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Replace Blood on the Tracks with the better versions of the Blood on the Tracks tracks from the Bootleg Series.

Replace everything after Blood on the Tracks except for Infidels and Oh Mercy (and parts of Good As I Been to You) with the 26-disc 1966 boot Jewels and Binoculars.

Oh screw it, just listen... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FelliniBlank at 3:32 PM on July 14, 2010

So gorgeous. So remote! How does one respond to such images except to sigh... and maybe set a new wallpaper.

Speaking of sighing... when I was a kid we used to have this little two-person meme that went something like:

"Where do you live?" "In my house"
"Where's your house?" "In New Delhi."
"Where's New Delhi?" "In India."
"Where's India?"... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mondaygreens at 11:49 PM on July 13, 2010

I met Tuli at a Zappa concert on St. Marks in December of 1966. I was a 16 year old street kid on the Lower East Side, a baby beatnik slum goddess from the L E S. He was incredibly kind and generous and funny. He gave me a place to stay, fed me, gave me books to read. He listened to me, unlike most men I knew then, and we had serious intellectual conversations. I lost touch with him after I moved away from the city, now I wish I hadn't.
posted to MetaFilter by mareli at 3:55 PM on July 12, 2010

Reading this stuff breaks my fucking heart. Bet they all thought fate would just keep on ignoring their stupidity.
posted to MetaFilter by Civil_Disobedient at 3:25 AM on July 12, 2010

I hope this post doesn't just bring attention to the interesting politics and testing methodology in the article, but also to the importance of wearing a helmet all the time whilst riding a motorbike, bicycle, scooter, or anything else at any age, that might result in head trauma.

It's late. I'm tired, and I won't go into how helmets save lives, how much they might cost society in terms of social and medical expenditures, or any studies. I'm not going to talk about how... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by herrdoktor at 11:55 PM on July 11, 2010

I don't see that as either ingenuity or decline, but rather more economic flattening (in the Thomas Friedman "The World is Flat" sense). I've been involved on the "buy" side of a couple of IT outsourcing deals in the U.S. At this point, all of the big U.S. service providers on the "sell" side of IT outsourcing have moved some of their operations overseas. At the same time, the big Indian providers have found that certain industry segments just won't go overseas... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kovacs at 4:11 AM on July 12, 2010

I, for one, as a native Clevelander who did something unthinkable (move back here after escaping for a while), am fucking SICK TO DEATH of all this "King James" nonsense. The Cleveland city school district graduation rate is what, 34%? Our economy is shot to hell. There are plenty of great things happening here anyway and newsflash NONE OF THEM ARE LEBRON.

They put armed security guards downtown to protect his fucking giant Nike poster last... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bitter-girl.com at 4:43 AM on July 9, 2010

Have you ever seen a crack vial on the sidewalk on your block?
How about a spent bullet casing?
Have you or any of your friends ever been shot by someone who was aiming at someone or something else?
Do you know anyone, not in a law enforcement, private security or military job, who owns a bulletproof vest?
Have you ever seen a prostitute working the street within a 5 minute walking radius of your home?
Have you... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by deadmessenger at 6:49 PM on July 7, 2010

We have pretty solid proof that Lincoln was a casual white suprematist

Yes. This is definitely completely accurate. He also invented the word "suprematist."
posted to MetaFilter by drjimmy11 at 10:54 AM on July 7, 2010

When I saw the wedding photo, my first thought was that it was a photo of Jennifer Coolidge from some new Christopher Guest movie.

I don't think so faze. Sarah Silverman was funny maybe once, what, 10 years ago. What little I saw of her final season on comedy central was so bad I would call it "retroactively bad" in that it makes you hate everything she had ever done before.

(And I'm not calling her a conehead, but it always looked to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by puny human at 7:42 PM on July 5, 2010

Apart from all that fantastic music and the atmosphere: I highly recommend this movie as a fashion reference. Especially the crowd scenes. If the fashion industry had stopped here, I wouldn't mind. It's more Seinfeld's Kramer than it is Mad Men and it's oozing funk, soul, jazz and a blessed life in general.

I also suspect that the sub-set of Mefites who (want to) dress like this is rather substantial. Young hipsters and old cats alike. Or am I wrong here?
posted to MetaFilter by ouke at 11:33 AM on July 5, 2010

It was a simpler time, when all it took to amuse people was a bearded man smoking a cigar and rollerskating while displaying a white handprint on the seat of his trousers. Nowadays, it would take a CGI bearded man smoking a cigar and rollerskating while displaying a white handprint on the seat of his trousers in 3D to get the same effect. Perhaps an IMAX would be involved.
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 9:16 AM on July 5, 2010

Oh please jesus god dear father let him drop part of his sandwich amen.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 3:50 PM on July 2, 2010

At long last, this may finally put New York on the map.
posted to MetaFilter by GameDesignerBen at 10:28 AM on July 2, 2010

mondaygreens: “koeselitz, Western and Eastern are not very coherent to me either (I've lived in the East and in the West) but I do think the split is historically and culturally meaningful. Suicide as bad thing is not exclusively Western, certainly, but a lot of Indian cultures view life as recurrent, and also view breaking this cycle as an ultimate kind of freedom. Gandhi fasted as a way of protesting non-violently, and some people (self-serving politicians, some activists)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by koeselitz at 5:15 PM on July 1, 2010

