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Happiness is a warm gun... Happiness is finding a pencil... Happiness is acceptance... Rather than list all forms of Happiness(an impossibility), it is easier to describe what kind of consciousness…
Saturday, 05 May 2012 16:15
Commentary: Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
“Sweet summer night and I’m stripped to my sheets... forehead is leaking, my AC squeaks!” New York neo-psychedelia band Animal Collective introduces the listener to their summertime tale about a…
Tuesday, 06 March 2012 11:33
Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune ALBUM REVIEW
Air's Voyage Dans La Lune(Trip to the moon) encompasses moments of peaceful observation and intense excitement, like an astronaut's journey into space. The album takes its concept from a 1908…
Tuesday, 06 March 2012 00:00
Classic Films: David Lynch - Eraserhead
David Lynch's Eraserhead paints a dystopian industrialized world of flickering lights, boarded up windows, and blasting steam vents. Each of these bleak visuals mirrors the disjointed human interactions in Lynch's mechanized society…
In traditional philosophy, the word "politics" is the plural form of "ethics." While ethics contemplates the best moral code for an individual to live a good life, politics expands this…
Friday, 17 February 2012 19:29
Chuck Inglish - WRKING. ALBUM REVIEW
Chuck Inglish of The Cool Kids recently dropped an instrumental hip-hop beat tape entitled WRKING. The title can be interpreted in two ways: a celebration of "working" as a music…
Sunday, 05 February 2012 21:26
Brothertiger - Golden Years ALBUM REVIEW
Oh those Golden Years when we used to chase bubbles... Brothertiger seeks to recapture the wonder and imagination of childhood. In the traditional childlike style of dreamy synthesizer pop music, Brothertiger's layered…
Friday, 03 February 2012 20:35
Classic Films: David Cronenberg - Videodrome
David Cronenberg's Videodrome may use outdated technology, but the philosophy and observations presented are still relevant. Filmed in 1987 and set in a future dystopian time, Videodrome analyzes the effects…
Wednesday, 01 February 2012 17:34
Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory ALBUM REVIEW
Attack On Memory is a revolt against the past. The attack opens with "No Future/No Past," frustrated with the human mind's tendency to slip out of the present. Shrill vocal cries…
Saturday, 14 January 2012 13:00
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Ă€me Album Review
The guitar has been the predominant instrument in music for the past 50 years, each successive generation of guitarists advancing the sound and giving rise to the variety and complexity…
Every interaction between humans involves trade, each party providing something to the other in exchange for something else. The complexity and subtlety of what is being exchanged often leads people to…
Defining man's primary will has been a goal of philosophers since the birth of philosophy. 19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that the principle will of man is a…
