Savethewords.org is a unique site which aims to boost the exposure of some uncommon words…
Featuring such jewels as panchymagogue: “medicine purging body fluids from the body” and tetanothurm: “a cosmetic for removing wrinkles”, the site may seem geeky at first, but is pulling for a worthy cause.
Languages have been going extinct faster than ever and the global nature of the world today has ensured the steady debasement of even our own beloved English. How often do you hear the words “jussulent” or “primifluous” in daily life? Today’s youth are more likely to shriek out: “pwned” or “l33t” before they go back to playing WoW and sniffing glue…
Aside from netspeak and archaic words, regular everday spoken English has taken a beating. Upon seeing an attractive girl, I’d probably (more…)
Ok, this one has to be the most impressive feat of animation I’ve seen in a while…
I’m assuming its for real and not some regular animation overlayed upon a background of city walls. If so, it had to have been amazingly time consuming for the artist (BLU) to spray on a frame, take its picture and spray it out over and over….
The grafitti portrays the bizarre evolution of man-thing and makes use of everyday objects and surfaces found in a typical inner city block. Now if we could only persuade the ghetto gang-bangers to lay down their glocks and devote their spray cans to art!
Definitely awesome stuff. Here is another (more…)
Have nothing to do this weekend and feel like reading the longest novel of the 20th century? Then step right up to Vikram Seth’s mammoth A Suitable Boy, a book which is good for what it is, but not good enough for what it should be….
The main thing is the size. (The edition I read was 1359 pages). If this book was, say, 300-400 pages with similar style and themes, it would likely have been read, tossed aside, and forgotten long ago. But any book 1000+ pages in length is automatically considered as having more significance than it deserves in this quick-read-paperback-thriller age.
The story takes place in India, shortly after independence, and deals with (more…)
Songs That Sound Like Other Songs
Remember those times when you heard a song and swore it sounded like another?
Well turns out you may have been right. Tunes often get recycled intentionally or unintentionally and turn up in another musician’s repertoire. It’s especially interesting when the song in question is popular or has reached cult status…..The following 4 songs are well known examples of “borrowing” which made these artists immortal.
Round 1: Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” VS. Killing Joke’s “Eighties”
The 1991 release Nevermind was a bold statement of angst and apathy that shook the music world to its very foundations. In one stroke, Kurt Cobain’s constipated moans and simple guitar riffage wiped away a decade’s worth of glam metal and eighties synth-pop. Plus, the album is really catchy and plays almost like a greatest hits collection. The song “Come As You Are” was the second single to be released, and contains a very distinctive riff which sets the mood of the song: (more…)
Find a friend with explosive diarrhea, punch him in the stomach, and deftly catch the resultant on a few black t-shirts. What do you get? Yes! The latest crop of illegible metal logos! AC’s first illegible metal logo post was really popular, so I thought I’d compile a second list of the finest, splattery examples of the art form.
Drawn from the cartoonishly twisted world of extreme metal, goregrind and related genres, these band logos try their best to hide their names from the viewer–after all, only sell-out bands have names that you can actually “read” or lyrics you can actually “understand”…..
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