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300. Joseph Arthur

Daniel Fincke — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:39:19 +0000

The list of my top 366 favorite bands now becomes a list of the top 300 with Joseph Arthur:

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"Holiday Co-options", Or "What Exactly Did We Celebrate Saturday?"

Daniel Fincke — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:22:46 +0000

Richard Wade on the evolution of a holiday:

Last night, we celebrated Celtic Harvest, Livestock Slaughter and Passing of the Dead Festival Co-opted to Roman Pagan Harvest, Livestock Slaughter and Passing of he Dead Festival Co-opted to Roman Catholic All Saints Vigil/Feast Co-opted to Capitalist Subconscious Psycho-Sexual Sado-Masochistic Eros-Thanatos Paravestite Fetish Fantasy Catharsis and Candy Consumption Night, otherwise known to the less informed as Halloween.

Well, at least the fantasy catharsis part sort of relates to my aesthetics of Halloween, but that’s in a very remote and abstract way. And I do have some candy on Halloween but usually not very much. The rest? Not really the parties I get invited to. But it’s still my second favorite holiday after New Year’s Eve nonetheless.

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Heidegger And Nazism

Daniel Fincke — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:46:30 +0000

This is a really interesting documentary on the life of Martin Heidegger which centers for the most part around the issue of his Nazism. There are six parts worth watching through. They start with the video below:

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