Badluck Pond's

Flotsam for the Quixotic

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Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

Robert A. Johnson

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TV On The Radio Caffeinated Consciousness Live Recording KCRW September 30, 2011

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Percentage of caffeine in milligrams per fluid ounce.

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F’n up, pretty, pretty, ... pretty good.

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Johnny "Guitar" Watson Gangster Of Love 1958 “I robbed the local beauty contest For their first place winner They found her with me out in Hollywood Eating a big steak dinner They tried to get her to go back To pick up her prize She stood up and told them You just don't realize.” Read more: Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love Lyrics | MetroLyrics 

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Home Alone 2 callback joke from the first film, as the main character deceives people with the soundtrack of the fictitious film Angels With Even Filthier Souls. A title inspired from the James Cagney gangster film Angels With Dirty Faces 

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I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream

Home Alone, John Hughes

Simpsons, Matt Groening

Salad Fingers, David Firth

Vincent, Tim Burton

“Ghost Face” Scream, Wes Craven

“The Silence” Dr. Who

The Scream After Munch, Andy Warhol

Nuclear Scream, Winston Smith

The Star Scream, Ninjaink

by Marina Galperina

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Separation Edvard Munch 1896, Oil on Canvas, Munch Museet

Separation II Edvard Munch 1896, Lithograph,  Bergen Kunstmuseum

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AM/FM Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen cover) from the album Getting into Sinking https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/#artist/amfm

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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Leonard Cohen Observer May 2, 1993

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Rain Room Random International Rain Room is an environment of falling water through which it is possible to walk, trusting that a path can be navigated, without being drenched in the process.As you progress through the space the sound of water and a suggestion of moisture fill the air, before you are confronted by this carefully choreographed downpour that responds to your movements and presence.  http://random-international.com/work/rainroom/ http://www.yuzmshanghai.org/rain-room/

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The Gentle Waves Weathershow http://jeepster.co.uk/

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Dave Sandford “Liquid Mountains” The waves of Lake Erie in November. http://www.boredpanda.com/the-freak-liquid-mountains-of-lake-erie/ http://www.davesandfordphotos.com/

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Sinusoidal wave going trough entire human audio spectrum, starting at 20Hz and ending at 20kHz. Note that the frequency increases exponentially, the idea was to increase the frequency by constant fraction of currently played frequency rather than by a constant value (which would result in clearly noticeable fast change at lower frequencies and nearly no change at higher frequencies).

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Courtesy of: http://the-weird-wide-web.tumblr.com/

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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

George Orwell "Politics and the English Language," 1946