By Dr Zuleyka Zevallos - I'm an applied sociologist exploring the general in the peculiar and the sublime in the familiar. My research blog is The Other Sociologist and I manage Sociology at Work. Read my publications on my website.
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and focus on what could go right.
look at your pretty face<3
Star Trek scenery porn
Track:
Lykke Li - Unchained Melody (The Righteous Brothers Cover)
Recorded live at triple j studios, Australia.
If you want to listen to the whole interview plus a performance of ‘I Follow Rivers’ visit: http://bit.ly/LL_triplej
The Fugees - Fu-gee-la (by stillgotza)
Lauryn Hill is going to jail for tax evasion plus she will pay a $60,000 fine. A true shame for this tremendously talented woman. CNN quotes Hill, who said:
“This wasn’t a life of jet-setting glamour… This was a life of sacrifice with very little time for myself and my children.”
She is apparently still working on a new album.
Hill’s lawyer also that the law is uneven in the way it sentences celebrities for tax fraud. He cites Willie Nelson as one example.
No doubt, Hill did the wrong thing, as she does not contest the charges. Celebrities shouldn’t get special treatment, period. The undertone of Hill’s lawyer’s comments, however, is that race might influence the leniency showed to some high profile performers over others.
Track:
Ke$ha vs. The Beatles - Tik Tok Together (A doctordude Mashup)
“Tik Tok” by Ke$ha and “Come Together” by The Beatles mashup
I… I don’t know how I feel about this.
Reading the song title:
While listening to the song:
After listening to the song:
the gifs are so accurate.
(via aiko-uzumaki)
Depeche Mode’s 13th studio album, Delta Machine,is out on March 26 via Columbia.
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15 years after Notorious B.I.G.’s murder, the L.A. County Coroner has released his autopsy report.
Photo: Notorious B.I.G. in 1997. Credit: Los Angeles Times
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Madonna and Basquiat
I was a little surprised when Neil Young published his memoir, “Waging Heavy Peace,” because he is the only artists I have ever encountered who is proud of not reading. Reading would distract him from writing songs, he once told me, meaning interfere with whatever mechanism supplied him with his melodies and lyrics. I am not suggesting that I know better than he does what methods are appropriate for him, but I wonder what else he might have written if he had sought the company of writers such as Tolstoy or Dickens or Chekhov or Kierkeaard…
Continue reading Alec Wilkinson on Neil Young.
Photograph by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns.
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awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Patti Smith and William S. Burroughs
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Guildford Banjo Jamboree. (Taken with Instagram)
Track:
Neon Bible
Artist:
Arcade Fire
Album:
Neon Bible
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Pitchfork is reporting that Missy Elliot will release two new tracks next week. Excitement city!
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Nina Simone being the epitome of elegance and a vision of beauty.
Via Iam Ahn.
Track:
Everlong (Acoustic Version)
Artist:
Foo Fighters
Album:
Greatest Hits
Chavela Vargas. La Llorona.
From the soundtrack to Frida, starring Salma Hayek, and featuring heart breaking scenes from the film, including Vargas singing the song to Hayek. Vargas reportedly had a love affair with the real Frida Kahlo when she was young. Anti-establishment and publicly identifying as homosexual, Vargas took a bold stance against the status quo of the music industry. Vargas defied stereotypes of what women singers should look and sound, by sculpting her unique vocal talents around traits typically associated with masculinity. Known as the rough voice of tenderness (“la voz áspera de la ternura”), Vargas embodied art both as passion and protest.
Vargas died on the 5th of August 2012, RIP.
Image via Van Guardia.
The Dresden Dolls.
Gif by anonimous.
