Coldewey's Curiosities (via Mowser)

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Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen
LP

These guys sound a bit like The Boredoms minus their occasionally out-sized insanity. Building semi-improvised songs around themes on guitar, keyboard, or sample, and blowing it up now and then, much of this album is anthemic and thumping, yet never overbearing or hardcore. (insound)

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Still photography and video from the ISS

[ http://player.vimeo.com/video/34613976 ]

Ingo Italic - Buchstabengewitter

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

The discovery that man can be scientifically manipulated, and that governments can turn large masses this way or that as they choose, is one of the causes of our misfortunes. There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship. [image]

— Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish

The Monuments that mightie Monarches reare,
Colosso’s statues, and Pyramids high,
In tract of time, doe moulder downe and weare,
Ne leave they any little memorie,
Â Â Â Â The Passenger may warned be to say,
Â Â Â Â They had their being here, another day.

But wise wordes taught, in numbers sweet to runne,
Preserved by the living Muse for aie,
Shall still abide, when date of these is done,
Nor ever shall by Time be worne away:
Â Â Â Â Time, Tyrants, Envie, World assay thy worst,
Â Â Â Â Ere Homer die, thou shalt be fired first. [image]

— Henry Peacham, Minerva Brittana

Ulterius durabit, Henry Peacham (Minerva Brittana, 1612)
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If a man be wealthy, no matter how he gets it, of what parentage, how qualified, how virtuously endowed or villainously inclined; let him be a bawd, a gripe, a usurer, a villain, a pagan, a barbarian, a wretch, Lucian’s tyrant, “on whom you may look with less security than on the sun”; so that he be rich (and liberal withal) he shall be honoured, admired, adored, reverenced, and highly magnified. [image]

— Anatomy of Melancholy

Dutch East India Company paper money (1799)

It Is Something Invisible

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A Weather - “It’s Good To Know”
Cove

Much of this record falls under the softly-sung male-female harmony indie category and is fairly safe and pleasant, if forgettable. But the keyboards and the bittersweet call and response of the final track are simple, beautiful, and instantly memorable. (insound)

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Schiphol, Rosa Menkman

Vocabulary: Smooth Oppilator Edition

purly: Anglicization of “purlieu,” meaning outskirts of forest or city (esp. hunting)
deliquium: in chemistry, melting or dissolution; elsewhere, a faint or swoon
adust: dried, burned, or darkened by heat, or gloomy in look or manner
myrachial: no definition. Apparently a synonym for hypochondriacal
dummerer: a person who feigns dumbness (i.e. lack of voice)
oppilate: to block or stop up with obstructing matter or objects
corsive: an obsolete abbreviation of “corrosive”
vastity: a charming alternate form of vastness
cullion: from the Latin for testicle, an insult
constuprate: to ravish or debauch
calenture: a kind of tropical fever

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Swan, Hilma af Klint (1914)