St. Patrick's Day Playlist

Party it up on St. Patrick's Day with some good music. 

Punch Drunk Grinning Soul - Flogging Molly

Calm Down Dearest - Jamie T

Up Around the Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival

90-Mile Water Wall - The National

Living in a World Without Her - The Pogues

Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced - Dropkick Murphys 

Sins of My Father - Tom Waits

Going to California - Led Zeppelin

Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn & John

Fake Empire (Remix) - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Yesterday - Atmosphere

Me and Mr. Jones - Amy Winehouse

Anotha' BBQ - People Under the Stairs

Let's Go Get Stoned - Big Mama Thornton

Make Your Move - Hieroglyphics

Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix

Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash

My Best Friends (Don't Even Pass This) - Kurt Vile

Day Old Blues - Kings of Leon

Lonesome Tonight - New Order

PAC Playlist

Take a study break and listen to some music. 

I'll Fight - Wilco 

Tell Me Something Good - Rufus & Chaka Khan

Stay Don't Go - Spoon

No Regrets - Aesop Rock

Juicy - The Notorious B.I.G.

Baby, I Love You - Aretha Franklin

Jesus Fever - Kurt Vile

Monsters - Band of Horses

Here's Ya Getaway - Jamie T

King of the Rodeo - Kings of Leon

About Today - The National

Money - Pink Floyd

Father and Son - Cat Stevens

Every Ghetto, Every City - Lauryn Hill

Love You 'Till the End - The Pogues

The Same Thing - Cass McCombs

The Bends - Radiohead

We Can Get Down - A Tribe Called Quest

A Sunday Kind of Love - Etta James

Radio - Lana del Rey

Debra - Beck

Richard Mosse's Infrared Photography

This post contains one photograph with some graphic content, so if disfigured faces aren't really your thing, don't scroll down. 

Over the past 15 years, more than 40 different armed groups have fought across the Democratic Republic of Congo. This rebel war-stricken country reported 5.4 million deaths between 1998 and 2007, as well as 400,000 rapes in 2007; yet somehow, photographer Richard Mosse is able to create haunting beauty in a land ravaged by unspeakable tragedy. Mosse creates these magenta and cotton candy worlds by using discontinued military surveillance technology: a type of color infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. Originally developed for camouflage detection, this aerial film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink.

On his journeys in eastern Congo, Mosse photographed rebel groups fighting nomadically in a jungle war zone plagued by frequent ambushes, massacres, and systematic sexual violence - Mosse's photographs show the country in a different light. 

Click on the photos to enlarge them. 
For information on infrared photography, click here. 

POETRY BY the wonderful and talented Avra Juliani....

“Painting God”

I look for softness,

 Within,

Painted irises.

Embers ignited,

Inside,

Of someone,

Like a fire,

Inside of something bigger

Than itself.

Like mommies and daddies,

With children in pastel dresses,

And,

Pressed ties,

On Sunday mornings,

Trying to fill something inside of them,

Like yearning,

Or,

Mourning,

Inside of something bigger,

Than itself.

I look for softness,

 Within,

Painted irises.

That allows me,

To be,

Inside of something bigger,

Than myself

“Painted Lines”

The painted lines,

And jagged crosswalks,

When,

At fifteen,

Everything seems jagged anyways,

The neon agendas, each conveying surrealism to the naked eye,

The beholder,

The beheld,

And the painted lines that I crossed,

On jagged passageways,

While people stood behind picket fences,

Pruned lawns,

Mocking,

Behind an eternity of straightened paths.

FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/ WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF

This is an excerpt from Ntozake Shange's choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf.
Each line break signifies a different lady speaking, all of whom are denoted in the script only by the color of their clothing.

