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Sight reading
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Hell yes
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It’s Caturday!
[machoturbo / epic.]
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“It is not often someone comes along that’s a true friend and good writer. Charlotte was both.”— Narrator, Charlotte’s Web
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T-Rex Trying To Put On A Cardigan
#TRexTrying
WE HAVE A WINNER GUYS
Justin Vernon is having a good laugh tonight. Maybe the next album should be named Bonny Bear instead of Bon Eye-ver.
I went to elementary school with a Bonnie Bear. For real.
The tunes that bind us
(via thatweirdmusickid)
Shangrala was not only one of my favorite local (Jacksonville) bands, but also one of my favorite bands in all the world. They’ve made their complete recordings available as a free download. Please do me (and yourself) the favor of downloading them. For free. The ear you save may be your own.
It has a bottle opener! Please try to tell me that’s not legit…
Now EVERYone’s going to want bottle openers on their snare drums. (I kind of want a throne that doubles as a mini fridge.)
![thedailywhat:
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Hamza Kashgari, a young writer for the Saudi daily newspaper Al Bilad who fled his homeland after being charged with offending Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, was seized upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and will be sent back to Saudi Arabia to face a possible death sentence.
Kashgari took to Twitter last week, prior to the anniversary of Muhammad’s birth, and wrote down a series of seemingly innocuous reflections.
“On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more,” the 23-year-old tweeted.
The response from tens of thousands of Saudis was immediate and unequivocal: Kashgari was a blasphemer and deserved to die.
He attempted to withdraw his comments and apologize — even beg — but the damage had been done. A short while later, King Abdullah personally ordered his arrest, and Kashgari became a fugitive.
He managed to escape Saudi Arabia, but didn’t get very far. “The Malaysian authorities are coordinating with Saudi Arabia to hand Kashgari over,” the Saudi newspaper Al Youm reported.
The country’s powerful Islamic Fatwa Committee has released a statement saying Kashgari must be punished in accordance with Islamic law. In other words: Execution.
[emirates247 / dailybeast.]
This is why we fight.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6vb6l5dc1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Hamza Kashgari, a young writer for the Saudi daily newspaper Al Bilad who fled his homeland after being charged with offending Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, was seized upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and will be sent back to Saudi Arabia to face a possible death sentence.
Kashgari took to Twitter last week, prior to the anniversary of Muhammad’s birth, and wrote down a series of seemingly innocuous reflections.
“On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more,” the 23-year-old tweeted.
The response from tens of thousands of Saudis was immediate and unequivocal: Kashgari was a blasphemer and deserved to die.
He attempted to withdraw his comments and apologize — even beg — but the damage had been done. A short while later, King Abdullah personally ordered his arrest, and Kashgari became a fugitive.
He managed to escape Saudi Arabia, but didn’t get very far. “The Malaysian authorities are coordinating with Saudi Arabia to hand Kashgari over,” the Saudi newspaper Al Youm reported.
The country’s powerful Islamic Fatwa Committee has released a statement saying Kashgari must be punished in accordance with Islamic law. In other words: Execution.
[emirates247 / dailybeast.]
Soopy and co. playing Super Mario Bros. themes and more
(This guy also makes a Pearl Rhythm Traveler kit sound good—no easy feat.)
“So, from what you’re saying, it’s like President McKinley was never assassinated. It’s as if the twentieth century never happened.” I love the implication that McKinley’s assassination led to the twentieth century.
Also: Nailed it. Again.
Music Video of the Day: For their latest music video-slash-Chevy Super Bowl ad, OK Go drove down a two-mile stretch of desert lined with 1,000 instruments in a Chevy Sonic fitted with retractable pneumatic arms to perform a very complicated version of “Needing/Getting” that took four months to prep and four days to shoot.
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“Holy shit.” ~me, when I first saw the row of pianos. They’re the Evel Knievel of bands. Is “band” even the right word for what they are anymore? “Artists”? What amazing thing will they do next?
Social Media Explained (with donuts)
I’ve never seen this done with more deliberation, more exactitude, or more doughnuts. (Or, for the Twitter crowd, “donuts.”)
“The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network’s first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected to be worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly later this year.”
“But if your child couldn’t handle Gammell’s paintings, they’re certainly not going to be able to stomach a short story about a scarecrow who skins a farmer alive and dries out his skin sack trophy on the roof.”
Early Bird Special: A NYC subway busker performs the hell out of Adele’s “Someone Like You.”
[refinery29 / thanks anon!]
Stick around for the end.
