The Thrill of Vril

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Ara Malikian. Tour 15. Misirlou (Pulp Fiction Theme). Circo Price Madrid.

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Choose life

“Choose life”.

“Choose life” was a well meaning slogan from a 1980’s anti-drug campaign and we used to add things to it, so I might say for example, choose… designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South-Asian Firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand others ways to spew your bile across people you’ve never met. Choose updating your profile, tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don’t look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging from your first wank to your last breath, human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who’ve had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion. Choose ... jokes, slut-shaming, revenge porn and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. Choose a zero-hour contract and a two-hour journey to work. And choose the same for your kids, only worse, and maybe tell yourself that it’s better that they never happened. And then sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody’s fucking kitchen. Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you’d done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it. Choose disappointment and choose losing the ones you love, and as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone and there’ll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future,

 .... Choose life.

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La Defense in Paris

is descriptive for the design of a satelite town, especially for  60s to 80s design fans 

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Sharon Tate

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Romy Schneider & Alain Delon ||  Paris, 1959

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Charles Bukowski - Bluebird

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Ron Herron, Cities : Moving, Archigrams,

 c. 1964.

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“…the New York State Thruway is closed, man.”

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'Howl' by Allen Ginsberg

"Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955. The poem is considered to be one of the great works of the Beat Generation. "Howl" was originally written as a performance piece, but it was later published by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books. The poem was originally considered to be obscene, and Ferlinghetti was arrested and charged with its publication. On October 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene! Animation is by Eric Drooker.

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Jimi Hendrix

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Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin - The Columbus of the cosmos

1961

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934 – 1968) was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space 

We are children of the earth. We owe her the life, the security and the joy of our existence. - Yuri Gagarin

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Rosa Parks

(1913–2005)

The Montgomery Bus Boycot

1955