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Maybe more the latter than the former, but in the end, does it really matter? The bottom line is, I am part of a very small cultural minority in my state, even tho I'm a straight, white cis male. So in the end, I feel just as outnumbered and alienated, as I would if I were black or queer. BTW, Iowa is 97% white, racially, to give you an idea of how much of a minority I am, culturally rather than racially.. and that's without even getting into politics, where I am a socialist in a solid red state... In case you're wondering why I've stayed here my whole life, it's because it's where all my friends are and have been my whole adult life, and I'm not interested in moving somewhere else where I don't know a soul. It's not easy to make a whole new set of friends, even after you're retired, in a new state... and the cost of living is low.. I'm a music and cultural snob, and proud of it!

BD, Are you really an outcast in Iowa? Or are you a . . .

BD, All I know about Art Garfunkel's association with Jimmy Webb is -- coincidentally -- his recording of Webb's song, All I Know, which appears on Garfunkel's first solo album Angel Clare. I had that album and also Garfunkel's second solo effort Breakaway. The cover on that album was a photo of Garfunkel sandwiched between actresses Helena Kallianiotes and Laurie Bird. Kallianiotes was also a belly dancer; she is immortalized in the famous diner scene in Five Easy Pieces. Bird was romantically involved with Garfunkel. In 1979 she committed suicide in his apartment. My favorite track on Angel Clare is Traveling Boy, penned by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols who also composed my favorite Three Dog Night song, Out in the Country. I don't know what Garfunkel's voice sounds like these days. I'll take your word for it that it has deteriorated. As did Marianne Faithfull's. One recording artist who probably doesn't suffer that problem is Tom Waits.

Thanks for posting this addendum..

I followed up One to One: John & Yoko by watching The Lost Weekend: A Love Story. For the benefit of the clueless: John and Yoko separated during 1973. Enter May Pang, who was their employee . . . and more. In this 2022 documentary, Pang vaingloriously "spills the tea" about how she became Lennon's side chick -- at the behest and command of Ono -- and enjoyed a whirlwind 18-month romance with John in El Lay. Poor Yoko Ono. Forever damned as the woman who "broke up The Beatles" . . . . . . her tarnished image is further sullied in TLWALS by the much younger Pang, who crafts Ono into a cool, calculating, inscrutable manipulator-cum-distaff pimp. The whole truth behind the odd, quasi-ménage à trois relationship of Lennon, Ono, and Pang is perhaps not to be found in TLWAS -- which is Pang's truth. Lennon is dead (45 years today) and Ono, it seems, remains mum about the documentary. But if it is anybody else's business -- and it isn't! -- nosy busybodies and insatiable Beatles fans will clamor, in the words of John Lennon: "All I want is the truth! Just gimme some truth!"

Sounds like one I would really enjoy watching, thanks for telling us about it. Some of the parts of it you mentioned, such as the news clips and videos, reminds me of the doc film Summer Of Love, about the Black Woodstock in Harlem during the same time period of this. What really struck me about that film, were the on the street news interviews with concert attendees, regarding news of the day, and how unfiltered and honest those were allowed to be, compared to our current new coverage of events, where it's all very controlled, corporate filtered, and no ordinary people would ever get allowed to speak freely and uncensored about politics and how they felt our government was doing things. Corporate censorship these days is much stricter than any govt. censorship has ever been in the US.