Category Archives: philosophy

quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?

Posted on by

I tried leaning heavily on my love of daffodils to game this quiz, but I think it could tell I was lying. And just because I’m too old to die young doesn’t mean I’m not Keats, dammit! Fuck- I mean FAUGH!

You scored as Percy Shelley. You’re poet is Percy Shelley. Shelley’s best-known works include his Prometheus Unbound (1819), a lyrical drama in which Shelley expounds the cause of an imaginative revolution, his atheistic poem Queen Mab (1821), his prose essay A Defence of Poetry (1840) and The Triumph of Life, left unfinished at Shelley’s death. Many of Shelley’s other works were written around 1820: these include The Mask of Anarchy (1820), the poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ (1819), Peter Bell the Third (1819) and the political odes ‘To Liberty’ and ‘To Naples’ (both 1820).

Percy Shelley
69%
John Keats
69%
William Wordsworth
63%
Lord Byron
63%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
50%

Who is Your Romantic Poet?
created with QuizFarm.com

del.icio.us: Quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?
blinklist: Quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?
furl: Quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?
Digg it: Quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?
ma.gnolia: Quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?
Stumble it: Quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?
simpy: Quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?
newsvine: Quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?
reddit: Quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?
fark: Quiz: which Romantic Poet are you?
Technorati Favorite me!

Ask the philosophers: the 11 greatest philosophical quotations

Posted on by

Hobbes. Bet you didn't expect that, eh?

But they left out my favorite, from Camus: “It is the obligation of the intelligent to oppress the stupid, otherwise they will take over the world.”

Too late. That’s what three decades of Relativism gets you.

Here, from Mental Floss via Neatorama, are the 11 greatest philosophical quotations, with arguably enlightening commentary. Bonus pronounciation guide, for those of you who prefer to pronounce things as if you were still living in Bavaria…here’s a tip: I was born near Paris, but I pronounce it “Pare-iss” not “Pay-ree” because I do not live in France. I do not pronounce Indonesia with five syllables either, although you do once you’re there. That goes double for idiomatic English names (eg “It’s spelt ‘SMITH’  but has been pronounced “Williams” since the Battle of Hastings…”) If you do not live in France or Germany or Worcestershire or Bandaniera either, making a point of pronouncing things like the natives do simply makes people write you off (correctly) as one of those beret-wearing pretentiati. And when raincoaster here tells you you’re being pretentious, you know you’re out of bounds.

Ahem.

3. “The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” – Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679)
Referring to the original state of nature, a hypothetical past before civilization, Hobbes saw no reason to be nostalgic.

Whereas Rousseau said, “Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains,” Hobbes believed we find ourselves living a savage, impossible life without education and the protection of the state. Human nature is bad: we’ll prey on one another in the most vicious ways. No doubt the state imposes on our liberty in an overwhelming way. Yet Hobbes’ claim was that these very chains were absolutely crucial in protecting us from one another.

del.icio.us: Ask the philosophers: 11 greatest philosophical quotations
blinklist: Ask the philosophers: 11 greatest philosophical quotations
furl: Ask the philosophers: 11 greatest philosophical quotations
Digg it: Ask the philosophers: 11 greatest philosophical quotations
ma.gnolia: Ask the philosophers: 11 greatest philosophical quotations
Stumble it: Ask the philosophers: 11 greatest philosophical quotations
simpy: Ask the philosophers: 11 greatest philosophical quotations
newsvine: Ask the philosophers: 11 greatest philosophical quotations
reddit: Ask the philosophers: 11 greatest philosophical quotations
fark: Ask the philosophers: 11 greatest philosophical quotations
Technorati Favorite me!

start your day off right, biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!

Posted on by

My mother was a Buddhist, but she never missed a service at the Pentecostal church down the street. This shiat is why.

Then she’d come home and watch Ernest Angeley. So that’s where I get it the multiculti freakness from, in case you’re axin’.

del.icio.us: Start your day off right, Biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!
blinklist: Start your day off right, Biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!
furl: Start your day off right, Biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!
Digg it: Start your day off right, Biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!
ma.gnolia: Start your day off right, Biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!
Stumble it: Start your day off right, Biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!
simpy: Start your day off right, Biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!
newsvine: Start your day off right, Biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!
reddit: Start your day off right, Biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!
fark: Start your day off right, Biotches: with the Spirit of Truth!
Technorati Favorite me!

PSA: 12 Midnite’s Money-Grubbing Cash & Carry Art Sale

Posted on by

12 Midnite Sale Flyers 

12 MIDNITE: Political Pop art pioneer, lowbrow legend and hot rod hooligan hosts sale of vintage art thought long lost

Feb. 5, 2007
Vancouver:
12 MIDNITE, Canada’s best known unknown arist has a checkered history of shifting gears on his career. Coming to the forefront of the thriving political street art movement, by the mid 80s his name became synonomous with gritty urban pop art. Since that time he has been an established member of the elite society of Lowbrow legends, moving through graffiti to pop painting and neon art, running galleries, a hot rod shop and back, while popping up irregularly with guitar in hand, to front an ever-shifting band of punk ex-patriots to shock and amaze fans and foes with his beer-drenched tales of misadventure before disappearing in a blur of flat black and throaty exhaust.
On one magical night only, February 17th, Midnite will host a MONEY-GRUBBING sale of long-lost art: paintings, prints, drawings, graffiti and neon from the early days to fund his latest album, “SWEET TURNS SOUR”  at LUCKY RED, on the bitter end of Vancouver’s historic chinatown.
Those who cough up over 200 dollars will recieve an advance copy of the album along with the smug satisfaction of knowing that BUYING ART MAKES YOU COOL!

12 MIDNITE’S MONEY-GRUBBING CASH AND CARRY ART SALE
Saturday, February 17th: 8PM
LUCKY RED: Union at Main…on the bitter end of chinatown
www.12midnite.com
midnite at telus dot net

Cadillacs and Cows

one too many cocktails

Posted on by

Steve and Eydie, bay-bee!

On the one hand, this is insane. On the other, it is lovely.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the classic Vegas lounge duo Steve and Eydie performing Soundgarden‘s nihilistic, heroin-laced grunge classic, Black Hole Sun.

Never mind, Odeo killed the file, thanks Odeo. Click onward to go to an updated post with the lyrics and a video.