THOM YORKE AND GONJASUFI
IM DEAD
how many heads does it take to screw in a Light bulb?
”Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?”
Trainspotting, 1996
Trainspotting feels like part 1 to SLC Punk
Nelly Furtado - Big Hoops
Was wondering whatever happened to her…
Turns out she’s been chillun on stilts n rocking hoops all along.
her neighborhood, parks, swimming pools, Shekatnaft (sp?), Ararat events, Shatt Al Arab river…
“I would stand at the river with your grandpa and look over, and you’d be able to see Iraq from there…I would tell your grandpa…”
-Aaand she’s crying.
mamijaaaaaaaan
Maquilapolis: City of Factories
*I included the link to Part 1 of the documentary, but the rest is up on youtube. Watch it!
THE FILM
Carmen works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana’s maquiladoras, the multinationally-owned factories that came to Mexico for its cheap labor. After making television components all night, Carmen comes home to a shack she built out of recycled garage doors, in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. She suffers from kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure to toxic chemicals. She earns six dollars a day. But Carmen is not a victim. She is a dynamic young woman, busy making a life for herself and her children.
As Carmen and a million other maquiladora workers produce televisions, electrical cables, toys, clothes, batteries and IV tubes, they weave the very fabric of life for consumer nations. They also confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos — life on the frontier of the global economy. In MAQUILAPOLIS, Carmen and her colleague Lourdes reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to organize for change: Carmen takes a major television manufacturer to task for violating her labor rights. Lourdes pressures the government to clean up a toxic waste dump left behind by a departing factory.
As they work for change, the world changes too: a global economic crisis and the availability of cheaper labor in China begin to pull the factories away from Tijuana, leaving Carmen, Lourdes and their colleagues with an uncertain future.
THE PROCESS
To create MAQUILAPOLIS, the filmmakers brought together factory workers in Tijuana and community organizations in Mexico and the U.S. to collaborate on a film that depicts globalization through the eyes of the women who live on its leading edge. The factory workers who appear in the film have been involved in every stage of production, from planning to shooting, from scripting to outreach.
my mouth is either on fire or I’m hella mad cause I’m tasting nothing
Metric- Hustle Rose
Damn, glad I remembered this song. High school 10th grade ~*memz*~ wooOoop~!
1:00min + /perfect
Did you hear that someone working for Mitt misspelled America? [Democracy Now] (via thenoobyorker)
“You will NEVER get my business this is America and people should assimilate and be encouraged to assimilate into our culture,” adds Fresno, California’s Robert Fisher.
Other comments, like Susan Thibault’s plea, have generated dozens of responses on their own. Lashing out at the chain on their Facebook wall, she asks, “Seriously? In Spanish? What is it a mexican Pizza? Its outragous [sic]. I hope ICE pays you a visit.
America’s newest cause of racial outrage: pizza — RT
Look at all the patriotic grammar errors! Also, reporting facts would mean saying things like “a bunch of morons complained for no reason any moral person would…”
(via skybarn)
Fking pizza.
And what does this American “culture” consist of, sir from Fresno? “Assimilate” into what specifically? Cause I think you meant to say “contribute”- just as you and every other individual in America has the right to do so.
Order food/speak in all the languages you want my friends, cause that is what America is.
^Miss USA worthy? like……wrld im trynna run and a grrl needs to have her lil ~zinger~ down!
Hovhannes Badalyan - Հովհաննես Բադալյան - Yerku Enker - Երկու Ընկեր
Beautiful. Can I go cry now?
