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One for the “Great Artist, Horrible Human Being” file: Carl Orff, the composer who lived a monstrous lie
Orff is best known for the cantata Carmina Burana, a powerful choral/orchestral work noted for its bold primitivism. (Most people have at least heard the opening movement “O Fortuna,” the soundtrack to a thousand movie trailers.) It was first [...]
Ah, the 80s. Our hair was big, our guitar solos were shredding (and usually played by people with big hair), and our drug war was shiny and new. D.A.R.E. was the hip approach to schoolin’ the kids about the reefer madness; my school participated in it during the program’s inaugural year. Unfortunately, studies have since [...]
Fuck the Academy Awards; it’s bad enough that I have to talk to industry people with some frequency just because I live where the movies come from. I updated my LibraryThing account instead, and I share it with you out of narcissism love. Here it is.
Via gnat: The Rev. Ivan Stang, founder of the satiric Church of the SubGenius, is running an online course called “Running Your Own Cult: Dos and Dont’s.” Best quote: “At the end of the course, students will have designed and developed their own religious cult to the point of marketability.”
Via plep: A virtual gallery of the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Some nudity, in case you’re at work.
I like this one a lot (it almost seems Pre-Raphealite). Maybe I need to do a Medusa-related post at some point?
Here’s an excellent article on the politics of the people behind Facebook (among other things), from the Guardian. Definitely worth reading.
It’s hard enough trying to limit the amount of high-fructose corn syrup coming into my body… do I really have to limit my Facebook time as well?
Take a walk with me, if you will, down Tinfoil Hat Lane. Um, bring a tinfoil hat.
Facebook went online in 2004, founded by Mark Zuckerberg (then a student at [...]
This is one for the “Things That Only Bone Would Find Funny” file. Photographed in the Eagle Rock neighborhood this afternoon: an eyeglass shop named for a famous book by Guy Debord, which was one of the manifestos of a Marxism- and Surrealism-influenced group in Europe called the Situationist International (the ideological forebears of today’s [...]
Yes, yes, I think they could be.
whywomenhatemen.blogspot.com
psychoticlettersfrommen.blogspot.com
Definitely not for work reading due to profanity, nudity, juvenile commentary and sheer awesomeness.
Happy President’s Day. Here’s a highly informative documentary about the Father of the Nation.