This amazing picture, entitled “Bush III” was popularized on Digg today: 
It was originally from: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2617430584_bcd9a4fba7_o.jpg
I know, this post has a total linkbait title– there are hundreds of rap songs that could be crowned the darkest, the baddest, or the most moving. Shootouts with the federales, the bustin’ of slugs upon enemies, and the curse of the crack-pipe are common enough motifs, rich fodder for countless ghetto ballads.
But one song sticks in my mind more than others: “Dance With the Devil” by Immortal Technique.
The Peruvian born, Harlem raised artist solidified his reputation engaging in fiery battle raps. He eventually released Revolutionary Vol. I, the excellent Revolutionary Vol II, and The 3rd World as well as a grab-bag of freestyle raps, mixes and odds & ends that can be found strewn across the hip hop underground.
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Biography: Kafka
by Nicholas Murray
One of the problems with writing a biography on a writer, especially one like Kafka, is that so many primary sources already exist that describe his life.
Though his fiction was fragmentary, his personal correspondence was voluminous – he wrote countless letters and kept diaries that would surely create the most complete picture of him – if anyone had the patience to read through it all….
Luckily we have Murray, who sifts through the thoughts of poor tortured Kafka and keeps the essentials necessary to understand the writer’s life.
Murray does this well enough, with his own interpretations interspersed, but the structure is a little annoying– I’d say a fourth to a third of the entire text is Kafka’s own words i.e. direct quotations. Thus, the structure goes something like this:
Jacques Resch is a French artist whose surrealist images simply blew me away. Fans of Dali and Bosch should take a look at his site and the images therein.
Note the artist’s commentary on modern technology and politics which are woven into his hallucinatory creations. Below are “Le diabolo”, “Retour”, and “Mort d’anges”:
Isnoop has an interesting online fridge magnet tool in case you’re doing some brainstorming and need some quick Freudian free association ideas…
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