is it racially or just historically naive to say it stuck me as a black tom waits?
I don't understand this comment at all. In terms of lyric content, Waits and Scott-Heron are as different as can be. Waits has always dealt in flamboyantly... [
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3 ¼ hours ago
...this somehow managed to suck it all out of my head.
The awesome power of gobbledeygook. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Solomon
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3 ¾ hours ago
"Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me."
Rage Against Your Mom [
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favorited 13 times, recently by The Card Cheat, coolguymichael, Senor Cardgage, Mick, Snyder, contessa, mrgrimm, Babblesort, ixohoxi, spaltavian, humannaire, DecemberBoy, Your Time Machine Sucks
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9 hours ago
This... this... this is just so magnificently dopey, so majestically absurd. It is, at one and the same time, completely selfconscious and yet, in its execution, as unselfconscious as a child engrossed in play. I am in awe.
This is the liberation... [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Windigo
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Yesterday
Mussolini and company. NOTE: links to dead Italian fascists hanging by their ankles. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sova
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3 days ago
If I saw this guy busking, I would not assume he was homeless.
There are so very many fine musicians in this world who are so dramatically underpaid (or completely unpaid), that indeed there are many who become homeless, and whose talents, as... [
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favorited 6 times, recently by titus-g, malocchio, pianoboy, phrontist, ocherdraco, St. Alia of the Bunnies
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4 days ago
Actuall, no, "pud", you are not redeemed by going to the Metallica concert the night before. There will be no redemption for you. Pud. [
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favorited 9 times, recently by aesacus, jquinby, joe lisboa, Demogorgon, potsmokinghippieoverlord, eitan, tehloki, benzenedream, PostOfficeBuddy
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4 days ago
Eideteker, your Wiki link (to "Manhattan", oddly) itself explains (and don't you live in New York, and therefore know this?) that New York City is comprised of several boroughs, one of which is Queens. Queens (and your dreaded Brooklyn) is... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by neroli
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5 days ago
...research showed...
Aha! Who financed this particular research? (just askin'...)
as long as you don't a) overheat the pan...
Not an especially easy thing to gauge, that.
use it past the point at which the coating starts coming off...... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mistersquid, Forktine
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5 days ago
I see "cat" spent $3.55 at In-N-Out Burger. Was that the old In-N-Out, I wonder? Cause, hey, that's pretty cheap... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davejay
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5 days ago
A homeless person with a Harpsichord?
i met a homeless fellow (plink plink plink)
with a harpsichord (plink plink plink)
he said to me "i play it... (plink plink)
whenever i'm bored" (plink plink plink)
i said "but how can you... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Solon and Thanks, memebake
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6 days ago
Tossing off opinions is too easy on the internet.
And remember "opinion" is just "onion" with "pi". [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sys Rq
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7 days ago
Debashish Bhattacharya, slide guitarist from India
favorited 52 times, recently by Carius, nushustu, ageispolis, nangar, lonemantis, Galvatron, snsranch, Rykey, bafflegab, vogon_poet, Harry, Phatty Lumpkin, Acey, charlesminus, tybeet, abc123xyzinfinity, swift, shinybeast, col_pogo, notnamed, smitt, christopherious, mai, JoeXIII007, prinado, HumanComplex, UbuRoivas, By The Grace of God, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, roll truck roll, tzuzie, Sailormom, pomegranate, El Brendano, saladin, dances_with_sneetches, RussHy, drlith, mattoxic, the cuban, Dr Dracator, adamvasco, neetij, spacelux, NoRelation, pjern, vronsky, SmileyChewtrain, BitterOldPunk, yeloson, Crane Shot, kid ichorous
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8 days ago
I find my posts in discarded plastic bags blown by gusts of wind across the frayed fabric of some dream I had 26 years ago while riding the train to Amsterdam. Or folded up into an old paisley umbrella resting against a crumbling stucco wall at the... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Secret Life of Gravy, From Bklyn, netbros
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8 days ago
A loving look back on Dixieland Jazz
favorited 24 times, recently by snsranch, nangar, utsutsu, kjell, Bummus, 1f2frfbf, phaedon, nicolin, motty, Faze, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, kid ichorous, annathea, kandinski, ronin21, LobsterMitten, Jinx of the 2nd Law, invitapriore, nonspecialist, trip and a half, dreamyshade, Someday Bum, humannaire, vronsky
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8 days ago
That first article is an interesting read. As a teenager, Henry Miller was one of my biggest heros. His epic telling (in Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus, especially) of his own escape from a stupid, dull and hopeless existence in New York to the liberation... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by mdn, emhutchinson, stavrogin
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10 days ago
A New Charenger!!!
