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20

May

so sad.
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thedailywhat:

RIP: Donna Summer, at 63: Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco, died this morning after a battle with cancer. She was 63.
Summer was a 5-time Grammy winner who shot to superstardom in the ’70s with iconic hits like “Last Dance,” “Hot Stuff,” and “Bad Girls.” Her reign continued into the ’80s, with “She Works Hard for the Money” and “This Time I Know It’s for Real.”
[tmz]

Wow, that’s unexpected and sad.

so sad.

shortformblog:

thedailywhat:

RIP: Donna Summer, at 63: Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco, died this morning after a battle with cancer. She was 63.

Summer was a 5-time Grammy winner who shot to superstardom in the ’70s with iconic hits like “Last Dance,” “Hot Stuff,” and “Bad Girls.” Her reign continued into the ’80s, with “She Works Hard for the Money” and “This Time I Know It’s for Real.”

[tmz]

Wow, that’s unexpected and sad.

16

May

this is absolutely wonderful.  i expect no less than this.  
lessthan3vvlpanddg:

mckennelly:

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this is absolutely wonderful.  i expect no less than this.  

lessthan3vvlpanddg:

mckennelly:

(via desperate-for-time, fuckyeahsufjanstevens)

13

May

thedailyfeed:

He said yes! Yesterday, President Obama became the first sitting president to publicly support same-sex marriage. Do you think he made the right decision?

thedailyfeed:

He said yes! Yesterday, President Obama became the first sitting president to publicly support same-sex marriage. Do you think he made the right decision?

Prom Plunge: Pier Gives Way During Group Photo

(Source: onionlike)

ShortFormBlog: Newly discovered Mayan calendar goes way beyond 2012

lolol.

shortformblog:

  • 17 b’ak’tuns in newly discovered, oldest known Mayan calendar source

» A bad day for the doomsday industry: You’ve almost certainly heard over the past few years that 2012 would be the year in which the world ended, right? Because the Mayan calendar says so? Well, not that we were…

ShortFormBlog: Could Haiti's humanitarian crisis be solved with gold?

huh.

shortformblog:

  • problem Haiti, which has long struggled with a far-reaching inability to support itself after a major earthquake, has millions of residents who live on as little as $1.25 per day. Its government has a budget of just $1 billion per year — for the entire country.
  • solution One of the side…

(Source: MSN)

05

May

I think there are a lot of misconceptions in society in general about what actually brings happiness, we’re caught up in all these ideas that having a lot of money or having somebody beautiful to have sex with or having some cool objects, having a cool car, cool stereo or whatever is gonna make us happy. And those things actually don’t bring us happiness. I’ve learned a tremendous amount about how compassion or altruism actually brings a person happiness and I think that’s a lot of what’s trying to be put forward through the concerts and it seems like the optimum way to put those ideas forward is through helping the Tibetans gain their freedom because those values are so inherent within Tibetan culture.

Adan YauchAdam Yauch (1964-2012), MCA of the Beastie Boys, from the Frontline report “Dreams of Tibet”

Yauch, best known by his rap moniker MCA of the Beastie Boys and his activism for Tibetan freedom, died yesterday from a three-year battle with cancer. Jaweed Kaleem offers a fine round-up for The Huffington Post on how Buddhist spirituality permeated his life and music, noting that he was “born in Brooklyn, New York to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother, [and] had practiced Buddhism since 1994.”

In the photo to the right, Yauch speaks at a press conference on June 13, 1998 prior to the Tibet Freedom concert at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC.

(Photo by Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Images)

~Trent Gilliss, senior editor

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04

May

gorgeous dress

gorgeous dress

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02

May

Electric Guest – “Awake”

Just a cool track.  

hungryipod:

Really cool track from L.A.-based Electric Guest. The tune is produced by Danger Mouse and is taken from their debut album Mondo, which dropped yesterday.

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Just play it.  You will automatically move.  

hotspotmusic:

The newest Hot Chip track is a shifting classic house track that takes a few definite stages in building up to a typically Hot Chip-ian climax.  Key changes, Joe Goddard’s wispy voice and the ever-improving production values on this make it a slick preview of the new album ‘In Our Heads’ (coming out 11th June) although it maybe takes a couple of spins to get into and love.  

More info here: http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/02-03-12/in-our-heads/