Musings Of A Cigarette-Smoking Man

(Cute fact intended to make the author look unique yet relatable)

[billis-blog]

Art-works of the highest rank are distinguished from the others not through their successes--for in what have they succeeded?--but through the manner of their failure.

Adorno, Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music, pp. 99-100

[cardboardamerica]

Oasis Apt. Motel - Miami Beach, Florida

Completely Air-conditioned and Heated 6580 Indian Creek Drive Miami Beach, Florida Completely modern and entirely new. Every facility for your vacation. Magnificent swimming pool. Waterfront patio. Card room. TV lounge, Boat dockage and fishing on premises. Free parking right at your door. Phone UNion 6-4671

[billis-blog]

Just down the block

[sound-creature-deactivated20260]

Ryuichi Sakamoto explains the Fairlight CMI

[yimmyayo]

[morphene-gimlet]

there were rumors of Inequality

[design-is-fine]

Paul Klee, Park of idols | Götzen-Park, 1939. Watercolor. Zentrum Paul Klee. Via wiki. 

[metropolitanrecluse]

[nprmusic]

I hate Bach. No rests. No swing. No nothin’.

79-year-old jazz drumming legend Tootie Heath, everybody.  (via nprmusic)

Playing jazz may be fun, but I would rather be waterboarded to the Brandenburg concertos than here another fucking drum solo

[paxamericana]

[breakcoreliker69-deactivated201]

Thanks for considering my résumé. I'm really excited to sell myself to this behemoth of capitalist exploitation

[billis-blog]

r/getmotivated = r/copingwithcapitalism

[protoslacker]

NotPercy203  

A short film by Adam Curtis screened during Charlie Brooker’s review of 2014 on the BBC; shows the how deliberate undermining of peoples perception of the world, by manipulating the media and civil society, creates confusion and contradiction, undermining any opposition to existing power structures. This strategy has allowed quantitative easing to go almost unnoticed and unchallenged, even though it is the biggest transfer of wealth to the rich in recent documented history.

Andrew Butler at Films for Action. Nonlinear Warfare - A New System of Political Control (2014)

[billis-blog]

maybe the most theory-heavy bit of broadcast television that I've ever seen.  bravo, mr. curtis.

[headless-horse]

El ojo eterno - Grete Stern, 1950

[billis-blog]

James Flacco or James Franco?

[billis-blog]

Zizek may have legit plagiarized one of my term papers on Wagner's Ring Cycle

[billis-blog]

obama: "building the keystone pipeline would probably not lower oil prices and would only have a marginal impact on the US economy-- we should support it because oil companies will make a lot of money."

comments:  "leftist!"

[mote-historie]

Art Nouveau in Brussels

1904

6 rue de Lac, Brussels, Belgium

Architect: Ernest de Lune (Belgian,1859-1947)

[billis-blog]

jeopardy category: 3-letter first names

a: to detect a weapon a police officer might do this "down"

q: what is gun?

incorrect. correct question: what is pat?