com/events/38185381599762

THE WIMPS – Big Love
-Reel Whirl
https://thewimpsrva.bandcamp.com/album/reel-whirl
The Wimps: https://www.facebook.com/TheWimpsRVA/

Todya’s StudioB/RVA features new music from Benjamin Shepherd, Ohbliv and Brother Rutherford.  Also music from Tennishu, Greg Garner at BlueGoo Studios, Appalling and Inter Arma.

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