Lux Aeterna

The Economist claims that it "is not a chronicle of economics".[10] Rather, it aims "to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress".[11]

"If a lute-player has lived eighty years, he has surely spent sixty years tuning."

Putting aside the considerable technical issues involved in removing a living person’s head, grafting it to a dead body, reviving the reconstructed person and retraining their brain to use thousands of unfamiliar spinal cord nerves, the ethics are problematic.

What if they'll die without a full body transplant?

then it's okay?

where's that from? that's one of the central devices of my novel haha

And for some handy suggestions, here’s some killer female acts that can, should, and probably will play festivals:

Swearin’
Caves
Bjork
St Vincent
Beyonce
Rihanna
Nicki Minaj
Sky Ferreira
Azealia Banks
Angel Haze
Sleater Kinney
Joanna Gruesome
Against Me
Perfect Pussy
Chumped
Jessie Ware
Sia
Savages
Warpaint
White Lung
Hannah Diamond
GFOTY
Bat for Lashes
Chvrches
Marmozets
Haim
The Julie Ruin
Tegan and Sara
Speedy Ortiz
Missy Elliott
Beach House
Jenny Lewis
Colleen Green
Grimes
Le Tigre
Jhene Aiko
FKA Twigs
Doja Cat
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Brooke Candy
Adventures
Katy Perry
Code Orange
King Woman
Pins
Zola Jesus
Tune-Yards
Waxahatchee
Colleen Green
Priests
Paramore
Chastity Belt
Charli XCX
Tove Lo
Courtney Barnett
Babymetal
Lower Dens
Best Coast
Marika Hackman
Kilo Kish
Purity Ring
Little Dragon
SZA
Tokimonsta
Lady Gaga
PJ Harvey
Laura Marling
Tinashe
Shura
Wolf Alice
Lily Allen
First Aid Kit
The Internet
Deers
MIA
Santigold
Torres
THEESatisfaction
Maya Jane Coles
Kelis
Ibeyi
Nightwave
Grouper
Emmy The Great
Natalie Prass
Alice Glass
Milk Teeth
Dej Loaf
Brody Dalle
La Roux

Plus, obviously, a butt-load more.

You can find Ryan Bassil on Twitter: @RyanBassil

Tune-Yards is half male iirc

oh it's from the guardian

but this article will inspire a shitty YA novel within months. i need to get on with it

poll idea: which procedure will humanity successfully execute first: a) transferring someone's consciousness into a totally new body, b) the severed/reattached head concept?

Severed Heads are p dope

totally underrated band

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Ringo Starr today told of his disgust over British jihadis being given nicknames based on The Beatles.

The drummer said he was saddened that the fanatics — led by a man dubbed “Jihadi John”, who is suspected of beheading two American journalists — had been labelled with the names of the Fab Four.

Starr, 74, told the Standard: “It’s bullshit. What they are doing out there is against everything The Beatles stood for.

obviously doesn't remember Magical Mystery Tour

"The Beatles"
Allegiance Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Role Kidnappers
Guards
Torturers
Killers
Size 4
Garrison/HQ Syria
Nickname The Beatles[1]
Colors Black
Commanders
Ringleader "George"[2]
Members "Jihadi John"
"Ringo"
"Paul"

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The murders horrified Russia, because they smelt of something worse than murdered children – a rotting state.

poll

Parkes was most closely associated with bands he described as "unafraid of their own intelligence", including Saint Etienne, Pulp and Manic Street Preachers, and was an occasional champion of the avant-garde, writing favourably about Post-rock.

did you read the whole piece?

Samey Winehouses singing forgettable songs in videos shot in poor areas. The willing and eager, the would-be stars, have no interest in their own experiences, of anything, so they go for the loot and the useless awards and hide behind shiny plastic walls made by fashion houses. DJs are so safe they ought to be holding seminars on fucking traffic awareness when crossing the road.

― da croupier, Saturday, 7 March 2015 20:56 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well I wouldn't necessarily say they are talking shit but anyhow I find this kind of discussion and topic - whether I agree with it or not - more interesting than say who will be the next host of XFactor or what the latest lounge suite colour might be. Also better to hear some unfriendly fire rather than the kind of talk that comes out as muffled and bland from being safely squeezed between the two fat dripping buns of commerce and mediocrity.

― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 8 March 2015 01:08 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what was the deleted post from the real thread?

Jeremy Clarkson's "The World According To Clarkson" is one of Penguin's "best books of its kind to be published in recent years"
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You're going to need to be more specific as that description covers a lot of white men.

― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:47 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can they not just keep the internationally celebrated cars & racism hour going just with the other two shit racist car dudes

― prole, you'll be a yeoman soon (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:57 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can they not just cancel Top Gear?

― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:04 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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I wonder what Clarkson would have to do to lose the support of the Top Gear fan base.

― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:29 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

be reasonable.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:30 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heartfelt commitment to environmental agenda, adopt enthusiastic homosexual relations with ever-changing group of dreadlocked eco-warriors

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:33 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have sex with Nigel Farage

― Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:44 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One can’t help wondering what Debord, who died in 1994, would have made of the iWorld that we now inhabit

Jeff Turrentine is an editor at OnEarth magazine and a critic who writes frequently about fiction and music.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFFtBM990GQ

an honest to goodness celebration of upbeat release

ilm turning ever more into a savage parody of itself

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TRIPLE TERROR THREAT
Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, ISIS
training together in Africa

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this is p good but even if it wasn't I wouldn't care much because it'll wind up lots of different kinds of dorks

― pissbaby nobody in the corner (DJ Mencap), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:06 (Yesterday)

Oh, for fucks sake...

― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:22 (Yesterday)

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― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 30 March 2015 00:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh, dislike that Les Rallizes Dénudés intensely. A dull, lo-fi guitar jam is all I hear. An epic should, you know, DO something with it's running time. Hope there's not too much more like that in the countdown.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, March 31, 2015 6:47 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

epicke

Beatles' "Aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll. It replaced syncopated African rhythm with linear Western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.

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There are bands out there that are political but its in the interests of the mainstream media to ignore them. My band The Psychedelic Raiders have a number of political songs and have offered our services to the Green party to raise funds.

Sartorially brilliant, he appears to have been birthed by the same clandestine sect we have to thank for the dark-stain presences of Ian McCulloch, Roy Orbison and Harry Lime – although I’m unsure how he’d feel about those comparisons. If, as it happens, you’ve never caught a Meades film, then you’re yet to encounter how startling it can be to receive a dose of television presented by a critically lucid pontificator who simply refuses to remove his Ray-Bans, all the while affecting a kind of stolid, critical pedestrianism that’s perfectly calibrated to defamiliarise and make strange the overlooked and obfuscated elements of our built environments.

Ascending the line of gradation, we come at last to the white European, who, being the most removed from the brute creation, may ...be considered as the most beautiful of the human race....Where shall we find, unless in the European, that nobly arched head, containing such a quantity of brain....Where that erect posture of body and noble gait? In what other quarter of the globe shall we find the blush that overspreads the soft features of the beautiful women of Europe ...? Where that nice expression of the amiable and softer passions in the countenance; and that general elegance of features and complexion? Where, except on the bosom of the European woman two such plump and snowy hemispheres, tipt with vermilion? 14

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/WMN-Letters-Noble-fish-bide-time/story-26313029-detail/story.html

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4.0 out of 5 stars Eine Symphone Des Graunes, 3 Mar. 2001
By A Customer

This review is from: Volume Contrast Brilliance (Audio CD)

The monochrome set are one of those band that are very difficult to categorise and even harder to explain why you like them.
There sound can best be described as indie but song like Alphavilee (strangely not on the greatest hits album) echo the film of John Luke Goddard more than any punk rock anthem. The under produced guitar sound provides and excellent backup drop to the clever if slightly incomprehensible lyrics of Bid.
The grating percussion on He Frank is sill a sound to be equalled while there are some week track on the record (so only 4 stars) it still contains the classic "Lester leaps in" the anthem "fun for all the family" and the extremely witty and relevant "Jet set Junta"

And a lot of their best songs work on several levels - yeah, a lot of their songs are plain fun, but they DO bear up to scrutiny - look beyond the fun and frolics, and there's a musical sophistication there.

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The habitation of Shompens is the Great Nicobar which is the largest among the Nicobar Group of Islands. Like the Nicobarese, they belong to the Mongoloid race. The Shompens have two divisions, the smaller division being known as Mawa Shompens. They inhabit areas very close to the coastal region along the river valleys. They are very shy. They are quite intimate with the Nicobarese. The major group of shompens are the hostile Shompens living in Alexendra and Galathia river areas and also on the east coast of the area in the interior of the island. In the past, frequent attacks are believed to have been made on the Mawa Shompens by the hostile Shompens. But now such hostility has stopped. It is probably because they have been largely reduced in number due to various diseases. The Shompens are the victims of disease, and physically very weak. With the establishment of the settlement at Campbell Bay in Great Nicobar, Shompens have been visiting the settlers and they are gradually shaking off their shyness and indifferent attitude towards the civilized people.

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omg are you guys still talking about this

― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 April 2015 16:46 (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it all just reads like "growing up is so CONFUSING" whininess to me

― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 April 2015 17:28 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's totally real I just don't care about how "authentic" it is relative to other lifestyles

― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 April 2015 17:35 (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I somehow don't think we'll catch him on Mastermind either.

― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:29 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wd enjoy the matey banter with john humphries bit

― 'come around to your house and fuck your ho' (paraphrase) (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:32 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wouldn't be surprised to see them on Crimewatch though

― groovypanda, Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:33 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"You've chosen as your specialist subject, 'Slags'. What was it that first got you interested in slags?"

― 'come around to your house and fuck your ho' (paraphrase) (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:34 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

auschwitz-survivor-explains-why-she-shook-hands-with-a-former-nazi-prison-guard-and-then-the-strangest-thing-happened

i hope the strange thing that happened was the survivor ripping off the nazi's arm