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[kspr]

Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow does a pretty good version of it too-

[Vicious Parker]

Stepdad, Ordinaire EP

Heard them on the radio, they were apparently on Weeds, and I discovered after I started listening to this album that they're apparently based here in Grand Rapids, MI. Crazy.

http://stepdad.bandc...um/ordinaire-ep

[Monkeydog]

http://www.avclub.co...s-kansas,70708/

Beautiful.

[Donkeymog]

I didn't know GWAR were still going. Man, they must be so old now.

[kspr]

Hells yeah but ive never seen a bad GWAR show! got tickets for 11/21 in milwaukee

[Donkeymog]

Massive Attack - Rush Minute



I'm absolutely obsessed with the whole album. I've been really unenthusiastic about music for months and months. But the other day I gave this a spin and I've had it pretty much on repeat at the moment.

[Monkeydog]

Listening to Tig Notaro's stand-up act at The Largo a few months ago.

I heard a bit of it on This American Life and had to go buy it from Louis C.K.'s site. It's pretty hilarious.

[Donkeymog]

[kspr]

[Donkeymog]

Rubbish video but great song.

[Icey-kun]

[Vicious Parker]

[Phalanxman]

[Donkeymog]

[Phalanxman]

I can't find any YouTube of this, but I am listening to Star Wars in Character on my Zune.

[Stars]

Listening to the soundtrack for Bastion. Good stuff.

[Phalanxman]

I just watched the video in Bean's signature. Dear God, what has man kind created? O.O

[Xteven Xavier]

well I'm pretty sure the first part is the Indian Holiday that roughly translates to "the festival of Colors" It is the celebration they have every year for 5 days where they celebrate "The Hero" vanquishing the "evil Dragon King". I know it sounds crazy but it's true and kind of a cool belief if you ask me. And the rest seems like it's day to day life in India with some shots of the mountain ranges.

[Donkeymog]

/>I just watched the video in Bean's signature. Dear God, what has man kind created? O.O

that video has actually prompted some really interesting comments on the Interwebs. My favourite being this one:

Hey 'Imperar'/other people who find this interesting;

I first came across your virtual city by way of a cracked.com article. The article was written in a somewhat sneering and vitriolic way so I just thought I'd leave this comment to ballance the rhetoric that surrounds this project a little bit. I think I understand what and why you did this, and think people should give a bit more consideration to the artistic merits of virtual media rather than just blurting out the knee-jerk reaction of mixed fascination, disgust and contempt because the work is of an unsettling nature and the medium is a video game.

The whole "glorious dystopia" angle reminds me a little bit of the way of thinking that some of the leading members of the Bolsheviks and other revolutionary movements used to shape their vision of a better society which eventually lead to social orders that were destroyed not due to external pressures but because they failed so accutely to serve human needs that the people and the leaders alike simply decided that it would be better to cast that order into the blue chaos of the future.

The theme of sacred geometry also lines up quite nicely I think with the root cause of modern utopian thought - the society envisioned by Plato in "The Republic". Ofcourse our understanding of geometry is a purely mental construct, a basic if profound example of the power of reason which was exhalted by Plato above everything else and so put forward by him as the most fundamental cornerstone of his extremely dystopian and authoritarian "ideal" society. It's a disturbing echo of the modern need to insert reason and order into every aspect of our lives via the scientific method/engineering/other technical activities, the human consequences be left for the devil if the system stays afloat. The use of sacred geometry also represents I think an aspect of the mystical which is very personal and important to [some of] the engineers and other members of the modern technical classes (extropianism being one example) but completely removed from and above the lives of the mite-like inhabitants (or perhaps I should call them sacrificial lambs) of the inscrutable towers stacked neatly together across the space of the game's map.

I personally have very strong convictions about modern industrial society and where we're heading but I won't use this space as a platform to publish a 10k word essay outlining my entire world view, really I'm just here to show that you've made at least one person think.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, if you did,
J.0.

Sometimes I just love the Internerd.

[Monkeydog]

This. It's awesome.

I haven't really listened to The Decemberists, or anything, in a while. Even while driving me and Bee tend to just listen to our public radio station and listen to TAL and All Things Considered.
And I really haven't listened to this album much, but I had to do a bit of work I just wanted to get done and decided this was the best time to listen to it. I really like it more than I remember.

I am also very tired now.