January 2012
64 posts
halphillips:
connorratliff:
ELVIS COSTELLO...
Xenochrony
Xenochrony is a studio-based musical technique developed at an unknown date, but possibly as early as the early 1960s, by Frank Zappa, who used it on several albums. Xenochrony is executed by extracting a guitar solo or other musical part from its original context and placing it into a completely different song, in order to create an unexpected but pleasing effect. He said that this was the only...
'As You Like It' and 'Into The Woods' Will Be This... →
popculturebrain:
Seems about the right time for Into Thr Woods to come back around.
I am going to be mad at myself if I miss this one.
Watchcollegehumor:
Horror Cat
So cute, it’s scary
Watchthisawkwardpause:
Shelly Armstrong’s stand up comedy “Tip of the Day” addresses fan questions.
“I just see a person… a person… a table… a person… some drinks… a person… a waitress…”
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"Occupy" Named 2011 Word of the Year →
The American Dialect Society also gave the Most Useful award to humblebrag (go, Harris Wittels!), Most Unnecessary to bi-winning (beating out amazeballs), and Most Euphemistic to job creator. Hear, hear!
I had not yet heard of the clever term Mellencamp, to refer to a woman who is too old to still be considered a cougar.
Not Everyone’s Laughing At “Shit White Girls Say... →
stfuconservatives:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
eshusplayground:
White Women’s Tears over the “Shit White Girls” video. Not like nobody was expecting it.
But I do wonder why there are suddenly all these criticisms of the video being sexist when it’s blatantly stated to be a parody of the “Stuff Girls” video(s). But I suppose when Black women do it, it becomes magically MORE sexist than when men...
lorrainecink:
marshallyork:
“Blue or Green or...
GIRLS ARE PRETTY: Ask Her New Husband Day! →
girlsareprettyforever:
Short on cash? Got an ex-wife with a new husband? Meet with him and ask him for some money. Don’t just launch into it though. When you sit down, start off by asking if your ex-wife is well and if he’s taking care of her. He’ll say of course he is because he’s not you in that he cares about others. Tell him you have a business prospect that could really turn into...
“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit...”
– Frank Zappa (via artoftheunbeliever)
GOP Uses Racism to Win the White House →
stfuconservatives:
daniellemertina:
“As Iowa demonstrated, be it Gingrich’s yearning to have lazy black and brown kids pick up mops and brooms as janitors in work houses, Romney’s nativist Klan inspired opines to keep “America America,” Santorum’s appeals to a belief that African Americans find sustenance by stealing from hardworking white people, or Ron Paul’s assertion that the Civil Rights...