Along with everyone else, my heart was warmed last week to learn that they’d found that teenager alive, the girl who was attempting to sail around the world---but, now that the buzz of her survival has worn off, one has to wonder just what the fuck was going on there. The rescue effort wound up costing Australia & France close to $1 million, which is actually less then what has been spent on rescuing similar adventurers in the past, and if you were a taxpayer in one of those countries, would you be okay with your money being spent in that way? I mean, ethics say you must try to help a fellow human in distress, no matter how fuck-tarded they (or their parents) might be, but perhaps there’s a way to regulate such ambitious journeys, like forcing people who embark on these “voyages” to have a vessel tail them at a distance in case of an emergency. If, as it’s been reported, the family of this chick winds up scoring a reality series behind this, they better donate the paycheck to those nation’s who saved her sorry ass. Ahem. Progenitors of the so-called “acid folk” sound, Spirogyra named themselves after a type of green algae, which is very ‘60s I guess; more importantly, their pensive acoustic tales really move me, conjuring up visions from the days of old, the way all good folk music should.
