Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit doing an acoustic version of Poke (off the amazing The Midnight Organ Fight)
1 day ago
July 3, 2009
Groan. (WANT.)
1 day ago
Catie Rosemurgy: All Objects Reveal Something About the Body
[poetry phriday]
1 day ago
July 2, 2009
July 1, 2009
June 24, 2009
This “truth” is seen in the way that God used to be—-at the top of a chain of command, its authority linking down to His representatives on earth: beauty pageant officials, photographers, and, finally, the man on the street. Even he, the last link, has some of this divine authority over women, as Milton’s Adam had over Eve: “he for God, and she for God in him.” A man’s right to confer judgment on any woman’s beauty while remaining himself unjudged is beyond scrutiny because it is thought of as God-given. That right has become so urgently important for male culture to exercise because it is the last unexamined right remaining intact from the old list of masculine privilege: those that it was universally believed that God or nature or another absolute authority bestowed upon all men to exert over all women. As such, it is daily exercised more harshly in compensation for the other rights over women, and the other ways to control them, now lost forever.
- The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (1991)
1 week ago
June 21, 2009
One of these things is not like the others… (Berlin, 20/06/2009)
1 week ago
June 9, 2009
June 7, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
And I could take another hit for you
And I could take away the trips from you
And I could take away the salt from your eyes
Take away the spitting salt in you
And I could give you my apologies
By handing over my neologies
And I could take away your shaky knees
And I could give you all the olive trees
And look at the trees and look at my face and look at a place far away from here
Wolf Parade - I’ll Believe in Anything, off Apologies to the Queen Mary
3 weeks ago
June 3, 2009
June 1, 2009
I’m on a Boat - Star Trek (by miserychic)
But this ain’t Seaworld, this is real as it gets
I’m on a boat, motherfucker, don’t you ever forget
“ A civil union has to do with death. It’s essentially a document that gives you lower taxes and the right to let your faux spouse collect your insurance when you pass away. A marriage is about life. It’s about a commitment. And this argument is about allowing people to have the right to make that commitment, even if it doesn’t make sense to you. Anything else falls under the category of “separate but equal” and we know how that works out.
May 1, 2009
Jonathan Coulton - First of May - ASL Song (CaptainValor)
2 months ago
