semen stained sheets smell sickly sweetTumblr (3.0; @burnstand)http://burnstand.tumblr.com/““To me, that is the best album of the 2000s. It was one of the main reasons that I wanted to get into a band, and probably one of the main reasons that most every band who started their band in the 2000s wanted to get into one. It was one of the first cool records in a really long time. The Strokes were just so fresh, so completely different. They were like the perfect band. The title track was one of the first basslines I learned when I started to play the bass. It was unbelievable. I was just 15 at the time.””<br/><br/> - <em><p>Jared Followill on The Strokes <i>Is This It?</i></p> <p><i><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/12/22/kings-of-leons-jared-followill-picks-his-favorite-music-of-the-decade/">via Rolling Stone</a></i></p> <p>(via <a href="http://matt-t.tumblr.com/">matt-t</a>)</p> <p>my cd is so love-scratched i can’t listen to it anymore :(</p> <p>(via <a href="http://meepmeepmeep.tumblr.com/">meepmeepmeep</a>)</p> <p>This is why music sucked this decade.  2000-2009, the decade mediocrity passed for freshness and difference.  Also: All the bands that were began b/c of the strokes were totally redundant and boring, and I don’t care how many albums they sold.</p></em>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/297495756http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/297495756Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:37:00 -0500<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv3f8xFncA1qztdcho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://smut-to-go.tumblr.com/post/297204262">smut-to-go</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(via <a href="http://adriennealair.tumblr.com/">adriennealair</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>This advertisement would have been more effective if they’d used a painting actually *in* the metropolitan museum, or even in the United States…</p>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/297493034http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/297493034Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:35:30 -0500<img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuq2lq6nZu1qz8t4xo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://babypanda.tumblr.com/post/285430389/08">babypanda</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h2><a title="Gallery Index" href="http://unseal.jp/artist_works/index.php?album=shinsuke-kotani">小谷真輔　08年個展</a></h2> </blockquote>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/285598692http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/285598692Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:55:24 -0500<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuq5ozCGED1qz8vmko1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://bowfolk.tumblr.com/post/285522384/libertad-para-angela-davis-by-genun-on-deviantart">bowfolk</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://Genun.deviantart.com/art/Libertad-para-Angela-Davis-26440164">Libertad para Angela Davis by ~Genun on deviantART</a></p> </blockquote>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/285593710http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/285593710Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:51:49 -0500<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kulqrvPN6x1qztg8eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/281886714http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/281886714Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:47:54 -0500<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuib95QA271qztg8eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/279337992http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/279337992Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:19:52 -0500<img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kugkf10ZRS1qztg8eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/278034840http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/278034840Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:42:36 -0500<a href="http://qadutu.blogspot.com/2009/12/ten-point-program.html">MILITANT QUEER NATIONALISM NOW</a>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/276464183http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/276464183Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:21 -0500<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kued51YiLn1qztg8eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/276346011http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/276346011Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:10:13 -0500<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktu3p21VvE1qa4hp3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://hipsteristhenewhomeless.com/post/261033189/our-of-work-copywriter-or-haight-ashbury-slurp">hitnh</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Our of work copywriter or Haight-Ashbury slurp kitchen regular? (We’re on twitter, too!)</p> <p>(Hipster hearts to <a href="http://www.ridoutphotography.com">Mark </a>for the photo. )</p> <!--EndFragment--> </blockquote>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/269346510http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/269346510Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:56:57 -0500<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxlkylQQM1qzuj5no1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://davidhorvitz.tumblr.com/">davidhorvitz</a>)</p>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/264092529http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/264092529Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:22:04 -0500<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt1c0ssFyI1qa5idmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://dimedancing.tumblr.com/post/262029300/why-not-post-this">dimedancing</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>why not post this</p> </blockquote>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/264080190http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/264080190Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:12:48 -0500<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxz3h2gJ81qzxrayo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://juliansaysgo.tumblr.com/post/263902730">juliansaysgo</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>fat cones all day keep the monsters at bay.