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"Pro-life Conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they..."

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:29:38 -0400

“Pro-life Conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you, they don’t want to hear about you, no nothing. No neonatal care, no daycare, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re pre-born, you’re fine. If you’re pre-school, you’re fucked.”

- George Carlin (via soupsoup and many others)

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Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:58:00 -0400

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somethingchanged: syntheticpubes:(via jacobd) This should be...

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:34:09 -0400

somethingchanged:

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This should be required reading for every incoming liberal arts major in every single class every single day. This problem isn’t exclusive to the fine arts. (see: creative writing, academia, et. al.)

Grant Morrison: Yeah! Because it’s the obvious, isn’t it? Again, this isn’t a mystical concept, because I’m not a mystical person sometimes. I got into magic to see if it was real. If someone says, “Ok, a demon will appear if you do this spell,” I just say, “Bullshit.” So, I did this spell, and then the demon appeared. So I had to revise my vision of what the world was and how it worked. Again, that’s another element of magic for me, trying to figure out, why do these things happen—what are we doing to our nervous systems to make us believe a demon has entered the room? It became to me about the actual “nuts and bolts” of it, not the fantastic thing or the mystic thing or the names of angels. I became interested in what’s actually going on.

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:42:27 -0400

Grant Morrison: Yeah! Because it’s the obvious, isn’t it? Again, this isn’t a mystical concept, because I’m not a mystical person sometimes. I got into magic to see if it was real. If someone says, “Ok, a demon will appear if you do this spell,” I just say, “Bullshit.” So, I did this spell, and then the demon appeared. So I had to revise my vision of what the world was and how it worked. Again, that’s another element of magic for me, trying to figure out, why do these things happen—what are we doing to our nervous systems to make us believe a demon has entered the room? It became to me about the actual “nuts and bolts” of it, not the fantastic thing or the mystic thing or the names of angels. I became interested in what’s actually going on.

Publisher's Weekly: But you tried it out, and a demon did appear?

Grant Morrison: Yeah!

Publisher's Weekly: Wow.

Grant Morrison: And it wasn’t anything like I expected a demon to be. It was a gravitational point that pulled everything in the room toward it. It really, actually, made you feel like you were sick. It wasn’t really like anything I believed a demon might be, but it had an actual effect.

Get Your War On: The Watch List - 236 - Video

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:54:51 -0400

Get Your War On: The Watch List - 236 - Video

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Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:25:44 -0400

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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:36:19 -0400

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already..."

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:39:24 -0400

“One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.”

- Frank Zappa (via somethingchanged)

Must Watch: Zack Snyder's Watchmen Trailer « FirstShowing.net

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:21:49 -0400

Must Watch: Zack Snyder's Watchmen Trailer « FirstShowing.net

“Touching a waitress’s chest is Not Okay. Pouring the...

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:55:27 -0400

“Touching a waitress’s chest is Not Okay. Pouring the coffee onto the floor instead of the cup is Not Okay. Drinking something I paid for the way I want to drink it — that’s more than Not Okay, it’s perfectly fucking fine.”

"I don’t think Osama bin Laden sent those planes to attack us because he hated our freedom. I think..."

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:29:28 -0400

“I don’t think Osama bin Laden sent those planes to attack us because he hated our freedom. I think he did it because of our support for Israel, our ties with the Saudi family and our military bases in Saudi Arabia. You know why I think that? Because that’s what he fucking said! Are we a nation of 6-year-olds? Answer: yes.”

- David Cross (via unalone) (via marco)

This Is Sand

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:27:50 -0400

This Is Sand: (via jstn via jakob)

"[Mamihlapinatapai] describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will..."

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:15:20 -0400

“[Mamihlapinatapai] describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as “eye-contact implying ‘after you…’”. A more literal approximation is “ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other”.”

- Mamihlapinatapai, a most succinct word.

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No 1 Electronics custom theremin, Adrian Utley, Portishead - eBay

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:55:00 -0400

No 1 Electronics custom theremin, Adrian Utley, Portishead - eBay :
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"I think playing live — especially now — is more important than it’s ever been because you..."

