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me and my friends last night were looking at some weird blueberry fetish guy's twitter account and found out this guy makes wonka themed fetish music and its the funniest thing ive heard this year

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Observed, Oil on Linen by Kim Jakobsson

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would you mind explaining the “and me i feel also not so good” thing? i tried looking it up without luck 😔

phrases that stick in your mind like tar to an unfortunate paleolithic beast

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Community – 1.03: Introduction To Film

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German government loved humiliating themselves for racism I can barely keep up with how often they do shit like this

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went out and explored this morning!! i took a few dozen photos but these two are my favorites....

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Nikolay Nedbaylo, Garden of Solaris, 1973

USSR (then)

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David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (1974) David Bowie from: “Diamond Dogs” (LP) “Diamond Dogs” / “Holy Holy” (Single)

Glam Rock | Proto-Punk

JukehostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: David Bowie: Lead Vocals / Guitars / Saxophones Mike Garson: Keyboards Herbie Flowers: Bass Aynsley Dunbar: Drums

Produced by David Bowie

Recorded: @ Olympic Studios in London, England UK between January - February 1974

Album Released: on May 24, 1974

Single Released: on June 14, 1974

RCA Records

The diamond dogs are poachers and they hide behind trees Hunt you to the ground they will, mannequins with kill appeal

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The thing re Weird Al that I think is worth recognizing is illustrated by the Spike Jones Jr quote “One of the things that people don’t realize about Dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.“ It’s like really good parody has to do it all backwards and in heels, and Weird Al gets in there and counts the syllables and pours over the phrasing and word choices so that it all sounds precisely like the original, and then re-records the song, acknowledging the tiniest details of the recording, and also makes it a highly detailed spoof of an adjacent and absurdly unrelated piece of popular culture. I think really good parody has a love for the source materiel that’s impossible to fake. It takes real musicianship (or craft) to do and it usually gets tossed aside as “novelty” recording.

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wildest part of the folger's incest commercial is still when the brother mentions coming back from west africa and says "ahh, real coffee"

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Gustave Doré

Paradise Canto 18, The Angels in the Sphere of Jupiter -1867.

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If you aren't following the news here in the Pacific Northwest, this is a very, very big deal. Our native salmon numbers have been plummeting over the past century and change. First it was due to overfishing by commercial canneries, then the dams went in and slowed the rivers down and blocked the salmons' migratory paths. More recently climate change is warming the water even more than the slower river flows have, and salmon can easily die of overheating in temperatures we would consider comfortable.

Removing the dams will allow the Klamath River and its tributaries to return to their natural states, making them more hospitable to salmon and other native wildlife (the reservoirs created by the dams were full of non-native fish stocked there over the years.) Not only will this help the salmon thrive, but it makes the entire ecosystem in the region more resilient. The nutrients that salmon bring back from their years in the ocean, stored within their flesh and bones, works its way through the surrounding forest and can be traced in plants several miles from the river.

This is also a victory for the Yurok, Karuk, and other indigenous people who have relied on the Klamath for many generations. The salmon aren't just a crucial source of food, but also deeply ingrained in indigenous cultures. It's a small step toward righting one of the many wrongs that indigenous people in the Americas have suffered for centuries.

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I wish you’d come down and meet me here; I’m gridlocked, I’m not going anywhere. I’ve had a bad year. The city don’t care if you live or you die. It’s just gonna grow and it doesn’t care why you’re tired of kicking and fighting through life and left me alone on this cold winter night just staring out the window at your old apartment…