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Boots performs “I Run Roulette” on the Tonight Show...

Boots performs “I Run Roulette” on the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon (March 18, 2015)

William Strobeck Wants to Bring Back the Golden Era of Skate Videos (VICE)

William Strobeck Wants to Bring Back the Golden Era of Skate Videos (VICE):

Gonna track this video down. And if you really want to know where it all began (low-budget street skating instead of vert fests) check out H-Street’s “Shackle Me Not”—still my favorite skate video.

http://www.h-street.com/about/

"Is what we get out of a performance today any different now than it was then? No, it’s the..."

“Is what we get out of a performance today any different now than it was then? No, it’s the same thing: the need for transcendence, or maybe just a distraction—a day at the beach, a trip to the mountains—from humdrum life, boredom, pain, loneliness. Maybe that’s all performance ever was, really. An unending kiss…”

- Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band (Dey St. 2015, p262)

"It happened, we exist, we felt something… It’s why...

"It happened, we exist, we felt something… It’s why we make art."

"Still, I’ve always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when..."

“Still, I’ve always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.”

- Kim Gordon (Girl in a Band, p132)

planetfroot:I simply love… To skateboard. #AvrilReal women...

A video posted by Marina and The Diamonds (@marinagrams) on Mar 8, 2015 at 3:58pm PDT

planetfroot:

I simply love… To skateboard. #Avril

Real women skate ;-)

Scientists figured out where to run when the zombies come for us

Scientists figured out where to run when the zombies come for us:

"When asked by a colleague from another country why Americans like zombies so much, my initial thought was probably the most accurate: We like to shoot things. The end. Game, bottles on an old fence, road signs: anything we can put our sights on, click, boom. For those of you from countries with strict gun legislation, this is called fun. However, when pointing guns at people, click, boom is frowned upon."

Elvis Presley, Michele Carey, and Dick Sargent in “Live a...

Elvis Presley, Michele Carey, and Dick Sargent in “Live a Little, Love a Little” (1968)

The truth about whiskey drinkers and the chicks they dig

The truth about whiskey drinkers and the chicks they dig:

"Whiskey drinkers appear apathetic to the majority of mankind — but after you get to know people who love a good tumbler of whiskey and you share a few drinks with them, you’ll realize just how passionate they are."

Silk is everything I’d hoped for. Fresh, original, great...

Silk is everything I’d hoped for. Fresh, original, great characters, great back story, great art, great writing… (Silk #1, Marvel, February 2015)