Delicious Obscurities

Welcome to the sometimes very odd, often scattered, musical tastes of my tumblr. Also featuring the random visual metaphora to go hand in hand. Suggestions?

[pulpsatorsquare]

tumblr fucking sucks now.

[tranarchist]

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

Verizon is leaving the engine of internet culture to sputter and die, and its communities to scramble for a new home.

A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September, shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.

Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure out how to better monetize.

On that note-

Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge, “Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.”

[smitethestate]

Capitalism is disgusting and ruins everything.

[st-pam]

[pulpsatorsquare]

Thoughts

Every time I've found myself at an impasse with my art, especially so for music, there's always been some deep non-truth I've been harboring and when I let that go and dive through the waves of my own fears I am, rather quickly, floating effortlessly with the currents of my own destiny. Do not forget your flow.

[crispypiratedestiny]

[iheartmyart]

Zelko Nedic, Passive Observe, 2013

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[redlipstickresurrected]

Christian Vincent (American, b. 1966, Santa Monica, CA, USA) - 1: Long Bridge, 2015  2: Pelham, 2015  3: Return, 2015  4: The Space Between, 2012  Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[nvm-illustration]

‘BDP’ Borderline personality disorder (BPD), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder, is a long term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by unstable relationships with other people, unstable sense of self, and unstable emotions. There is often an extreme fear of abandonment, frequent dangerous behavior, a feeling of emptiness, and self-harm. Symptoms may be brought on by seemingly normal events. The behavior typically begins by early adulthood and occurs across a variety of situations. Substance abuse, depression, and eating disorders are commonly associated with BPD. About 6% to 10% of those with BPD die by suicide.

[gabrielaazel]

[retreatsyndromeofjapan-deactiva]

Haruomi Hosono (Yellow Magic Orchestra) @ Hurrah (Broadway and 62nd Street, New York, NY) 1979

[Yellow Magic Orchestra’s “Trans Atlantic Tour”]

[melisica]

Sadly, too many of us stay together far longer than we should, ‘cause it’s easier to sayI love you than it is to sayI don’t.

Beau Taplin, love you anymore (via melisica)

[danielodowd-deactivated20170124]

http://iriska.vsco.co/

[nevver]

Arthur Rimbaud

[pulpsatorsquare]

This evokes a lot of feelings, not all of them agreement.

[nicethingsinuglyhandwriting]

If it is still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk // Paulo Coelho.

[pulpsatorsquare]

I don't know what the background is behind these guys, but I found them on accident and they deserve way more attention than this video has gotten. By then again maybe that's just me.

[lifeinpoetry]

I tend to forget I’m walking on the surface of a soft mass on fire on the inside, a surface warmed and lit by an explosion taking place ninety-three million miles away. An explosion that started at some point and will end at some point. I tend to forget that I rose out of this explosion and— despite my feeling I am unique from it— will someday fall back into it.

Sarah Manguso, from The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir  (via cactus–flowers)

Something for me to read

[pulpsatorsquare]

Sometimes I can't tell if being alone is the best or worst thing possible for me.

[pulpsatorsquare]

I'm going to put together a cover of this song. It shall be glorious.