woah woah woah, Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” advocated for MLK day?
#things you’re not sposed to admit you didn’t know
In an extract from his memoir written before he died last year, Gil Scott-Heron talks about when he toured with Stevie Wonder to establish Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday in the US.
Talking Heads — Love → Building on Fire
from Love → Building on Fire 7” b/w ‘New Feeling’ (1977)
Hadn’t heard this before—the first single by Byrne & Co., released in Feb 1977, seven months before their debut LP, Talking Heads: 77. (This track didn’t appear on the LP until the 2005 reissue, whereas the b-side ‘New Feeling’ did get a spot on the original release.)
Characteristically strange and lovely Byrne lyrics. Again, the obsession with buildings!
Been listening to this on repeat lately. Infectious.
It’s not love, which is my face, which is a building, which is on fire.
Greatest weird song ever. Or weirdest great song ever.
Every year, this is how I know what to watch if I can manage to sit still long enough:
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Beginners
Mike MillsLike an ee cummings poem, Beginners is a beautifully unique and small film about life and love and everything and the world turning in your mind like memories that hold you tight, softly and like heavy air. It’s a perfect movie to see alone or with someone…
freaks and geeks - come sail away
#feel good mondays
a song about the weather.
Things done changed this year.
Dec 17th. We’re back!
Francis and the Lights - The White Room
a concert film from an empty room
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Case You Missed It of the Day: Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum more than made up for Radiohead hoaxing out of their Occupy Wall Street appearance by surprising demonstrators with an eight-song show that featured such classic NMH tunes as “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea,” and “Oh Comely.”
[pitchfork.]
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Dr. Cornel West at the Occupy Wall Street protest Tuesday evening. [Photo: @linktothepast86]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls7q0f1Kiv1qzr73ro1_500.jpg)
Dr. Cornel West at the Occupy Wall Street protest Tuesday evening. [Photo: @linktothepast86]