a friend is hard to press charges against

if you know him
you must have wanted it

a misunderstanding

you know
these things happen

are you sure
you didnt suggest

had you been drinkin

a rapist is always to be a stranger
to be legitimate
someone you never saw
a man wit obvious problems

pin-ups attatched to the insides of his lapels

ticket stubs from porno flicks in his pocket

a lil dick

or a strong mother

or just a brutal virgin

but if you've been seen in public wit him
danced one dance
kissed him good-bye lightly

wit closed mouth

pressin charges will be as hard
as keepin yr legs closed
while five fools try to run a train on you

these men friends of ours
who smile nice
stay employed
and take us out to dinner

lock the door behind you

wit fist in face
to fuck

who make elaborate mediterranean dinners
& let the art ensemble carry all ethical burdans
while they invite a coupla friends over to have you
are suffering from latent racist bravado
& we are left wit the scars

bein betrayed by men who knew us

& expect
like the stranger
we always thot waz comin

that we will submit

we must have known

women relinquish all personal rights
in the presence of a man
who apparently cd be considered a rapist

especially if he has been considered a friend

& is no less worthy of being beat witin an inch of his life
bein publicly ridiculed
havin two fists shoved up his ass

than the stranger we always thot it wd be

who never showed up

cuz it turns out the nature of rape has changed

we can now meet them in circles we frequent for companionship

we see them at the coffee house

wit someone else we know

we cd even have em over for dinner
& get raped in our own houses
by invitation
a friend

The lights change, and the ladies are all hit by an imaginary slap.

ALYSSA'S MOVIE OF THE WEEK

MEAN GIRLS

In respect to the GSL dance this Saturday, Mean Girls is setting the precedent as the first film of the week. Although you wont see this title alongside other acclaimed films such as Citizen Cane or Doctor Zhivago, the dynamic/betchy combination of Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan will prepare you to walk into the dance this Friday with confidence and the ability to look a guy in the eye and answer “Yes. I would like someone assigned to butter my muffin.”

A BRIEF CHECKLIST OF QUALITY FILMS

1)     Harold and Maude

2)     Gone with the Wind

3)     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

4)     Ordinary People

5)     Splendor in the Grass

6)     Pulp Fiction

7)     The Piano

8)     Shawshank Redemption

9)     District 9

10)The Godfather

11) Mean Girls

12)  Sex, Lies, and Videotapes

13) Casablanca

14) Doctor Zhivago

15) All About Eve

16) Gilda

17) The Big Sleep

18) Out of Africa

19) Sophies Choice

20) La Vie en Rose

21) Bande e part

22) 8 ½

23) Finding Neverland

24) Manhattan/Annie Hall

25) Marie Antoinette

26) East of Eden/Rebel Without a Cause/Giant

27) Good Night and Good Luck

28) Memoirs of a Geisha

29) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

30) The Pianist

31) The Reader

32) Doubt

33) And God Created Women

34) Two Women

35) North by Northwest

36) Reversal of Fortune

37) No Country for Old Men

38) Kramer Vs. Kramer

39) Chaplin

40) Milk

41) American Psycho

42) Big Fish

43) My Left Foot

44) The Deer Hunter

45) American Beauty

46) Pride and Prejudice

47) Brideshead Revisited

48) The Way We Were

49) Pretty Women

50) Rachel Getting Married

51) Factory Girl

52) The Hours

53) Fargo

54) Crazy Heart

55) Crash

56) The Wrestler

57) A Clockwork Orange

58) Revolutionary Road

59) I’m Not there

60) American Beauty

61) Citizen Kane

62) The Elephant Man

63) On the Waterfront

64) Casino

65) Raging Bull

66) There Will be Blood

67) The Tree of Life

68) The Graduate

69) Schindler’s List

70) Rear Window

71) A Streetcar Named Desire

72) Taxi Driver

73) Philadelphia

74)From Here to Eternity

75) Tootsie

76) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

77) Forrest Gump

78) All the President’s Men

79) City Lights

80) In a Lonely Place

81) The Apartment

82) Badlands

83) Goodfellas

84) My Fair Lady/Roman Holiday/ Breakfast At Tiffany’s

85) Mommy Dearest

86) Blue Velvet

87) The Usual Suspects

88) The Untouchables

89) The Silence of the Lambs

90) Memento

91) Apocalypse Now

92) City Lights

93) Taxi Driver

94) The Departed

95) The Ocean Movies

96) To Kill a Mockingbird

97) Requiem of A Dream/Pi

98) Modern Times

99) Rashomon

100) Some Like it Hot

101) The Big Lebowski

102) Touch of Evil

103)It Happened One Night

104) Fanny and Alexander

105) Magnolia