The soundtrack to The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann’s latest high-end refurbishing of a lived-in classic, doesn’t try to re-imagine Jazz Age tunes in a modern context. Instead, it attempts to transplant the sensibility of the 1920s to the hip-hop era, with genre-busting collaborations overseen by Jay-Z.Very cool.
(Source: popculturebrain)
iLighter (at Gelin)
I laughed out loud.
Because I’m a terrible person.
And because it’s hilarious.
I’m a maniac! Maaaaaaniac on the floor!
The Politics of a Chinese Orgy : The New Yorker
Top Ten Myths About China in 2012 : The New Yorker
Why living in China is a better option for me than living in America under Romney/Ryan.
The New Yorker’s Endorsement of Barack Obama : The New Yorker
“If the keynote of Obama’s Administration has been public investment—whether in infrastructure, education, or health—the keynote of Romney’s candidacy has been private equity, a realm in which efficiency and profitability are the supreme values. As a business model, private equity has had a mixed record. As a political template, it is stunted in the extreme. Private equity is concerned with rewarding winners and punishing losers. But a democracy cannot lay off its failing citizens. It cannot be content to leave any of its citizens behind—and certainly not the forty-seven per cent whom Romney wishes to fire from the polity.”
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gifsfln: Mitt Romney guns down Big Bird.
Photo of the Day: Tourists gather on the Great Wall outside Beijing. Major tourist destinations around China are witnessing travel peaks amid the eight-day mid-autumn festival and National Day holidays that run through until Sunday, Xinhua News Agency reported. (Photo: Reuters/Stringer)
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Guilin, China
