Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising
“There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than “politicians” think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.”
- Michel Foucault
Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising - posted 2 weeks ago.
Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising
everyone has mentioned all of the so-called players in iran except for the real power-base: the money. wealthy iranians are no doubt displeased with iran’s tanking economy, and are looking to khamenei to correct it. a first good step towards this would be ahmadinejad’s ouster.
ayatollah khamenei no doubt realises that the days of the revolution are passing from the consciousness of the youth of iran. there is a shift of power occurring right before our eyes. khamenei and his advisors will remain in power, guided by a more moderate cabinet. one only needs to look at the website of dr. ali akbar velayati, former foreign minister and current policy advisor to the ayatollah.
http://www.velayati.ir/?lang=en&p=09
ahmadinejad, unless he can muster significant public support by wednesday, is done.
Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising - posted 2 weeks ago.
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Grizzly Bear. Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear. Why couldn’t they have opened for Radiohead in West Palm Beach instead of…of that band I was being too cool to watch? Their upcoming release, Veckatimest, is burning up the Internets; I imagine that it’s got to be simultaneously exciting and irritating for the band. Here’s the rub: for once, the hype is well-founded. I’ve tried to put in other CDs, I made a copy for my Starbucks barista at school, and I send people a link to the preview track put out by Warp Records all day long. If you dig it, please consider pre-ordering the album: they’ve put a lot of work into this album and I promise, it’ll be worth it come May.
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3 months ago.
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
— Thomas Paine - “The Crisis”
Quoted Thomas Paine - “The Crisis” - posted 5 months ago.≈
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The Breeders - Cannonball
This song still gets the hipsters dancing all up in the club!
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6 months ago.
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Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You
I’d swim across lake Michigan
I’d sell my shoes
I’d give my body to be back again
In the rest of the room
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
To be alone with you
You gave your body to the lonely
They took your clothes
You gave up a wife and a family
You gave your goals
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
You went up on a tree
To be alone with me you went up on the tree
I’ll never know the man who loved me
Nite peeps.
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6 months ago.
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Portishead - Machine Gun
I must admit, I was pretty upset upon my first listening of Portishead’s most recent release, Third. Then I remembered back to all of the other albums that I’d hated upon first listen; I reminded myself to put tape over the slot of my car’s CD changer and drive for a few hours. I was on I-595 a day later, driving out west the first time that I really “heard” this song. Now, I-595 splitting off from I-95 in South Florida isn’t a country road; it can be a busy little monster. I got really amped and got the speedometer down to about 90, and I passed a figure walking not-quite-along-the-side of this 10-lane leviathan, all dressed in black. Totally creeped me out, in a good way; I was endowed with a profound sense of solitude.
Anyway, pop this in your CD player and push the pedal down, unless you live in South Carolina; I’d strongly suggest you drive the speed limit there.
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6 months ago.
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Elliott Smith- Because (Beatles Cover)
Because the wind is high it blows my mind
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6 months ago.
I was given the name Leo not quite 30 years ago, yet I'm still trying to define myself otherwise. I could be described as a postmodern deconstructionist anarcho-capitalist. I think we've all forgotten who we are, to a certain extent. This is my attempt to find myself, or you. If you think you know who I am, or who you are, or that I know who you are, or who you might be someday, feel free to engage me at any time: leo (at) amnesiacs (dot) org
