Darby Crash September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980

33 years ago today Darby Crash snuffed it. Suicide is a motherfucker... Glad I'm not there anymore. Today we celebrate life, celebrate struggle and celebrate punk rock. Fucken rage'r.

Bobby Soxx and the Teenage Queers Live at Raul's 1980

fucking killer texas punk blowing my mind, baby. The sound is killer as well. enjoy.

Henry Rollins : 50 (live in DC)

Always fun to listen to.
enjoy.

Robert Anton Wilson and Karl Hess

Here's a weird little video I happened upon the other day... It's a discussion between Robert Anton Wilson and prominent libertarian anarchist Karl Hess (click that, it's interesting...). They talk about all sorts of things and detail their experiences in life, politics and philosophy. enjoy...

Fenriz' Black Metal University

This is the drummer of Darkthrone going over the history of black metal as he sees it. Something new? not really, but entertaining all the same. I just like seeing people who love music talk about music... Certainly interesting to metal fans and to people who may be curious about the trve black metal...

(a little bit of overlap with the videos, but whatever...)

Alan Watts Interviews Bertrand Russell

Sex Pistols in Manchester 1976

audio only, unfortunately...
but yes, this is the famous one where all of the dudes we know and love had their minds blown by rock and fucking roll. awesome.

Bertrand Russell interviewed on the BBC in 1959

Aldous Huxley on life, freedom and control.

"Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.

Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism,^[1][2] in particular Vivekanda's Neo-Vedanta and Universalism.^[3] He is also well known for his advocacy and consumption of psychedelic drugs.
By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time."

Chris Hedges on the death of the left, corporations and modern society.

From Wikipedia: Christopher Lynn "Chris" Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist specializing in American politics and society. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction—Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010) and his most recent New York Times best seller, written with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" (2012).
Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City.^[1] He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times,^[2] where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).
In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received in 2002 the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University^[2] and The University of Toronto. He writes a weekly column on Mondays for Truthdig and authored what The New York Times described as "a call to arms" for the first issue of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, the newspaper giving voice to the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park, New York City.

Richard D. Wolff on The Crisis of Capitalism

A general analysis of the capitalist system and it's failings. Sounds dry, but he's an engaging speaker and can be pretty entertaining... I'm in the middle of a few of his lectures on Marxian Economics right now and will probably be posting those in the future. until then; enjoy.





from Wikipedia: "Richard D. Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American economist, well known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis. He is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum in New York City"

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I know

This dude might blow your mind... A genius philosopher, engineer and inventor; Bucky Fuller sought to understand and teach as much as possible. In 1975 Bucky gave a lecture that lasted 42 hours. It was Called "Everything I know". In this lecture he discusses the origins of life on earth, geometry, religion, power and ultimately human evolution. It's a fascinating listen to be sure. At any rate, listen to the first one or two volumes at least. You will not be sorry. The videos of the first half of the lecture are embedded below and there are links to all of them on open culture as well as a link to the Buckminster Fuller Institute where you can get more information and transcripts of these talks and others. enjoy.
 

John Taylor Gatto on Education/Schooling/Control/Self Determination

I don't remember how I found out about John Taylor Gatto, but after initially seeing this series of videos I've ended up watching them all a few times over. There's an introduction to who the man is in the first 17 minutes of the first video; after that it's a long interview/lecture about the history of the school system, the founding of our society as we know it and a few strategies to break oneself or at least one's children out of this cycle of premeditated, conditioned self destruction. Heavy shit, yes- but worth listening to and understanding. enjoy.