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“The Four Tops’ story is one of longevity and togetherness: these Motown legends teamed up in high school and spent over four decades without a single personnel change. In between, they became one of the top-tier acts on a label with no shortage of talent, ranking with the Temptations and the Supremes as Motown’s most consistent hitmakers. Where many other R&B vocal groups spotlighted a tenor-range lead singer, The Four Tops were fronted by deep-voiced Levi Stubbs, who never cut a solo record outside of the group. Stubbs had all the grit of a pleading, wailing, gospel-trained soul belter, but at the same time, the Tops’ creamy harmonies were smooth enough for Motown’s radio-friendly pop-soul productions. From 1964-1967, The Four Tops recorded some of the Holland-Dozier-Holland team’s greatest compositions, including “Reach Out, I’ll Be There,” “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch),” “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” “Bernadette,” and “Baby I Need Your Loving.” The group’s fortunes took a downturn when their chief source of material left the label, but they enjoyed a renaissance in the early ’70s, which saw them switching to the ABC-Dunhill imprint. Regardless of commercial fortunes, they kept on performing and touring, scoring the occasional comeback hit.“

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bonginspector

verylittlebird

smh - saddling my horse

ham - horse and me

wtf - washing the fetlocks

lmao - love me an ‘orse

surrealism

World Turtle by John Clowder, 2012. Collage.

Artist’s note:

Inspired by early alchemical imagery this illustration demonstrates the mythic relationship between the Cosmic Turtle and its prey and predator Sesa. Like the squid and the whale these two colossal celestial beings battle in the deep abyss of space in evenly matched bouts millenniums apart.

The World Turtle’s age can only be ascertained by the technological advances of the civilization that habitats its massive back. Hosts to many beings; the World Turtle is nearly planetary in size, and its parasitic hitch hikers compose humanoids and human-sized nematodes alike.

Sesa, on the other hand, never ceases to grow, achieving monumental size over accumulative years. The wagtailed dragon will one day make a nest of a deceased World Turtle’s shell, its offspring feasting on the turtle’s remaining innards before launching into outer space in colorful streams resembling space born spaghetti.

victoriajoan

On April 17, 1948, Jack Kerouac wrote: “I have been a fool and a liar and a shifty weakling by pretending that I was the friend of these people – Ginsberg, Joan, Carr, Burroughs, Kammerer even, some others – when all the time I must have known that we all naturally disliked each other and were just grimacing incessantly in a comedy of malice. […] I go to see them in a happy, fond frame of mind and always come away baffled and disgusted.”

And then on April 19: “But I’m glad I know them.”

magictransistor

Nwantantay Plank Masks. Bwa Peoples. Burkina Faso, Africa.

curioscurio

in a new city for six weeks no internet except cafes but Berlin is a seriously special place

thesimpsonspics

70sbestblackalbums

Isaac Hayes

magictransistor

Ivan Ilich Léonidov (Иван Ильич Леонидов), Sketches from the City of the Sun (Город Солнца), N.d.

dinocube

I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep. And when you wake up, you can’t stop thinking about kissing. Dammit, I can’t get anything done because I’m so busy thinking about kissing. Kissing is madness! But it’s absolute paradise, if you can find a good kisser.

Sufjan Stevens (via dinocube)