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, Pyxis, 575-565 BC.
Kemper Art Museum
this is cool. like some persephone back from the dead.
i miss watching the Z. and that movie really sucked. it really was a disgrace.
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SAMO© IS DEAD
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Cee Lo visits the Pawnee Parks Department. “The Voice” coach guest stars in the “Parks and Recreation” season finale. Looks like he brought his “The Voice” chair for Ron Swanson.
cee lo has blown up. i remember listening to him in high school and junk. that was a while ago. goodie mo b. man. ha ha. way back.
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Hurry up & get your Paul Pierce - Tim Tebow shirt now!
F this. the hawks suck. like always
:) ♥
this is still me. so sayeth my girl. even though im old. ha ha.
TELEVISION - A Season In Hell compilation (via doomandgloomfromthetomb stereoactivenyc)
Soooo, here’s a compilation I’ve been working on for a while — an overview of the Richard Hell-era of Television, made up of rehearsals, live recordings and demos recorded between early 1974 and March 1975. Consider it a prequel of sorts to Kingdom Come. While the sound quality is rough on some of these tapes, the music is essential. This was a very different band than the one that would go on to record Marquee Moon a few years later — raw enough to make that album sound like Steely Dan by comparison. But if the playing is amateur-ish in places, it’s almost always thrillingly amateurish. And Hell definitely brought elements to the table that were lost once he was gone — a satirical, tongue-in-cheek humor, and his, um, unique bass stylings. He might not have been a very good bassist at this point, but he sure is enthusiastic, and that’s half the battle, isn’t it? I also get the feeling that Hell was the driving conceptual force behind the band at this stage — dig the elaborate and fanciful press release he penned (reprinted in Bryan Waterman’s excellent 33 1/3 volume):
TOM VERLAINE - guitar, vocals, music, lyrics: Facts unknown. RICHARD HELL - bass, vocals, lyrics: Chip on shoulder. Mama’s boy. No personality. Highschool dropout. Mean. RICHARD LLOYD - guitar vocals: bleach-blond - mental institutions - male prostitute - suicide attempts. BILLY FICCA - drums: Blues bands in Philadelphia. Doesn’t talk much. Friendly. TELEVISION’s music fulfills the adolescent desire to fuck the girl you never met because you’ve just been run over by a car. Three minute songs of passion performed by four boys who make James Dean look like Little Nemo. Their sound is made distinctive by Hell’s rare Dan Electro bass, one that pops and grunts like no model presently available, and his unique spare patterns. Add to this Richard Lloyd’s blitzcrieg chop on his vintage Telecaster and Verlaine’s leads alternately psychotic Duane Eddy and Segovia on a ukelele with two strings gone. Verlaine, who uses an old Jazzmaster, when asked about the music said, “I don’t know. It tells the story. Like ‘The Hunch’ by the Robert Charles Quintet, or ‘Tornado’ by Dale Hawkins. Those cats could track it down. I’ll tell you the secret.”
Richard Hell, ladies and gentlemen, punk’s first PR man.
Take note! This isn’t a totally comprehensive collection — in particular, interested parties should seek out the Neon Boys EP, Hell, Verlaine and Ficca’s first stab at greatness. There are also a few tracks I left out that are just not that good. But all in all, I think this is what you need when it comes to Richard Hell with Television. Without further ado, the tracklisting:
ORK LOFT REHEARSALS, 1974
1. Fuck Rock and Roll (I’d Rather Read a Book)
2. Horizontal Ascension
3. I’m Gonna Find You
4. I Don’t Care
5. Marquee MoonMAX’S KANSAS CITY, AUGUST 1974
6. You Rip My Feelings Out
7. Excitement
8. What I Heard
9. Telepathic Valentine
10. Change Your Channels
11. Judy
12. Psychotic ReactionENO / WILLIAMS DEMOS, DECEMBER 1974
13. Prove It
14. Friction
15. Venus De Milo
16. Double Exposure
17. Marquee MoonCBGB, JANUARY 1975
18. Hard On Love (Fast Version)
19. UFO
20. Poor Circulation
21. Breakin’ In My HeartCBGB, MARCH 1975
22. Blank GenerationYES
one of my favs. i wish i could have gone to this. for sure.
