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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 work for money, as a livelihood. Not for politics… I think they’re only terrorists in that [...]

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 to dina #
Urdu/Pashto violence in #karachi 13 dead, police told to shoot [...]

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 programming before afternoon yoga… #
They MOVE! the pieces move!! #
finally have an iPod again… yayy #
@bgblogging [...]

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 and finals.. #
my body hurts. *cough**wheeze* good show tonight though… podcast will [...]

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… #
Just sat in on a community council meeting to support Weybridge. Sam and Leah [...]

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 is indeed being erased from urban landscapes, then the cities of the next millennium may yet [...]