So the NFL won’t punish players who abuse or rape, but they’ll go all in against one whose shoes are the wrong color?
-Spider-
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Saturday, October 31, 2015
Third NFL Player This Season Is Fined For Honoring Deceased Parents Using Their Appearance
Third NFL Player This Season Is Fined For Honoring Deceased Parents Using Their Appearance:
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Friday, October 30, 2015
20 years later this is still one of the best albums ever...
20 years later this is still one of the best albums ever recorded.
20 years ago Blur came out with The Great Escape which was a bit of a letdown, Oasis came out with (What’s the Story) Morning Glory which was quite memorable, but not stunning like Definitely Maybe.
Different Class was a powerful follow up to His ‘n’ Hers and like all Pulp albums it is a logical evolution in sound and style. A tongue in cheek maturity, a realistic aging of a musical genre.
Blur was trying too hard to re-shape the dark-comic Britpop wave they rode high after Parklife in 1993 while also maintaining an arm’s length from everyone else. Unfortunately on The Great Escape one could audibly hear the creak of the door closing on that era of Blur’s musical arc and most of the songs on that album are too slick and too phoned in to really land with a crisp snap like their previous albums and ultimately The Great Escape is a forgettable album with the exception of “Best Days” and “The Universal” (which, incidentally, was going to be the name of the album and would have been far more fitting.) Blur’s style hadn’t significantly evolved in any substantive way between 1993 and 1995 but the British music scene certainly had.
Oasis was continuing to get drunk and fight among themselves while attempting to power through stylistic shifts and the end result on (What’s the Story) Morning Glory is a collection of super-duper catchy, timely songs that fit perfectly within the fall of 1995. What makes this mediocre album stand out as a spectacular classic is its approachability. It’s easy and uncomplicated, it plays and flows across the spectrum. Oasis, unlike Blur, was, all bickering and arguing aside, heading in a direction. But above all, it is a very memorable album. If the Gallagher brothers weren’t the insufferable douchebags that they were in 1995 coupled with the push to make a release date in the fall of that same year, it could have been a spectacular album.
Blur had outgrown itself and that can be seen clearly two years later in 1997 in the release of their self titled album. Throughout The Great Escape each track was more heavy-handed than the last and even as a listener, one could feel the pressure they were under to produce something as fun, catchy, and playful as Parklife. You knew that they knew, it was well past time to leave the party.
Oasis was in the midst of growing, the feel of the music was very transitional. One could hear how their style was changing, but they weren’t fully creating. They were certainly testing the boundaries and making interesting choices, but they stuck close to home and kept things simple. Which really worked. Somehow they had an inkling of what they created, knew how to approach an audience, and had a vague notion that they needed to build on their success. The unfortunate thing about Oasis in 1995 was their own self-knowledge that they were on the edge of unfathomable success which played into their incredible arrogance and denseness. Luckily, in spite of the themselves, they somehow figured out that they had better keep it together because they’re one coke binge away from losing it all.
Pulp on the other hand didn’t writhe and itch in too tight fitting clothes like Blur nor did they stay close to home in the way that Oasis did. Pulp stayed close to home, but unlike Oasis they moved out of their parent’s house and into their own apartment, but they’re still in the same town. Different Class was a realistic progression from the youthful story of His 'n’ Hers but picked up where that narrative left off. His 'n’ Hers tells the tale of youthful, blissful ignorance which, over the course of the album, begins to find itself learning, growing up, maturing, albeit slightly. Different Class continues the story of that previous album, but now it’s as if they’re out of school, on their own and any control they thought they had is complicated by class, by money, by time, by age. The lipgloss of His 'n’ hers has been wiped away and the reality of making one’s own way in the world isn’t as simple as it seemed or as epic, but rather extraordinarily frustrating, difficult, unrewarding, pointless, and amazing.
It’s a powerful album, very expressive, very honest, and a fuckload of fun from start to finish.
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
kaiserwilhelm: Dire Straits - Sultans of SwingCleaner sounding,...
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Cleaner sounding, but still kind of a ‘dirty’ clean sound. It’s got some grit to it when he digs in.
That’s another difference I hear between humbuckers (Gibson) and single coils (Fenders). The dynamic range. When you dig into a humbucker, it kind of tops out after a certain saturation point.
Single coils don’t do that. Especially when your ‘touch’ lightens up.