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Secret Service Scandal of the Day: And then there were eight: The Secret Service has confirmed that three of the 11 members involved in the prostitution scandal in Colombia are out of the agency. One was allowed to retire, a second was removed “for cause,” and the third resigned. The remaining eight employees are still on administrative leave with suspended security clearances. Paul Morrissey, the Secret Service’s assistant director, said the ongoing investigation includes polygraph tests, interviews with the 11 individuals and witness interviews.
Earlier in the day, Mitt Romney jumped into the fray, suggesting to radio host Laura Ingraham that a lack of leadership led to the incident. “I’d clean house,” Romney said. “The right thing to do is to remove people who have violated the public trust and have put their play time and their personal interests ahead of the interests of the nation.”
Meanwhile, one of the escorts involved in the scandal spoke to the New York Timesfor an interview published today. Among her revelations: “They never told me they were with Obama,” she said. “They were very discreet.” Also: “An escort is someone who a man can take out to dinner. She can dress nicely, wear nice makeup, speak and act like a lady. That’s me.”
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this junk is crazy. whatsup with the secret service lately.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2p68dYxBM1qzpwi0o1_500.png)
Secret Service Scandal of the Day: And then there were eight: The Secret Service has confirmed that three of the 11 members involved in the prostitution scandal in Colombia are out of the agency. One was allowed to retire, a second was removed “for cause,” and the third resigned. The remaining eight employees are still on administrative leave with suspended security clearances. Paul Morrissey, the Secret Service’s assistant director, said the ongoing investigation includes polygraph tests, interviews with the 11 individuals and witness interviews.
Earlier in the day, Mitt Romney jumped into the fray, suggesting to radio host Laura Ingraham that a lack of leadership led to the incident. “I’d clean house,” Romney said. “The right thing to do is to remove people who have violated the public trust and have put their play time and their personal interests ahead of the interests of the nation.”
Meanwhile, one of the escorts involved in the scandal spoke to the New York Timesfor an interview published today. Among her revelations: “They never told me they were with Obama,” she said. “They were very discreet.” Also: “An escort is someone who a man can take out to dinner. She can dress nicely, wear nice makeup, speak and act like a lady. That’s me.”
this junk is crazy. whatsup with the secret service lately.
this would be like some kind of concert in heaven or something.
give me a ticket for sure. ill be there.
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I thought this might make a really great chorus to a song, or else a tiny story. So it’s here on hitRECord for remixing.
(I picture it repeated with long gaps between lines, so the meaning changes each time more is added to the phrase — starting negative, moving to ambivalent, getting nearly nihilistic, but then ending with the hint of redemption. (e.g. “I’m tired.” I’m tired of being tired.” I’m tired of being tired of being tired.” “I’m tired of being tired of being tired of being.”))
i can feel this.
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Allan Bloom’s Guide to College
Bloom assails relativism, then, in order to defend a way of life that relativism undermines. Moral belief is not good or true in itself. It is a means to a separate good, this beautiful life of philosophical questioning. Bloom’s claims for moral belief, then, are doubly provisional. First, the inquiry that supposedly constitutes the good life is radically uncertain in its outcome. We don’t even know if our quest has a real, or at least attainable object. Socrates’ final lesson, after all, was that he knew nothing. If our student ends up in Socratic ignorance as well, which Bloom portrays as a noble state, then that would seem to leave his specific beliefs without a foundation. One might argue that the real standard, the real hedge against relativism, is belief in this good life, the Socratic quest for knowledge. But whether this quest truly is the good life is something else we might answer, but only at the end of the inquiry. For Bloom, then, relativism is bad because it impedes an investigation that might determine whether relativism is also wrong.
- Matt Feeney writes about Allan Bloom, relativism, and today’s college students: http://nyr.kr/Ijmb9U
i dont understand this. but i like it.
