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A bio less than 160 characters is called an epitaph.

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—	Kevin Cadogan’s bio on Twitter. I thought it was pretty clever. Kevin is the former lead guitarist for Third Eye Blind, by the way.

by Jessika von Innerebner

It’s A Trap! by Matt Leyen

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

David Blaine talks about how he held his breath for 17 minutes. Towards the end of the talk he mentions a phenomenon called “blood shunting”, which caused a tingly sensation in his feet and hands. Basically, your brain tells your circulatory system to bypass your extremities and instead send the blood to the vital organs. This sounds remarkably similar to what I felt when my food poisoning / stomach virus made itself known a few weeks ago. [via Brian Weaver]

I thought this was pretty brilliant. I visit Facebook via the iPod app mostly, but my wife is always complaining that Facebook has changed again. [via Glen Brogan]

Dostoyevsky wrote once that “One can hardly live in Rebellion, and I want to live.” In punk rock, rebellion and discontent are valid vessels and outlets, but it too often doubles as a limiting cause and effect. As we grow up, and begin to learn how the world works, and a desire to contribute to the world as well as shape it, it becomes more and more apparent that it is a restricting lifestyle with no growth or change, inwards or outwards.

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—	Peter Wonsowski wrote this in reference to the previously posted album art in a very thorough description of his creative process.

Peter Wonsowski’s art for the inside cover for The Riot Before’s album Rebellion. I stumbled across Peter’s art somewhere and was very surprised to learn that he had designed my favorite Less Than Jake t-shirt.

by Glen Brogan

I don’t think I’ve ever done anything creative while inebriated, or high on a drug or something. I think the only thing I’ve done better while smoking pot was parallel park…and everything else was just a big waste of time.

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—	Charles Thompson (aka Black Francis; aka Frank Black) of the Pixies. Charles said this during the 2010/01/22 Sound Opinions classic album dissection of Doolittle, which is a great listen if you know the album or the band. It was also very cool to hear him talk about lyrics.

I’m addicted to “the past” in so many ways (both in a very personal way in terms of my own memories, and also as a band, with our unending fascination with the history of American music). It’s one of the reasons why addiction continues to be a theme in some of our work; it’s such a perfect metaphor for both the inescapable pull of the past – the dangerously strong hold it can have on a person; strong enough, at the very least, to keep you stuck in one place – and perhaps even strong enough sweep you out to sea to drown. At the same time, like any drug, a memory can sustain you – providing intense comfort during dark times.

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—	Dan Messe of Hem [via Shore Fire Media]

by Glen Brogan

Whit Smith, the guitarist for Hot Club of Cowtown, plays “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” solo acoustic. [via Mikey’s Chordination review]

Inspired by the common “big head mode” in video games, 3D artist Eric Testrole made a papercraft model of his own head to wear for Halloween. Very surreal! [via Brian Weaver]

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

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—	G. K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News 1924-04-19 (quoth Wikipedia). I just thought this was an interesting example of how much things change. This was written over 85 years ago!

Sometimes I forget how rugged the founder’s of this country must have been. Even if they did wear white wigs. [via BustedTees]