Three Star Smash

Eightfourseven - “Sleeping Dragons” Lesser known...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:56:00 -0500

Eightfourseven - “Sleeping Dragons”

Lesser known Sacramento band that takes a dose of inspiration from Deftones without falling asleep. Actually, it sounds a bit like Team Sleep with everything dimed.

Recommended for fans of My Vitriol, Year of the Rabbit/Ken Andrews, or that one electro-rock record that Bush made.

Dorky shit, but I was bored and I actually got a seriously good...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:38:24 -0500

Dorky shit, but I was bored and I actually got a seriously good roll:

Local H - “Hands on the Bible”
Cloudkicker - “Oh, god.”
Rival Schools - “Favorite Star”
The Evens - “If It’s Water”
2Pac - “California Love”
Circa Survive - “The Lottery”
Rage Against the Machine - “Beautiful World”
Modest Mouse - “Lives”

nevver: This is my favorite song

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:31:12 -0500

nevver:

This is my favorite song

"The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:28:24 -0500

“

The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.

The next key step came in 1950, when the International Organisations Division (IOD) was set up under Tom Braden. It was this office which subsidised the animated version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which sponsored American jazz artists, opera recitals, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s international touring programme. Its agents were placed in the film industry, in publishing houses, even as travel writers for the celebrated Fodor guides. And, we now know, it promoted America’s anarchic avant-garde movement, Abstract Expressionism.

”

- Given that Dr. Seuss illustrated wartime propaganda, Walt Disney disseminated anti-Axis ideology, and famous children’s authors peppered their books with subtle political propaganda, it comes as little surprise that the CIA enlisted abstract expressionism in their Cold War arsenal.

(↬ kottke)

heymichelf: If These Trees Could Talk - What’s In The Ground...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:52:51 -0500

heymichelf:

If These Trees Could Talk - What’s In The Ground Belongs To You

Son, I’m sorry for this world, And all the awful things...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:47:00 -0500

Son, I’m sorry for this world,
And all the awful things she’ll do to you.
If you only knew what you’d endure before you were born,
I haven’t got a single doubt,
You would have not come out,
And I would have known it was for the better.

You’ll be raped of any evidence,
Of ever owning any innocence.
This culture’s a vulture,
And you’re prime candidate for prey.
I’ve learned that I will lose all that I’ve ever loved one day,
But I never thought I’d ever have to watch it all go,
Or wish it all away.

I know you’ll grow,
But I wish I knew you’d stay small if I said so.
Please just don’t grow.
Please just don’t grow.
Just stay small.
Stay small

Daddy’s little girl met the world,
I watched the devil do his work.
If only she knew just how sorry I was.
I found not a single prayer,
Could save my daughter from despair,
As long as she stayed in love with this place.

It’s because I truly love her,
That I wish to take back the work,
That brought her here in the first place.
Had I only known that one act would be the reason
That my new baby girl,
Like her dad would dance with demons.

We watch the devil do his work in us.
I watch the devil do his work.

Happy Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi Day.

Superspink - “Earth”

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:40:12 -0500

Superspink - “Earth”

NPR’s Radiolab explores the music of Beethoven and a...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:10:00 -0500

NPR’s Radiolab explores the music of Beethoven and a secret message he may have tried to send to the future on the wings of a metronome: stop being such a pussy.

[G]iven his background and personality, Beethoven clearly didn’t want his music to be easy and comfortable. […] Late in life, Beethoven got his hands on a metronome, went back into his symphonies, and marked them with tempos that are shockingly fast — so fast, in fact, that most conductors simply refuse to play them as marked.

"I’m interested in exploring. I’m a student. That’s why I do free software. In..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:50:56 -0500

“I’m interested in exploring. I’m a student. That’s why I do free software. In proprietary software, you can become Steve Jobs. If you write free software, you become a student. I like that.”

