Wonderfully droll animated version of eco-philosopher Derrick Jensen’s retelling of the Star Wars saga from the perspective of the environmentalist movement. Great message, a must see!
Here’s Derrick on Dangerous Minds:
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Wonderfully droll animated version of eco-philosopher Derrick Jensen’s retelling of the Star Wars saga from the perspective of the environmentalist movement. Great message, a must see!
Here’s Derrick on Dangerous Minds:
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Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon, or condition, where neural pathways are confounded and confused. For instance, sounds or music may be experienced as something visual or the reverse, sights might trigger certain sounds in a synesthetes’ mind. There are many different modes of how this phenomenon can manifest itself. Here’s an interesting example, Edinburgh University psychologist Holly Branigan who can visualize time:
“For me it?
PornoGraphics tribute to the unique font styling of the X-rated film world. It’s amusing to see this style become a legitimate design choice. That’s progress! Or something like that…
Via Nerdcore
Life in our America! This is so post post-modern I don’t know how to process it. A well-dressed elderly gentlemen with an oxygen tank has robbed a bank in California. From AP:
The robber is described as a tall man in his 70s with white hair, a gray mustache and glasses. He was wearing a white beret, argyle sweater and brown sports jacket.
Battrick says the oxygen tank was in a black bag and connected to the man’s nose with plastic tubing.
Unique attire for a bank robbery! I suspect we’ll be hearing more about this story any minute now.
Cringe Vision’s description of the clip:
Here’s a clip from “Joy Junction,” a creepy Christian kids show that ran on TBN from the early 80’s until recently. Here, we see Marty the puppet, talking about going to a friends house, and resisting the temptation to look at porn that the kids were pressuring him to peruse. I saw this clip when i was 5, and thought it was creepy then..
In another sign of our impending societal collapse, the Samsung corporation has cleverly come up with a way to target a new consumer, the person without any friends whatsoever! That’s right, with the Samsung TL220 DualView Camera, now YOU can frame shots of—who else—YOURSELF for your Facebook page without even having to have a friend to push a button for you!
But that’s not all, it also has a function called “Beauty Shot” that automatically improves your looks, or as this Amazon reviewer puts it “look like a Model!!!”:
My favorite feature that sent me over the top was the “Beauty Shot” mode and front LCD feature! I have scars on my face due to acne (pretty bad scaring), and I went into Best Buy looking greasy and very sweaty (just got off of work). The pictures I took of myself in Beauty Shot mode made me look like a Model!!! I am not kidding, my face went from greasy and nasty in regular pics I was taking of myself, to looking like I belonged on a runway for a photoshoot once in Beauty Mode!!! I was SHOCKED at how perfectly complected my face looked, you could not see one acne scar or blemish, it was amazing! I did not expect this feature to work so well!!!
No doubt they will make zillions of dollars off these innovations targeted at the self absorbed and those who prefer to deceive others with their model perfect profile pics. Bring the end on, I say, bring it the f**k on.
From the New York Times:
Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in ?
The great—and very underrated—Todd Rundgren recently did a mini-tour playing his 1973 classic A Wizard, A True Star album from start to finish—for the first time ever in his career—with theatrical flourishes and costume changes. It makes a lot of sense to me that classic rock era musicians are playing their best beloved albums from start to finish. It’s what the fans want to hear and it makes it more of a “special” event. I doubt I’d be that excited for just any Todd Rundgren concert, but I really hope he brings this show to Los Angeles.
Here’s how rock scribe Barney Hoskyns described A Wizard, A True Star in MOJO magazine:
“Sometimes,” Todd Rundgren sang, “I don’t know what to feel.” But sometimes you do know what to feel. And right now I feel like saying what I’ve contended for many years, which is that Rundgren’s A Wizard, A True Star is simply The Greatest Album Ever Made.
You heard me right, pardner. Better than Pet Sounds. Better than OK Computer. Certainly better than Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Farts Dub Band. An album of vaulting ambition - of wizardry and true stardom - released into an unsuspecting world by a contrary, super-precocious wonderboy who should have been the biggest thing to happen in the ‘70s but who was just too complex and polymorphous for lasting pop success.
A Wizard, A True Star came out 35 years ago but still sounds more bravely futuristic than any ostensibly cutting-edge electro-pop being made in the 21st Century. A dizzying, intoxicating rollercoaster ride of emotions and genre mutations, the album was substantially the work of Rundgren himself, pieced together in late 1972 at his own Secret Sound studio on NYC’s West 24th Street.
Here is a bit of Todd Rundgren-related trivia found on his Wikipedia page
On the 30 Rock episode “The C Word,” Tina Fey’s character Liz Lemon is telling producer Pete and writer Frank about the obscenity Lutz called her, stating, “He called me the worst name ever. I’m not gonna repeat it. That’s how much I hate it.” Then after multiple guesses by the two, she says, “No! It’s the one that rhymes with the name of your favorite Todd Rundgren album,” referring to Runt, but Frank replies, “It rhymes with Hermit of Mink Hollow?”
I fell out of my seat when I heard that line. Here is a clip of Todd performing Hello It’s Me on the Midnight Special in 1973:
In 1963, City Lights published The Yage Letters, the correspondence between William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, which charts, among other things, the former’s efforts to score the possibly “soul-rebooting” hallucinogenic, Ayahuasca (Yage), in Mexico and Brazil. The footage below is culled from Ayahuasca, a Burroughs-narrated documentary which I think—until someone corrects me—exists only in fragments. Even so, it’s always great to hear Burroughs’ voice. It’s up there with Werner Herzog’s!