February 2012
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State of the Counterculture
Now that the hipster craze is in its overblown, self-referential death throes (and yes, you can tell it’s got about a year left because it’s reached cultural superpermeation, more on that later), I’d just like to point out that the people responsible for the whole thing are those who practically made a career of making fun of emo in the early 00s. Not to say emo wasn’t...
January 2012
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Headnoise
I think any philosophical Taoist knows that there’s really no such thing as a Taoist, so if we call ourselves that, it’s with an inward smirk. Am I a Taoist? It’s an easy thing to tell people who are asking you but don’t really care past the realm of semi-philosophical small talk (in which case I also add “humanist” and “absurdist”). But I...
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http://www.last.fm/music/The%20Flaming%20Tsunamis/_... →
Holy shit this song.
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WatchDecemberists - Down by the Water (acoustic cover).
Fucked up the chords way more than is acceptable for such a simple song. It just so happens, though, that I have no fucks left to give.
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December 2011
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The Day That Everyone Died
They said love like this, it could never exist That the world is full of pain and fear So I cannot explain how we woke up one day To find out paradise was right here
Nothing and no one can hurt us again We don’t have to be scared of the dark So we spent all day laughing and running around All the bodies piled up in the park
I’d never believe we could live in this dream How it seems...
November 2011
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Part of This Complete Breakfast
Something occurred to me today.
Remember the phrase that was used in every cereal commercial ever made? “Part of this complete breakfast”? I don’t know if it’s still used, I don’t watch enough TV, at least not shows that marketing people think cereal eaters watch. But you remember. The narrator would say it at the end of the commercial as the camera would cut to a...
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Ghosts of the Past →
Sergey Larenkov’s “Link to the Past” photo series combines photos from World War II with perspective-matching modern pictures of those same locales. The overall effect is haunting, sobering, and altogether beautiful.
I don’t use the word “breathtaking” lightly. There’s a big ol’ pit in my stomach after browsing these.
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Zack De La Rocha Posts Poem In Support of Occupy...
BY JOHNNY FIRECLOUD WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011
Rage Against the Machine and One Day As A Lion frontman Zack De La Rocha, never the softspoken type, has spoken out in support of the Occupy movement with a poem incendiary enough to hear the man’s spitfire delivery in your head as you read.
A committed political and social activis, Zack has been profoundly affected by the Occupy movement in...
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September 2011
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August 2011
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Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not →
findchaz:
An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since then, this little-known member of the European Union fell back...
Goth tips! No time to clean those dirty boots? Spray some tire shine on for a quick and easy fix. Try it on your hair! (i have no idea what that does, i just want someone to try it)
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"The Nice Guy’s Guide to Realizing You’re Not That...
[Broody note: This is an old favorite of mine that I like to spread around. I’m copying the entire text here because, if you’re anything like me, you’re too lazy to follow a link, but will gladly slog through a huge wall of text.]
There are any number of geek guys running around out there without the love and companionship that many people and all golden retrievers deserve....
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Response to certain criticisms of the London...
Copied text from a forum post I made a few hours ago.
I refuse to believe that even a majority of the mob is in this for mindless opportunism. Of course the whole situation is regrettable and completely stupid. The attacks are all wrong and make no sense, attacking local businesses instead of carefully picked political targets, but these things happen like forest fires, starting and spreading...
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“The virtues of the poor may be readily admitted, and are much to be regretted....”
– Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
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Superego interviews "H.R. Giger" →
Internet offerings of the day. Laugh with me, Jocko!
The moment I turned the knob, the door itself pulled me into the room, as if it had become impatient with me. A simple difference of ambient air pressure, but sufficient to take the mundane and say, “let there be life”.
July 2011
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