September 2011
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Watchinothernews:
scottfriday:apophatic:
Bobby McFerrin demonstrating the power of the pentatonic scale/fucking with your mind.
never gets old.
All together now.
MUSIC
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Abominable/A Bomb In a Bird
shitmystudentswrite:
Imagine a peacock gliding on a frozen lake. This is society. Now imagine that peacock swallows a bottle of nitroglycerin, this represents the effect of Darwinian evolution on society. …Genetic research may prove to be abominable, or like eugenics in society, a bomb in a bird.
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“They had been rehearsing for 3 months straight, 10 hours a day. That’s all they...”
– Butch Vig, in a two-hour long conversation with Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, and Jon Stewart (Dave Grohl: “That whole slacker generation thing totally didn’t apply to us musically. When we went to work on music, we were serious about it. We weren’t late. We showed up and tried hard. We wanted to...
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Stereobelt →
ninetyminutenationalism:
stereobelt was andreas pavel’s invention, the ancestor of the walkman and ipod.
“I was in the woods in St. Moritz, in the mountains, the snow was falling down, I pressed the button and suddenly we were floating,” he recalled. “It was an incredible feeling, to realize that I now had the means to multiply the aesthetic potential of any situation.”
philips, yamaha and...
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“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”
– Laurence Peter, professor of education, 1977 (via libraryland)
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“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via decaforhightest)
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“A few years ago I was having a hot-cocoa nightcap at a dessert shop in Pasadena,...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries
(He also told this story during his Q&A at the Kennedy Space Center, September 8, 2011)
This is fucking brilliant.
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“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter....”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Probably reblogged this before, don’t care. It should be the first line of the instruction manual for being born.
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anyone lived in a pretty ballsy town
shitmystudentswrite:
You need to have the guts to have balls to have the brains to think about doing something as revolutionary as writing without punctuations the way eecumins did. He was a man alright.
Ahahahahahaha
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“No…. no. I - it’s not funny to me, when people heckle I just think ‘that’s a...”
– Louis C.K., when asked “Do you have any funny stories about being heckled?”. (via ivormarlow)
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At Colleges, the Marketers Are Everywhere →
This fall, an estimated 10,000 American college students will be working on hundreds of campuses — for cash, swag, job experience or all three — marketing everything from Red Bull to Hewlett-Packard PCs.
Corporations have been pitching college students for decades on products from cars to credit cards. But what is happening on campuses today is without rival, in terms of commercializing...
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“For me, writer’s block isn’t so much, “Oh, nothing’s coming out.” It’s more...”
– Annie Clark, chatting about writer’s block with Amanda Petrusich at Pitchfork. Awesome people talking to one another! (via perpetua)
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Dear people of the world
missamerica-:
Stop using the word ‘literally’. I mean it.
Pretty soon it’s not going to mean ‘literally’ anymore.
Sincerely,
Lis
Word.
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I think I'm finally getting Louie
brainstatic:
Much like they say Miles Davis was brilliant for the notes he wasn’t playing, Louie is brilliant because it’s a sitcom that triggers every emotional response except laughter. Is that it?
It genuinely makes me laugh on top of those other emotional responses.
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