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:21:31 -0400

“I think playing live — especially now — is more important than it’s ever been because you can’t download a live show. All art is communication, and you just can’t get that off a computer. There’s just nothing like staring at the audience, or the audience staring you in the face. A lot of bands like to play with prerecorded tapes — that’s not our thing. It’s a roll of the dice every night playing live. I break it into thirds: One-third of our shows are absolutely amazing live, another third are OK and a third of them blow. There’s no way you can predict how that’s going to come out.”

- The Ventura County Star interviews King Buzzo

First Max Payne Movie Trailer Released

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:54:29 -0400

First Max Payne Movie Trailer Released: I’m holding my breath, but this [doesn’t look half bad.]

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Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:06:06 -0400

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Non-Avett recap

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:50:09 -0400

marco:

I didn’t get into the Avett Brothers’ concert… the line was a few hundred people long, and after a third of it entered, they stopped letting people in. I expected a little concert in a small park with maybe a hundred people.

Who would have guessed that a bluegrass banjo duo that nobody’s ever heard of would put on a free show in Manhattan (the bluegrass banjo capital of… nothing) on public property… and be completely booked and inaccessible to nearly everyone who showed up except the incredibly early people?

…

Know how every college generation finds that one band that’s relatively unknown, so the college kids think they’re being cool by knowing them and playing their songs constantly, then they explode 2 years later?

That’s how Dave Matthews started. For my generation (in college from 2000-2004), it was O.A.R. at first, then Dispatch. I think John Mayer happened next, and I have no idea who the current ones are because I’m not cool enough and nobody tells me anything.

There were a lot of young, cool people there tonight, enthusiastically waiting on line in the uncomfortable, humid summer heat for a chance to see The Avett Brothers. They’re the next one. Trust me.

I don’t mean to call you out, man, but… The crowd for the Avett Brothers is most certainly not the same type of crowd that lined up for OAR or Dispatch four years ago. Dave Matthews Band, OAR, and Dispatch spoke to the general ‘college populace’ in ways that the Avett Bros. probably can’t (or maybe choose not to?) do.

You have to represent a much larger demographic than the Avett Brothers do to bottle that kind of lightning. Dave Matthews did it by combining Phish with Hootie and the Blowfish, thereby locking in an audience gradient from the stoner to the mom listening to the top 40.

Young college students don’t flock around small, obtuse, angular acts. They flock around acts that speak clearly (avoiding the negative connotation of simply, here) and can, if need be, carry a party.

300 people waiting in line to see the Avett Brothers—in New York, no less—is not a cultural phenomenon. You’d probably see the same thing if it were any other small, culturally accredited act playing a completely free show.

I would imagine that the line would be just as long (or longer) at a free concert featuring similarly-sized acts like Justice, Dr. Dog, or the Dresden Dolls.

Then again, maybe I’m just undervaluing college students musical accuity.

Nope, nevermind, I can hear Rage Against the Machine playing next door.

Man Man “Doo Right” In A Black Cab (via...

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:24:00 -0400

Man Man “Doo Right” In A Black Cab

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Man Man is quickly rocketing to the top of my “heart chart.” I mean, if such a thing existed. Best live show I’ve seen in a while.

"I’m not doing it. I’m just not. I know I say the same thing every year, but this time I mean it — I..."

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:13:54 -0400

“I’m not doing it. I’m just not. I know I say the same thing every year, but this time I mean it — I am not playing it this year. Seriously, how many times can I possibly be expected to play that stupid song? I bet if you counted the number of times I’ve played it over the years, it probably adds up to, like, a jillion. I’m not even exaggerating. One jillion times. Well, not this year.
This year, I’m just going to say, “Sorry, folks, I’m only playing holiday songs tonight.” Yeah, that’s a good plan. That’s definitely what I’m going to do, and if they don’t like it, tough cookies. It’ll just be tough cookies for them.
But I know exactly what’ll happen. I’ll sit down, play a few holiday songs, and then some drunk jerk will yell out “‘Piano Man,’” and everybody will start clapping, and I’ll look like a real asshole if I don’t play it.
I wonder if they’ll have shrimp cocktail.”

- Michael Ian Black on the topic of What I Would Be Thinking If I Were Billy Joel Driving to a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Would Be a Piano (via about-today)