Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters via kwout
OK so this writer lays it on a bit thick, but I think he/she does have a very valid point. He doesn’t see any subculture with cajones, and he/she is right because there is nothing of that sort. Hipsterdom is very much connected, [...]
I like the title of the IHT article: Obama get’s Europe’s ear, pleasing crowds without specifics. Because, this is exactly what happens with Obama. I know that politicians have to do this whole song and dance–they have to talk about our shared ideals, about WWII, about fighting fascism and communism together, and the new challenges [...]
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One of the better movies that i’ve seen in awhile. The film, shot like a documentary, takes place in 1970s America, where the Vietnam War wages and on a cultural schism has opened up between those that support the establishment and those that were against the war. What English filmmaker Watkins did was to add [...]
Ever since stumbling across his grave at the Montparnasse cemetery, I have been not quite obsessed persistently inquisitive about the life and times of the Romanian-French poet Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of the Dadaist movement. I was just looking over his single entry in Wikipedia, and found this quote plastered on [...]
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I dont know why but Portland has been figuring on my mind lately. Probably because I am thinking if there is something better than becoming a lifer in Shanghai or some kind of nomad. As much as I would just love to be able to roam , i think it would get old–maybe it already [...]
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