</p> </blockquote>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/264068021http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/264068021Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:03:41 -0500<img src="http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqfk36YFXB1qa4pzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://divination.tumblr.com/post/255841488/vintagefolks-jean-seberg">divination</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://vintagefolks.tumblr.com/post/199894006/jean-seberg">vintagefolks</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><b>Jean Seberg</b></p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/262674139http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/262674139Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:44:46 -0500<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kse0ecolox1qa1iiqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://divination.tumblr.com/post/255865203/nickdrake-the-absinthe-drinker-by-viktor-oliva">divination</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://nickdrake.tumblr.com/post/228968872/the-absinthe-drinker-by-viktor-oliva-1861-1928">nickdrake</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The Absinthe Drinker by Viktor Oliva (1861–1928)<br/> The Green Fairy Wants Your Soul.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/262673671http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/262673671Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:44:25 -0500<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktu501tFDB1qzx8f2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://divination.tumblr.com/">divination</a>)</p>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/261088995http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/261088995Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:30:39 -0500<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktp51nZcyM1qzu5fbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://bowfolk.tumblr.com/post/260093150/marsiouxpial-touba-ikhwan-al-safa-the">bowfolk</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://marsiouxpial.tumblr.com/post/259995231/touba-ikhwan-al-safa-the-brethren-of">marsiouxpial</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://touba.tumblr.com/post/259893784/ikhwan-al-safa-the-brethren-of-purity-creation">touba</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brethren_of_Purity">Ikhwan al-Safa’, The Brethren of Purity</a></p> <blockquote>Creation according to the Ikhwan al-Safa’:<br/> </blockquote> <blockquote>(1) <i>Al-Bari’</i> (Creator, or God) is the First and only Eternal Being, no anthropomorphic attribute is to be ascribed to Him. Only the will to originate pertains to Him. The Ikhwan present an Unknowable God (<i>Deus Absconditus</i>) at the top of the hierarchy while the Qur’anic God (<i>Deus Revelatus</i>), another facet of God, guides people on the right path.</blockquote> <blockquote> <p>(2) <i>Al-’Aql</i> (<i>Intellect</i> or Gr. <i>Noûs</i>) is the first being to originate from God. It is one in number as God Himself is One. God created all the forms of subsequent beings in the Intellect, from which emanated the Universal soul and the first matter. It is clear, in the opinion of the Ikhwan, that the Intellect, a counterpart of God, is the best representative of God.</p> <p>(3) <i>Al-Nafs al-Kulliyya</i> (The Universal Soul) is the Soul of the whole universe, a simple essence which emanates from the Intellect. It receives its energy from the Intellect. It manifests itself in the sun through which is animated the whole sublunary (material) world. What we call creation, in our physical world, pertains to the Universal Soul.</p> <p>(4) <i>Al-Hayula al-Ula</i> (Prime Matter), is a spiritual substance that is unable to emanate by itself. It is caused by the Intellect to proceed from the Universal Soul which helps it to emanate and accept different forms.</p> <p>(5) <i>Al-Tabi’at</i> (Nature) is the energy diffused throughout all organic and inorganic bodies. It is the cause of motion, life, and change. The influence of intellect ceases at this stage of Nature. All subsequent emanations tend to be more and more material and defective.</p> <p>(6) <i>Al-Jism al-Mutlaq</i> (The Absolute Body) comes about when First matter acquires physical properties, and it is the physical substance of which our world is made.</p> <p>(7) <i>The World of the Spheres</i> (of the fixed stars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon) appears in the seventh stage of emanation. All the heavenly bodies are made up of a fifth element (ether), and are not subject to generation and corruption.</p> <p>(8) <i>The Four Elements</i> (fire, air, water, and earth) come immediately under the sphere of the moon where they are subjected to generation and corruption. The Ikhwan adopt the view of Thales  and the Ionians that the four “elements” change into one another, water becomes air and fire; fire becomes air, water, earth, etc.</p> <p>(9) <i>The Three Kingdoms</i> are the last stage of emanation. The three kingdoms (mineral, plant, and animal) are made of proportional intermixture of the four elements.</p> <p>The Ikhwan al-Safa’ took over the theory of Democritus of Abdera  which considered man as a reduced model of the universe (microcosm), and the universe as an enlarged copy of man (macrocosm). They regard the human being as a miniature world.  The individual souls (<i>al-nafs al-juz’iyya</i>), representing the infinite powers of the Universal Soul, began to form. During a very long time, these souls filled the world of spheres and constituted the angels, who animated heavenly bodies. In the early stage, the angels contemplated the Intellect and performed the worship due to God. After a lapse of time, some of these individual souls began to forget much about their origin and office. Their inattention caused the fall of the souls into the physical earth. This explains the metaphysical origin of life on earth.</p> </blockquote> <p>Read more <a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/ikhwan-al-safa/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hmp/18.htm">here</a></p> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/260095273http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/260095273Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:27:54 -0500<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktshsdO7Uj1qztg8eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/259934905http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/259934905Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:43:24 -0500<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kthpfxGzen1qzun0bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://artsandcrafts.tumblr.com/post/259901345/trixietreats">artsandcrafts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://trixietreats.tumblr.com/post/252538178/illustration-art-bob-peak">trixietreats</a>:</p> </blockquote> <p>oh this one gets reblogged right now…</p>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/259903265http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/259903265Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:09:41 -0500<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kts4bnjDgp1qztg8eo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Scrapbooker</p> <p>Edmonton, Alberta, 2009</p>http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/259674297http://burnstand.tumblr.com/post/259674297Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:52:00 -0500