Hmm. It's a pretty commercial, but is it really a "great case?" If it's presenting an argument at all, the argument seems to be

"The death penalty is bad, because if you make execution instruments out of wax, they will melt, and then all that hard work of carving them out of the wax will have been totally pointless, because you won't get to use them or even show them to anybody, and all you'll have left is a little melty candle with a sort of barbed-wire... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by koeselitz at 1:34 AM on July 2, 2010

Why glorify this and not anorexia?
posted to MetaFilter by eeeeeez at 2:36 PM on July 1, 2010

Leviathan melvillei is probably the best species scientific name ever.
posted to MetaFilter by Plutor at 10:45 AM on July 1, 2010

And Kinka Usher is doing fine
posted to Ask MetaFilter by A189Nut at 3:01 AM on July 1, 2010

Wow. I thought Mystery Men was quite good. I thought it redeemed itself through DVD sales.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by scuza at 7:15 PM on June 30, 2010

I'm sure bad things happened, I suspect this guy was detained, but the dramatic tone of this blog post is a bit over the top...

And, he lost part of his credibility as the 100% innocent when, while talking about people sharing the number to legal aid, he said "I already had it on a post-it note". Why?

And, of course, only the gay couple hugged?
posted to MetaFilter by HuronBob at 2:46 AM on July 1, 2010

The "One From the Heart" soundtrack she did with Tom Waits is also worth noting. Here's a sample.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 9:34 AM on June 28, 2010

When did Protestants start pronouncing it "Ay-men" instead of the older "Ah-meen" that Orthodox (and Muslims also, btw) use?

After carefully examining the teachings of Jesus-ah.
posted to MetaFilter by clarknova at 1:40 PM on June 27, 2010

I'm sure it was hard enough for them to record it that it makes me wonder why they bothered to do it on a train.
posted to MetaFilter by crunchland at 4:23 PM on June 26, 2010

I can't stand the new themes.

They're just too artificially epic sounding, as if someone analyzed songs that are considered intense and programmed the instrumentation to sound like an idealized version of "the epic song" version of the theme. Plus the crashing sound effects when the Tardis hits the wall of the time tunnel thing are just distracting and cheesy.

This version theme just reminds us that we're in an incredibly shallow... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by reklus at 1:36 AM on June 27, 2010

(hello mefi world! long-time reader, first-time commenter...)

It's a shame people tend to only know Messiah - Israel in Egypt has some of the best music Handel ever wrote for an oratorio...these choruses are all worth a listen on a modern recording - it's also easier to hear the music in the cylinders if you've heard it once without the obfuscation of the scratching.

Mr. Goddard goes into great detail on the site, but in brief the choruses... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Thomas Tallis is my Homeboy at 1:58 PM on June 26, 2010

From his bio:

Noel believes fervently that “all animal guardians should be given all treatment options and that evolution of technique and device must go hand-in-hand with evolution of the acknowledgement that animals are sentient creatures and as such we have a moral and ethical responsibility to ensure compassionate care, which is the cornerstone of a civilized society and is integral to our progress as a species. Just because something can be done does not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Muddler at 9:01 AM on June 25, 2010

Some stories are so miserable that they're actually difficult to read through. At about the point where I read this: And we were so brainwashed at that point that I remember saying out loud, ‘Well, at least we’re losing more water-weight by crying.’” I took a bit of a break before finishing the article.

Why do we call it "Reality TV" when it's so divorced from reality? I propose a change in our pop culture vocabulary to "exploitation... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by battlebison at 11:49 AM on June 24, 2010

While it's true that most folks probably think that yodeling is a more-or-less strictly white musical endeavor (Swiss, country & western...) it's worth noting that there are some notable exceptions to the perceived reality. Jazz vocalist Leon Thomas used the technique extensively, for example. hear him leap right in with some ecstatic yodeling in an amazing yodel performance: Umbo Weti. Then of course, various Pygmy tribes in central Africa have been yodeling for centuries,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 8:19 PM on June 23, 2010

To me the MiguelCardoso era was almost a metafilter inside Metafilter. Still miss him.
posted to MetaTalk by ouke at 12:10 PM on June 22, 2010

My favourite era was the few years after the launch of AskMe. The questions were a little more diverse and there was a lot less IANAL and DTMFA. And the responses then shocked and delighted. The capacity for AskMe to answer the strangest and most obscure questions is still a delight, but it's not the surprising thrill it was back then.
posted to MetaTalk by fire&wings at 4:11 PM on June 21, 2010

For a long time, I used to go to bed early.
posted to MetaTalk by grobstein at 1:47 PM on June 21, 2010

