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Neurosis Tuning

“How do you arrange the guitars?
Von Till: We weave in and out of each other’s riffs, coming together when we need a dual attack. If we become aware of a pattern, we throw it out the window. I have a tone and playing style that lends itself to droning open notes, whereas Scott anchors the sound with his heavy riffs. We experiment with harmonies, dissonance, feedback, and ugliness, and we love going back and forth to see how much tension we can create. Scott stays in drop-D tuning, and commonly drops his low E string down to an A. I play in DADGAD—except for any songs that are in the key of A—and I drop the low D down to an A so that I have an octave in A on the bottom two strings. We use a custom .011-.058 gauge set of GHS strings, because they’re real sturdy with the drop tunings.”

That is one of the oddest tunings I’ve come across. Dropping the E string to an A while keeping the rest in either E or DADGAD. I’m gonna have to try this, though I don’t know if my guitar can handle dropping the E so damn low.

Posted January 28, 2012 at 1:26 pm 2 notes

spitt: buffalo skulls.

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spitt:

buffalo skulls.

Posted January 28, 2012 at 1:11 pm 42 notes

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theconstantbuzz: © Ernst Haas

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© Ernst Haas

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lostsplendor: Prussian Officer in Gas Mask, c. WW1 (by drakegoodman)

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Prussian Officer in Gas Mask, c. WW1 (by drakegoodman)

Posted January 28, 2012 at 10:41 am 160 notes

"So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair…"

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Posted January 28, 2012 at 10:36 am 189 notes

nonplussedbyreligion: North Carolina GOP Lawmaker Calls For Bringing Back Public Hangings, Starting With Abortion Providers

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The last legal public hanging in America took place in 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky. The “event” attracted 20,000 people and turned into such a sickening spectacle that many credit it with ending the practice in the U.S.

But one North Carolina Republican believes…

Posted January 28, 2012 at 10:34 am 53 notes

"The inherent principles of human existence are summed up in the single law of solidarity. This is the golden rule of humanity, and may be formulated thus: no person can recognise or realise his or her own humanity except by recognising it in others and so cooperating for its realisation by each and all. No man can emancipate himself save by emancipating with him all the men about him."

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Posted January 28, 2012 at 10:32 am 202 notes

pasttensevancouver: Notice to Citizens, Wednesday 28 January 1931 In the same issue of the Sun, columnist Bob Bouchette responds to Taylor’s notice: If I were a citizen of Fascist Italy I would accept this statement without a murmur. Being a Canadian, I think it is damnable.  Apart from all consideration of its ethics, the issuance of this warning is, by inference, a misrepresentation of conditions in Vancouver. It is written with bated breath. It suggests an imminence of mob rule unless drastic measures are adopted. There has been nothing to indicate such a danger. These futile Communist demonstrations have been marked with the rapidity with which the demonstrators left the scene as soon as the police went into action. Why should the Mayor create the false impression that Vancouver is on the eve of upheaval? Is this a political gesture, calculated to picture Mayor Taylor as the strong man of the moment, protecting the persons of the citizenry? Are the merchants of the city benefited by advertising of this sort? I don’t like the implied threat in the second sentence of the notice. The police have already used “firm hands.” To say that they intend to do so in future suggests the employment of more violent tactics. Very clearly it is intimidation. It may be quite legal to prevent the unemployed from assembling, but it is certainly no expression of the spirit of our constitution. It is a Mussolini way of meeting a situation. Source: Vancouver Sun

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Notice to Citizens, Wednesday 28 January 1931

In the same issue of the Sun, columnist Bob Bouchette responds to Taylor’s notice:

If I were a citizen of Fascist Italy I would accept this statement without a murmur. Being a Canadian, I think it is damnable. 

Apart from all consideration of its ethics, the issuance of this warning is, by inference, a misrepresentation of conditions in Vancouver. It is written with bated breath. It suggests an imminence of mob rule unless drastic measures are adopted. There has been nothing to indicate such a danger. These futile Communist demonstrations have been marked with the rapidity with which the demonstrators left the scene as soon as the police went into action. Why should the Mayor create the false impression that Vancouver is on the eve of upheaval? Is this a political gesture, calculated to picture Mayor Taylor as the strong man of the moment, protecting the persons of the citizenry? Are the merchants of the city benefited by advertising of this sort?

I don’t like the implied threat in the second sentence of the notice. The police have already used “firm hands.” To say that they intend to do so in future suggests the employment of more violent tactics. Very clearly it is intimidation. It may be quite legal to prevent the unemployed from assembling, but it is certainly no expression of the spirit of our constitution. It is a Mussolini way of meeting a situation.

Source: Vancouver Sun

Posted January 28, 2012 at 10:31 am 3 notes