He doesn’t elaborate on his comment much, but still:
Via the Braid blog, here.
Category: Found
Best. Lyrics. Evar!
I’m reshuffling my room to accommodate the bed that Hanna presented me with, and listening to old big band stuff I’ve had lying around I stumbled upon this gem with Sammy Davis & Count Basie: She’s a woman (W-O-M-A-N)
[audio:09_She’s_A_Woman_(W-O-M-A-N).mp3]Love and appreciation really shines through every line of the song. Heartrending. New bed below:
Hot! Wire! Soda! Buzz! Perverts! Photos aplenty!
How to hotwire cars. Not very much info, but it’s straightforward. Might come in handy once I have a drivers license. Then again, most of those hotwiring cars maybe don’t care much about staying legal?
The other day Petter showed me a few reviews that his old band Sodabuzz got for their demos. I’ve heard the tapes, and if you badger him enough maybe he’ll play them for you as well. I wouldn’t have recognised his voice had I not known it was him. Will be fun to see him perform with the new band. Petter groupie Facebook group, anyone?
Further proof that this blog is mostly visited by perverts with a mission. (friends notwithstanding) I can’t believe that I rank high enough on Google with those search terms – there has got to be a million of blogs and websites that actually cater to extraterrestrial amorous behaviour, yet the selection below is representative of what people search before coming here.
Also, the weekend was dominated by monocoloured drinks and unsteady walks from place to place.
Step by step, oh baby! (Fascism)
Excerpt from They thought they were free about the gradual changes in Germany that culminated in atrocities. Comparisons between anything current and 1930 Nazis falls under Godwin’s law, but it’s a shining example of what a slippery slope looks like.
Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it.
As with so many other articles I link to, this one showed up in a reference over at Metafilter.
Also, my brother and his woman visited Gothenburg this weekend.
You people are rebellious.
A very timely twitter from @hotdogsladies: The Beatles recorded their debut LP, “Please Please Me,” in one 10-hr day. So. You know. Have a productive day.
And a time lapse video of some young people who stumbled in on our yard yesterday and proceeded to pitch a tent and piss on peoples gardens. I think they’re here for the music festival Way out West that’s happening now-ish. Goddamn kids.
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This is your entertainment for today:
Metafilter user xlcus created a Flickr project that mirrors images. Put in your own search terms and lol away.
Have I told you already that Jonas is picture blogging Berlin? Pardon my wandering eyes.
And a short time lapse of the bridge from the other night. Sooner or later I’ll do something original with this function, but for now I’m happy just emulating what I’ve seen on Discovery Channel.
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Get your war on! With video!
Yes! David Reeses Get your war on, the bestest political satire the fat side of the Atlantic, is going to be published as a video once a week. It’s double-plus-good! The videos are going to be available here: www.236.com
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Narrative. Doing shit. Paper curtain.
I was talking to Jonas over a couple of drinks, complaining about the lack of narrative to my life. He countered saying that we should be writing our own stories rather than look for signs of what manner of tale we’re playing a part in.
As a young pup I loved books with quotes and aphorisms. Here’s one from Theodore Roosevelt:
“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.”
Everything changes, everything stays the same
One of the most catchy commercial jingles I’ve ever heard. This ought to be sampled and used in techno musik.
It could even develop into a dance. Like Macarena.
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Old computer commercials bring a tear of joy or something to my eye or something:
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The time before Wikipedia, we all had long hair and wanted lexicons. I know I did.
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As the blog title implies: Some ways of selling out change, but the selling out remains.
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I wonder if Madness got any money for this. And I’m sure there’s a joke about the British and dental hygiene in there somewhere, but I can’t be arsed.
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Today, I don’t think you could advertise a candy as “something that squirts in your mouth.” I blame the internet for ruining a perfectly innocent word.
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Another “sign of times” thing: This might not pass anti-pedo muster today.
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When I was eight I borrowed a VHS with wrestling from a friend who was a bad influence on me. Turns out I didn’t like it back then either, but the colours! The hairdos! The cocaine and horse steroids!
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Hide your daughters and sons! The Brit are coming!
Because my neighbours are too unreliable to provide me with a constant wifi access, I’m in the city library and try to check email and news. Being without a connection is scary and frightening. I was looking over the visitor stats of this blog, and at the top of the page is this:
Apart from the tremendous invasion of privacy that is web stat monitoring, this is hilarious on so many levels. I wonder if whoever did that search managed to find any, y’know, good advice somewhere else. And I wish s/he would share for the enlightenment of us all.
Btw, if you don’t want to be tracked like this by each and every site that you are visiting, I’d recommend turning everything off in your browser and use something like TOR all the time.