"Bill Hicks is in the ground folks," said Jones on his radio show in 2014.
So yes, the crazies are in full-force, and there are grounded folk there too.
And her band, featuring members of Pedro the Lion , Iron &Wine and Sufjan Stevens's coterie, backs her with a soft-featured but grounded folk-rock, each part in its place.
One of his followers, Goliath Rick Polii), tries to help things along by killing above-ground folks (for their souls), while another, a boy (Sebastian Montoya), goes looking for — oh, who cares?
But you blink, and twenty years go by... Savor every grounder, folks.
Also appearing during this period were works such as "Hapkangchŏng ga" ("Song of Hapkang Arbor") and "Kŏch'ang ka" ("Song of Koch'ang"), which occupied a middle ground between folk song and kasa and featured rebellious, antagonistic content.
I first met Mad Mike the Hippie Bum at the turn of the millennium in New Orleans's French Quarter, where he could often be found sitting on the ground playing folk songs featuring lyrics like "What would you do if little gnomes came and ate your poop at night?" (The goal was to get tourists to stop, listen, laugh, and ultimately donate).
The buzz: "Everything is looking good for September Girls so get in on the ground floor, folks".
In the early years of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Mikhail Fokine's ballets offered European audiences intoxicating visions, from grounded Russian folk tales to wild eastern dreams.
