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Yoko Ono recounts John Lennon on his 70th birthday...

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:55:51 -0400

Yoko Ono recounts John Lennon on his 70th birthday anniversary

John Lennon would have turned 70 years old this month, and were the late Beatle alive today, he might be sitting in a rocking chair in Cornwall, England, with wife Yoko Ono waiting for a postcard from their son, Sean, Ono.

In the interview, Ono spoke about being unfairly blamed for the breakup of the Beatles and how she can’t forgive Mark David Chapman, the maniacal fan who fatally shot Lennon in 1980.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/10/20/yoko.ono.interview.lennon/index.html?hpt=C2

WE are…bald… Today is Be Bald and Be Free Day Its...

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:04:00 -0400

WE are…bald…

Today is Be Bald and Be Free Day
Its time to stop doing that criminal comb-over cause you’re really not fooling anyone.

Or even worse – you’re wearing a toupee? Well get that dead squirrel off your head and set your self free.

Today’s the day to be proud. Be strong. Be Bald!

applebird: Dear Friends,Over the span of the last year Afta-1...

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:01:49 -0400

applebird:

Dear Friends,
Over the span of the last year Afta-1 & myself have diligently been working on an ever changing album entitled “No Distance Just Grace” . What started off as an idea for a traditional hiphop album has evolved into a multi medium collaborative art project between various creatives within our community. With the help of animator Lila Burns, we have been able to give new life to one of the early recordings from the record and are very pleased to share it with you. This is NOT a music video. It is merely a stop motion love letter from Afta-1 & SPEAK! .Across countries, cities & seas Afta-1 & SPEAK! present No Distance Just Grace.

-SPEAK!

DL the song- http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ocutx444wncxmcg

WE all do it Check this article on one of the things i do best,...

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:59:00 -0400

WE all do it

Check this article on one of the things i do best, procrastinate

Some years ago, the economist George Akerlof found himself faced with a simple task: mailing a box of clothes from India, where he was living, to the United States. The clothes belonged to his friend and colleague Joseph Stiglitz, who had left them behind when visiting, so Akerlof was eager to send the box off. But there was a problem. The combination of Indian bureaucracy and what Akerlof called “my own ineptitude in such matters” meant that doing so was going to be a hassle—indeed, he estimated that it would take an entire workday. So he put off dealing with it, week after week. This went on for more than eight months, and it was only shortly before Akerlof himself returned home that he managed to solve his problem: another friend happened to be sending some things back to the U.S., and Akerlof was able to add Stiglitz’s clothes to the shipment. Given the vagaries of intercontinental mail, it’s possible that Akerlof made it back to the States before Stiglitz’s shirts did.

There’s something comforting about this story: even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate! Many of us go through life with an array of undone tasks, large and small, nibbling at our conscience. But Akerlof saw the experience, for all its familiarity, as mysterious. He genuinely intended to send the box to his friend, yet, as he wrote, in a paper called “Procrastination and Obedience” (1991), “each morning for over eight months I woke up and decided that the next morning would be the day to send the Stiglitz box.” He was always about to send the box, but the moment to act never arrived. Akerlof, who became one of the central figures in behavioral economics, came to the realization that procrastination might be more than just a bad habit. He argued that it revealed something important about the limits of rational thinking and that it could teach useful lessons about phenomena as diverse as substance abuse and savings habits. Since his essay was published, the study of procrastination has become a significant field in academia, with philosophers, psychologists, and economists all weighing in.

Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author’s own problems with finishing the piece. (This article will be no exception.) But the academic buzz around the subject isn’t just a case of eggheads rationalizing their slothfulness. As various scholars argue in “The Thief of Time,” edited by Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White (Oxford; $65)—a collection of essays on procrastination, ranging from the resolutely theoretical to the surprisingly practical—the tendency raises fundamental philosophical and psychological issues. You may have thought, the last time you blew off work on a presentation to watch “How I Met Your Mother,” that you were just slacking. But from another angle you were actually engaging in a practice that illuminates the fluidity of human identity and the complicated relationship human beings have to time. Indeed, one essay, by the economist George Ainslie, a central figure in the study of procrastination, argues that dragging our heels is “as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called the basic impulse.”

Ainslie is probably right that procrastination is a basic human impulse, but anxiety about it as a serious problem seems to have emerged in the early modern era. The term itself (derived from a Latin word meaning “to put off for tomorrow”) entered the English language in the sixteenth century, and, by the eighteenth, Samuel Johnson was describing it as “one of the general weaknesses” that “prevail to a greater or less degree in every mind,” and lamenting the tendency in himself: “I could not forbear to reproach myself for having so long neglected what was unavoidably to be done, and of which every moment’s idleness increased the difficulty.” And the problem seems to be getting worse all the time. According to Piers Steel, a business professor at the University of Calgary, the percentage of people who admitted to difficulties with procrastination quadrupled between 1978 and 2002. In that light, it’s possible to see procrastination as the quintessential modern problem.

It’s also a surprisingly costly one. Each year, Americans waste hundreds of millions of dollars because they don’t file their taxes on time. The Harvard economist David Laibson has shown that American workers have forgone huge amounts of money in matching 401(k) contributions because they never got around to signing up for a retirement plan. Seventy per cent of patients suffering from glaucoma risk blindness because they don’t use their eyedrops regularly. Procrastination also inflicts major costs on businesses and governments. The recent crisis of the euro was exacerbated by the German government’s dithering, and the decline of the American auto industry, exemplified by the bankruptcy of G.M., was due in part to executives’ penchant for delaying tough decisions. (In Alex Taylor’s recent history of G.M., “Sixty to Zero,” one of the key conclusions is “Procrastination doesn’t pay.”)

