mrgan: It’s true, this sort of thing can happen when you foolishly disclose your address on the Internet. Which isn’t to say there aren’t legitimate safety concerns, especially for certain individuals, but I did want to prove a point. More often than not openness begets beauty.

mrgan:

It’s true, this sort of thing can happen when you foolishly disclose your address on the Internet.

Which isn’t to say there aren’t legitimate safety concerns, especially for certain individuals, but I did want to prove a point. More often than not openness begets beauty.

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The Dark & Lonely Angel (via mwsjunior)

Yeah, so. I’m going to miss Ten.

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Scientific specialisation is now so extreme that even people studying neighbouring subjects within the same discipline can no longer understand each other.

The detail of modern science is incomprehensible to almost everyone, which means that we have to take what scientists say on trust.

Yet science tells us to trust nothing, to believe only what can be demonstrated.

This contradiction is fatal to public confidence.

The trouble with trusting complex science | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

Interesting take for sure

(via ethanb)

This is a really succinct summary of a viewpoint I’ve pondered piecemeal.

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{ LADY GAGA & BEYONCÉ - TELEPHONE - THE VIDEO! } Love, love, love this still. Regarding the video: someone has a crush on Araki.

{ LADY GAGA & BEYONCÉ - TELEPHONE - THE VIDEO! }

Love, love, love this still.

Regarding the video: someone has a crush on Araki.

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Certain bands have a jinx. There were some sad chapters of the Ramones’ final days. The Sex Pistols started out one way and ended up another. The Who were a jinxed group. Elvis was jinxed. Not everyone was the Mills Brothers, where they had no conflict for 55 years. I think for the Runaways, that was part of the fuel — the tension.

Kim Fowley on ‘The Runaways’ film: ‘Every movie needs a villain, and I’m a good one’ | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times

Also striking:

What have you learned about constructing a band versus a band having to be an organic thing?

There’s no difference. It’s all grind. Whether the guys farm themselves or you farm them or it happens like “American Idol,” the public either buys it or they don’t. There’s nothing sacred about the process. 

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Do you have a favourite word? Mine is widdershins.Oh hai there, English spelling giving me away.

northerndownpour:

I’m quite fond of ‘quixotic’ and ‘taciturn.’ Pretty words about feelings = A+.

Ask me anything

I picked up most of my favo(u)rite words as I read Joyce. ‘Saturnine’ and ‘sanguine’ made it into an improbable number of things after I read Ulysses. Also, hey Google Books, nice lookin’ Ulysses!

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Rock 'n' Roll Metro Map

headphonesnotrequired:

(via spytap)

 Take the “A” train.

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lizlet asked: WHY DO YOU HIDE YOUR CANADIAN HERITAGE? ARE YOU ASHAMED OR SOMETHING?

If I have totes legit Canadian heritage I’m unaware of it. I’m an American mutt - you can find the English, German and Scottish first (my middle name is Murray, like the clan) but I’m a Daughter of the Revolution. I’ve found traveling to and living in other countries inspiring, soothing and invigorating in turns but there’s inevitably a moment where I look at my American passport and know that’s my passport for life.

Metaphorically. My current passport expires in 2011.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010   ()

Anonymous asked: ARE YOU CANADIAN?

Not yet.

I should add: I find the persistent rumor that I’m secretly Canadian to be hilarious.

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

headphonesnotrequired:

hndrk:

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

Well, you can’t get what you want / But you can get me / So let’s set up and see / ’Cause you are my medicine / When you’re close to me

 I want to listen to this on repeat while I float in a pool.

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The American public needs to know that soldiers don’t stop being humans when they put on a uniform and go to war, and in that mission, The Hurt Locker succeeds.

An Iraq Veteran who Didn’t Hate The Hurt Locker—And Isn’t Suing it Either! | Little Gold Men | Vanity Fair
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In contrast to the Bolsheviks, Zhivago’s ethos, if he had one, was almost identical to Kant’s `categorical imperative,’ which had just one axiom: treat people as ends in themselves, and not as ends to a mean. There couldn’t be a sharper moral contrast.

Doctor Zhivago (1965) - IMDb user reviews

I love the user submitted reviews on IMDB.

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lizlet: oh-go-on-then: filthyrebellion: amiulysses: The Goth Detectives I would watch this show once a day, and then twice on Sundays. I would also probably start a fanzine about it. YES

lizlet:

oh-go-on-then:

filthyrebellion:

amiulysses:

The Goth Detectives

I would watch this show once a day, and then twice on Sundays. I would also probably start a fanzine about it.

YES

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We have to fight to get the attention through the media so people see the important issues around the world. We must bring the problems up to many different platforms. This is how MSF sustains solidarity and support from the donor community. Many of our ongoing projects are not on the top 10 of world emergencies, but they deserve continued support because they are long-term problems.
MSF has a balance, about half of our resources go to the disasters that create immediate health emergencies. And about half goes to the long-term health problems.
It is difficult. We cannot solve all the problems as quickly as we would like. But it is rewarding work and we are grateful that there are so many generous people to help us in this work.

Marie-Noelle Rodrigue, deputy director of operations for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

From “Quakes And Disasters: How to Help” on GlobalPost.

(via doctorswithoutborders)

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One of the paradoxical implications of this research is that reading this article probably made your insomnia worse. So did that Ambien advertisement on television, or the brief conversation you had with a friend about lying awake in bed, or that newspaper article about the mental benefits of R.E.M. sleep. Because insomnia is triggered, at least in part, by anxiety about insomnia, the worst thing we can do is think about not being able to sleep; the diagnosis exacerbates the disease. And that’s why this frustrating condition will never have a perfect medical cure. Insomnia is ultimately a side-effect of our consciousness, the price we pay for being so incessantly self-aware. It is, perhaps, the quintessential human frailty, a reminder that the Promethean talent of the human mind — this strange ability to think about itself — is both a blessing and a burden.

Mind Games - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com (via seventeen76)
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