March 2012
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February 2012
2 posts
Mountaintop Removal Linked to 60,000 Additional... →
sleepyholler:
mong the 1.2 million American citizens living in mountaintop removal mining counties in central Appalachia, an additional 60,000 cases of cancer are directly linked to the federally sanctioned strip-mining practice.
That is the damning conclusion in a breakthrough study, released last night in the peer-reviewed Journal of Community Health: The Publication for Health Promotion...
January 2012
7 posts
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via justinpoole)
December 2011
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November 2011
7 posts
Sufjan to Appear on New Roots Album, "undun"
Spin: So who, exactly, is the protagonist Redford Stephens?
?uestlove: Well, the album's name is inspired by the Guess Who song "undun." But we named the character after the Sufjan Stevens song "Redford" from his Michigan record. We imagined Redford as being like Avon Barksdale from The Wire. He's a good guy who could have just gone to college and been a great engineer or something. But he makes a bad decision and pays for it. We tell that story in 10 songs, under 44 minutes. Actually, Sufjan makes an appearance on the album, too.
Spin: Really?
?uestlove: We've always loved the song "Redford" from Michigan. So we close the new album with a cover of "Redford." We stretched it out into this four-part movement. Part 1 is Sufjan at the piano performing it. And then Part 2 is a string quartet that we had interpret it. Part 3 is myself and D.D. Jackson, who is an avant-garde piano player. He's probably one of the most dangerous pianists — I don't know how he doesn't have carpal tunnel now. But he just destroys, literally, destroys the piano. The final movement, which ends the record, is essentially the beginning of the story. But it's the last thing you hear. It's a very powerful piece of work.
October 2011
16 posts
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
– Oscar Wilde (via musingsinfemininity)
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September 2011
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