Philosophers are interested in procrastination for another reason. It’s a powerful example of what the Greeks called akrasia—doing something against one’s own better judgment. Piers Steel defines procrastination as willingly deferring something even though you expect the delay to make you worse off. In other words, if you’re simply saying “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die,” you’re not really procrastinating. Knowingly delaying because you think that’s the most efficient use of your time doesn’t count, either. The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn’t make people happy. In one study, sixty-five per cent of students surveyed before they started working on a term paper said they would like to avoid procrastinating: they knew both that they wouldn’t do the work on time and that the delay would make them unhappy.

WE love IMAN in all her beauty peep the vintage Yves Saint...

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:03:59 -0400

WE love

IMAN in all her beauty

peep the vintage Yves Saint Laurent as well

WE are canvases According to a 2006 Pew survey, 40 percent of...

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:56:00 -0400

WE are canvases

According to a 2006 Pew survey, 40 percent of Americans between the ages of 26 and 40 have been tattooed. Feed your brain with the brief history of tattoos. How many do you have?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/103003469.html

WE are proud

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:49:00 -0400

WE are proud

WE are not learning Caustic red sludge from an industrial plant...

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:22:06 -0400

WE are not learning

Caustic red sludge from an industrial plant in Hungary has started killing fish in the river Danube after wiping out all life in one of its tributaries.

WE need The real american girl i cant wait to see these in toys...

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:32:00 -0400

WE need

The real american girl

i cant wait to see these in toys r us

WE need to be outraged More than 1,000 teachers have been sacked...

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:15:00 -0400

WE need to be outraged

More than 1,000 teachers have been sacked in Kenya for sexually abusing girls over the past two years, the authorities say.

WE are all space stuff

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:55:00 -0400

WE are all space stuff:

One of the best astronomers/authors of our time.

Cosmos

Feed your brain

WEEEEEEEEE thevagabonddon: BANANAS!!!(halloween edition)...

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:52:35 -0400

BANANAS OCT 19th! son!

steve liriks

esuper

halloween swimteam

jessi jae joplin and the Rukus!

Spirit Fangs!

futuristic

lai lai

Bananas

WEEEEEEEEE

thevagabonddon:

BANANAS!!!
(halloween edition) yo

4343 leimert blvd
Doors at 10!
till we finish!
Back again more bands more rappers more fun!
hosted by Belvi and VerBS
DJ Robshot
DJ Blanx
DJ Tyler uppercut
Donald Thump

Performing live:

Halloween Swim Team
http://halloweenswimteam.c om/
(awesome three man synth band…hard workers)

Jessi jae Joplin and The Ruckus
http://www.jessijaejoplin.com/
(super pleasent girl…rock you in your face band)

Spirit Fangs
http://spiritfangs.com/
(from the IE with avengence!…there a band)

Futuristic
http://futuristic.bandcamp.com/album/the-professor-x-tape
(Dudes been on mad tours since age 15 hes 20 and spits elegant BARS!)

2blunts and a Gent

Steve Liriks
(from the IE really awesome girl and performer peep his blog!)
http://steveliriks.com/blog/

Lai Lai

(young girl rapper from LA…..way ahead of her time BARS energy!)

beat set by
ESUPER
http://www.facebook.com/Esuperla
(meastroe,prolific,and kwest 1…three man producer group with bass to melt your face off son!)

peep the facebook event page tell your friends

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hipstersstolemyjacket: California Governor Schwarzenegger Signs...

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:50:12 -0400

hipstersstolemyjacket:

California Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Bill To Decriminalize Marijuana:

The Governor signed a landmark bill in the state of California today which decriminalizes the possession of marijuana. For those wondering, this does not make marijuana possession legal, but it no longer will be a misdemeanor offense. The outcome of being caught with marijuana will now simply be a $100 fine. The new law will be in effect on January 1st and include anyone caught with up to an ounce of marijuana. Basically the possession of the drug is seen no different by California now than speeding is.

WEEEEEEEEE

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:37:00 -0400

WEEEEEEEEE

WE L<3ve J*Davey

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:31:00 -0400

WE L<3ve

J*Davey

WE are still fighting

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:25:13 -0400

WE are still fighting:

Senior Opposition Leader, Ms. Birtukan, a former judge and a single mother in Ethiopia, Is Released From Prison

WE are still discovering

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:45:00 -0400

WE are still discovering:

Endangered language found in northeast India

WE L<3ve Tame Impala

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:39:25 -0400

WE L<3ve

Tame Impala

WE L<3VE NERD+Gorillaz

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:12:00 -0400

WE L<3VE

NERD+Gorillaz

WEEEEEEEE scottypippen: Mayer Hawthorne, Baron Zen, Peanut...

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:03:08 -0400

WEEEEEEEE

scottypippen:

Mayer Hawthorne, Baron Zen, Peanut Butter Wolf, J.Rocc, Madlib, Rhettmatic & more

@ The Sex (Downtown LA. 816 S. Santa Fe $10 before 6pm /$20 after)

4pm-2am

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