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Fri Aug 8

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Clutch | The Yeti

Clutch is the greatist rock band ever. You cant argue this. Their style encompasses such an ecclectic mix that they truely are the most bizzare gem in the music industry. Living up to the title of “professional musicians,” which very few artists can claim anymore, these guys do nothing at all but tour and jam. Theyre never not on tour. With 8 studio releases, 2 full length B sides releases, countless singles, and an unsurmountable lot of bootlegged originals, its easy to see how in love Clutch is with its sound. Spanning the harder end of grunge/punky bastardization that the early 90s birthed, to the grooveadellic mix of funk, to the fusion of jazz and the blues, to hard hitting head bangin’ southern rock, all the while bending the edge of the classic rock sound, Clutch delivers music for any rock music fan. Lyrically they are unmatched poets, with a twang that steals from Dr Seuss, classical epics, barstool boozehounds, and the storytelling of the banjo totin’ folk man. Clutch is everything the name claims to be.

Just saw them last saturday night in Atlantic City, NJ. Clutch fans are an unmatched army composed of blood, sweat, and beers. These guys consider an encore to be 7 more songs. They cant play a single track that doesnt have fans churning in a mass of flesh and bone. Tonality is superb, levels are mixed with mastery, and the emotional charge is like being hit by a Kansas tornado. They dont ever want to stop playing (the band) they have to be shut down by the venue. Im told that for more lenient halls (this was in some p.o.s. casino… gross…) Clutch typically does 2 shows back to back, and 3 in a row is not unheard of. READY TO ROCK, IF YA WANNA ROLL.

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“ But we are shifting, too, from a culture of scarcity to one of abundance. That is the essence of the Google worldview: managing abundance. So let’s assume that instead of a scarcity there is an abundance of talent and a limitless will to create but it has been tamped down by an educational system that insists on sameness; starved by a mass economic system that rewarded only a few giants; and discouraged by a critical system that anointed a closed, small creative class.

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The myth of the creative class (via fred-wilson, artistspaid) (via marco)

…an’ an educatuinal seestem that punishes thoze for deviyatin’ frum said sameness

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jonathan-deamer:

GEEK LOLZ via the ever-witty-and-insightful Hugh MacLeod on Twitter

HAHAHAHA!

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Thu Aug 7

insertname:

Jedi Master Jared graced us with his presence.

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How to make a hard fruit soft in two hours

Ok so theres this fruit sellin dood out on park avenue that is hit or miss wit ripeness. Sometimes he has some stellar fruits (when he isnt ashing his cigs all over ‘em) and sometimes theyre hard as a rock. Ive gotten way too many crunchy pears and chewy nectarenes as of late, so I figur’d Id try a workamaround.

Fruit is hard because all plant walls are extremely thick n hard n stuff. Believe it or not, plant cell walls are amongst the toughest materials for your body to digest (sometimes harder than red meats, so suck it vegans!). It softens because of several processes which happen over time, mostly due to the presence of oxygen. It aids in the breakdown of pectin (matter which gives fruit its solid form), aids in the conversion of sugars to sugar alcohol (same idea behind wine making), and weakening of the cellular walls. The more solid pectin present, the harder it is for oxygen to get in there and soften them ripe little plant ovaries up.

So how do you speed up this softening? Add more oxygen. This wont make the fruit sweeter as that takes a lot more time and chemical reactionin’ but it will make it easier to chew and digest*. I like to take a small sharp knife and cut it up like pinhead from Hellraiser. Just make the slices deep and just slightly wide enough to allow oxygen to flow into the center. Make them at even intervals laterally, and then make like 2 or three longitudally kinda cuts. Give it 3 hours in a warm room, and you get yerself some soft fruit.

*(I believe bacteria in yogurt aids in the breakdown of pectin and other fruity parts in yer intestines, thats why yogurt and fruit harmonize so well. Dont quote me, yo).

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Tue Aug 5

insertname:

I have Min ions

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Mon Aug 4

benisadork:

weee wooo weee wooo

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marco:

I’m positioned in the absolute worst spot relative to the office’s air conditioners. The corner around my desk is always full of hot air, and the two air conditioners freeze the middle people so much that they turn them off.

(Also, drawing with Scribble is hard. And Scribble developers: please offer the ability to send a PNG directly from the app. It’s much nicer quality than JPEG for drawings of this type.)

Hey man, Im all for cranking the AC up higher. As self-elected representative of the “middle people” im constantly sweating my ***** off when the AC gets turned down/off (further perpetuating your corner of hot air… no pun intended).

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justin:

blakeley:

nomsociety:

Welcome to NomSociety.

Instantly hit the follow button…

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eatsleepdraw:

little sketch i did few years ago. saw someone with this as a tattoo and was fascinated.

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