Sean's Happy Place

I'm a privileged white male who likes punk rock, hip-hop, classical literature, and contemplating the meaning of life so long as he doesn't actually have to change his lifestyle

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It’s still hard being a woman out here, but if you need example from some queens here’s a playlist to help you along. Because The Night - Shirley Manson and Screaming Females Desire - Dilly Dally Meds and Feds - MIA Rat Race - Brody Dalle Iron Moon - Chelsea Wolfe Satellite - The Kills  Disco//Very, Keep it Healthy - Warpaint Warm Like Summer - Braids Cheerleader - St Vincent Kool Thing - Sonic Youth Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Pedestrian At Best - Courtney Bartnett  A New Wave - Sleater-Kinney Every Single Night - Fiona Apple Dunes - Alabama Shakes I Feel Love - The Dead Weather All Your Gold - Bat For Lashes I Love Myself Today - Bif Naked Man-Size - PJ Harvey  Rebel Girl - Bikini Kill Disparate Youth - Santigold Mountains Beyond Mountains - Arcade Fire Losing to the Dark - La Sera Give Out - Sharon Van Etten  The Garden - July Talk Air Wave - Crystal Castles  Monument - Robyn & Röyksoop Klapp Klapp - Little Dragon No Room For Doubt - Lianne La Havas Window Seat - Erykah Badu 

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Also, “Woman of Intention” by the almighty Deap Vally \m/

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"If Drake is the voice of our generation, we are all fucking doomed," writes critic Meaghan Garvey, who has a Drake tattoo.

“The dissonance between what Drake claims to represent—an honest, relatable, complicated auteur who has propelled himself from the bottom-ish into the pantheon of GOATs and implores us to "know ourselves"—and who he seems to really be is at once surreal and frighteningly familiar. It’s about the banal sociopathy of late capitalism, brand over soul, a charming huckster playing an infinite shell game. It’s the triumph of content creation, analytics over everything, the numb acceptance of Sprite as our House of Medici. It’s about lying to yourself and the world for so long that you actually start to believe it. Maybe Drake is the ultimate millennial rapper. Look what we’ve done.”

Analytics over everything.

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Moor Mother Goddess mixes artful Afro­futurism with a heavy dose of the here and now

Although I’d known Camae Defstar for years — as co-founder of ROCKERS!, a regular showcase for punk and heavy rock bands featuring people of color — this appearance at queer/Afrofuturist art party Chrome City was the first time I had seen her perform as Moor Mother Goddess. I’d heard it was next-level, but this was a whole other world.

Defstar first started this project in late 2012, when her band, Philly punk legends Mighty Paradocs, went on hiatus. Since then, Moor Mother Goddess, aka MMGz, has released nearly a dozen self-produced EPs and albums, most of which are available on bandcamp.com. “I wanted to make music that I could do alone,” she says. “The name is me honoring the mother, particularly the Black/Moor mother. …The sound aesthetic is something that is based on memory, ancestral memory.”

MMGz songs are often named for and exalting the memory of influential Black women: Marian Anderson, Ruby Dee, Maya Angelou and more. MMGz’s lo-fi/homemade sound pulls equally from hip-hop, punk, noise, blues and free jazz. Ragged, clattering beats rub up against spiraling samples that thrust in and out of the mix.

An indigenous African understanding of time and space is central to the MMGz aesthetic. The past is presented as a living thing, the future is a place where death is transcended and our ancestors possess the spiritual power to affect contemporary events. “We all need a more African outlook,” she says. “In Bantu tribes, they view time different, in other African tribes they don’t have a word for death. Ways of thinking/moving have definitely been flipped around.” [Read More]

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#NowPlaying #Catharsis #Healing

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#MetalMonday

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(via Meet the Burmese Punks Feeding Their Country's Homeless)

"The homeless people thought we were different because of the color of our hair. They told us to go away and ran away at first," Kyaw Kyaw told me. "But now they know we're good people.” Musicians gathering to give food to homeless families. This is the coolest news story I’ve read in the last month.

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 “What’s that? Can’t tell

Handheld dream, shot in hell

Deep space ghetto streets

Show me something I ain’t seen before”

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I came up from the bottom, said hello to Satan Before I crack through the earth's crust Post up, drink good, and smoke blunts When I was coming up, they were clapping at ya'll But nowadays the chopper's givin' applause See, if the love of money is the root of evil It's no wonder this culture brainwashing our people Hey, why else would college graduates parade around as dope boys? Dumb their whole life down, oh boy He got a bad dime piece tho While she gon' bare it all for a tv show Networks making tons of dough We out here looking like CB4 I feel like you must've missed it Put here your whole society around riches While kids in Africa put water on they wishlist We buy a couple more Benz's

“Gimme” by Derek Minor

[swarnpert]

write ‘nothing is set in stone’ on my grave as both a witty joke and a subtle warning that i will be back

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A documentary about Underoath. Just five dollars until June 17 (TOMORROW!!!)

THIS IS NOT A DRILL, PEOPLE.

SPREAD THE WORD. BETTER YET, REBLOG IT.

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YA YA YA YA YA YA

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At night I hear the shots Ring so I'm a light sleeper The cost of life, it seems to get cheaper out in the desert with my street sweeper The war is over So said the speaker with the flight suit on Maybe to him I'm just a pawn So he can advance Remember when I used to dance Man, all I want to do is dance...

from “Dirty Harry” by Gorillaz (Bootie Brown rapping)

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Kendrick Lamar Blows Teens' Minds, Hears Their Poetry at NJ High School

"I was intrigued that somebody other than myself can articulate [it] almost better than I can"

“In March, High Tech teacher and poetry club organizer Brian Mooney had written a blog post about using the rapper's critically acclaimed recent album To Pimp a Butterfly to analyze Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. The next month, he posted a follow-up featuring responses written by his freshman English students. Both posts went viral, eventually reaching Lamar, who asked his manager to reach out to Mooney and set up a visit.” As if I didn’t love this man enough already.

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No, words are a language It doesn’t deserve such treatment And all of my stumbling phrases never amounted to anything worth this feeling All this heaven never could describe such a feeling as I'm hearing Words were never so useful So I was screaming out a language that I never knew existed before

“All This and Heaven Too”, Florence + The Machine