Georges Bataille. Surrealist, philosopher, anti-fascist. My fourth-favorite thing about him is the fact that, although he considered himself a medievalist and a librarian and not a philosopher per se, he ended up being influential upon the likes of Foucault, Baudrillard and Derrida, which is kind of badass. My third-favorite thing about him is the writing he [...]
I’m testing out a footnotes plugin1. I’ll be using this post as a sandbox.2 Let me know if you like them or if you think they look assy.
Now let’s see how it handles the “More” tag:
Let’s see if it works! [↩]Sorry. [↩]
It’s the twelfth day of Christmas. Here’s the fourth movement of Drumming by minimalist composer Steve Reich.
Friedrich Nietzsche: possessor of the most awesome mustachio in HISTORY.
Put him in a t-shirt from Threadless and slap a hat on his head, and he could be a waiter at a vegan restaurant in Silverlake.
His writing, collected at The Nietzsche Channel, is pretty good as well.
Oh, David Lee Roth. How I envied you, with your high notes and high kicks and endless supply of leggy, busty sexual partners.
My very favorite thing on the whole internet (statement may be false by the time you read this) is this youtube video of you in “Running with the Devil,” with the vocal track [...]
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Why the Apocalypse is a Bad Model for Understanding the Future
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“Libera Me” [6th movement of the Requiem in D minor by Gabriel Fauré, 1877. Daniel Barenboim, conductor. 5.9 Mb file. Translation] [Deleted]
Maoist propaganda posters are OK, and Soviet Constructivist posters are pretty damn rad (and the continuing influence of these two styles of art was apparent pretty recently). But image for image, nothing surpasses the unsettling and sublimely beautiful aesthetics of Polish movie posters.
Polish movie posters
More Polish movie posters
Yet more Polish movie posters
Sweet Jesus, more Polish [...]
Wikipedia article on “Mozart and Freemasonry”
Claude Debussy, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion
How the Illuminati influenced Beethoven
A painting of Beethoven as a David Icke-ian, Illuminati lizard man
I love that Google Trends shows searches for hangover cures peaking at around 10 AM this morning.
Posted on Facebook by Gnat: 5 Drinking Myths That Can Kill You. I wish I had read that before last night, when I had four drinks to keep warm and subsequently died.
And now, back to the task at hand: