Don Pizarro's Manual of the Seven Wudan Tiger Shaolin Monkey Kung-Fu Style o' Death
It’s being called Nixonmaxxing, and it involves a series of slickly edited social media videos that cut archival Nixon footage to rap tracks and turn the 37th president into the sort of stone-cold, sigma male-style antihero that Gen Z bros can’t get enough of these days.
Who wants to bet on how soon we get to Marcosmaxxing or Allendemaxxing? Or on whether we’ll just end up straight at Hitlermaxxing?
The timestamp says I took this picture 12 years ago.
After nine attempts, the City of Ithaca received state funding to invest in housing and businesses from the Commons down to Meadow Street.
There are two reasons you could observe the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald year round…
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You could observe it anytime wherever Great Lakes Brewing Company beers are sold…
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Or…
“From 1875 to 1975, there were at least 6,000 commercial shipwrecks on the bottom of the Great Lakes,” [writer John U.] Bacon told NPR. “So that is one shipwreck a week every week for a century. That is one casualty every day for a century.”
via NPR
…Daryl Hall, of Hall and Oates, worked with Robert Fripp of King Crimson to do his own Aleister Crowley-inspired album in the 1970s.
-Peter Bebergal, Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
via io9.
See also: You’ll Pay the Devil, All Right
I know I’m not the first person to make this observation, but I’ve known about the video for “She’s Gone” by Hall & Oates for almost as long as I’ve been listening to Abandoned Luncheonette (we’ve both been around for a little while). And I’ve always had trouble reconciling this staple of AOR and Lite Rock radio stations with the sheer what-the-fuckery of the video.
Watch it. I dare you. Go on.
Now tell me what’s more disturbing: the Neanderthal shape of Daryl Hall’s head, or John Oates looking even more satanic than the actual devil portrayed in the video?
I mean, Jeebus… *shudder*
Bet you feel a cold chill when you think of his “Private Eyes” seeing your every move now, don’t you?
Via 500 Letters…
Don (°1973, United States) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, Don presents everyday objects as well as references to texts, painting and architecture. Pompous writings and Utopian constructivist designs are juxtaposed with trivial objects. Categories are subtly reversed.
His artworks demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. With a subtle minimalistic approach, he creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic and a cool and neutral imagery is used.
His practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for manoeuvring with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of art: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. With the use of appropriated materials which are borrowed from a day-to-day context, his works references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.
He creates situations in which everyday objects are altered or detached from their natural function. By applying specific combinations and certain manipulations, different functions and/or contexts are created.
Yup, that sounds about right.
…I’m following this advice that comedian J.B. Smoove gives to Macy Gray.
This notion isn’t new. The band Toto has known this for about thirty-five years now.
It’s true that a good offense is the best defense.
In Filipino Martial Arts, a good offense sometimes involves taking your attacker and “picking the eyes out, and of course, let him eat it.”
Well, of course. Because why stop at taking out the kidney when you can FEED YOUR ATTACKER HIS OWN EYEBALLS!!
Just three of the reasons I’m proud to be Filipino:
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Toadies of Filipino martial arts practitioners talk the best smack…
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We take Good Friday really fucking seriously…
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We… uhh… apparently also take cosplay really fucking seriously…
(The video’s in Tagalog, but you’ll get the gist.)
Reminds me of what Dad always used to say: “Aba!”
I was doing research down a line similar to this–I guess you could call it music video anthropology–and I stumbled on some live performances from the Tower of Power of their classic song “So Very Hard To Go,” performed by various line-ups of the band over 35 or so years.
Now, I’m not saying anything about quality. Just that one of these is not like the others.
I’m just saying.