In the Presence of Others

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...we’re already connecting. And that’s more meaningful than who you follow online, none of that shit means anything. It’s way more important that we’ve done this interview, it’ll have a way longer shelf life than a follow.

Interview | Jam City I urge everyone to read this interview. http://subbacultcha.nl/2015-03-23/interview-jam-city#.VRglxpOUc8Y

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My aim is to always create a feeling that will allow the listener to feel like they're transcending the world around them. I love music that reminds you that humanity hasn't forgotten you, music that creates a spark within you.

Lydia Ainsworth - Subbacultcha Magazine Feb 2015

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Tiny Desk Contest Entrant: Manatee Commune (Grant Eadie)

City: Bellingham, Wash.

Original Song: “WAKE”

Just wait for it. - Kate

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If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.

David Foster Wallace

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I feel very strongly, that it is not enough to just live in the world as it is and just take what you are given, to follow the things that adults told you to do … and that society tells you to do. I think you should always be questioning. I take this very scientific attitude that everything you’ve learned is just provisional, that it’s always open to recantation, refutation, or questioning. And I think the same applies to society. Once I realized that there were real serious problems that I could do something to address, I didn’t see a way to forget that. I didn’t see a way not to.

Aaron Swartz

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I think I'd be happy in life if I could find someone to get high and discuss Icelandic music and the issues present in contemporary feminism with.

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How to Dress Well - "Childhood Faith in Love (Everything Must Change, Everything Must Stay the Same)"

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Listen/purchase: Doomtree Standards by Doomtree

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A racist woman is not a feminist; she doesn’t care about helping women, just the women who look like her and can buy the same things she can.A transphobic woman is not a feminist; she is overly concerned with policing the bodies and expressions of others.A woman against reproductive rights — to use bell hook’s own example, and an issue close to your heart — is not a feminist; she prioritizes her dogma or her disgust over the bodies of others. An ableist woman is not a feminist; she holds some Platonic ideal of what a physically or mentally “whole” person should be and tries to force the world to fit inside it.

An Open Letter to Caitlin Moran by Nyux (via jizeru-jueru)

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fake deep "Fake Deep" is a poem written by Cecile Emeke and performed by (in order of appearance): Michelle Tiwo, Emma Carryl, Stephanie Levi-John, Naomi Ackie, Nneka Okoye and Modupe Salu. "And he will run us all through the female checklist, like he's shopping at a store. Because obtaining a partner is a capitalist exchange. It's just like any other purchase you exchange."

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Omar Holmon and Anthony Ragler - “An Open Letter to Black People in Horror Movies "Don’t go check on the white guy. His privilege will protect him."  Performing for NYC- Urbana at the 2014 National Poetry Slam. Subscribe to Button on YouTube!

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Justin Townes Earle - "White Gardenias" Whenever someone remembers Billie Holiday they always say that she was an amazing singer, and a junkie. No one ever remembers that little girl from Baltimore. 

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Ásgeir: NPR Tiny Desk Concert

"On that Day" "Torrent" "Higher"

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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

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Parker Millsap - "At the Bar (Emerald City Blues)" "I've a weakness for waltzes, I'm a sucker for sad songs..."   "Don't get me wrong, I'm as happy as the daytime is long but in a melancholy melody thats the place I belong."

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The scenes of our life resemble pictures in rough mosaic; they are ineffective from close up, and have to be viewed from a distance if they are to run beautiful. That is why to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and why, though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past.

Arthur Schopenhauer - "On the Vanity of Existence" The premise of this essay is one that I have struggled to conceptualize in a positive manner. To appreciate the happiness that exists in those transient moments of the present, I believe that you must regard them, rather than as a "road to a goal", as individual instances that in of themselves contain the beauty required for happiness. To assume the individual components of a mosaic are "ineffective", particularly in analogy to the transient moments of life, feels to me a fallacy. It's clear in both life and art, sometimes the smallest of things contain the greatest amount of beauty, and by metaphorical extension, happiness.