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Galaxie 500 - Listen, The Snow Is Falling (Yoko Ono cover)

Here’s Robert Christgau’s presciently trenchant review of 1990’s This Is Our Music:

Look, all you young white people, I know fate has dealt you a shitty hand. Rent stabilization is a joke, safe sex isn’t a joke, pollutants can really get you down, and forget the economy. Not to mention the decline of civility on our city streets. So if you just want to sit around and mope about it to each other, we understand. But if you’re looking for a helping hand, you’re going to have to reach out a little yourselves—that’s just human nature. Show some get-up-and-go, crack a few jokes, like on the first song. As my grandpa used to say: “Laugh and the world laughs with you/Weep and you weep alone.”

4 November 2009 • reblog: postpunk

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youmightfindyourself:

So I spent more time than I’d like to admit trying to find a higher-resolution image of this photograph, to little success. I do know that Bob Fitch took it when he was staff photographer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) of which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was president. But the point is that even heroes have heroes.

4 November 2009 • reblog: youmightfindyourself

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peekasso:

hope

3 November 2009 • reblog: peekasso

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“We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are ‘good to eat’ but because they are ‘good to think.’”

lapetitebaobab:

uncertaintimes:

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) by Irving Penn

Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100

3 November 2009 • reblog: uncertaintimes

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3 November 2009 • reblog: alohafriday

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An Excerpt from my Romance Novel

bonerparty:

tomoatmeal:

With my nude, floral-painted body pressed firmly against the wall, I could only stand still and hope that it would blend seamlessly with the floral wallpaper, hiding me completely.

“She can’t divorce me if she can’t see me,” I thought.

2 November 2009 • reblog: tomoatmeal

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