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Essays, reviews, music, videos, and lots of strangeness

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Fucking right shit here 

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Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy

I’m surprised that Tyler was able to concoct an album like this. It’s themes are raw and powerful, his production is fantastic, his lyrics are amazing, nothing to complain about here. 

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Best Albums of 2016:

Kanye West: The Life of Pablo 

Best Track: Ultralight Beam

Angel Olsen: My Woman 

Best Track: Shut Up Kiss Me

Mitski: Puberty 2

Best Track: Your Best American Girl

Solange: A Seat at the Table

Best Track: Cranes in the Sky

Blood Orange: Freetown Sound

Best Track: Hadron Collider

A Tribe Called Quest: We Got it From Here

Best Track: We The People...

Anderson .Paak: Malibu

Best Track: Am I Wrong

Paul Simon: Stranger to Stranger

Best Track: Wristband

Bon Iver: 22, A Million

Best Track: 33 "GOD”

Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial 

Best Track: Fill in the Blank

David Bowie: Blackstar

Best Track: Blackstar

Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition 

Best Track: Really Doe

Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool

Best Track: Daydreaming

Leonard Cohen: You Want it Darker

Best Track: You Want it Darker

Chance the Rapper: Coloring Book

Best Track: No Problem

Beyoncé: Lemonade 

Best Track: Hold Up

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree

Best Track: Rings of Saturn 

Frank Ocean: Blonde

Best Track: Ivy

Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor’s Guide to Earth

Best Track: Brace for Impact (Live a Little)

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Frank Ocean: Blonde ~ 9.4/10

This album is fantastic. It is a great sophomore effort. His voice is gorgeous, the track with Andre 3000 is mesmerizing. The production is spot on. It’s just a fantastic masterpiece. Not much else to say. It almost bests Channel Orange.

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https://soundcloud.com/shawnosterhus/the-district-sleeps-alone-tonight

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https://soundcloud.com/shawnosterhus/pool-of-possibilities-instrumental

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Rest in peace, David Bowie

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https://soundcloud.com/shawnosterhus/why-i-am-voting-for-bernie-sanders

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Happy 2016 Go @berniesanders

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Merry Christmas

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Top Albums of 2015

Baio: The Names

Top Track - I Was Born in a Marathon

Blur: The Magic Whip

Best Track - Lonesome Street

Empress Of: Me

Best Track - Standard

Earl Sweatshirt: I Don’t Like Sh*t, I Don’t Go Outside (An Album by Earl Sweatshirt)

Top Track: Grief

Laura Marling: Short Movie

Top Track: Worship Me

Neon Indian: VEGA INTL. Night School

Top Track - Annie

Dr. Dre’s: Compton

Top Track: Genocide

Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Style

Top Track - Something Soon

Wilco: Star Wars

Top Track: Random Name Generator

Patty Griffin: Servant of Love

Top Track: There Isn’t One Way

Natalie Prass: Natalie Prass (Self-Titled)

Top Track - Christy

Hippo Campus: South

Top Track - South

Low: Ones and Sixes

Top Track - No Comprende

Panda Bear: Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

Top Track: Mr Noah

Deerhunter: Fading Frontier

Top Track - Living My Life

Tobias Jesso Jr.: Goon

Top Track - Without You/How Could You Babe

Majical Cloudz: Are You Alone?

Top Track - Downtown

Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Top Track - Pedestrian At Best

Sleater-Kinney: No Cities to Love

Top Track - A New Wave

Grimes: Art Angels

Top Track - Flesh Without Blood

Donnie Trumpet: Surf

Top Track - Sunday Candy

Deafheaven: New Bermuda

Top Track - Come Back

Jamie xx: In Colour

Top Track - Loud Places

Destroyer: Poison Season

Top Track - The River

James McMurtry: Complicated Game

Top Track - We Can’t Make it Here

Tame Impala: Currents

Top Track - The Less I Know The Better

Julia Hotler: Have You in My Wilderness

Top Track - Feel You

Adele: 25

Best Track - Hello

TOP FIVE ALBUMS OF 2015

Father John Misty: I Love You, Honeybear

Top Track - Bored in the USA

Vince Staples: Summertime ‘06

Top Track - Norf Norf

Kacey Musgraves: Pageant Material

Top Track - Biscuits

Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly

Top Track - Alright

Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell

Top Track - No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross

Thanks for reading!

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Moral Decline

I was listening to Glenn Beck heading to college this morning. He and one of his associates were acting sarcastic as they described their opinion of the refugees. They basically called them all Sharia Law Muslims who hate western ideals. I imagine if I called in and asked for evidence they will call me a "libtard" and uneducated. I've heard this many times, and I'm not even a fan of Beck's show. Since the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, the world has gone into immense panic and is slowly going uncontrollably. The most dangerous part is the Islamic State (ISIS), though it's closely followed by xenophobic nationalism. Mike Huckabee is one of the leaders of this irrational madness. He believes that ALL the immigrants are potential terror subjects. What's frightening is that these refugees are running away from a holocaust. The refugees are ESCAPING. They are not trying to be immigrants. Conservatives seem to ignore that all these refugees own for the most part is the clothes on their back. There's nothing in Syria that's worth returning for. I hear from Fox and 1280/The Patriot that the refugees are cowards for leaving the country. Now think about that for a minute… Syria is the most dangerous country in the world at this moment. It's having a civil war between four parties, head government, Kurds, ISIS, and the Rebels. IF you've been watching conservative news, this following part will probably be news to you. ISIS is not interested in establishing a country. They do not serve a main, supreme leader. They essentially are the Crips except that they are in the Middle East. All they want are people dead and impose their version of Islam on their victims. Okay. So, ISIS happily goes to a city under siege, and kill whatever group is defending it, and then takes control of the city. They walk into the city and declare the Islamic State is the new king of the house. They then impose right-wing ideology and Sharia Law to the subjects. Conservatives must love that ISIS decides who is loyal or not to their cause. So, ISIS gives the men and women a chance to join their worthy cause. If the men agree, they are quickly trained and radicalized. If women agree, they get to be wives of leaders and live "comfortably". Now, if a male disagrees, he is usually executed either through a shot in the head, blown up, decapitated, burned, gouged, among other examples. Conservatives couldn't care less about any of this. To them, the innocents are worth less than ISIS. Women on the other hand can become sex slaves. Girl's as young as nine are given to leaders and are concubines who have sex whenever their master says so. They'll be doing this for the rest of their lives. Now, conservatives call all this horror "too bad". They don't care to remedy this situation. It's almost as if they want meant to be slaughtered and women raped, since they seemingly want to promote this Islamic State Holocaust. They argue that ALL the young men coming over are members of ISIS, trying to fool the FBI. No evidence of this exists, but they proclaim this lie to the entire country. I know this piece is very scornful towards conservatives, but I cannot view them as moral Christians. They are more concerned for things out of their control then they could be for innocent victims. Jesus did not come here to save rich, conservative, white people. He died for everyone. And that's why when you do not love someone else as you love yourself, you are breaking God's greatest commandment. John 13:34

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Love you Aunt Cindy. I’ll see ya again some day :(

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https://soundcloud.com/renonemontanez1/painful-transition

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