As someone who has a lymphatic system riddled with lipomas, I've naturally looked to established medical solutions, as well as answers from the alternative medicine dimensions, in order to find a way to dissolve the ever-expanding network of adipose build-up blocking up my stagnant lymphatic system. It's been a long, nearly two-decade-long journey of medical self-discovery and the current AI boom has infused me with new hope for furthering our understanding of this benign, but persistent fat-cell-fueled tumor formation medical anomaly. 

I've taken it upon myself to amplify my own understanding of the lymphatic system with the help of AI. Scouring the medical literature with AI can put an emphatic spin on the sentiment of Operation Warp Speed and the entire field of medicine can enter into a state of warp speed. As ChatGPT itself has pointed out when asked to provide a metaphor for how much faster AI can read through reams of medical literature than Doctors: "Accelerated Time-lapse: AI consumes medical literature like an accelerated time-lapse video, condensing hours, days, or weeks of human effort into mere seconds of analysis and comprehension." Used in this way, I believe entire fields will have exponential breakthroughs in the oncoming years. Google's recent use of AI in crystal research and discovery is a paragon for how machine learning can rapidly accelerate our exploration and understanding of complex materials at the atomic level.

​That being said, below is my attempt at a medical dialogue focusing on lipomas and the human lymphatic sysyem with ChatGPT.

The above video is my experimental audio-visual attempt at trying to recreate a yagé-induced POV, which is powered by a raw ceremonial jungle recording of the Andean magician-musician, Chucho Salas, that I somehow, almost inexplicably, managed to capture in the Putumayo while deep in a Kofan-yagé-generated 'chuma.' Please enjoy the experimental Kofan ceremonial audio-visual music with bilingual lyrics in Spanish and English.

The Masterworks Chorus at St. Paul's have been rehearsing Beethoven's Missa Solemnis since mid-March. This significant date was chosen as a two hundred year anniversary since the work first debuted in April 1824. Interestingly, Missa Solemnis was debuted just a month before his immortal Ninth Symphony, legendary back-to-back musical debuts!

This sacred orchestral choral music is considered to be among the most difficult pieces of choral music ever composed, and after months of practicing Misa Solemnis, I now understand why Beethoven was considered to be a visionary musical madman decades ahead of his time. Fugues and double fugues abound in this work, so if you find yourself within a 50 mile radius of Westfield, NJ, I gently urge you to consider tasting the celestial in orchestral musical form. We'll be performing 'Missa Solemnis' at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Westfield, NJ this Sunday, May 19 at 5PM. This is a small, intimate venue and tickets are expected to sell out. I'm providing a video of last year's performance in which we sang Dvořák's Stabat Mater.

"Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate." - Leonhard Euler

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again." - Carl F. Gauss

Prompt: Generate holographic representations of Euler and Gauss and download the latest developments of mathematical knowledge into their holographic consciousness. Now, have these super intelligences discuss their updated understanding of number theory and extrapolate insight in the form of profound dialogue within the fields of mathematics, philosophy and the mystery of nature itself.

The number 430 holds intriguing significance in the dream-infused world of Mark Frost's and David Lynch's Twin Peaks. 4/30 is also the birthday of one of the greatest mathematicians to have ever lived, Carl Friedrich Gauss. So in honor of these all-time greats (full disclosure: I consider Lynch and Twin Peaks to be my favorite director and show, respectively; while, in concentric mathematical circles, Gauss is often mentioned to be among the greatest mathematicians to have ever lived (right up there with Archimedes, Euler and Cantor)) we're going to explore the significance of the number 430 on 4/30 using the dizzying analytical powers of OpenAI's ChatGPT LLM. If you've got access to a seat belt, I suggest you make use of it, and strap yourself in as we enter into the enigmatic fraying fringes of Gaussian and Lynchian dimensions.

An interesting sculpture exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art last April entitled Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color featured seventeen vibrantly painted Greek and Roman classical sculptures which were reconstructed by Prof. Dr. V. Brinkmann and Dr. U. Koch-Brinkmann. As you may or may not know, ancient Greek and Roman marble sculptures were  painted originally. Light, time and the elements eventually wash off the original pigments and only the carved, naked stone remains.

The Brinkmanns' illuminating work spans over four decades and involves a wide array of orthodox and innovative techniques of material analysis applied to the field of ancient polychromy studies. Some of the techniques used for the reconstruction of these painted sculptures included familiar techniques such as 3D imaging, multispectral photography and X-ray diffraction. However, fascinatingly, the work also necessitated the development of novel scientific methods such asultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy, which is a way to measure the amount of discrete wavelengths of UV or visible light that are absorbed by or transmitted through a sample in comparison to a reference or blank sample.

The River Arts District (RAD) along the French Broad River in West Asheville boasts over 200 artists' studios sprawled out over twenty-two warehouses and buildings. It's also home to the Foundy Street Skate Park, where local skaters go to refine their buttery boardsliding skills and kickflips. Novices and experts alike gather to share seasoned knowledge, trick tips and technical skills. It's my favorite pocket of Asheville.

It's Pi Day, so allow me to introduce you to Elfik Pizza. Elfik Pizza is a staple, wood-fired pop-up Italian pizzeria that has been pounding, tossing and firing up dough since the early days at Boom. A personal favorite pizza place of mine. This team of pizza-making elves have been dishing out psytrance-flavored pizza pies topped with copious amounts of fresh arugula at every Boom I've been to. They're usually located both at the food plaza, as well as the ultimate location: right smack in front of the Dance Temple's entrancingly epic entrance (talk about prime festival real estate). In fact, considering they also somehow sell decent gluten-free vegan pizzas (so I've heard, but refuse to understand), it's hard to imagine a Boomer who has not had an end-of-the-night personal Elfik Pizza pie with mushrooms or black olives and topped with a bunch of fresh, vividly green arugula, of course.