This fucking band. Goddammit. So incredibly good.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Monday, October 26, 2015
blakademic: iamayoungfeminist: Planned Parenthood is giving...
Planned Parenthood is giving out FREE water filters to Flint residents.
The crisis is causing elevated levels of lead in children. It is not safe for ANYONE to drink.
Once again, Planned Parenthood comes through for community health.
Let’s see if Planned Parenthood gets any positive publicity for this…
I’m sure the headline will read: Free water purifier with every abortion.
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Friday, October 23, 2015
Remember when...
Tumblr wasn’t just bots and bullshit?
Ye olden tymes.
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"Some 87 percent of American’s customers flew the airline just once last year, comprising more than..."
“Some 87 percent of American’s customers flew the airline just once last year, comprising more than 50 percent of revenue, according to Kirby. He said these are customers “for whom air travel is largely a commodity,” meaning they will switch to a competitor if American charges more per ticket.”
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American to launch bare-bones airfare in 2016 to rival Spirit | Reuters
That’s one hell of a statistic.
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Well, paying too much, always having a connecting flight, AND flying on an MD-80 is always a bonus when flying on American.
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midnightmartinis: unknown location, c.1902 - by r.h....
unknown location, c.1902 - by r.h. trueman
Some days you’re the bear, some days you’re the kid.
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Thursday, October 22, 2015
"Talk to me like the rain and let me listen, let me lie here and listen"
“Talk to me like the rain and let me listen, let me lie here and listen”
- Tennessee Williams, Talk to Me Like the Rain And Let Me Listen (via soracities)
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- Tennessee Williams, Talk to Me Like the Rain And Let Me Listen (via soracities)
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conventionalwisdomcomic: Forget Back to the Future Day. Call...
Forget Back to the Future Day. Call me on September 24th, 2041 so we can celebrate Time Chasers Day.
Agreed.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Sunday, October 18, 2015
mshenchy: juskysnewbooks: –Graydon Carter This story made my...
–Graydon Carter
This story made my night.
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Saturday, October 17, 2015
illcisco: La la la la la laLa la la laLa la la laLa la la...
La la la la la la
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Don’t touch me!
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chloesanchez: So I got an Airbnb in the mountains for my mom...
So I got an Airbnb in the mountains for my mom for the weekend, just to get us out of the house. The place is gorgeous. The dude warned me that they’d be out of town for a week before we checked in, and they have stink bugs that come in when it gets cold. He leaves a couple of shop vacs to suck them up. No big deal, I said. Except it is totally a big deal. It is the biggest deal. I vacuumed up so so many last night. I slept in a hoodie with the blanket tucked over me like a tent because my two greatest fears are bugs in my hair, and touching bugs when I don’t expect it.
So feel free to enjoy the top two pictures, and then play seek and find with the third. 19 is the goal.
I HAVE GASOLINE AND MATCHES.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
"I was the sure, firm touch on the wrong note."
“I was the sure, firm touch on the wrong note.”
- Cloris Leachman’s perfect description of how she portrayed Phyllis on “Mary Tyler Moore Show” (via camewiththeframe)
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- Cloris Leachman’s perfect description of how she portrayed Phyllis on “Mary Tyler Moore Show” (via camewiththeframe)
She’s amazing.
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Le Job
Didn’t get the job that I didn’t want and only interviewed for because the Union pretty much made me.
So, awesome!
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Monday, October 12, 2015
lexipraise: 4×05 The Field Where I Died One of the best...
4×05 The Field Where I Died
One of the best episodes of anything ever on television.
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Haven’t they been trying to do that for years?
Haven’t they been trying to do that for years?
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
szelli: just–space: Buzz Aldrins self-portrait during Gemini...
Buzz Aldrins self-portrait during Gemini 12 with the Earth reflecting off his visor, 12 November 1966
jsNa EZ szelfi!
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Friday, October 2, 2015
smartgirlsattheparty: This is Park Ranger Susan at Big Bend...
This is Park Ranger Susan at Big Bend National Park. Today she got to speak French to hikers and she sees roadrunners and Javelinas all day ☀️ #GetYourHairWet (at Big Bend National Park)
I saw this and before reading the caption I immediately thought, “THAT’S BIG BEND!!!” some places you never forget even the tiniest detail.
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
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