Blood On The Wall – “Lightning Song”
Liferz
Loved this song as soon as I heard it. Blood On The Wall are hit-or-miss, but they can hit pretty hard, particularly when the lady is singing instead of the guy. I love that “Lightning Song” is exactly the length and depth it wants to be – it’s just a perfectly crafted song.
Health care lobbyists spending millions on those closest to legislation
“The industry and interest groups have spent $380m (£238m) in recent months influencing healthcare legislation through lobbying, advertising and in direct political contributions to members of Congress. The largest contribution, totalling close to $1.5m, has gone to the chairman of the senate committee drafting the new law.”
This is making me sick.
Sign on my street last night.
Let not thy breeches be too tight, or hang too loose about thy thighs, like the trunk-hose of our ancestors.
–a just medium prevents all conclusions.
– By all that is hirsute and gashly!
Nothing is more human and fallible than the dynastic or hereditary principle, and Islam has been racked from its birth by squabbles between princelings and pretenders, all claiming the relevant drop of original blood. If the total of those claiming descent from the founder was added up, it would probably exceed the number of holy nails and splinters that went to make up the thousand-foot cross on which, judging by the number of splinter-shaped relics, Jesus was evidently martyred.
Autotune the Cosmos
Carl Sagan accompanies himself in this, the best “autotune the” video I’ve seen so far.
Consumers value shininess in nearly everything
A description of the ingredients in your shampoo. Unlike toothpaste, in which there are many active ingredients, in shampoo there are usually only a handful out of the 20 or 30 included. I thought my shampoo was relatively plain but it’s packed full of goodness like polyquaternium-7. That sounds like another goddamn planet.
The album art for Cul de Sac’s Death of the Sun has always intrigued me. Not having a physical copy of the album meant I had no access to the liner notes. I decided that I needed to know who the painter was, and put it up on Ask Metafilter. No luck, although they turned me on to Corot. One person had the contact info for the album art designer, whom I emailed – and shortly after got a reply from the main guy in the band. The artist is Antonio Fontanesi, a Barbizon school painter who actually lived in Japan during their 19th century policy of isolation.
There are a few of his paintings available in high quality here, including “Aprile,” (above) which was cropped down for Death of the Sun. Very desolate, very beautiful.
High-fiving people hailing cabs. That’s awesome.
