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Deep Purple really discovered the pentatonic minor scale and then recorded Machine Head on a cheap organ and called it a day and made one of the most fun albums of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMCVe0cs4DI

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France is to Canada what Italy is to Mexico. No I will not elaborate.

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My house currently has a flea infestation and I currently have insomnia. I'm trying to smoke myself to sleep and I just saw a flea hopping past and I hope I didn't give him the munchies.

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The collective unconscious is like the human mycelium

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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition—there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Frank Wilhoit

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If your morality is defined by the law, then you are a nihilist. You have no morals. The law is frequently unjust, so supporting legalism without critical thought is irrational and immoral. 1/3 of Republicans ONLY NOW think Trump was the wrong choice to be their candidate because he's a felon. At least the 2/3 of Republicans that still support Trump have an ethos, albeit an evil one.

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listen hobbit pussy could be mediocre (doubtful) but even if it was it's still followed by a 17 course homecooked meal and the kind of weed that would make sauron scared. lithe beautiful immortal elven pussy has no power compared to the simple, hardworking hobbit. and it goes without saying that you cannot handle dwarven pussy.

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Hinduism in its true form was too metal for the hippies, so they had to Christianise it to some extent.

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He sits on my lap while I spin, he does the little jiggle

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sometimes u just need a witchy frog

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I just watched Easy Rider again and I think it's one of the most unique and weird and wonderful films ever made and it definitely inspired me to go on an acid binge in my early 20s to try and find the meaning of life or something idk. In 2016 which was the peak of my debauchery I was taking LSD 3 times per week, at least, in higher and higher (heh) doses. I think the most I ever took was 9 tabs at once! Fucking stupid and outlandish behaviour. I stopped when a package of 200 tabs that I had ordered got stopped at the border and I got spooked.

I also think it ushered in the "modern" era of filmmaking in pretty much the same way that Citizen Kane did with cinematography. Orson Welles was just fucking around with cameras in 1941 (aged 26) and almost singlehandedly invented all the modern techniques in films like lighting, low angles, deep focus. He had no idea what he was doing and had no template to work from and he had no idea his film would be so influential. There's a huge difference between films made pre-1941 and post-1941, his guesswork and incompetence changed films forever.

I think it's sort of the same with Easy Rider. It's the first film that feels "modern" in that it's casual, conversational, soundtrack of rocknroll songs instead of orchestral music written specifically for the film. It's debaucherous, low budget, and stupid, and I don't think Peter Fonda/Dennis Hopper/Jack Nicholson had any idea what they were doing or what they were unleashing on the unsuspecting world. Pop culture instantly and permanently became more advanced, and less serious. Everything from Grease to American Pie would not exist without Easy Rider. It gave birth to these sorts of films in the same way that Citizen Kane progenated literally every single film post-1941.

I love how the most important films were made by idiots, not geniuses, and on a very low budget. It's kind of inspiring. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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This is kinda ironic considering a pelican always has an enormous bill in front of it...

Boston Post, Massachusetts, July 7, 1918

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A pirate walked into a bar.

He had a wooden leg, an eye patch and a hook for a hand. The bartender was curious. “How did you get that wooden leg?” he asked.

The pirate took a swig of ale. “‘Twas a terrible sea battle. I stood bravely, directly facing 12 cannons.All they managed to hit was my leg.”

The bartender said “What about your hook?”

The pirate took another long swig. “Arrrr, twas the day the British navy caught me. They tied me to the mast, I escaped by gnawing my own hand off.”

The bartender was growing sceptical. “And how did you get that eyepatch?”

The pirate took another swig. “Twas a mutiny. Me own crew left me marrooned on a desert island. But I had no fear. I lay down on the sand to wait to be rescued. As i looked up, a seagull flew over and pooped in me eye.”

The bartender said “That’s ridiculous, no one loses an eye from bird muck.”

The pirate finished his ale in one gulp, and grimaced. “Twas the first day with the hook.”

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Life & Death, late 18th century or early 19th century

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Björk (1995) by Dave Stewart

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we’re reading Dracula for one of my book clubs, and I completely forgot that the book starts out as quite an enjoyable travelogue—having just passed the bar exam, Jonathan Harker is essentially on his first real business trip, and keeps making little notes to ask for recipes, or that he’ll share such-and-such about the landscape with Mina.

I also forgot that Jonathan Harker has a Kodak camera (he used it to take pictures of the London estate for Dracula) which leads me to assume that the 21st century version of Jonathan Harker’s journal is actually a series of instagram posts that start getting really, really weird.

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Edwardian London as seen through the eyes of a Russian tourist, 1909. See more photos here…