- S. Jagannathan, demonstrating DIN

pigmenting: Budi Satria Kwan, Starfield

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:56:49 -0500

pigmenting:

Budi Satria Kwan, Starfield

this-pessimist-is-optimistic: The sunrise is just over that...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:54:30 -0500

this-pessimist-is-optimistic:

The sunrise is just over that hill, the worst is over…

Cursive - “Sierra” My little girl We would have...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:54:19 -0500

Cursive - “Sierra”

My little girl
We would have been so… oh, nevermind…
But I’m ready to settle down now
Yeah I’m ready to leave that wrecking ball behind
I could be your carpenter,
And you could be my twinkling north star o’er the desert sky

architectureofhappiness: 10th anniversary of The Ugly Organ

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:51:43 -0500

architectureofhappiness:

10th anniversary of The Ugly Organ

Chuck Palahniuk says read Amy Hempel, the minimalist author he...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:45:00 -0500

Chuck Palahniuk says read Amy Hempel, the minimalist author he aspires to emulate, and then anything else you read has the color turned down. Brotha Lynch Hung is kind of like that for me with rappers.

Oh, you smacked some bitches and have lots of money? How quaint. Brotha Lynch will give you a knowing smile like Denzel in Training Day, clenching a piece of umbilical cord like a sausage link between his blood-stained teeth. When you run home, he’s creeping up in there.

If you enjoy the whiplash of laughing and reeling back at horror movies, Lynch is the H.N.I.C.. His flow is out of this world. The bassline on this is slick like the lube you won’t be getting, and punctuated with a creepy-crawly gangsta whistle. It’s a perfect song.

Take away the subject matter, focus on strictly the flow, the timing, the cadence, the lyrics and the creativity….. nobody is fuckin with Lynch. I mean NOBODY.

(x)

tidesandflows: Starfucker - Isabella of Castile I know you have...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:12:38 -0500

tidesandflows:

Starfucker - Isabella of Castile

I know you have to go
But I want to keep you to myself
Like a dream, I can tell
You’ll never be all mine

generic-eric: Mclusky - Lightsaber Cocksucking Blues from...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:09:33 -0500

generic-eric:

Mclusky - Lightsaber Cocksucking Blues

from Mclusky Do Dallas (2002)

Excellent band from Wales

Biffy Clyro - “Get Fucked Stud” Oh my distorted...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:06:05 -0500

Biffy Clyro - “Get Fucked Stud”

Oh my distorted smile will tighten its grip
Now somebody is asking when you will disappear
You have to believe yourself to be happy now
You can’t rely on someone else to be happy

Get fucked stud it’s time to kill
Only you see the sunset on amphetamines

I am God, curse you cunt
Get fucked stud I know you will burn in hell
For pretending to be the god of all men I demand of you
Pretend to burn in hell to be
The god of all well follow me
You’re fucking right. I’m all at sea
My teeth are made of baby hair

The skyline is burning red so we’ll all go down
Follow my lead to survive cause it won’t take us long to come round
The skyline is burning red so we’ll all go down
Follow my head to survive cause it won’t take us long to come round

Get fucked stud it’s time to kill
Only you see the sunset on amphetamines

The skyline is burning red so we’ll all go down
Follow my lead to survive cause it won’t take us long to come round

heavy—metal-lover: The Blood Brothers—-Fucking’s Greatest...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:02:11 -0500

heavy—metal-lover:

The Blood Brothers—-Fucking’s Greatest Hits

"Your Bed Is Too Small for Fucking and Poetry" by Roger Bonair-Agard

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:59:33 -0500

I knew the bed would be too small
for all the things
I still want to dream about us
that we would toss
turn our way lose ourselves
in each other’s limbs
and rut there all over again

too small for the full-bodied voluptuousness
we carry
too small for the full-contact fuck
we create
too small for the full slick sweat we surrender
too small for the grunts and the screams
we extract from each other
to small for the way those grunts
struggle up from our stomachs
somersaulting themselves into ‘iloveyous’
and spasmodic cum shots

it is good we also have the floor
and the bathroom
and the tub
and the chair
and the desk
and the park
public spaces and the wide open savannas
of our imaginations

these places will have to substitute
offer room for the volume
of our fucking and our poetry
for the way this animal love
lurches monstrous up my chest
wanting to make you happy
and warm and unafraid
and free

so - get a bigger bed
one that can hold all the things
I still want to dream
but ready me a tiny corner on this one
so I can still get lost in you.

"They could have got six years, but they weren’t pirating music."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:25:43 -0500

“They could have got six years,
but they weren’t pirating music.”

- Anthony Jeselnik on the Steubenville Rape Case. (via hsojoftroy)