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Dubai Has Always Been Bankrupt -- Morally and Environmentally →
Dubai is finally financially bankrupt – but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time. Yes, it has Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts and the Gucci styles, but beneath these accouterments, there is a dictatorship built by slaves.
In their home country – Bangladesh or the Philippines or India – these workers are told they can earn a fortune in Dubai if they pay a large upfront fee. When they arrive, their passports are taken from them, and they are told their wages are a tenth of the rate they were promised. They end up working in extremely dangerous conditions for years, just to pay back their initial debt. They are ringed-off in filthy tent-cities outside Dubai, where they sleep in weeping heat, next to open sewage. They have no way to go home. And if they try to strike for better conditions, they are beaten by the police.
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somehow i completely missed that he released this, on Righteous Babe Records even (wuddup Ani DiFranco.) there’s a bunch of new material as well as stuff he had only released in his books. Buddy is absolutely one of my favorite people working within the medium of language today. get it get it get it.
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instructions for a body by marty mcconnell
praise the miracle body: the odd
and undeniable mechanics of hand,
hundred-boned foot, perfect stretch
of tendonpraise the veins that river these wrists
praise the prolapsed valve in a heart
praise the scars marking a gall bladder absent
praise the rasp and rattle of functioning lungs
praise the pre-arthritic ache of elbows
and ankles
praise the lifeline sectioning a palm
praise the photographic pads of fingertips
praise the vulnerable dip at the base of a throat
praise the muscles surfacing on an abdomen
praise these arms that carry babies
and anthologies
praise the leg hairs that sprout
and are shaved
praise the ass that refuses to shrink
or be hidden
praise the cunt that bleeds
and accepts, bleeds
and accepts
praise the prominent ridge
of nose
praise the strange convexity of ribcage
praise the single hair that insists on growing
from a right areola
praise the dent where the mole was clipped from the back
of a neck
praise these inner thighs brushing
praise these eyelashes that sometimes turn inward
praise these hips preparing to spread
into a grandmother’s skirt
praise the beauty of the freckle
on the first knuckle of a left little fingerwe’re gone / in a blizzard of seconds
love the body human
while we’re here, a gift of minutes
on an evolving planet, a country
in flux / give thanksfor bone and dirt
and the million things that will kill us
someday, motion and the pursuit
of happiness / no guarantees / give thanksfor chaos theory, ecology, common sense that says
we are web. a planet in balance or out, that butterfly
in tokyo setting off thunderstorms in iowa,
tell me you don’t matter to a universe that conspired
to give you such a tongue, such rhythm
or rhythmless hips, such opposable thumbs –
give thanks or go home a waste of sparkspeak or let the maker take back your throat
march or let the creator rescind your feet
dream or let your god destroy your good and fertile mindthis is your warning / this
your birthright / do not let
this universe regret you.
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important thing to do in life:
find an awesome local bakery and stay up late enough so you can go in right as they open and everything is still warm.
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Swiftcurrent Lake at Sunset, Glacier National Park (via SeekingFocus)
Montana forever.
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Buddy Wakefield: “Hurling Crowbirds at Mocking Bars”.
This is an apology letter to the both of us
for how long it took me to let things go.
It was not my intention to make such a
production of the emptiness between us
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True Norwegian Black Metal - Part 5
here’s part of a documentary on Norwegian Black Metal musician Gaahl, most notable as a member of Gorgoroth. this whole series is excellent but this particular segment is unbelievable. the most important part comes at around the six minute mark. making the out of shape filmmakers climb a mountain is pretty awesome but the two minutes and forty second silence in response to a question at the very end is incredible. the first time i saw it i thought the video had frozen. this is the man who was “accused of assaulting and torturing a man for six hours while collecting his blood into a cup and threatening to make him drink it.” and in the documentary Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey when asked what motivated him answered “Satan.” imagine asking him a question in his secluded Norwegian home, which seems to agitate him and receiving absolute silence as an answer. i wouldn’t be mad if we had more real psychos making music.
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awesome thing that is apparently a Thanksgiving tradition in Missoula:
after dinner the whole family bundles up and takes the dogs out on a walk. i was biking around town and saw this all over.
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Buck 65 plays with a symphony! →
It speaks for itself, no?
this is really cool but i keep hoping for the percussion section to drop a beat.
edit: turns out they do eventually.
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flyover states 11/25/09
blockhead - it’s raining clouds
Wu-Tang Clan - Deep Space (Jay Da Flex & Yoof Remix) [feat. Lord Jamar & RZA]
Doomtree - Coup For the Kings
Benga - E Trips
The Dismemberment Plan - The Other Side
Felt - Glory Burning
Mice Parade - Night Wave
The Mercury Program - Chez Viking
Leaving Rouge - Thank You Birds
Heiruspecs - Change Is Coming f. Dessa & New MC
Buddy Wakefield - Fran Varians Grandmother
Laura Marling - My Manic And I
Mouse on the Keys - Ouroboros
Mesa Verde - Return To Victories
Past Lives - Chrome Life
Brides - Frank West
Daitro - Un Fleau Pour Un Autre
Hop Along, Queen Ansleis - Second Voice
Des Ark - Send Jolley To Raleigh
Geoff Farina - Steely Dan
nenem - Fjord
Karate - Water
B. Dolan - The Skycycle Blues
Mandalay - Insensible
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a man jumped into a bear’s enclosure. Incredibly, BOTH survived
re: people that had it coming.
guy jumps into bear enclosure. is mauled. has news story written about him.
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when i found Bohren & der Club of Gore it was a revelation. it was something i didn’t even completely realize i was looking for but when i finally found it it hit me like nothing else. they sound so archetypal without sounding like anything that’s come before or since. they’re somehow classic, contemporary and ahead of their time all at once and they never cease to blow me away.
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