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.