January 2011
philolzophy asked: Do you know your MBTI?
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katherinestasaph asked: Your last post reminded me I was going to ask this -- as a dilettante, non-Irish listener, I'm lacking a lot of history and/or background with Irish music. Besides the obvious names, who should I familiarize myself with?
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An Addendum. [excerpted]
jakec:
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I am strongly pro music discussion, I think this goes without saying. However, what’s totally antithetical to worthwhile discussion are people who transparently and consistently parrot the editorial opinion of their favorite publication. And now to link what I said to Jonathan about the perennial problem of getting people to think for themselves to what Tom said:
And if the...
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skinsmusic:
Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
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Ireland, Mired In Crisis, Will Dissolve Its... →
pinkturnstoblue:
hardcorefornerds:
In other news, the next government will be carved completely out of bog oak, while the entire economy will consist of making sugar pills for Pfizer pharmaceuticals*.
*seriously, I wonder how much of our GDP is made up of exporting beer and whiskey, on the one hand, and commercial antidepressants, on the other, to America?
Holy crap this is crazy.
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Ireland, Mired In Crisis, Will Dissolve Its... →
In other news, the next government will be carved completely out of bog oak, while the entire economy will consist of making sugar pills for Pfizer pharmaceuticals*.
*seriously, I wonder how much of our GDP is made up of exporting beer and whiskey, on the one hand, and commercial antidepressants, on the other, to America?
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Shooting at Unarmed Men - ‘Punk Rock Killed...
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brianmlatimer asked: Which earplugs, specifically, did you get?
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Harmless Noise - Songs For The Deaf →
Really interesting post about listening to music, covering gigs, etc., with chronic (and apparently, congenital) tinnitus. I’ve had minor bouts of tinnitus all my life - just a mildly annoying and thankfully temporary ringing in my ears that has occurred on occasions, since long before I started going to gigs and recognising it as a frequent after-effect - and I think there’s a family...
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Rachel Maddux's Knocking the Suburbs →
rawkblog:
Pretty much everything I wanted to say about The Suburbs but never got around to doing.
yeah, fuck this album (seriously, how many times does it need to be said? WORST PIECE OF ART 2000-2010)
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“I am proud of our many achievements in the areas of planning, renewable energy,...”
– John Gormley, Green Party Leader: Full text of Green Party statement - The Irish Times - Sun, Jan 23, 2011
Was it worth it? Most people in Ireland probably don’t think so, but they would predominately be the 94% - conservative figures - of the population who never thought environmentalism...
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“Have you found what you’re looking for?
Do you know what you’re...”
– etchings on the run-out grooves of A Flight And A Crash, from the lyrics to ‘A Clear Line’
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Irish trio ready for vampire weekend - The Irish... →
“Neil Hannon is teaming up with Cathy Davey and Richie Egan to recreate Vampire Weekend’s debut album in its entirety.
The trio will put their own spin on tracks such as A-Punk, Mansard Roof and Oxford Comma as part of The JD Set
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When asked why he chose to undertake the New York band’s 2008 album for the gig, Hannon said that it was one of his “all-time favourite records”...
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“I mean really, why White Lies? What vacuum did nature abhor that much? Maybe...”
– Pitchfork: Album Reviews: White Lies: Ritual
This (Ian Cohen, 2.5) is pretty funny - and Editors are really the only ones out of that list that I like - but it uses almost exactly the same points as those made in the review of their first album (Marc Hogan, 4.0). Which ends on the line “In...
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tempted to start a politics blog called Hitler...
but things aren’t that bad yet*
*actual quote from someone in 1930s Europe.
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Pazz and Jop Voter Comments: From Kanye West to... →
“In their shared commitment to demolishing binary oppositions (East/West, Black/White, Us/Them), Vampire Weekend, Das Racist, and Titus Andronicus constitute what I like to think of as the “second wave of college rock,” one that’s absorbed the post-structuralist theory so prevalent on the ’80s campuses that birthed R.E.M. et al.”
(Jonah Wolf - New York, NY)
“One of the...
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Pazz and Jop Voter Comments: From Kanye West to... →
“In their shared commitment to demolishing binary oppositions (East/West, Black/White, Us/Them), Vampire Weekend, Das Racist, and Titus Andronicus constitute what I like to think of as the “second wave of college rock,” one that’s absorbed the post-structuralist theory so prevalent on the ’80s campuses that birthed R.E.M. et al.”
(Jonah Wolf - New York, NY)
“One of the...
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girl-non-grata asked: I will get a bunch of new followers whenever I'm involved in Tumblr drama -- particularly with its young feminist community -- and I always wonder how many of them follow to police me. So, just wanted to say I have no intention of watching in wait to criticize; I'm just curious about what you have to say.
girl-non-grata asked: I will get a bunch of new followers whenever I'm involved in Tumblr drama -- particularly with its young feminist community -- and I always wonder how many of them follow to police me. So, just wanted to say I have no intention of watching in wait to criticize; I'm just curious about what you have to say.
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Anonymous asked: Hey how u doin' misogynist?
Hey did you know that anti-feminism is anti-woman? And anti every damn minority or marginalised group there is? Educate yourself. Stop hating women.
Hey did you know that anti-feminism is anti-woman? And anti every damn minority or marginalised group there is? Educate yourself. Stop hating women.
Anonymous asked: Hey how u doin' misogynist?
Hey did you know that anti-feminism is anti-woman? And anti every damn minority or marginalised group there is? Educate yourself. Stop hating women.
Hey did you know that anti-feminism is anti-woman? And anti every damn minority or marginalised group there is? Educate yourself. Stop hating women.
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“Sorry to interrupt your Tumblr dashboard, but also? If you’ve asked someone...”
– Sady Doyle
I’ve said to myself that I’m not going to get into arguments with her again, and I’ve made an agreement with andrewtsks that it’s an uncomfortable situation for him and perhaps others, so all the more reason to avoid it, but how can I not respond to this? If only...
“Sorry to interrupt your Tumblr dashboard, but also? If you’ve asked someone...”
– Sady Doyle
I’ve said to myself that I’m not going to get into arguments with her again, and I’ve made an agreement with andrewtsks that it’s an uncomfortable situation for him and perhaps others, so all the more reason to avoid it, but how can I not respond to this? If only...
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andrewtsks:
hardcorefornerds:
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people, people, the word is “regressive”!
(as in, what the Privilege Denying Dude meme actually is instead of the “progressive” (as if that ever meant anything in itself) political statement it’s thought to be. even though I would not use the word myself, I approve of raptoravatar’s one-step-back-two-steps-forward approach to controversial language,...
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andrewtsks:
hardcorefornerds:
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people, people, the word is “regressive”!
(as in, what the Privilege Denying Dude meme actually is instead of the “progressive” (as if that ever meant anything in itself) political statement it’s thought to be. even though I would not use the word myself, I approve of raptoravatar’s one-step-back-two-steps-forward approach to controversial language,...
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WatchNew Grails this March! This is the promo video for Deep Politics, which opens with a trumpet solo and a coffin being lowered into the ground* (don’t worry, it’s at least a month old… but an eery reflection of the times or a ‘didn’t you see that coming?’ all the same), and according to the Altered Zones post I found this on: “followed by images [of] a dead...
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tempted to start a politics blog called Hitler...
but things aren’t that bad yet*
*actual quote from someone in 1930s Europe.
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'Free thinking from America'
Just in case you think no-one’s taking on the American right (emphases mine):
“Ireland’s economy is the seventh most free in the world, according to a new report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think-tank devoted to promoting free enterprise and minimal business regulations. Ireland fell one place but was ranked ahead of other developed countries such as the US, which...