Month: July 2017
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Meine Philosophie in Kurzgesagt
Pretty much my philosophy. I am an optimistic nihilist and a evidence-borne hopeful misanthrope (i.e. I don’t think the human race is automatically stupid, but they are currently on all evidence so far but I wish they weren’t). We’re all gonna die soon, so enjoy yourself (it’s later in the epoch than you think). I’d…
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Ruth Coker Burks
Moving short film by Rose MacGowan about a hero, Ruth Coker Burks, who cared for, claimed and buried those abandoned during the AIDS crisis in Arkansas. This was when people wouldn’t even touch those with GRID/AIDS without gloves, families disowned their children, the plague brought out the worst in people except for the likes of…
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We Have Wandered Too Far…
Heard this on 6Music and was surprised to hear the dulcet tones of Alan Moore gracing ‘The Ghost of Watling St’ by Oddfellow’s Casino. Really nice and trippy, apparently written by request of John Higgs who has written a book about walking the whole of Watling Street. He’s more famous for a book about The…
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Pachelbel pwns the world
When comes to Pachelbel’s Canon in D Minor it’s easier to say which songs WEREN’T influenced by it…Streets of London, Let It Be, Go West, I Should Be So Lucky (which I think rips another classical piece too), Don’t Look Back In Anger, Puff The Magic Dragon, No Woman No Cry, Men At Work –…