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Teenpop Lock and Drop
A few LJ friends may not be Tumblrers or Twitterers -- for all couple of you, here's my teenpop/hip-hop mash-up album:
http://bit.ly/iKRzhw
Moggy should check out track 3 since she's been on a "Black & Yellow" binge. (Not sure if I should xpost to Poptimists.)
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Snipping for later
Vygotsky, Mind in Society, "Problems of Method," pg. 73:
Our concept of development implies a rejection of the frequently held view that cognitive development results from the gradual accumulation of separate changes. We believe that child development is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of ( Read more... ) -
My favorite note on a recent book I read
"trialogue" -- UM, NO.
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It was at this point that Kuhn threw the ashtray at me.
Strange essay by Errol Morris recounting his brief tenure as a Princeton grad student under Kuhn:
I asked him, “If paradigms are really incommensurable, how is history of science possible? Wouldn’t we be merely interpreting the past in the light of the present? Wouldn’t the past be inaccessible to us? Wouldn’t it be ‘incommensurable?’ ” [8 ( Read more... ) -
I Has Purchased My First Ever Rolling Stones Album(s)!
Their first one ("England's Newest Hitmakers") and "Sticky Fingers." More interested in their white-boy rock-blues on the debut than the latter, plan to move forward accordingly, ending at Exile (if I can find them as cheap as I got these -- 10 bucks for two). -
Best Music Writing 2010
It's that time again -- call is out for best music writing for the Da Capo series, editor Alex Ross. Send your nominations to musicwriting@gmail.com. -
Singles Jukebox Controversy 2010 Mix
X-posted from Tumblr, here is a link to the first annual 2010 Singles Jukebox Controversy Mix:
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Singles Jukebox Penultimate Controversy Index
Just updated this for the first time in a few months and I realized looking over the numbers that there were too many artists with 6 or 7 reviews overshadowing ones that were somewhat controversial with between 12 and 15 (or more) reviews. So I weighted number of contributors a little more and also deducted by the same factor (it's a multiplier ( Read more... ) -
Songs About Safe Sex
A friend wonders, what are some of the best songs about safe sex (not abstinence)? She cites Lady Gaga's "Ribbons."
I know there are a lot of songs from the early 90's that make a pro-condom message explicit -- but I can't think of any off the top of my head. Thoughts?
