The most interesting thing about Lady Gaga's newest video, as odd as it may be, is that I was somehow the first person to view it. Mid-evening a link fell into my hands to "Telephone", and I suffered through its nine minutes. "1 view?" A refreshed tab showed hundreds and, a moment later, tens of thousands. Even if the page count was less dynamic than it seemed, the irony was a bit much.
No thought was further given to the video for "Telephone" until I found an article named The Hidden Meaning of Lady Gaga's "Telephone".
Lady Gaga's 9-minute video featuring Beyoncé is steeped in weirdness and shock value. Behind the strange aesthetic, however, lies a deeper meaning, another level of interpretation. The video refers to mind control and, more specifically, Monarch Programming, a covert technique profusely used in the entertainment industry. We'll look at the occult meaning of the video "Telephone".
Very fun read, but be warned: the crazy is pungent.
It's early to choose a Quote of the Year, but here it is. Twitter user "EXQUSiiTE" said, "Im Tiredd Of Seeiing Dem Lil Kidd w/ the big ass stomatch on Feed the Children #enoughisenough Feed Em and Get it ova with"
I don't give a shit about Christmas this year, but this is great.
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Love the song, hate the video.
I have no disagreements with this data.
"I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."
"Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"
"You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed."
"The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."
"Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
Once, in response to a caller arguing that black people need to be heard, Limbaugh responded: "They're 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"
To a black caller: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."
— Rush Limbaugh
Crush.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
— Lord Byron
I was listening to this earlier tonight and almost had a heart attack. I was cackling like a stoned witch at this track.
These are not photos. They were painted in oils.
There's something sweetly serene and sincere about street photography.
Martha Cooper's long and beautiful career is getting some recognition here. She's worked with National Geographic and New York Post among others. She's most well-known for her documentation of New York's graffiti culture in the 1970s and '80s.
Believe it or not, this is Abraham Lincoln...probably. He's in his early thirties here.
Numerous accounts have revealed that Lincoln underwent a noticeable change in his physical appearance beginning in January 1841 as a result of a grave emotional crisis. This coincides with his reported failure to go through with his scheduled marriage to Mary Todd, leaving her literally waiting for him at the altar. (They were married the following year.) This emotional crisis, just one of a series of such episodes to plague him throughout his life, was the cause of Lincoln losing a considerable amount of weight.
Young Lincoln was known to be muscular and extremely powerful. The older Lincoln was much thinner, and also prematurely aged by personal problems and the responsibility and anguish of the office he held during perhaps the greatest crisis the United States has ever undergone.
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Hint: this one is my favorite and would be a great gift for me.
Pretty nighttime photos: http://wearesleepinggiants.com/
This one's for my wife.
New York photographer Flora Hanitijo.
Milhouse: Boy, Bart, Laddie's the best dog in the world. He's a lot different than your old dog.
Bart: Santa's Little Helper? I guess I was the only one who loved him.
Milhouse: You got that right. Remember the time Santa's Little Helper ate my goldfish, and you lied and said I never had any goldfish? Well, why did I have the bowl, Bart? Why did I have the bowl?
Photo by Ten Directions
After reading The Mysterious Stranger I found this awesome, creepy stop motion video.
Bubble Calendar: a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day.
"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side." — Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
From Of Time and the City (2008) by Terence Davies
Some people are still trying to ban profanity? Yeah, they are. What the fuck?
This is an excerpt from OUTLAWED, a documentary produced through the efforts of WINTESS and fourteen human rights groups. Warning: if you care about the United States or, more importantly, humanity as a whole, this will disturb and probably enrage you.
From Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing:
Speaking on my own behalf here: What happens with Guantánamo and the legal process surrounding the men still held there should matter to each and every person who reads this blog post. The safety of our nation does not require us to abandon universally-recognized principles of human rights. Torture and disappearances do not make America more secure.
Paraphrasing what one person from WITNESS told us in email -- if more Americans realized they live in a nation where, on a street corner in the town where you live, any one of us could be picked up, pushed into an unmarked van, then moved around detention centers all over the world, tortured, without a charge or a word to your family, surely there would be more outcry.
Guantanamo Bay is a travesty, but imagine what we are completely unaware of as far as extraordinary rendition—or "torture by proxy"—is concerned.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks the United States, in particular the CIA, has rendered hundreds of people suspected by the government of being terrorists — or of aiding and abetting terrorist organizations — to third-party states such as Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Morocco, and Uzbekistan. Such "ghost detainees" are kept outside of judicial oversight, often without ever entering US territory, and may or may not ultimately be devolved to the custody of the United States.
According to a December 4, 2005 article in the Washington Post by Dana Priest:
"Members of the Rendition Group follow a simple but standard procedure: Dressed head to toe in black, including masks, they blindfold and cut the clothes off their new captives, then administer an enema and sleeping drugs. They outfit detainees in a diaper and jumpsuit for what can be a day-long trip. Their destinations: either a detention facility operated by cooperative countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, or one of the CIA's own covert prisons – referred to in classified documents as "black sites," which at various times have been operated in eight countries, including several in Eastern Europe."
OUTLAWED is just 27 minutes, and can be viewed entirely for free right here.
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