Ghost Carrot Records

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Ghost Carrot Records

Ghost Carrot Records is a D.I.Y. record label, music, art and booking collective currently residing in Missoula, MT. The folks at Ghost Carrot also organize Missoula Psych Fest and Ghost Carrot Records Music And Arts Festival. Check out a taste of all the great acts Ghost Carrot Records has to offer below:

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Joshua Bacha

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Joshua Bacha

Joshua Bacha is a multimedia visual artist and musician originally from York, Pennsylvania and currently residing in Missoula, Montana. He has been practicing his art consistently since 2016. His interest in creatures, vibrant colors, abstract and surrealist art movements permeate his work. Constantly in a state of trying to discover ways to show new perspectives, dimensions and textures, his art is an evolving, diverse, and colorful universe. He's the founder of Ghost Carrot Records Music And Art Collective, organizes and books Missoula Psych Fest and Ghost Carrot Records Music And Arts Festival. He plays with the bands Charcoal Squids, Tomb Toad, and Tiny Plastic Stars. He can also design tattoos, advertisements, posters, murals, and anything your sweet noggin can dream up. 

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Bones and Paintings

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Bones and Paintings

Abigail Rausch hails from Helena, Montana, but currently resides in Missoula. She has lived in a variety of other places like Billings, San Rafael CA, Washington D.C., and Milan, Italy. Her interests include collecting bones, bird watching, antique rugs, perusing thrift stores, scrolling aimlessly through twitter, politicking, and Coors Banquet. Much of her paintings focus on birds, while other creations are made from found items and bones. She has two gold teeth, a skull collection, and enjoys podcasts, crossword puzzles, and the color yellow. Check out her first Waste Division feature below, and be on the lookout here for all of the latest creations from this uniquely talented artist. 

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Jax Dav Arts

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Jax Dav Arts

Jaxson Davis Jaxson is a lowbrow artist born in Billings, Montana. He likes to draw creatures in vintage clothes, anthropomorphic animals, and macabre creeps. Jax's art career blossomed in late 2016 when he chose to draw a banana with a leather jacket known as The Bad Banana. Since then, he has drawn over 200 original illustrations and has created over 100 original characters.

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Billings Art Brew

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There are some amazing artists and stories in Billings, MT and we think they need to be shared and celebrated. The good, the bad, the difficult all help us in our creation of beauty. Waste Division is happy to officially announce the addition of Billings Art Brew to our ranks! Join the talented Matt Blakeslee and Parker Brown as they traverse the landscape of Billings in hopes of shedding light on the diverse array of artists the city has to offer. Check out all the great stories they've compiled, and be on the lookout for more great episodes here in the Waste Lands!

Furlough in 'Nam

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Furlough in 'Nam

I know that the decision to visit Vietnam came some months before the event actually transpired in the middle of November 2017, so I'd date it around July if I was a gambling man, however, I'm a terrible gambler and I don't give a shit about the truth so the actual date doesn't matter. The events surrounding the situation, on the other hand, are worth relating: like any good decision, it was the result of beer and benevolent camaraderie.

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Julia-Louis Dreyfest 2018: Promo #1

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Here's the first promo video of the season for Julia Louis-Dreyfest 2018! Don't forget to get your submissions in by May 1st to be a part of the fun this August in downtown Billings, Montana! We are looking for musicians, comedians, poets, visual artists, and craftspeople! Before submitting, you should know a couple things about the fest:

1). Set times are 30 minutes for bands, with 5 minutes MAX for setup and tear down. Comedians and poets will receive information about their performance arrangements closer to the festival. Visual art is displayed in a variety of ways at the different venues depending on the type of art. Craftspeople will set up at this year's new event, the Dreyfest Bazaar-B-Que.

2). Traveling acts will receive at least $50 for gas and expenses (we will pay more as the budget permits). You will also have the opportunity to sell your merchandise. Julia Louis-Dreyfest is entirely not-for-profit, so local acts play for free to support the fest and venues provide their services free of charge. We realize that $50 is not truly enough to travel this far out of the way, but we also put a big emphasis on this being a really cool community event and would be stoked to have you as a part of it!

UPDATE: Submissions for all but craftspeople are closed. Please hit us up next year!

Looking to volunteer your time and labor? Please contact us!

Video by Mary Kate Teske. 

Waste Books- "Dune" (Part One) by Frank Herbert

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Join the adventure as Cooper, Jordan, Phil, Dan, and Eric tackle the first half of Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece Dune.

Also available on iTunes!

Overview

Ten years after Lord of the Rings, twelve years before Star Wars, and nineteen years before David Lynch’s godawful film adaptation, Dune holds true as perhaps the greatest science fiction epic of all time. Frank Herbert’s masterwork of a novel (and five sequels) realizes through the mythos and mystique of the planet Arrakis (a.k.a. Dune) the fertile intersection of ecological, colonialist, feminist, Marxist, religious, and philosophical debates compacted in this prophetic, addictive, and somehow familiar journey through the most unfamiliar of worlds. Dune is heavy without pretension, enjoyable without ease, and immersive without the escapism that cheap science-fiction promises: fantasy without the reminders of why we choose to look elsewhere for answers.

The journey that readers and the characters themselves take on this hostile planet begins with Herbert’s hero Paul Atreides being initiated into the rites of a secret order as the reader too is sucked into a world full of intrigue, subterfuge, and tightly packed action. Be warned though that the initial chapters demand patience: Herbert projects a Tolkienesque universe of history and language, elaborately detailed in the work’s four-part appendix, planetary map, and the book’s “Terminology of the Imperium” referencing hundreds of words and phrases. But the payoff is certain – it’s the world’s best-selling science fiction novel (so it can’t be that difficult) and winner of science-fiction’s two most important awards: the Hugo and Nebula. Cartography and encyclopedias aside, the minutia isn’t essential to fully experiencing Dune’s full effect. The novel holds up not just in its political ponderings but magnificently as a riveting tale established in the tradition of the adventuring hero we’re all too blissfully drawn to.

Although Herbert stuffs the text with abstruse references to Islam, cybernetics, and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire the novel is undeniably excellent and thought-provoking. For true fans of science-fiction give it a reread. For those interested in delving into the realm of science-fiction look no further for your opportune introduction. And for those just wanting a classic page-turner of a story, you’ll get that and so much more: the likes of intergalactic war, taut characterization and suspense, and a grandiose setting that replicates the cinematic visions that made the space-opera possible. Did I mention it has thousand-foot sandworms?

-Jordan Finn

Show Notes

This episode covers exactly the first half of Dune in terms of pages in the narrative section (i.e., excluding the Glossary). In other words, we read through page 235 in the 40th Anniversary Edition of the book. In other other words, we read up to the chapter that begins with the epigraph "At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence." Is that clear as mud??

Music for this episode provided by Brooklyn punks Idaho Green, with their new track "Rancher Bones."

Produced by Phillip Griffin.

 

Next episode we'll be finishing our discussion on Dune! To catch up on the rest of our episodes and delve into some more great books click here.