“This story’s gonna grab people. It’s about this guy: he’s crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He’s torn, Georgie. This is drama.”
—Edward D. Wood, Jr., Ed Wood (via cocknbull)
January 2012
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Today in "I didn't know they were Black!!": Ludwig Van Beethoven
The true identity of Ludwig van Beethoven, long considered Europe’s greatest classical music composer. Said directly, Beethoven was a black man. Specifically, his mother was a Moor, that group of Muslim Northern Africans who conquered parts of Europe—making Spain their capital—for some 800 years.
In order to make such a substantial statement, presentation of verifiable evidence is compulsory. Let’s start with what some of Beethoven’s contemporaries and biographers say about his brown complexion.:
” Frederick Hertz, German anthropologist, used these terms to describe him: “Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.”
Emil Ludwig, in his book “Beethoven,” says: “His face reveals no trace of the German. He was so dark that people dubbed him Spagnol [dark-skinned].”
Fanny Giannatasio del Rio, in her book “An Unrequited Love: An Episode in the Life of Beethoven,” wrote “His somewhat flat broad nose and rather wide mouth, his small piercing eyes and swarthy [dark] complexion, pockmarked into the bargain, gave him a strong resemblance to a mulatto.”
C. Czerny stated, “His beard—he had not shaved for several days—made the lower part of his already brown face still darker.”
Following are one word descriptions of Beethoven from various writers: Grillparzer, “dark”; Bettina von Armin, “brown”; Schindler, “red and brown”; Rellstab, “brownish”; Gelinek, “short, dark.”
Newsweek, in its Sept. 23, 1991 issue stated, “Afrocentrism ranges over the whole panorama of human history, coloring in the faces: from Australopithecus to the inventors of mathematics to the great Negro composer Beethoven.”
And yet Western “scholars” want you to believe that Beethoven looked like:
“In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: ‘Is it good, friend?’
‘It is bitter - bitter,’ he answered;
‘But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.’” —Stephen Crane, “In the Desert” (via denyingbravado)
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: ‘Is it good, friend?’
‘It is bitter - bitter,’ he answered;
‘But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.’” —Stephen Crane, “In the Desert” (via denyingbravado)
“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between this profusion of matter and the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.”
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André Malraux, Les Noyers de l’Altenburg (The Walnut Trees of Altenburg)
(via seatofdeliberation)
“If I had a wrap of speed and a little bag of weed and some proper coffee and some ProPlus and a bottle of Night Nurse and some mushrooms and some books, I could bang out a statement in half-an-hour and it’d be brilliant. But I don’t.”
—Vod, Fresh Meat (via cocknbull)
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“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. What good was pride to me—and not seeing you and letting you lie awake night after night? No good! It only served to bring the fire down on me! You think that time heals and walls hide things, but it isn’t true, it isn’t true! When things get that deep inside you there isn’t anybody can change them.”
—Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding, II:1. (via farmolio)
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Jimmy Fallon likes being bossed around by women, and tried to surround himself with an all-female stage crew — that’s the claim of a fired staffer who’s suing Jimmy and NBC Universal for discrimination.
In the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan, Paul Tarascio — claims he was dropped from his position as first stage manager at “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” … and replaced by a “totally incompetent woman” back in early 2010.
In the documents, obtained by TMZ … Tarascio accuses Fallon of “gender bias” — and says he wasn’t the only victim. He claims other male staffers, such as audio technicians and a Prop-Master were also replaced by women at Jimmy’s request.
Tarascio also alleges his replacement was “a less qualified woman” who constantly asked him how to do the job, and screwed up her stage manager duties.
In the docs, Tarascio says Jimmy’s director, David Diomedi, told him, “Jimmy just prefers to take direction from a woman.” He also claims that — under pressure from producers — Diomedi “knowingly fabricated alleged performance issues” about Tarascio.
Tarascio is suing for punitive damages and lost wages.
” —Well that’s………different.
Jimmy Fallon — Lawsuit Claims He’s Into Female Domination … at Work | TMZ.com
(via jessica-messica)
So it’s a big fucking deal when someone has a staff full of women, but the practically all-male writing staffs of The Daily Show, Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan are perfectly acceptable business as usual? I see.
(via historicalupstart)
Rep. Barney Frank is a total BAMF
His latest interview with The New York Times is fantastic. An excerpt:
Interviewer: You’ve long argued for the decriminalization of marijuana. Do you smoke weed?
Barney Frank: No.
Interviewer: Why not?
Barney Frank: Why do you ask a question, then act surprised when I give an answer? Do you think I lie to people?
Interviewer: I thought you might explain why you support decriminalizing it but don’t smoke it.
Barney Frank: Do you think I’ve ever had an abortion?
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GIRLS CAN WEAR JEANS AND
CUT THEIR HAIR SHORT
WEAR SHIRTS AND BOOTS
IT’S OK TO BE A BOY
BUT FOR A BOY TO LOOK LIKE A GIRL IS DEGRADING
BECAUSE YOU THINK THAT BEING A GIRL IS DEGRADING
BUT SECRETLY
YOU’D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE
WOULDN’T YOU
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR A GIRL
The First Casualty of the Wiki Blackout
Having just learned that female hyenas have phalli and give birth through their clits, I have been prevented from spending the next two hours avidly absorbing information about the horrors of various forms of atypical mating rituals.
But, you know, all in a good cause.
Like honestly if we follow each other I expect to be allowed to sleep on your floor whenever I’m in your city
