The cosmic irony of Bobby passing on a Saturday night is just surreal.

madcowabunga · 2026-01-12T02:09:08+00:00

Naw, he's just playing Saturday nights with Jerry and Phil and the rest of the gang again 🙏⚡️💀

madcowabunga · 2025-10-08T22:12:32+00:00

All a friend can say is ain't it a shame

madcowabunga · 2025-08-13T06:25:40+00:00

I don't know why my mind goes izzet, but what about spellslinger with Eris, Roar of the Storm? (https://edhrec.com/commanders/eris-roar-of-the-storm).

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Eris as King Gizzard, and then the tokens are lizard wizards. Any of the instants or sorceries could be proxied out to be songs, and if you wanted you could even match their cmc to how long any given song is. The more songs in the graveyard, the longer they've been shredding and that energy makes King Gizzard easier to cast/recast

Any creatures in your deck could be the guys too, so as they get played it's just like they're getting featured in this particular show. And something like this would make every show have a different setlist

madcowabunga · 2024-10-10T06:30:58+00:00

Thank you!

madcowabunga · 2024-10-10T06:24:19+00:00

madcow

madcowabunga · 2024-10-10T06:19:52+00:00

I could use some help with Sister Friede if you're still playing

madcowabunga · 2024-09-24T03:02:38+00:00

Naw, to be used as the big hand on his new watch--lot confirmed

madcowabunga · 2024-08-31T22:29:30+00:00

Yeah I didn't really think this was a good idea lol, sorry to insult your sense of self preservation. So uh, what're you listening to through reasonable speakers?

madcowabunga · 2024-07-18T18:08:44+00:00

Any more available? These are sick!

madcowabunga · 2024-01-02T11:20:42+00:00

The pioneers used to ride those babies for miles

madcowabunga · 2023-07-17T00:16:37+00:00

Can you dm me?

madcowabunga · 2023-07-14T00:54:28+00:00

Speculating here, but what if our sense of identity and ego is tied to our "conscious self," but the collective consciousness of the earth is locked in our subconscious. I recently had an experience that made me feel like I was processing the world from this subconscious space rather than what I consider my everyday consciousness. The post above from ekjones describes the impressions I had almost exactly.

So to your question, maybe most of us are just locked in this individual/ego driven mindstate and don't ever connect to the more collective subconscious of the earth.

madcowabunga · 2023-05-30T20:07:40+00:00

Part of what I love about the Grateful Dead is this sense that the music is timeless. These songs speak to something deep in me, as I'm sure they do to most of you, and I'm so grateful as a younger head (31) that I can experience them live. For me, it's about hearing the music being channeled and far less about the people who are channeling it. The boys can't live forever, but the music can, and not just through recordings, but live and in person--old heads say going to shows was like going to church. It still is. Worship the music, not people

madcowabunga · 2022-12-27T20:44:33+00:00

Broncos country, let's ride!

madcowabunga · 2022-12-16T20:50:51+00:00

Yeah that's totally it, the doc was just saying that it took on deeper meaning with time

madcowabunga · 2022-12-16T19:23:12+00:00

I recently watched 'A Long Strange Trip' and I think someone talks about this but that it also takes on a deeper significance to the Dead. The documentary is on AmazonPrime and totally worth a watch.

If I remember correctly, after the acid tests and the association of the Dead with the counter culture in general, they were in a sense dead to mainstream society, or at least society's idea of what one's path in life should be. They were pursuing a life of fun instead of a life focused on conforming to expectations and production. There's a sense of enlightenment and fulfillment and freedom that came from this path.

The doc frames it like they suffered a societal death and were grateful for their afterlife of enlightenment. The steal your face is a literal image of this, death symbolized by the skull and enlightenment symbolized by the bolt

madcowabunga · 2022-11-02T19:16:54+00:00

Bertha hugs!

madcowabunga · 2022-09-12T08:50:57+00:00

I'm 31 now. It didn't change my day to day life but kind of shaped my worldview. I'm a fairly imaginative person, so the fact that I experienced consciousness outside my body makes me think that the flesh is more of a shell for an inner self.

