So I was browsing The Mountain Goats’ thread today and I was coming across a lot of Nerdfighter hate, which I thought was pretty unfair.
Everyone starts somewhere. Just because I came across the Mountain Goats five years ago instead of two days ago doesn’t make me a better person or more worthy of their music. Yes, there are way more songs than “This Year” and “Love, Love, Love”, but come on, we probably all went through that phase. I know I did.
I just find it discouraging when old fans try to turn away new fans.
So, Welcome Nerdfighters! Come join the party! There are in fact more Mountain Goats songs than the ones JD played last night, over 500 to be precise. All of them are amazing.
As far as albums go, “Tallahassee”, “Come, Come to the Sunset Tree”, and their newest one, “Transcendental Youth” are probably the most accessible to newbies. “We Shall All Be Healed” and “All Hail West Texas” are also amazing.
As far as songs to check out, in no order:
Up the Wolves
Last Man on Earth
thucydides II-58
Surrounded
High Hawk Season
Wizard Buys a Hat
He Swims Like a Fish
Color in Your Cheeks
Dirty Old Town
Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph Of
Dance MusicSignal boost. :)
The Mountain Goats are a great band, and their fans are great fans, but we tend to be extremely passionate about tMG and their work and that can be a barrier to entry sometimes (just as it can be in other fan communities, including ours).
But I’m grateful for the generosity shown here, and I’d only add that other great and good-for-new-listeners songs include Jenny, The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton, and Damn These Vampires.
I’d also like to add that you should see them live and also buy their music. It really does make being alive a richer and more interesting experience.
P4A is the best time.
Loving it!
For his project titled Ara Solís, Guatemalan photographer Luis González Palma created a series of images representing small models of 15th century sailing boats, symbolically ‘crossing the seas’ of different sleeping beds. Ideas of migration, intimacy and dreams of the future are brought about in this wonderful series.
This is elegant, thought provoking and just beautiful.
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The Tangential: An Existential Nihilist Guide to Tying Your Shoes
1. Put on some shoes. These shoes should have laces, but there aren’t really any other necessary traits for the shoes to have in order for you to tie them. Try not to stop and ask yourself if the shoes actually existed before you opened the closet door and pulled them out. Is the shoe still a…
Esoterica: deluxvivens: lasso: Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies At a recent...
Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies
At a recent presentation, I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men…
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Full Length version of The Racial Contract
The original copy posted was incomplete, so I found a complete copy for you guys.
http://bmorereadinggroup.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/ebooksclub-org__the_racial_contract.pdf
The text after section three as well as the introduction are in symbols.
Make Smith Possible for Transwomen
Hey, everyone: I’m Calliope, a rising senior-gal in a Connecticut high school who is (just now!) discovering Tumblr for the first time. And I have a rather serious personal problem to share with you all that does not involve GIFs, cats, or BBC shows. My problem is with
my dream college
that superspecial place of ironwilled and astonishing women I want to be a part ofSmith College and its policies (rather: problematic UNpolicies) on accepting transwomen into its ranks.
This girl is a boss. As someone that is totally freaking out about college right now I don’t know what it would take to deal with all of this on top of it. I have so much admiration for her courage and determination.
Banned Books from Arizona's banned Ethnic Studies program
Arizona banned these books when they banned ethnic studies.
Banned Books List
High School Course Texts and Reading Lists Table 20: American Government/Social Justice Education Project 1, 2 – Texts and Reading Lists
- Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
- The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
- Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2001), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000), by P. Freire
- United States Government: Democracy in Action (2007), by R. C. Remy
- Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales
- Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1990), by H. Zinn
Table 21: American History/Mexican American Perspectives, 1, 2 – Texts and Reading Lists
- Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2004), by R. Acuna
- The Anaya Reader (1995), by R. Anaya
- The American Vision (2008), by J. Appleby et el.
- Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
- Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A. Burciaga
- Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (1997), by C. Jiminez
- De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views Multi-Colored Century (1998), by E. S. Martinez
- 500 Anos Del Pueblo Chicano/500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures (1990), by E. S. Martinez
- Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human (1998), by R. Rodriguez
- The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez
- Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales
- A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present (2003), by H. Zinn
Course: English/Latino Literature 7, 8
- Ten Little Indians (2004), by S. Alexie
- The Fire Next Time (1990), by J. Baldwin
- Loverboys (2008), by A. Castillo
- Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros
- Mexican WhiteBoy (2008), by M. de la Pena
- Drown (1997), by J. Diaz
- Woodcuts of Women (2000), by D. Gilb
- At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria (1965), by E. Guevara
- Color Lines: “Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?” (2003), by E. Martinez
- Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy (1998), by R. Montoya et al.
- Let Their Spirits Dance (2003) by S. Pope Duarte
- Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997), by M. Ruiz
- The Tempest (1994), by W. Shakespeare
- A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993), by R. Takaki
- The Devil’s Highway (2004), by L. A. Urrea
- Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology (1999), by A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N. Saporta Sternbach
- Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories (1997), by J. Yolen
- Voices of a People’s History of the United States (2004), by H. Zinn
Course: English/Latino Literature 5, 6
- Live from Death Row (1996), by J. Abu-Jamal
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (1994), by S. Alexie
- Zorro (2005), by I. Allende
- Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1999), by G. Anzaldua
- A Place to Stand (2002), by J. S. Baca
- C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), by J. S. Baca
- Healing Earthquakes: Poems (2001), by J. S. Baca
- Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (1990), by J. S. Baca
- Black Mesa Poems (1989), by J. S. Baca
- Martin & Mediations on the South Valley (1987), by J. S. Baca
- The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America’s Public Schools(19950, by D. C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle
- Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A Burciaga
- Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States(2005), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
- Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States (1995), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
- So Far From God (1993), by A. Castillo
- Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (1985), by C. E. Chavez
- Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros
- House on Mango Street (1991), by S. Cisneros
- Drown (1997), by J. Diaz
- Suffer Smoke (2001), by E. Diaz Bjorkquist
- Zapata’s Discipline: Essays (1998), by M. Espada
- Like Water for Chocolate (1995), by L. Esquievel
- When Living was a Labor Camp (2000), by D. Garcia
- La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities (2000), by R. Garcia
- Cantos Al Sexto Sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing (2003), by C. Garcia-Camarilo, et al.
- The Magic of Blood (1994), by D. Gilb
- Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (2001), by Rudolfo “Corky” Gonzales
- Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to “No Child Left Behind” (2004) by Goodman, et al.
- Feminism is for Everybody (2000), by b hooks
- The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1999), by F. Jimenez
- Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (1991), by J. Kozol
- Zigzagger (2003), by M. Munoz
- Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993), by T. D. Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero
- …y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1995), by T. Rivera
- Always Running – La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (2005), by L. Rodriguez
- Justice: A Question of Race (1997), by R. Rodriguez
- The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez
- Crisis in American Institutions (2006), by S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie
- Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941 (1986), by T. Sheridan
- Curandera (1993), by Carmen Tafolla
- Mexican American Literature (1990), by C. M. Tatum
- New Chicana/Chicano Writing (1993), by C. M. Tatum
- Civil Disobedience (1993), by H. D. Thoreau
- By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996), by L. A. Urrea
- Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life (2002), by L. A. Urrea
- Zoot Suit and Other Plays (1992), by L. Valdez
- Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995), by O. Zepeda
- Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
- Yo Soy Joaquin/I Am Joaquin, by Rodolfo Gonzales
- Into the Beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urrea
- The Devil’s Highway, by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Check out this great interview with Luis Alberto Urrea with Billy Moyers. http://billmoyers.com/episode/encore-between-two-worlds-life-on-the-border/
go AWAY arizona
I don’t know which high school teacher assigns Freire but I know that his cirriculum should not be messed with. These are amazing and valuable books that people should read. The last thing we need is anti-intellectualism.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Drugged
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