Wow. That is great. Walking upright is what makes us special. I read once that walking upright freed up our hands, and our very adroit hands required and helped us develop strong brains to control precise manipulations. It also allows us to carry our very helpless babies (who can't hang on like chimps) while they grow their big brains and long legs. Carrying babies, in turn, made mothers of infants dependent on others to gather and hunt food for them, which led to strong communities. Our big... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wheeooh at 7:19 AM on June 22, 2010

Detroit became Detroit because of ease of shipping. Detroit could import raw materials, convert them to durable goods and export the durable goods easily. Their heyday was before the rest of the world had (somewhat) caught up in engineering. Detroit was viable until the global economy.
The wage differential between the more developed countries and the less developed countries more than makes up for the shipping cost advantage, reputation, and access to consumers Detroit formerly... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vapidave at 3:15 AM on June 22, 2010

This process should focus more on cultivating Detroit into the sustainable small to mid-sized city that it would have been if the auto industry had never been there. It will never be what it used to be.
posted to MetaFilter by thorny at 8:53 PM on June 21, 2010

What, doesn't growth in bien pensant Huffington Post articles about community gardens and bottom-up decision making count?
posted to MetaFilter by strangely stunted trees at 7:59 PM on June 21, 2010

You have to actually produce the growth before you can start patting yourself on the back and calling yourself a model.
posted to MetaFilter by Pope Guilty at 7:39 PM on June 21, 2010

Back in the day, flipping through a peach crate of albums in a dorm room of someone you just met. Or a party. You find anything Blue Note, you hang around a while. This person has something to say.
posted to MetaFilter by hal9k at 3:38 AM on June 21, 2010

Sophist, lip-syncing is older than recorded music itself, and this is not a particularly good example of it. On the other hand, they most definitely did not have wireless for guitar in 1956.

Faze, to be perfectly pedantic, that'd be suped-up, since there's no broth involved, but rather a supercharger. But, yeah, mini for jitney, that's what I meant about cultural literacy. If Lady Mondegreen never heard of a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Herodios at 7:53 PM on June 19, 2010

this is fake. more to the point it's trolling lib'rul nightmares. So if you are disturbed by this tripe, it sucks to be you.

It's an interesting whitewash airbrush on the TP crowd, but about as authentic as Clifford Irving.

Normally, I'd say the editor who passed on this should be ashamed, but that's kind of pointless here. Plastic people...
posted to MetaFilter by warbaby at 9:25 PM on June 18, 2010

What bullshit.

He spends seven pages trying to convince us that the Tea Party is just a rag-tag bunch of really funky, joint-smoking, down-to-Earth folks who aren't religious or racist or anything, they're just really concerned about the national debt and privacy.

He also spends the first two pages or so bragging about all the "evil" stunts that he's pulled as a Republican strategist. That, even more than the above,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Avenger at 8:33 PM on June 18, 2010

I'm sure that Clegg realizes how lucky he is to have the resources to stay off the street and (apparently) recover, and I in fact do think he deserves sympathy. Sympathy isn't a zero-sum game.

Sympathy, yes. Finding his narrative fascinating, full of tension and human triumph, no. It's like reading about a guy bragging about his big game hunt victories. On a wildlife preserve. From a truck. Flanked by armed guards.
posted to MetaFilter by availablelight at 1:16 PM on June 18, 2010

I wish (again) that better songs accompanied these guys' ingenuity.
posted to MetaFilter by eugenen at 5:06 PM on June 16, 2010

"... fearful of being accused of perpetuating racial stereotypes, [the studios] stopped casting Blacks in their shows almost entirely for the next fifteen years."

i don't know how many times i've wished they'd leave us out of their stupid fantasies forever.
posted to MetaFilter by artof.mulata at 9:47 PM on June 14, 2010

This line of thinking ...

Filmmakers faced a major challenge when they wanted to cast Black actors in mainstream motion pictures prior to the 1960s. How do you create a situation where blacks and whites would realistically be in the same place at the same time, interacting in any meaningful way with one another? It rarely happened in real life

... really, really, bugs me.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kanewai at 8:58 PM on June 14, 2010

I feel oddly ... compelled to get ... new ... Dreft ...

... tomorrow ...
posted to MetaFilter by The Great Big Mulp at 8:46 PM on June 14, 2010

I effing love me some Nighthawks. I do have a particular penchant when it comes to paintings for some of the more recent Americana - I've always referred to the Winslow Homer pieces in the Met as "mine," under the assumption that I'll acquire them in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. But Nighthawks stands out above the rest - I've spent hours in front of that thing sketching it and re-sketching it. I would have spent more if it hadn't been stuck in freakin Chicago - its always... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 1:23 AM on June 15, 2010

...How easy it is to have a great day when you can make and eat you own toast, throw on your own clothes, go out into the world and do whatever you damn well feel like.

I retract my previous complaints about having a bad day, ever.
posted to MetaFilter by Verdant at 9:54 AM on June 14, 2010

Neat peice. And Tomer Hanuka illustration too.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:32 AM on June 12, 2010

The video for Nie zadzieraj nosa by Czerwone Gitary (the Polish Beatles!) is amazing.
posted to MetaFilter by dfan at 8:49 AM on June 10, 2010