Georgia Field Hands
Mary Don’t You Weep
Awesome. When’s the album out? Is there a free download on their website? They should really make one of those mixtapes. Maybe they can get Lil Wayne on it.
Now Now...
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Secret Mommy - Woody Allen, David Koresh
Featured song in Episode Six of Mental Beast
The Eggnog Experience will be available for free download on December 17th.
When Bros Sign off their Emails with "Cheers"
This is something men in their twenties do and it reminds of the cuntish 5th grader who would say ‘present’ instead ‘here’ during roll call. Like, knock it the fuck off and say ‘best’, ‘thanks’ or ‘<3’ like an adult.
Uniquely,
Natasha
While I have my own reservations regarding the use of “cheers”, I believe it to be the best depersonalized sign-off option available as it is the least sincere. Generalized sign-offs are inherently detached, so the more sincere you try to present yourself the more aloof you become. The least emotional option is best in this situation - “sincerely” can be interpreted as “insincerely” because most of the time, it is, and the same goes for “best”. “Best” can mean “fuck you”, but cheers more often than not will mean nothing at all. Cheers is flexible. It’s “fuckin eh” and “no doubt” and “for real” and “Ciao” and “TTYL” all rolled into one pint-clanking colloquial non-entity.
Dear all,
I use “cheers” because I am British and there it has come to mean “thank you”. That is all.
cheers,
me
“ Think about the strangeness of today’s situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it’s much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.
Slavoj Žižek (via newleft) (via unburyingthelead) (via fuckyeahtheorists) (via lukesimcoe) (via circumpolarnavigation)
Moment Of The Year: XX lose member in puff of smoke.
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Issue Ten: A Best Of Decade (Kinda)
A simple look back to highlight some personal favourites that I didn’t see in the “best of…” lists.
1. The New Year - ‘The End’s Not Near’ (2004)
2. Ugly Casanova - ‘Things I Don’t Remember’ (2002)
3. Tunng - ‘Bullets’ (2007)
4. Tujiko Noriko - ‘Narita Made’ (2003)
5. Donnacha Costello - ‘Orange A’ (2004)
6. Einstürzende Neubauten - ‘Youme & Meyou’ (2004)
7. Sieben - ‘Rite For The Unfulfilled’ (2007)
8. Do Make Say Think - ‘White Light Of’ (2002)
9. Songs: Ohia - ‘Peoria Lunch Box Blues’ (2003)
More notes, videos and what-have-you at www.sleephouse.blogspot.com
A grim soundtrack to a pretty grim decade.
Nobel peace prize: Norwegians incensed over Barack Obama's snubs | World news | guardian.co.uk
A really bad article. There’s no way that the majority of Norwegians could be described as “angry or incensed”. Disappointed is the only word I’ve heard used by talking heads on the news and even then it’s been swiftly followed by the words “but we understand… of course…”
Siv Jensen would say anything to please and inflame the base passions of her right wing followers. So she’s definitely not to be trusted. And she’s certainly not representative of any kind of popular view.
Excited is actually what most Norwegians are about Obama’s visit, excited and also perhaps a little embarrassed that Thorbjørn Jagland’s naive view of the world is now seen as the national one.
