posts tagged with: culture

Good advice, if you can keep it!

Via apocalypsechic:

Eddie Cantor - Keep Young and Beautiful
1930s lolwut.

I love this video/song, and not just for its modesty:

Fuck.
This is like, the coolest song I ever heard in my whole life.
Fuck all of you who said I wouldn’t make it.
You said I was a loser.
You said I was a no one.
You said I was a fucking psycho.
But look at me now.
All up in the interweb.
Worldwide!
2009!
Futureduster [???]
Enter the ninja.

From the artist’s website:

DIE ANTWOORD is a lovable, mongrel-like entity made in Zuid Afrika, the love-child of many diverse cultures, black, white, coloured and alien, all pumped into one wild and crazy journey down the crooked path to enlightenment.

Whatever they are, they seem to understand the way to mutate geeks into fans rather well: manipulate their heartstrings with dance music, DDR, ninjas, and mutants.

Sometimes, I worry that I am too easily predictable. Then I decide I’m having fun, so it doesn’t really matter.

Via Ladies of the PQ

“Leering has an implicit threat behind it: I’m in control and can do what I want to you because I am stronger than you. Leering, catcalls, groping, assault, and rape are all on a spectrum of “aggressive sexual behavior.” When you see how they all are similar, you can see why they are all terrifying, and suggesting they be taken as flattering is disgusting.”

- USA - 1/3rd of women in military are raped & 2/3rd sexually assaulted - The Something Awful Forums (via 3liza)

apocalypsechic:

planetariums

There’s a long description that’s really interesting

LOOK AT IT

CLICK THE PICTURE

LOOK AT IT

claytoncubitt:

“Tiger Woods, described frequently as a “very private” person, was unable to keep his private life private. Why? Because he interacted with non-private people. The reason Kim Kardashian and the Jersey Shore denizens have risen to positions of prominence in popular culture is because they each epitomize the non-private person. They have nothing to hide, so nothing that becomes public knowledge can hurt them. Ms. Kardashian can be urinated on in a sex tape and actually be helped in terms of being a public figure. My own ability to be effective as a transgender rights activist is because there’s nothing anyone could expose about me that would deter me from my activism. That gives me enormous power over anonymous haters who vent their impotent fury at me to no avail. Their own fear of exposure (loss of privacy) is their greatest weakness.” -Andrea James, BoingBoing 01/06/10 (emphasis mine)

Via VideoSift

Previously…

Via VideoSift

(Just kidding, I’m not cool enough to have an iPhone)

Social perversions associated with hipsters:

• Narcotics trafficking
• Homosexuality and homosexual experiences
• Impetuous, spontaneous, couples dancing
• Smoking cigarettes just for pleasure, not for relaxation
• Writing unauthorized poems
• Driving without a chaperon
• Impersonating Santa Claus

Via VideoSift