“Two Different Ways” is a hypnotic eight-minute track from industrial-tinged synth rockers Factory Floor, our newest Rising act.
…one had to expect very little—almost nothing—from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days like some maniac of living, but to give oneself up, be seized by the days, the months and years, be taken up in the froth of sun and moon, some pale and smoothie-ed river-cloud of life, a long, drawn-out, gray sort of enlightenment, so that when it was time to die, one did not scream swear words and knock things down, did not make a scene, but went easily with understanding and tact, and quietly, in a lightly pummelled way, having been consoled–having allowed to be consoled–by the soft, generous, worthlessness of it all, having allowed to be massaged by the daily beating of life, instead of just beaten.
Tao Lin, Bed (via joe-vaughan
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Rick Rubin provides the funk Justice’s recent Audio, Video, Disco so sorely needed with his remix of “On’n’On”.
Nada Surf - Always Love
To make a mountain of your life is just a choice
But I never learned enough
To listen to the voice that told me:
Always love, hate will get you every time
Always love, don’t wait til the finish lineSlow demands come ‘round
Squeeze the air and keep the rest out
It helps to write it down, even when you then cross it out
But always love, hate will get you every time
Always love, even when you wanna fightSelf-directed lives, I want to know what it’d be like to
Aim so high above any card that you’ve been dealt
You always love, hate will get you every time
Always love, hate will get youI’ve been held back by something, yeah
You said to me quietly on the stairs
I’ve been held back by something, yeah
You said to me quietly on the stairsYou said, hey, you good ones
Hey, you good onesTo make a mountain of your life is just a choice
But I never learned enough
To listen to the voice that told me:
Always love, hate will get you every time
Always love, hate will get youI’ve been held back by something, yeah
You said to me quietly on the stairs
I’ve been held back by something, yeah
You said to me quietly on the stairsYou said, hey, you good ones
Hey, you good ones
down to your soul // right away, great captain!
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We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving… We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins… We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.
Courtney Martin (via air-light-time-space)
The last line is really hitting home lately.
creep on creepin’ on // timber timbre
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frayed // the naked and famous
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