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Breeze - Let's Fly (Unique Mix)

Breeze - Let’s Fly (Unique Mix)

Tagged: happy hardcore breeze let's fly remix unique

A-Tension - Angels (In My Dreams)

A-Tension - Angels (In My Dreams)

Tagged: happy hardcore a-tension angels in my dreams

Comrades! Beware of the treasonous counter revolutionary machine! Soviet accident prevention posters (via Englishrussia)

feastingonroadkill:

Comrades! Beware of the treasonous counter revolutionary machine!

Soviet accident prevention posters (via Englishrussia)

Tell Him What We Said 'Bout Paint It Black

Oh man for the first time I read the lyrics to Paint It Black and I realize now it’s a particularly Rolling Stones take on teenage death ballads and they were being the terminator splitting night from day and that makes sense now.

Stealth - See Me Climb (Brisk Electro Flava Mix)

Stealth - See Me Climb (Brisk Electro Flava Mix)

Tagged: happy hardcore stealth see me climb remix brisk

Meter

Outside my window:

“I’ll say ‘Patty, you’re the best

you’ve got Olympic sized breasts.’ ”

Vintage Valentine, 1912

eachdayaflower:

Vintage Valentine, 1912

Antisocial - Whistle

Antisocial - Whistle

Tagged: happy hardcore antisocial whistle

So For The Record

My 2004 presidential vote was Condoleeza Rice/Howard Dean. Because they were the two competent boldface names and I thought it would be hilarious if the first black president was an atheist lesbian Republican professor.

Casio Brothers - Party Time

Casio Brothers - Party Time

Tagged: happy hardcore casio brothers party time

Alphonse Mucha-Summer

sleepingbetty:

Alphonse Mucha-Summer

Old Person Things (One in a Series)

More perpendicular wrinkles between the first and second knuckles of fingers. Except the pinkies; weird diagonal wrinkling from the nails along the length.

Yeah, this and that line from What Was The Hipster, about how if you can't make it anywhere, you can make it in Portland. ...

Yeah, this and that line from What Was The Hipster, about how if you can’t make it anywhere, you can make it in Portland.

Other hand who knows what they said about Risley and that was the best time of my life.

Tagged: portland

Compare and Contrast

If you actually compare Dianetics with midcentury Freudianism, its original rival, as a theory and praxis of mind, they’re not that far different. Dianetics is a little better, or at least more modern really. It dropped the genital fixation in favor of a foundation in metaprogramming and modular self stuff that rings of the early psychedelic revolution (remember the intellectual 1950s-early 60s part, where it was especially big among the Los Angeles literati?). And its practice isn’t that far off from the modern CBT stuff I’ve heard has largely displaced Freudian approaches.

Yeah, the form their institutions and legacies took is a bit different, but that’s just path-bound rubbage. (Both of them got both the prophet and institutionalizer role in the same person, which is interesting.) Is it any surprise that the WWII-era Navy officer turned SF author built a church on mythological world-building, naval discipline, and the WWII military model of organization that was really the basis for everything in the first two decades postwar? Is it any surprise the turn-of-the-century Viennese Jew founded a priesthood split between the rabbinic model of freelance elder-scholars and academy-credentialed bourgeois professionalization?

Write what you know.

Tagged: freudianism dianetics psychology history

Demo & Mickey Skeedale - Come Together

Demo & Mickey Skeedale - Come Together

Tagged: happy hardcore demo mickey skeedale come together

Oh wow does this picture say everything. I officially resign my generation and throw in with the 17-year-olds.

Oh wow does this picture say everything.

I officially resign my generation and throw in with the 17-year-olds.

Spice Girls I Wanted To Fuck, Back In The Day

1) Sporty

2) Scary

3) Ginger

4) Posh

Planeteers I Wanted To Fuck, Back In The Day

1) That Russian wind one

(like I didn’t get fucking or know that what I was was horny when I thought about her in bed, but in retrospect)