Stacking Theory

9 Apr 2013

I particularly congratulate the IPA and its marvelous director, John Roskam, for your work in defence of Western civilisation. Contemporary Australia has well and truly - and rightly - left behind the old cult of forgetfulness about our indigenous heritage. Alas, there is a new version of the great Australian silence – this time about the Western canon, the literature, the poetry, the music, the history and above all the faith without which our culture and our civilisation are unimaginable.

faaaaaaaaaaaarken hell Abbott’s address to the Institute of Public Affairs late last week is horrible. That’s right, guys. For too long in Australia we have been awash in pervasive indigenous culture. Open any book, any newspaper, any TV, and it’s just covered with references to indigenous culture and heritage, while the poor widdle Western canon is left alone and forgotten, alongside repeats of The Big Bang Theory on a special interest station with limited coverage.

Seriously. Fuck me.

You can read it here or watch it here.

(via fairmanrants)

Yeah we literally never hear about the same 10 or so old white Australian playwrights/filmmakers/musical artists. Feel so sorry for them :((((

(via clambistro)

9 Apr 2013

I particularly congratulate the IPA and its marvelous director, John Roskam, for your work in defence of Western civilisation. Contemporary Australia has well and truly - and rightly - left behind the old cult of forgetfulness about our indigenous heritage. Alas, there is a new version of the great Australian silence – this time about the Western canon, the literature, the poetry, the music, the history and above all the faith without which our culture and our civilisation are unimaginable.

faaaaaaaaaaaarken hell Abbott’s address to the Institute of Public Affairs late last week is horrible. That’s right, guys. For too long in Australia we have been awash in pervasive indigenous culture. Open any book, any newspaper, any TV, and it’s just covered with references to indigenous culture and heritage, while the poor widdle Western canon is left alone and forgotten, alongside repeats of The Big Bang Theory on a special interest station with limited coverage.

Seriously. Fuck me.

You can read it here or watch it here.

(via fairmanrants)

Yeah we literally never hear about the same 10 or so old white Australian playwrights/filmmakers/musical artists. Feel so sorry for them :((((

(via clambistro)

4 Apr 2013

jtotheizzoe:

Listen as Albert Einstein Reads You A Scientific Essay

It’s his voice, in your ears, from 1941, reading his essay ‘The Common Language of Science’. Words, I do not have them. Enjoy :)

(via Open Culture)

4 Apr 2013

Abbott to 'shoot messenger' on climate

Other policies to include:
* providing each civilian with a bucket of sand to bury their heads in
* putting a fence around the edges of the world to stop boats falling off
* burning Copernicus at the stake

25 Mar 2013

The Jon Brion Show - Feat. Elliott Smith / Brad Mehldau (‘00) (by AlRosePromotions)

Yellow Ostrich did a cover of Jon Brion’s ‘Strings That Tie To You’ on their 2009 EP ‘Carousels’.

So I went investigating, and ended up here - watching a tale of two very different gentlemen.

4 Mar 2013

I am thinking about The Matrix because I am tired?

in a true to life version of The Matrix, there would be another group of humans who had discovered their terrible plight, but instead of fighting, had agreed to contribute to the illusion in return for living the best life possible inside the illusion.

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Imagine a version of The Matrix where Keanu realised what was going on, but didn’t have the strength to break out, and slips back into the illusion.

At first it bothers him greatly - he becomes agitated and afraid. He refuses to trust anyone. Desperately longing to scream his discoveries at everyone, but painfully aware of the absolute madness they would understand it to be.

For it is certainly a mad concept, which could never be real.

So slowly, he learns to forget, and to slide along in ‘normalcy’.

But every now and then, out of the corner of his eye, or in the back of his ear, he is reminded of the truth, and feels a great discomfort. So he does what he can to try to forget one more time.

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The dead air in the training room.

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Either way, Neo is screwed eventually.

4 Mar 2013

moniquill:

sanityscraps:

pulpfanfiction:

aritificialdifficulty:

legallyblindobservations:

The World’s Quietest Room

Scientists at Minneapolis’ Orfield Labs created their own soundless room, an anechoic chamber. Their studies have found that when putting subjects within the chamber, they begin to hallucinate within 30 minutes.

With an average quiet room having a sound level of 30 decibels, the anechoic chamber’s sound level is -9 decibels. The ceiling, floor, and walls of the chamber absorb sound rather than have it bounce off as normal objects do. The chamber is so quiet that the subjects can even hear their own organs functioning.

Although extremely interesting, the experience is rather unpleasant. Not one subject has spent more than 45 minutes in the chamber alone. Leaving a person to only their thoughts, the chamber could drive them insane.

I want to be here. I want to see the deeper parts of my thoughts, and maybe figure some things out.

the room makes you literally go insane after an extended period of time

its not serene its fucking horrifying did you even read the post

even the architecture is horrifying wtf

The difference between ‘serene’ and ‘horrifying’ is one of consent and duration. There’s nothing about sensory deprivation that is in and of itself terrifying; being able to go in and out of this room at will could indeed be a useful meditative tool. But being forced into this room and made to stay there would be torturous because of the force and the solitude. Nobody wants to stay in this room for more than 45 minutes because, I presume, it gets boring. Give someone a good book and/or an internet feed and/or someone else to interact with and see that number go up.

“You will go literally insane from the silence!”

ORLY?

Please reference the existence of people with total deafness who have perfectly typical cognition.

It’s not the quiet room that’ll drive you mad; it’s solitary confinement.

I had the privilege of being in one of these rooms for about a minute some years back. I think it was at the CSIRO.

There is a fine line - about as deep as an abyss - between quiet/silent and dead. That’s the thing I noticed - it’s not quiet, or silent. It’s dead - there’s no sound. No background noise. No aural feedback. It ate any sound I generated. Consumed it, and gave nothing back.

I’m sure different people will react differently at some level, but for me, it was highly disturbing.

2 Mar 2013

I’m about to sneak into The Hardman’s bedroom today this while he sleeps.

21 Feb 2013

McGillicutty (Pilot/Teaser) on Vimeo

Dear everyone.

This would be a lovely birthday present - please make it a real show.

Thanks,
gizo

10 Feb 2013

clambistro:

The Apples In Stereo - Told You Once (Travellers In Space And Time, 2010)

There was a period, when this record came out, that I think I played this song every week on my radio show for like three months.

This appears to be the album in which The Apples discover a long lost cache of ELO instruments, backing tracks, and melodies.

None of this is a bad thing.