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"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"'s named after a Congolese dancebeat but the song's not in fact a kwassa kwassa, nor is it a slow jam, although it's basically about making out, pale and collegiate, and wondering what the heck you're doing. The chorus ends, at least to my ears, like this: "Does it feel so unnatural / to Peter Gabriel too?" And while critics ( Read more... )

highschoolers in champaign are so stupid. my christ, these stupid juniors.

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"A brisk but elegiac piano sequence, underscored by some spooky strings, leads us directly into the intriguing melody of this new song from the Portland, Ore.-based singer/songwriter Nick Jaina. I've been trying to put my finger on just what makes the tune so compelling, and I'm thinking it has something to do with Jaina's prominent use of ( Read more... )

Animal-like: rhizopods (amoeba), ciliates (paramecium), flagellates (trypanosoma), sporozoans (plasmodium)

Plant-like: Euglenoids, dinoflagellates, diatoms, green algae (volvox), golden algae, brown algae, and red algae

Fungus-like: Oomycota (phytophthora infestans), Acrasiomycota (cellular slime mold), Myxomycota (plasmodial)

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i just papercut my tongue sealing these envelopes. my life sucks. jk. complain jane.

hey

elvis perkins' album is called ash wednesday

nice, fitting.

"Every morning you wash your face - you get up and wash your face and look at your own eyes in the mirror. Sometimes the mirror's steamed over and sometimes the day is sharp outside the window. Always your eyes, there, deep in their sockets, and never a day younger. You remember when you used to look at your own face and see a child, a teenager, a ( Read more... )