June 2010
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“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.”
– Christina Baldwin
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30 Day Song Challenge 23 →
Day 23 – A song that you want to play at your wedding Been there, done that! Wild Ones by Suede was our first dance.
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Done With
My house is torn down - Plaster sifting, the pillars broken, Beams jagged, the wall crushed by the bulldozer. The whole roof has fallen On the hall and the kitchen The bedrooms, the parlor. They are trampling the garden - My mother’s lilac, my father’s grapevine, The freesias, the jonquils, the grasses. Hot asphalt goes down Over the torn stems, and hardens. What will they do in...
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30 Day Song Challenge 21 →
Day 21 – A song that you listen to when you’re happy My Body’s a Zombie for You by Dead Man’s Bones. I can’t describe just how much I love this song. Absolute genius.
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he...”
– Oscar Wilde
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Zipporah at the Inn
God apparently tries, and fails, to kill Moses.
Zipporah at the Inn is the name given to an episode alluded to in three verses of Exodus. It is one of the more unusual, curious, and much debated, passages of the Pentateuch. The verses in question are Exodus 4:24–26, the context is Moses and his wife Zipporah reaching an inn on their way from Midian to Egypt to announce the plagues to the...
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30 Day Song Challenge 20 →
Day 20 – A song that you listen to when you’re angry Force Quit (lickthevelvetpouch remix by Ipecac Loop) by Chemlab. Jared Louche’s voice is so calming. Sadly I can’t find the remix anywhere online, but here’s a link to the original. Still good.
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Tomorrow Tomorrow we are bones and ash, the roots of weeds poking through our skulls. Today, simple clothes, empty mind, full stomach, alive, aware, right here, right now. Drunk on music, who needs wine? Come on, Sweetheart, let’s go dancing while we still have feet.
—David Budbill
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Carl Linnaeus, father of taxonomy, divided the flowering plants into three groups: the meteorici, which change their opening and closing times according to the weather conditions; the tropici, which change their opening and closing times according to the length of the day; and the aequinoctales, which have fixed opening and closing times, regardless of weather or season. Linnaeus noted in his...
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30 Day Song Challenge 19 →
Day 19 – A song from your favorite album Plainsong from Disintegration by The Cure. Amazing. Turn your speakers up.
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From the New York Times, July 27th 1975.
I find the strange story of the Marcus twins’ life and death utterly fascinating.
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30 Day Song Challenge 17/18 →
Day 17 – A song that you hear often on the radio Day 18 – A song that you wish you heard on the radio Combining these two as I never, ever listen to the radio by choice. Having said that, I used to have to listen to it in work and Heartbeat by Scouting for Girls was on constantly.
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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intotocorde asked: heyy i was just wondering if you could give me the 30 days of song list thing. i think i might want to try it :]
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30 Day Song Challenge 16 →
Day 16 – A song that you used to love but now hate Dominion Day by Gary Numan. In fact, pretty much anything by Gary Numan. If he ever stops being such a painful cliche and manages to regain some originality, I might take that statement back.
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Tsukumogami are a type of Japanese spirit. According to the Tsukumogami-emaki, tsukumogami originate from items or artifacts that have reached their 100th birthday and thus become alive and aware. Any object of this age, from swords to toys, can become a tsukumogami. Tsukumogami are considered spirits and supernatural beings, as opposed to enchanted items.
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May 2010
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30 Day Song Challenge 15 →
Day 15 – A song that describes you This reminds me of Dylan Moran in Monster doing his skit about how dangerous gin is. “Everybody, shut up. Shut up! This song is all about me.” Tee hee! Anyway, I Am Terrified by IAMX.
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Rev Robert Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was a former Minister and high school English teacher who, after his death, left behind a diary of 37.5 million words chronicling every 5 minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
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30 Day Song Challenge 14 →
Day 14 – A song that no one would expect you to love No Scrubs by TLC. So I’ve been told.
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“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the...”
– Andre Gide
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Pursuit
Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass - a blend of stock car racing and the never ending building of a gothic cathedral. Through the windows of my speeding car, I see all that I love falling away: books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited. And why? What treasure do I expect in my future? Rather it is the confusion of childhood loping...
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30 Day Song Challenge 13 →
Day 13 – A song that is a guilty pleasure Given my unabashed dislike of metal in general, I’ll pick Safe Home by Anthrax. I geniuinely can’t think of anything I listen to that would fit this description. I love everything I listen to and I’m never too shy to share.
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Dr. Walter Jackson Freeman II performed nearly 3500 lobotomies in 23 states, mostly based on scanty and flimsy evidence for its scientific basis, but more significantly he popularized the lobotomy. A neurologist without surgical training, he initially worked with several surgeons, including James W. Watts. In 1936, he and Watts became the first American doctors to perform prefrontal lobotomy by...
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30 Day Song Challenge 12 →
Day 12 – A song from a band you hate Whisky in the Jar by Metallica. SAKE.
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The Walled City of Kowloon
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30 Day Song Challenge 11 →
Day 11 - A song from your favorite band Like the favourite song question, this one is very subjective. My favourite band changes depending on my mood. Right now, for example, I’m loving IAMX, however I can’t discount Nine Inch Nails and The Cure when I’m thinking about who my favourite band is. On that note, I’m reverting back to NIN. Twist.
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30 Day Song Challenge 10 →
Day 10 – A song that makes you fall asleep Any guitar heavy, shouty metal, as has been proved on many occasions. Example attached. Gah.
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30 Day Song Challenge 09 →
Day 09 – A song that you can dance to I’ll dance to anything! Currently loving Telephone by Lady Gaga.
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Some people think it’s one of the weirdest books ever published. An art book unlike any other art book. A unique and disturbing surreal parody. Grotesque and beautiful. It’s very hard to describe. Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini is a window on a bizarre fantasy world complete with its own unique (unreadable) alphabet and numerous illustrations that borrow from the modern age...
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30 Day Song Challenge 08 →
Day 08 – A song that you know all the words to I would desperately love to say Pore by ohGr, but I still haven’t learned it all. Or Warlock by Skinny Puppy. Ditto. I know the words to loads of songs. Isn’t it odd that we can remember song lyrics fifteen years down the line but can’t remember a birthday or where we put our keys? Choosing a random favourite song by someone I...
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The red string of fate, also referred to as the red thread of destiny, red thread of fate, and other variants, is an East Asian belief originating from Chinese legend and is also used in Japanese legend. According to this myth, the gods tie an invisible red string around the ankles of men and women who are destined to be soul mates and will one day marry each other. According to Chinese legend,...
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Salvador Dalí was the last of the great cultural outlaws, and probably the last genius to visit our cheap and gaudy planet. Look around you with an unbiased eye and, alas, you will see no painter of genius, and no novelist, poet, philosopher or composer who takes his or her place in that top tier without asking our permission.
JG Ballard on Dali and Film
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30 Day Song Challenge 07 →
Day 07 – A song that reminds you of a certain event Tusk by Fleetwood Mac. Might Boosh ftw.
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