Shibuya Commando

Fantasy ranting and aesthetic daydreams. 2AM shitposts. Angry political provocations. Your host this evening; a punk.

[viralthings]

Monks confused by band name

[slo-djinn]

Maybe they also are into grunge

[patronsaintofqualityfootwear]

#theyre probably not confused and are just the funniest people on earth

[ianhoolian-deactivated20250803]

[onemorepagethenbed]

Paul is THE bassist. His reggae basslines and incredible sense of musicianship is unparalleled. A bloody brilliant lad.

[yesterdaysprint]

Tokyo, Japan, 1927

[blogging-at-your-funeral]

[lessdanthree]

what drugs were they on when they made this

[meanmisscharles]

Cab Calloway rotascoped!

[badgyal-k-deactivated20190901]

Whoever thought of this was drinking absinthe

[protectblkwomen]

Thanks, Now I have nightmares

[brunhiddensmusings]

this was long before cartoons were ever thought of as ‘for kids’, the target audience of this one was roughly 20-40 betty boop cartoons featuring cab calloway singing, yes, but slang has changed so much you dont realize he was singing about opium, sugar daddies, death, weed, sex, booze, and gambling back when gambling was nearly as tabboo as sex and drugs. ‘minnie the moocher’ where cab calloway is a dancing walrus is specifically about someone who does literally everything on that list but die

most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic

[peathefeary]

idk why this is making me so emotional???

[mcloveleigh]

I love this. I’ve always had a love for cartoons

[melaninondeck-deactivated201907]

Cab Calloway, he was a legend performer and entertainer, although he’s listed as a jazz singer he did much more with his voice, his singing style and delivery was very unique. Cab (with his band) was the first black artist to sell over a million copies of a single record and he paved the way for many artists to come. Happy Black History Month.

[impormable]

sorry to make this long post longer, but I feel like it needed some actual photos of Cab Calloway, who is, in fact, the greatest

[onemorepagethenbed]

"Never underestimate the combination of high velocity stick and white supremacist kneecap"

[onemorepagethenbed]

It has become inevitable to educate ourselves in surviving this world which so ruthlessly, with it's laws, systems and norms press down on the people. I want to share a few book tips with you all, books that I have really been inspired by. First one out is the collected diaries and texts by Subcomandante Marcos, member of the Zapatist Guerilla in Mexico. Marcos is and was a low officer fighting, mainly in the 90s, for freedom with the largely indigenous EZLN - the Zapatist Guerilla. He's a masterful author mixing strikingly real portraits of people in the midst of conflict with his own fictional vignettes in a book which really taught me a lot about Guerilla warfare and the situation of South America's indigenous people. Get it, read it, educate yourself.

[onemorepagethenbed]

I stand with #BlackLivesMatter and to be honest, I want to see police authority burn to the ground.

[80sretroelectro]

The Climatron, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, Missouri. Scan

[thespilledquotes]

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959

[onemorepagethenbed]

It just dawned on me that Minecraft Villagers are practically Parshmen

O.O

[motherbychoice]

Care to debate abortion?

Nah

[reproductivejusticeandliberty]

Mood. -V

[kiwianaroha]

This reminds me of a party I went to last year. I was standing with some friends, chatting, and someone said something that indirectly implied that sexism exists. Some trivial recounting of the basic facts of daily life for most women. Something so mild, so uncontroversial, so mundane that I don’t even remember what it was. 

Suddenly, this man standing on the outskirts of our conversational circle piped up with “actually, I think men are more discriminated against than women these days.”

 All conversation died.

I turned to look at him and he had this smug, insufferable grin on his face, relishing this moment, expecting us to waste our time and energy refuting this ridiculous thing he had just said.

The Devil’s Advocate was among us.

And, in my mind, I saw the next 15+ minutes playing out. The parade of facts and statistics in a vain attempt to defend ourselves, our gender, and to prove that misogyny is real. The glib, snide denials from some shithead who is getting off on our pain and frustration. The Gish Gallop of bullshit that would take a whole evening to properly dismantle. It was depressing and overwhelming. I hated it. I had to kill it before it began.

So I looked him dead in the eye and I said “OK,“ shrugged, and just walked away. 

Nothing I have ever said to another human being has ever been so crushing. As I walked away, I watched the smug grin vanish and confusion and anxiety set in. The rest of the group turned their backs to him and carried on as if he had never spoken - as if he was invisible. He was still staring at me when I walked over to another friend and told her what he had said. I pointed him out for her and made direct eye contact with him while we both laughed.

tl;dr: Don’t feed the troll. Let it perish, cold and hungry, in the wasteland of your indifference. It is weak and you are strong. Live your best life.

[iamthemagpie-deactivated2023052]

Legendary

[jotaro-souped]

[im-just-a-penguin]

Ah, so this is what you do when you don’t have any arguments at all and you know you’re wrong? Just ignoring people when they say something you can’t possible refute?

[motherbychoice]

My favorite thing about this post is that, several times, people such as the last one have tried to start arguments (badly disguised as ‘debate’). And those attempts are being resolutely ignored.

It’s beautiful. 😁😍🥰

[onemorepagethenbed]

Whenever I'm scared of a spider, I just imagine it having a really kind male australian voice.

[onemorepagethenbed]

I may not be living in the seventies with my Rock and Roll gods, and I may not be living in the far future, exploring the beaches and mountains of Proxima Centauri, but I am living in the same era as Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss, and I am perfectly content with that.

[onemorepagethenbed]

Summer pic & hat reveal folks

[onemorepagethenbed]

Whenever I'm scared of a spider, I just imagine it having a really kind male australian voice.

[catchymemes]

Animal Reviews!

Source: facebook.com

[ineptshieldmaid]

ahem. @piratejenne

[jaskaliina]

We raccoons deserved those last two stars. The creator of this post is right in saying that we are ancient and powerful and know how to handle trash, but we. Are. Not. Filthy. Only by human standards.

[textsfromtheclocktower]