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Metal Mashup 2: Al Son del Bodom Beach Boom (Children of Bodom vs. Daddy Yankee)

This is an interesting mix of some classic melodic thrashy death metal with rrrreggaeton! Children of Bodom – Bodom Beach Terror Daddy Yankee feat. Miguelito – Al Son Del Boom (El Heredero)

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Download MP3 here Al Son del Bodom Beach Boom by Alex Yule is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 [...]

Foucault is METAL

A  hilarious bit from a conversation with a friend about Foucault being a badass and post-modernism (whatever that is):

Jack: I like postmodernism, but I usually take the radical end out and think it terms of history me: history? Jack: Yeah 9:03 PM Postmodernism thinks it has found the tr00 chaos underlying all things It’s REALITY! REALITY [...]

Faulkner on the “Spirit”

“Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every day.” –William Faulkner #

62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.

62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-12-14

Top 25 Censored Stories for 2008 from Project Censored, scary stuff: http://tinyurl.com/6rxn2m # Chief of UN Mission in Afghanistan to NATO and friends: WAKE THE HELL UP and LISTEN TO KARZAI! http://tinyurl.com/5fax9g # Or rather, to Afghanistan’s “international partners” # @fadereu Pirates [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-12-07 (Mumbai Attacks)

Woaaah office 2008, HEllooooooo cambria. Kinda blowing my mind right now. # @dina Cheers from Boston and Vermont… our hearts go out to you all… Your resilience is quite inspiring! in reply to dina # @dina p.s. 500 errror on your #karachi link in reply [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-30

i hate tetris! commie pinko crap! # I respectfully disagree with the videogame-making ideologies of a certain former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics # @alexismadrigal nice story! very interesting stuff.. kinda scary in reply to alexismadrigal # yay for break… doing some [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-23

“Twitter beat news sites by 1h or more on indonesia earthquake news. News media is changing radically. Twitter doesn’t take weekends off.” # crashin’ hard to my beeeeddd # Melting Point Radio, tonight 9-10:30pm EST http://wrmc.middlebury.edu/listen the theme is the awkward time between the semester [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-16

“Yet what in close-up appears to be a fragmentary, collaged polyculture is… A geographically-disjoint but hyperspatially-integrated mo … # neologisms: Cyburbia vs. Cyberia, keno capitalism, POLLYANNARCHY, Cybergeoisie vs. Protosurps, PRAEDARORIANISM, GLOBAL LATIFUNDIA (Dear, … # huzzah, welcoming the beginning of my 23rd year… # [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-09

Melting Point Radio! Halloween edition! http://wrmc.middlebury.edu/listen http://meltingpointradio.blogspot.com for past shows # Still funny the 10th time around. Yay midd grads: (song for sarah palin) http://tinyurl.com/3rrjfq # Racy Doonesbury banned in Idaho and other fine states (rt @benjaminspector) http://tinyurl.com/6rfrrt # if public intentionality [...]