June 2009
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The Offspring - Session
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“Although it examines culpability and responsibility in service of truth and...”
– Luke Z Fenchel on Waltz With Bashir
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I must say—coming back to a Lebanon where Hariri son of Hariri is PM & Berri the Everlasting is Speaker doesn’t exactly scream “it’s a brand new day” *sigh*
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“Another year has passed and I’m alright. I lick the salt from my wounds...”
– The Distillers - I Am A Revenant
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Uncertainty Is Not Indifference
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Nirvana - Sliver
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Tom Lehrer VS Friedrich Nietzsche →
via @brad_fidler
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from 'Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century'
As a concept, “Arab nationalism” has tended to be used in the literature of Middle Eastern politics and history interchangeably with other terms such as Arabism, Pan-Arabism, and even sometimes Arab radicalism, thus blending the sentiment of cultural proximity with the desire for political action. To say one is an Arab should denote a different connotation from saying one is an Arab nationalist....
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Muse - Muscle Museum [Soulwax Remix]
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does twittering @scholars = personal...
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@MXML: Did you study Euronews before or after their rebranding in June 2008? If you studied it after, did you take into account 'aesthetic/design' factors in your analysis?
Garcia-Blanco: Our analysed period actually covered the rebranding period. The rebranding did not mean anything but an aesthetic change. There were not any changes in the journalistic practices nor in the contents of the channel. A white circle appeared in the corner, that is all.
@MXML: If yes, what do you think is the significance of the 'Euronews: Pure' concept + the loungey/jazzy music motifs used throughout + the hyperurban bumper sequences/graphics?
Garcia-Blanco: I do not really think it means anything. Personally, I think it is quite vacuous. The same concept could be used to advertise water, whisky, a spa, a hotel, a restaurant, shower gel...
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Mixel Pixel - Body Automatic
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i'll show you "wear & tear"
Today is the day I stood up said: “Hey! Nike—@$%#-face! Take a step back and literally—” …*deep breath*
Seriously though, if I’m not mistaken, shoes are supposed to last more that 2.5 months. I went yesterday to Wellgosh where I made the awful principle-shirking decision to buy my first pair of Nikes ever (simply because I couldn’t find anything else that...
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“nobody gets out of dis, ya pit, alive.”
– Skindred - Nobody | saw them in brum earlier this year—mindblowing.
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Rammstein - Stripped [Depeche Mode cover]
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Queens of the Stone Age - Long Slow Goodbye | less...
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unmodern:
I forget like an elephant with a gun to its head: reluctantly.
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“Ce qu’il y a de certain, c’est que moi, je ne suis pas marxiste.”
– Karl Marx
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“And nothing really rocks
And nothing really rolls
And nothing’s ever...”
– Meat Loaf
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The Flaming Lips - Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung
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“Read one hundred books. Write one.”
– The Bennington Writing Seminars
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