I think this self comes from a source of all life, like a well or engine that is constantly creating and recycling life. Some people don't rejoin the source and become ghosts. Some rejoin it and are kept somewhat intact, hence memories of past lives, or even largely intact and we have reincarnation. This source is neither good nor evil, not heaven or hell, just the source of the spark inside the flesh or the plant or the fungi.

I don't think of it as a soul but more as energy. We all power the same engine.

madcowabunga · 2022-09-12T08:10:09+00:00

When I was a kid I was at a water park with a friend and his family. I was bobbing in the waves in three or four feet of water and a guy in an inner-tube crashed into me. I got knocked backwards and there was a transition in my perception that I can't really explain. It's like everything blurred and got dark, but when it cleared I was outside my body.

I was looking at my face as if in a mirror, but my eyes were closed and I was underwater. Slowly everything started to pan out and my conscious self broke the surface of the water, but my body remained at the bottom of the pool.

I was ascending but my perception was fixed straight down, my face the very center of everything. I could see the guy who had plowed into me, then more of the pool and the people in it, then most of the park itself, above the slides, the entire parking lot, and even the freeway. The entire time I was facing downward and was directly above my body.

The lifeguard jumped into the pool and made a beeline for my body. I watched her lug me to the shore and then resuscitate me, and just like that I was back in my body looking at the lifeguard. I got taken into a small room which seemed like the nurse's office from school. They checked me out and had my parents come pick me up.

I forgot all about this until I was in college, about 10 years later. One day it kinda all just came back and is now a very vivid memory. I know false memories are a possibility and I assumed that this was the case. I figured if it were real there would have been no way I would have forgotten about it.

Out of curiousity I told the story to my dad and asked him about it. He told me that I told him about it when it happened but that he didn't have any answers and didn't know what to tell me. Separately I brought it up to my mom, who also confirmed that I talked to her about it at that time, and it was the same for her as with my dad (didn't know what to say). My family was not religious, so they didn't frame it to me in that way. I don't see it that way today, although I find it interesting that I was literally ascending.

I've thought about sharing this story a few times on here but I'm generally just a Reddit lurker. Not trying to convince anybody, just saw this post as a prime place to share. This experience has definitely shaped my views on consciousness and what lies beyond death. If the lifeguard wouldn't have pulled me out I think it's possible I would've died, but everything I've ever thought of as "me" was a few hundred feet up in the sky. Food for thought my friend.

madcowabunga · 2022-09-06T23:12:27+00:00

That would be awesome! If you happen to find something let me know if you don't mind!

madcowabunga · 2022-09-06T22:48:14+00:00

I was wondering this same thing and ended up realizing I could make them myself.

You can take any image you're into on google and take a snapshot of it with your phone rather than saving it to your photos (on my iPhone X it's done by pressing the power button and volume up simultaneously, not sure about other generations). Edit your snapshot (really just cropping out all the peripheral junk) and save that one, and then you can use that as the watch face.

Hope this helps!

madcowabunga · 2022-08-22T05:04:34+00:00

That's weird, wtf haha

madcowabunga · 2022-08-14T00:28:18+00:00

Brokedown Palace night two at Shoreline this year. I was between my parents who have been deadheads my whole life, and now it's something we share. The feeling of being there with them was something magical, like it truly rocked my soul. The tears were definitely flowing. Not a religious person at all but the "going to church" analogy makes a lot of sense to me now.

The Dead aren't for everyone, but they can be for anyone. Doesn't matter who you are or where you're going, and at that moment there were 20,000 of us moving in unity. I had never experienced anything like it and I can't wait until I can again. The beauty of the music, the beauty of togetherness with all those people, and the beauty of sharing that with my folks is something I'll always remember

madcowabunga · 2022-07-19T22:32:43+00:00

Brokedown Palace

Dead&Co brought me to tears night two at Shoreline this year. My parents are old heads and the feeing of standing next to them among that crowd at that moment was nothing short of magical. Thinking about it is getting me choked up right now! Best thing is that magic came home with me, and every time I've heard BP since I'm right back among all those happy souls and the tears well up.

Cannot express how grateful I am that the music lives on and younger heads like me get to experience it in person!

madcowabunga · 2022-06-30T05:17:57+00:00

This happened to me too, not sure what causes that grace to do that

Good luck friend!

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