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Desert Stars: Boys I Like

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:39:37 -0400

Desert Stars: Boys I Like

High Highs-Once Around the House

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:33:04 -0400

High Highs-Once Around the House:

Just the prettiest music video you ever did see

yvynyl: Sonnymoon - Nothing Thought As the name of the song...

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:37:33 -0400

yvynyl:

Sonnymoon - Nothing Thought

As the name of the song implies, this is a meditation piece. Wait for the ‘VHS->HD’ moment when the beat drops in the stunning, colorful video directed by Gordon Hendrick. Wow.

The experimental R&B band’s self-titled LP is available on vinyl from their webstore.

Previously: “Wild Rumpus”

yvynyl: Grimes - Genesis Hot off the press, directed by the...

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:29:43 -0400

yvynyl:

Grimes - Genesis

Hot off the press, directed by the artist herself.

Visions LP is out on 4AD+Arbutus.

Photo

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:05:39 -0400

yvynyl: Praything - The Fetter Turkish video director Dağhan...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:12:14 -0400

yvynyl:

Praything - The Fetter

Turkish video director Dağhan İş chose a very dark color palette for this number, which fits its somewhat somber, cinematic, after sunset tone. Surprisingly, the songwriter Ju Kovacevich hails from Gainsville, Florida, the sunshine state. Go figure.

The lovely Her Skin Caught The Glow EP is out now via Bndcmp.

itscoop: :) story of my life.

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 04:52:42 -0400

itscoop:

:) story of my life.

dietcokeandasmoke: absolutely perfect…..this is what sundays...

Sun, 13 May 2012 10:37:12 -0400

dietcokeandasmoke:

absolutely perfect…..this is what sundays are for

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!

Tue, 01 May 2012 23:14:22 -0400

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!:

kateoplis:

“I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing “Disco Inferno” than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar. It’s true that some rich folks put at least some of their tax savings into charitable contributions. My wife and I give away roughly $4 million a year to libraries, local fire departments that need updated lifesaving equipment (Jaws of Life tools are always a popular request), schools, and a scattering of organizations that underwrite the arts. Warren Buffett does the same; so does Bill Gates; so does Steven Spielberg; so do the Koch brothers; so did the late Steve Jobs. All fine as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility—America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Charity from the rich can’t fix global warming or lower the price of gasoline by one single red penny. That kind of salvation does not come from Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Ballmer saying, “OK, I’ll write a $2 million bonus check to the IRS.” That annoying responsibility stuff comes from three words that are anathema to the Tea Partiers: United American citizenry. […]

I guess some of this mad right-wing love comes from the idea that in America, anyone can become a Rich Guy if he just works hard and saves his pennies. Mitt Romney has said, in effect, “I’m rich and I don’t apologize for it.” Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us want—those who aren’t blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn money—is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in America without America. That you were fortunate enough to be born in a country where upward mobility is possible (a subject upon which Barack Obama can speak with the authority of experience), but where the channels making such upward mobility possible are being increasingly clogged. That it’s not fair to ask the middle class to assume a disproportionate amount of the tax burden. Not fair? It’s un-fucking-American is what it is. I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. That our civics classes never taught us that being American means that—sorry, kiddies—you’re on your own. That those who have received much must be obligated to pay—not to give, not to “cut a check and shut up,” in Governor Christie’s words, but to pay—in the same proportion. That’s called stepping up and not whining about it. That’s called patriotism, a word the Tea Partiers love to throw around as long as it doesn’t cost their beloved rich folks any money.

This has to happen if America is to remain strong and true to its ideals. It’s a practical necessity and a moral imperative. Last year during the Occupy movement, the conservatives who oppose tax equality saw the first real ripples of discontent. Their response was either Marie Antoinette (“Let them eat cake”) or Ebenezer Scrooge (“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”). Short-sighted, gentlemen. Very short-sighted. If this situation isn’t fairly addressed, last year’s protests will just be the beginning. Scrooge changed his tune after the ghosts visited him. Marie Antoinette, on the other hand, lost her head.

Think about it.”

Can’t get enough of this song lately. #grimes

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:51:34 -0400

Can’t get enough of this song lately. #grimes

This will do.

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:53:22 -0400

This will do.

California skies. (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:25:36 -0400

California skies. (Taken with instagram)

Sunsets and cacti. (Taken with Instagram at Joshua Tree...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:38:26 -0400

Sunsets and cacti. (Taken with Instagram at Joshua Tree National Park)

kateoplis: Taiwan destroys US meat laden with growth-boosting...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:01:07 -0400

kateoplis:

Taiwan destroys US meat laden with growth-boosting drugs

Workers carry US beef laden with ractopamine, a controversial additive used to promote lean meat, at a furnace in downtown Taipei on Monday. More than six tonnes of such beef imported by a local company that contained the drug allowed in the US but banned in Taiwan was destroyed. The move came as Taiwanese government is mulling a plan to lift a ban on ractopamine-treated US beef to facilitate stalled trade talks with the US, a key trading partner and arms supplier of the politically isolated island.

I want to be this statue. #milwaukee #moon (Taken with...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:38:25 -0500

I want to be this statue. #milwaukee #moon (Taken with instagram)

rzrachelzoe: In need of a great new handbag this Spring? Isn’t...

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:56:28 -0500

rzrachelzoe:

In need of a great new handbag this Spring? Isn’t everyone? That’s why I’m giving away the incredibly chic Joni Hobo from my collection! Reblog this post for a chance to be entered to win.

Contest is open to US and International residents from February 27th-March 3rd.

Good Luck to all my fellow fashion obsessed! xoRZ

See contest rules here

#bombaybicycleclub (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:05:36 -0500

#bombaybicycleclub (Taken with instagram)

Lucy Rose. Amazing (Taken with Instagram at Subterranean)

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:43:45 -0500

Lucy Rose. Amazing (Taken with Instagram at Subterranean)

A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and the top five are:

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:39:22 -0500

A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and the top five are::

kateoplis:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Read on.

Things to think about…

#handwriting in the margins. This book made me think....

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:19:34 -0500

#handwriting in the margins. This book made me think. #febphotoaday (Taken with instagram)