A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020)
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Re: A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020)
#2Mushrooms are fascinating. Can't blame this guy for digging them. Did you know that mushrooms (fungi to be precise) are not a plant and are not an animal? They are so special that they have their own biological kingdom. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus)
Re: A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020)
#3Mushrooms are fascinating. Can't blame this guy for digging them. Did you know that mushrooms (fungi to be precise) are not a plant and are not an animal? They are so special that they have their own biological kingdom. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus )
did you know water is wet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water
Re: A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020)
#4Mushrooms are fascinating. Can't blame this guy for digging them. Did you know that mushrooms (fungi to be precise) are not a plant and are not an animal? They are so special that they have their own biological kingdom. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus )
Not just that but they are genetically closer to animals than to plants.
Re: A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020)
#5Mushrooms are fascinating. Can't blame this guy for digging them. Did you know that mushrooms (fungi to be precise) are not a plant and are not an animal? They are so special that they have their own biological kingdom. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus )
did you know water is wet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water
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#6Mushrooms are fascinating. Can't blame this guy for digging them. Did you know that mushrooms (fungi to be precise) are not a plant and are not an animal? They are so special that they have their own biological kingdom. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus )
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Re: A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020)
#7The authors were on Mushroom Revival Podcast recently: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mushroom-revival-podca...
Re: A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020)
#8So far no comments upon the artist/composer J.Cage interesting and intellectual, perhaps soon to be lost to time. Is he the American analog to Joseph Beuys or maybe the American zeitgeist makes them incomparable?
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#9So far no comments upon the artist/composer J.Cage interesting and intellectual, perhaps soon to be lost to time. Is he the American analog to Joseph Beuys or maybe the American zeitgeist makes them incomparable?
Honestly, I think he is kind of a fraud musically.
Re: A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020)
#10This article did not address whether he ever took magic mushrooms. I was hoping to find out!