The Soul is a Battlefield

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"I truly believe that when you’re young, you should think that the world is yours and you can do whatever the fuck you want with it, and people should get out of your way. As you get older, though, you realize— and this is good news, but it’s also devastating— that there will be love that will die and love that you can’t understand anymore. I don’t think I would disappear or die or kill myself if this love disappeared— I may wish I did, but life would just go on. That’s the bleakness in this album, and it’s the nature of reality. It’s a motherfucker. The more joy we feel, the more we know that there’s suffering and pain in the world. You can’t know one without having a realization of the other."

— Wayne Coyne talks to Larry Fitzmaurice about 30 years of the Flaming Lips and the band’s new album, The Terror. (via pitchfork)

April 12, 2013

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at the office. a fairly pop-style tune from a good band that i have not listened to in a bit.

(Source: Spotify)

March 25, 2013

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Death Penalty Foes Make Religious, Cost Argument

kohenari:

Death-penalty opponents are pleading with lawmakers to end capital punishment in Nebraska, appealing to their religious and financial sensibilities and arguing that the state has applied it unfairly.

Opponents asked lawmakers Wednesday to advance a repeal measure by state Sen. Ernie Chambers. Chambers, of Omaha, is the Legislature’s most outspoken death-penalty opponent.

The sister of murder victim James Thimm testified that the death penalty has prolonged her family’s suffering by keeping her brother’s killer in the public eye. Thimm’s killer, Michael Ryan, has sat on Nebraska’s death row for more than 25 years.

Chambers has three co-sponsors on the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee, who together make up half of the panel.

The Nebraska County Attorneys Association opposes the bill.

This is the entirety of the article.

It would have been nice for the reporters to ask death proponents what they like about it since it’s more expensive than life imprisonment, since it’s biased with regard to both race and class, and since it doesn’t deter criminals any more than the threat of life imprisonment, and since Nebraskans can’t actually make it work.

Basically, I think it would have been interesting to hear why the “Nebraska County Attorneys Associaton opposes the bill.” I’d like to hear their spokesperson say, “It pays all of our bills and advances our careers.”

Speak the truth. Speak to it.

March 14, 2013

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Lunch.

I am eating lunch at Hillcrest Artisan Meats listening to Kevin Kerby sing along to Wilco’s “Ashes of American Flags”.

March 06, 2013

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CHRIS HADFIELD An astronaut’s advice

This guy tweets the most amazing photos from orbit…

I’m going to hang this up for my boys.

March 06, 2013

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Using industry averages, it costs about five dollars of fitness center usage to burn off the calories from a 99¢ jelly donut.

March 06, 2013

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Marina Abramovic meets Ulay

“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”

“En los años 70, Marina Abramovic mantuvo una intensa historia de amor con Ulay. Pasaron 5 años viviendo en una furgoneta realizando toda clase de performances. En 1988, cuando su relación ya no daba para más, decidieron recorrer la Gran Muralla China, empezando cada uno de un lado, para encontrarse en el medio, abrazarse y no volver a verse nunca más. En 2010 el MoMa de Nueva York dedicó una retrospectiva a su obra. Dentro de la misma, Marina compartía un minuto en silencio con cada extraño que se sentaba frente a ella. Ulay llegó sin que ella lo supiera, y esto fue lo que pasó”

Real.Shit.

March 04, 2013

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Meeting the Ex-Wife

I had to share this light-hearted brilliance on meeting the ex-wife for the first time.

Tags: ex-wife ex divorce custody lol

March 03, 2013

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"This idea of ‘tough on crime’ took root around the time of Ronald Reagan and it is striking that President Obama is showing so much less mercy than Reagan."

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Obama Has Granted Clemency More Rarely Than Any Modern President - ProPublica