December 2011
48 posts
99% Legion is Awakening.: Happy New Year Everyone! Free ride home & towing! 1-800-AAA-HELP →
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I hope everyone has had a great holiday season. I’ll get back to updating soon! Just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year!
Please stay safe if you go out tonight. Just so you know, AAA has teamed up with Budweiser and several other places to offer you a free ride home AND they will tow your…
Simple Tracks by Angus Colton →
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Take a moment and check out this amazing album from my homie Angus Colton.
New Justin Townes Earle Album Set to Release 3/27/12 →
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Bloodshot Records has just announced that Justin Townes Earle will be releasing his 4th LP Album on March, 27th, 2012, and it is a mouthful, called Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now. Via: Saving Country Music
HOF Commercials Featuring NBA Players →
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Scotch and Sirloin! Choose Your Weapon! Yay!
Fela Soul →
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Fela Soul is the sort of mash-up album that never gets tired. The concept is fresh and simple: Take the music of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and marry it with the raps of De La Soul. Fela Soul is the work of Gummy Soul producer Amerigo Gazaway, who makes his ingredients sound as if they were born to be together. (There’s also an instrumental version of the album that you can also download for free.) Nashville’s Gummy Soul, a boutique soul and hip-hop label, was founded by Walter Clark and started as a radio show on Vanderbilt’s WRVU.
Speaking of which: "25 people who thought Lil Kim died last night" →
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#2 is former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Which is sort of what you need to know about Kwame Kilpatrick.
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Creator and Funder Warren Hellman Dies at 77. →
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This is the saddest piece of sadness pie.
“And here was another thing many in the middle class were discovering: the downward plunge into poverty could occur with dizzying speed. One reason the concept of an economic 99% first took root in America rather than, say, Ireland or Spain is that Americans are particularly vulnerable to economic dislocation. We have little in the way of a welfare state to stop a family or an individual in free-fall. Unemployment benefits do not last more than six months or a year, though in a recession they are sometimes extended by Congress. At present, even with such an extension, they reach only about half the jobless. Welfare was all but abolished 15 years ago, and health insurance has traditionally been linked to employment. In fact, once an American starts to slip downward, a variety of forces kick in to help accelerate the slide. An estimated 60% of American firms now check applicants’ credit ratings, and discrimination against the unemployed is widespread enough to have begun to warrant Congressional concern. Even bankruptcy is a prohibitively expensive, often crushingly difficult status to achieve. Failure to pay government-imposed fines or fees can even lead, through a concatenation of unlucky breaks, to an arrest warrant or a criminal record. Where other once-wealthy nations have a safety net, America offers a greased chute, leading down to destitution with alarming speed.”
—The Making of the American 99% And the Collapse of the Middle Class (via azspot)help US (via jmichealortiz)
Acceptable Christmas Music
Willie Nelson.
Motown.
Bing Crosby.
Sufjan Stevens.
Loudon Wainwright III.
Elvis.
Johnny Cash.
Burl Ives.
Pretty much everything else is horrible and should be put down.
