The Imagination Age

"Active participants in the Imagination Age are becoming cultural ambassadors by introducing virtual strangers to unfamiliar customs, costumes, traditions, rituals and beliefs, which humanizes foreign cultures, contributes to a sense of belonging to one’s own culture and fosters an interdependent perspective on sharing the riches of all systems. Cultural transformation is a constant process, and the challenges of modernization can threaten identity, which leads to unrest and eventually, if left unchecked, to violent conflict. Under such conditions it is tempting to impose homogeneity, which undermines the highly specific systems that encompass the myriad luminosity of the human experience." - Rita J. King

http://theimaginationage.net/

http://sciencehouse.com/

Modest Mouse Debuts New Song at Issac Brock's House :: Music :: News :: Paste

Modest Mouse Debuts New Song at Issac Brock's House :: Music :: News :: Paste

Sin City Trade Paper Back Lot

Big time eBay comics score:



Sin City

Dame to Kill for

Big Fate Kill

That Yellow Bastard (Hard Cover)

Booze Broads and Bullets

Hell and Back

Family Values

Low final bid + groupon = $13.14 TOTAL

Danger Mouse and Friends

Danger Mouse collaborations are currently my preferred listening material:

"Modern Guilt" w/ Beck

"Broken Bells" w/ James Mercer

Dark Night of the Soul w/ Sparklehorse and assorted awesome folk.

He puts his thumbprint on everything, and it all has a unique flavor. I can't wait for "Rome" to come out next month, with Danielle Luppi, Jack White and Norah Jones.

Where In Mongolia Is The Tomb Of Ghengis Khan?

From your recliner, tag satellite photos of Northern Mongolia in the search of the most prolific procreator of all time. I can't think of a better was to "waste" time. What are you going to do; watch another television show?

http://exploration.nationalgeographic.com/mongolia/

PRECISION

PRECISION

This is one of the MANY interesting things I routinely pick up from the social networking of Warren Ellis.

THE TEMPLE MOUNT: The Most Significant Piece of Real Estate in Monotheistic Culture

Though a bit confusing, this article gives a great synopsis of the most significant piece of real estate in monotheistic culture. I do not recommend paying much attention to the archaeologist's opinions regarding the site, as the material was not found in situ. Once the items are out of context, a serious scholar can not reliable interpret the data.

What is Beneath the Temple Mount?

MGMT - Kids and Flash Delirium

KIDS



FLASH DELIRIUM



I love MGMT videos as much as their songs. These are especially awesome/innovative/twisted/etc.

Whoever Brought Me Here, Will Have To Take Me Home

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

- RUMI (Translated by Coleman Barks)