Acoustic Daft Punk Medley
One day—maybe—I’ll come across a Daft Punk medley that I don’t want to post on my blog. I doubt it, though.
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What Does ‘Turn Down For What' Mean? →
In order to explain "turn down" you have to first understand turnt or turnt up. That's slang and a way for people to say that they're having a really good time, sometimes with the help of alcohol or weed.
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The Data Analysis Behind Classic Rock →
It was my first time hearing a band I grew up with referred to as “classic rock.” Almost anyone who listens to music over a long enough period of time probably experiences this moment — my colleagues related some of their own, like hearing R.E.M. or Guns N’ Roses on a classic rock station — but it made me wonder, what precisely is classic rock? As it turns out, a massive amount of data collection and analysis, and some algorithms, go into figuring out the answer to that very question.
I don’t think anyone will be too shocked by Hickey’s analysis, but it’s still pretty interesting. Also—when do we stop calling it “classic rock” and start calling it what it really is—popular rock.
Sidenote—don’t miss maybe the saddest part of this piece near the end:
But do radio stations rely at all on the institutional knowledge of their DJs to decide what to play?
Nope. The role of the song-picking DJ is dead. “I know there are some stations and some companies where if you change a song it’s a fireable offense,” Wellman said, cavalierly ruining the magic.
Heil Hipster: The Young Neo-Nazis Trying to Put a Stylish Face on Hate →
Over the past year, partly because of leaders like Schroeder and partly because of the unstoppable globalization of youth culture, the hipsterification of the German neo-Nazi scene has begun to gain steam. This winter, the German media came up with a new term, "nipster," to describe the trend of people dressing like Brooklyn hipsters at Nazi events. Experts have noted that the German neo-Nazi presence on Tumblr and other social networking sites has become sleeker and more sophisticated. Neo-Nazi clothing has become more stylish and difficult to recognize. There's even a vegan Nazi cooking show. "If the definition of the nipster is someone who can live in the mainstream," Schroeder explains, "then I see it as the future of the movement."
I’m on vacation, but I couldn’t wait to post this. And just to be clear: this is not an Onion article—I repeat, this is not an Onion article.
The Universal Typeface →
BIC, the office supply company that makes the world’s most ubiquitous ballpoint pen, has launched a website that could prove to be excellent fodder for graphologists and scientists alike. The Universal Typeface Experiment lets anyone, from anywhere in the world, draw the letters of the alphabet and then submit them into a massive database. From each pool of letters, the software creates the mean letter shape—or, as BIC is calling it, the universal typeface. So far over 434,000 characters have been submitted from 99 different countries.
My lowercase ’s’ would fuck the whole thing up.
Famous Authors Who Hated Each Other’s Writing →
For every great author, there’s another great author eager to knock him or her down a few pegs. Although the writers on this map are typically deemed canonical by literary tastemakers, there wasn’t much mutual admiration amongst them.We’ve mapped out the rivalries and one-sided vendettas of many celebrated writers; just hover over an arrow between two authors to see a cutting insult directed by one to the other.
They missed one circle—Jonathan Franzen hating everyone.
The Dissolve’s Top Ten Summer Blockbusters →
By now, you should know the deal: 12 critics narrowed down a list of more than 650 movies, all released between May 1 and August 31 between 1975 and 2013, to arrive at the 50 greatest summer blockbusters. Here are the 10 that topped the list.
Pretty good list. I haven’t seen four of the ten. It’s always so funny to think of Die Hard as a summer blockbuster, since I’m pretty sure that everyone thinks of it as a Christmas movie; I know I do. Also—I guess we’re just not ready to admit that Jaws is way overhyped?
‘St. Vincent’ Trailer
Stars Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy. Looks great. Out 10/24/14.
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The Seven Signs You’re in a Cult →
Around this time, Tyler attended an IHOP conference. At the four-day gathering in Kansas City, Missouri, where the movement is based, he joined 25,000 other young people to pray for spiritual revival on college campuses throughout America. He heard the evangelical leader Lou Engle share a dream he’d had, in which college students were cutting off the heads of their professors, suggesting the end of the “spirit of intellectualism” that gripped academia. He heard Bickle declare that God was raising up a prophetic generation that would perform “signs and wonders,” and numerous stories of angelic visitations.
After Tyler returned from the conference, his experiences with the supernatural seemed to intensify dramatically. As we walked across campus, he would see an army of demons carrying banners in front of the library. At the end of January, God revealed to him that his calling in life was to be an apostle and train God’s “final people.” When Bethany and June insisted that we find mentors who could train us and brought us to visit a Christian couple who lived nearby, Tyler “discerned” that the husband was living in “graphic sexual sin.” Somehow, when he said this, the rest of us realized we had all been feeling the same thing. We never went back.
I’ll never be able to understand what needs to be broken inside of you in order to fall for religion in this way. And make sure you read all the way until the end to see what the “normal” religious leaders said was the real problem in this situation.