July 2011
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
– William J. Rapaport
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Pop Pilgrims, Chicago: The Wilco Towers.
Art has a powerful way of re-contextualizing the mundane. Take, for example, the towers pictured on the cover of Wilco’s much-lauded 2002 album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. These are buildings hundreds of thousands of people in Chicago see on a daily basis without giving them a second thought. As much as the buildings’ unique design sticks out in the city’s...
Infographic: Is There Alien Life Out There... on... →
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The first trailer for the Cameron Crow directed “Pearl Jam Twenty.” Get ready to feel old.
‘Pearl Jam Twenty’ chronicles the years leading up to the band’s formation, the chaos that ensued soon-after their rise to megastardom, their step back from center stage, and the creation of a trusted circle that would surround them — giving way to a work culture that...
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Amy Winehouse: Least ironic death ever? Still sad, girl had skills.
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Wikipedia List of Secret Service Codenames →
This list is fucking fantastic. Reagan = Rawhide, Prince Charles = Unicorn. Amazing.
Gamestop is the only place that I shop where I am consistently called “bro.”
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Lost in Translation: The 50 Americanisms That... →
nightline:
As collected by the BBC:
14. I caught myself saying “shopping cart” instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself. I’ve never lived nor been to the US either.
23. To put a list into alphabetical order is to “alphabetize it” - horrid!
36. Surely the most irritating is: “You do the Math.” Math? It’s MATHS.
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fuckyeahanticon:
Serengeti - “California”
Produced by Yoni Wolf of WHY?. From the LP Family & Friends, out July 19, 2010. Directed by Paul Matian. bratschopsdogs.tumblr.com anticon.com
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Stop pretending to care about sports that you don’t actually care about. I don’t care if you watch and I don’t even care if you get into it in the moment, but seriously, stop pretending that you are actually upset when they lose. Or that it is actually something that is going to bother you 10 seconds after the game is over. This isn’t your 1986. Simply, you just don’t...
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The Hip Hop Stamp Collection →
Most of my heroes didn’t appear on no stamp,’ is more than just a great quote. Chuck D’s words define generations of struggle, racial intolerance and also act as a timely reminder that Hip-Hop can be a snarling and witty political beast rather than just about bling and bitches. The brainchild of Mark Culmer, a graphic designer, illustrator and cartoonist based in Brighton, the Hip-Hop...
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The Best Part About Today... →
DOWNLOAD HERE: http://bit.ly/olPPtZ
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The Avett Brothers - Laundry Room. From their performance on tonight’s episode CMT’s Unplugged. Best band in America, maybe?
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WUGAZI
It has been a week and there are only two tracks released thus far, but WUGAZI is still the dopest shit that I have heard in quite some time. Doomtree is blowing up in a way I never would have imagined.
Latest tracks by WUGAZI
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Rock Fans Outraged As Bob Dylan Goes Electronica →
“We came here to see the authentic Dylan, the one with the Stratocaster guitar and signature wild blues-rock band behind him,” audience member Robert Hochschild said. “Then he walks out with these puffy headphones, some turntables, and a laptop?
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Casey Anthony...
Just kidding, I don’t actually care.
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They Might Be Giants covers Chumbawamba’s Tubthumping. There is something fucking magical about this.
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Doomtree announces project combining Fugazi and... →
Many more details will be trickling out over the next two weeks, but for now … be one of the first to check out the awesome “Sleep Rules Everything Around Me,” the first leak off of 13 Chambers. Perfect for 4th of July BBQ’s.
WUGAZI. 13 Chambers. 7/13/11. Help us spread the word.
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Chat with S, 7/1/11.
S: What kind of food is that?
me: Japanese
S: No it's not. If it was Japanese it would have frog all over it....or dog.
me: Yeah, that's just not true.
….yo….yo….I gotta 40…..I ain’t no...
– A “rap” start to finish performed by a student yesterday.
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Chat with a co-worker 7/1/11.
Co-worker: What you doing this weekend?
me: Going to Portland.
Co-worker: Oh yeah, goin' to be with ya people, y'all run shit there, huh?
me: ?
Co-worker: You know that place, it is full of white people that like all that stuff you like.
me: Oh, yeah totally. It is a city made up entirely of the white people that live in Oakland
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