I recently came across a book called A Year Without ‘Made In China’ about a guy who spent a year without using any products made in China. It’s over 500 pages of photographs and every photograph is of the guy naked in an empty room, furiously masturbating. It’s really moving stuff. Fucking globalization is crazy, man!
…you said it’s over 500 pages …wow, that’s very desperately ‘not-using-any-products-made-in-china’. *hope this guy found what he is looking for…….
Last night I had a dream I’d written some kind of super popular self-help book called How To Have a Crush on Your Wife.
…this could be the first part of a trilogy ..the second book, could be: ‘How To Kill The Husband of That Wife I Have A Crush On’, the third, is more with helpful tips: How To Find A Perfect Alibi / incl. special sections: How To Get Rid of A Dead Body / Telephone Numbers Of Payable Lawyers / How To Survive A Life Long Sentence In Prison Without Get Raped
Last night some of the people at this wedding thing were not dancing hard enough so I fucking danced enough for everyone and then I pulled everyone into the mix and made them dance. I went up to people I didn’t know and said you’re not dancing, what did your invitation say, mine said CELEBRATE. I…
great! let’s get it started: create today & print tomorrow, your business card…and involve in your ‘Entertainment’ description: open for any kind of occasions. *you could do BarMitzvahs, too #justsaying
The view from my hotel room is just some guy’s penis.
You look out the window and boom there’s a dude’s penis, plus the sound of lots of cars honking.
as long…*giggle* it’s not your penis [oops, i said penis]…all shall be fine. penis.
To counteract Steve Jobs worship
(via jusky)
true that….but, not for the people with multiple personality disorder.
Occupy Oakland: Iraq war veteran in critical condition after police clashes / guardian.co.uk (via rachelfershleiser)
This is truly atrocious. Scott Olsen, 23, served in Iraq twice with the Marines and is currently under sedation with a skull fracture and brain swelling after the Oakland police threw a tear gas canister at him. They threw a second as fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid.
(via thepoliticalnotebook)
The Ugandan Parliament will once again address a bill that would entail executing or imprisoning LGBT people in the country.
Earlier in the year, Parliament ultimately decided not to act on the bill because of the international uproar that resulted. However, it apparently wasn’t enough. From the Advocate:
Parliament Speaker Rebecca Kadaga said a committee will weigh whether to bring the bill to a full vote, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill was introduced by Ugandan lawmaker David Bahati in October 2009. The bill could mandate the death penalty or life in prison for people who are identified as gay, or caught engaging in homosexual acts.
This is terrifying. The rest of the world needs to step up NOW and say this is not okay.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
thetravelapprentice replied to your photo: A double rainbow is seen over central London on…
“Double rainbow, oh my god what does it mean?”
Interesting question, although I think you are seeking a superstitious answer. Anyone have a scientific answer as to why this happens?
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the sun. In a so-called “primary rainbow” (the lowest, and also normally the brightest rainbow) the arc of a rainbow shows red on the outer (or upper) part of the arc, and violet on the inner section. This rainbow is caused by light being refracted then reflected once in droplets of water. In a double rainbow, a second arc may be seen above and outside the primary arc, and has the order of its colours reversed (red faces inward toward the other rainbow, in both rainbows). This second rainbow is caused by light reflecting twice inside water droplets. The region between a double rainbow is dark, and is known as “Alexander’s band” or “Alexander’s dark band”. The reason for this dark band is that, while light below the primary rainbow comes from droplet reflection, and light above the upper (secondary) rainbow also comes from droplet reflection, there is no mechanism for the region between a double rainbow to show any light reflected from water drops. It is impossible for an observer to manoeuvre to see any rainbow from water droplets at any angle other than the customary one (which is 42 degrees from the direction opposite the Sun). Even if an observer sees another observer who seems “under” or “at the end” of a rainbow, the second observer will see a different rainbow further off-yet, at the same angle as seen by the first observer. Thus, a “rainbow” is not a physical object, and cannot be physically approached. A rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colours; the distinct bands (including the number of bands) are an artefact of human colour vision, and no banding of any type is seen in a black-and-white photo of a rainbow (only a smooth gradation of intensity to a maximum, then fading to a minimum at the other side of the arc). For colours seen by a normal human eye, the most commonly cited and remembered sequence, in English, is Newton’s sevenfold red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet (popularly memorized by mnemonics like Roy G. Biv). However, colour-blind persons will see fewer colours. Rainbows can be caused by many forms of airborne water. These include not only rain, but also mist, spray, and airborne dew.
- Occupy Wall Street is probably not an American citizen and cannot produce a birth certificate. We don’t know, ask Rick Perry.
- Occupy Wall Street wants to help prostitutes and their pimps.
- Occupy Wall Street loves to have abortions.
- Occupy Wall Street performs abortions.
- Occupy Wall…
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in my Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
Throwing Muses, “Pearl” (Red Heaven)
What seems like ages ago, I posted the rating scale I use for the Jukebox, Popdust (halved; they rank out of 5, not 10) and elsewhere. [10] is perfect, of course; more specifically, “I already like the work as much as I am capable of liking something.”
In practice, this gets fudged (for me, not for the writer I jacked this description from, who genuinely has only given out about five [10]s). Maybe I’m lazy. Maybe I like the things I like too much, or become instantly infatuated. But it’s been years since I heard “Pearl” for the first time, and it’s still one of the few pieces of recording music that’s absolutely perfect.
“Pearl” is from Red Heaven, which — to understate it — isn’t most people’s favorite Muses album. A lot of this, I feel, is because it’s the first album recorded without Tanya Donelly. More charitably, though, a lot of this is because Red Heaven is tonally consistent to a fault — the (possibly overly) distinctive processing, for instance; just as you can tell the Hunkpapa songs just by how the drums sound, there’s a lot of shine here — but not otherwise. It has highs and lows. This is a high.
More specifically, every part of “Pearl” is a high. It opens with a graceful curtsy of an acoustic guitar that feints right when you’ve accepted that it won’t, picks through the opening verses just overlong enough to ratchet up the tension, then barrels through a faster, half-instrumental section that compresses about five character arcs and mood swerves into a minute or so. It never feels anything but controlled — Narcizo’s drumming is laser-precise throughout, which helps a lot — but it’s still exciting even when you know which turns happen when. Every note feels accurate; there’s no other way to explain. Then it recedes again; judging by endpoints alone, nothing changed from start to finish.
There’s more I could mention: how Kristin’s voice doesn’t pick up reverb until the bridge, and even then it doesn’t bolster her sound above the sentiment in “you use your fire to be stronger than me.” How “you have a back like Marie” here is delivered as the most cutting thing one could possibly be told, even when you don’t know what context Hersh meant (she has mentioned who Marie was before at least one performance of this; it only sorta explained the line.) How good a line “and you use your sweating to keep me damp is” (I think that’s the line, at least); how eerie “I write on your wall / I have no [mind/heart/eyes] at all” is, despite or more so because of Zuck co-opting the meaning. How everything’s defiant and resigned at once.
Extra credit: The live performance, part of Kristin’s Shady Circle series a few years back, that made this my favorite song by her and somewhere in my top five by anyone.
Show’s in four hours.
Artist: Harry Nilsson
Track: Without You
Album: Nilsson Schmilsson
Year: 1971