(Is that tongue-in-cheek Engrish, I wonder?)
Probably, but... you never know. The thing to keep in mind is that for Japanese using the alphabet, L and R are virtually interchangeable. Really. It just doesn't matter to most... [
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favorited 8 times, recently by fcummins, fook, Greg Nog, Caduceus, mysterpigg, naju, stilist, Optamystic
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11 days ago
I hate to be a stick in the mud but I'm not going to make my 2 year old daughter do this.
We never did it with our daughter, but of course that has a lot to do with the fact that the picture-with-Santa thing is not a tradition here in Japan.... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Jade Dragon, stoneegg21, GeckoDundee, Lexica, stilist
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11 days ago
Christmas cookies. There's lots of 'em this time of year. I like the ones shaped like stars. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ColdChef
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12 days ago
People of color me unsurprised! Non-honky intersectionality! Derail on the other side of the tracks!
What? [
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favorited 5 times, recently by yeloson
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13 days ago
Indeed, I am rich. Phenomenally rich. Playing clay pot drums and 3-stringed guitars and singing about cupcakes has made me one of the richest men in Japan. And I think it's safe to say that, in this way, I am much like the rest of Metafilter. We are... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by mountain_william
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13 days ago
Haha! Just goes to show, whatever you're doing, someone's done it before... I shoot these blue tarps constantly here in Tokyo, and even started a related Flickr group where folks can ad their wrapped and shrouded stuff.... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by harujion
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2 weeks ago
I've got him beat. I once received a quarterly BMI check (that's royalties for radio play) for one cent. No shit. They spent 25 cents postage (or whatever it was then) to send me a check for ONE CENT.... [
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favorited 10 times, recently by emperor.seamus, tehloki, scrump, ocherdraco, flatluigi, stilist, cinemafiend, bunnytricks, grouse, the dief
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2 weeks ago
It's a good article. Quirk lays it out clearly, and it's written with a tone and attitude that ordinary folk can surely relate to. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eatdonuts
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2 weeks ago
the psychedelic hoodoo gonna getchoo...
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2 weeks ago
Sounds like Ponorovsky went to the Buddy Rich School of Business Management and Employee Relations. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by SouthCNorthNY
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2 weeks ago
Those feet of a wench in her wimple
God, I love that line.
but... what's a wimple? [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lutoslawski
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2 weeks ago
...either your own head or that of some piece of public statuary.
If, in fact, you can tell the difference. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by languagehat
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3 weeks ago
Blues Brothers 20000
In the year, twenty thousand twenty thousand,
if Jake is still alive,
if Elwood can survive,
they may find..... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Reverend John
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3 weeks ago
Is everyone who doesn't want counts going to be required to switch them back off on December 1st? I'd hope not.
Nobody knows the trouble I seen. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by EatTheWeak
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3 weeks ago
"a celebration of critical thinking and skepticism..."
Ceeeeee-le-brate critical thinking and skepticism
COME ON!
it's a celebration to last throughout the year!... [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Twicketface
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3 weeks ago
Also: Sorry, guys, you're not noble just because you lost.
Yeah, I'm also compelled to add something here, which is this:
That's gotta be right up there in the upper echelons of the most boneheaded, pathetic and offensive commentary to ever... [
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