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Joan of Arc
Live in Chicago, 1999
[Jade Tree; 1999]
Rating: 1.9
Joan of Arc is not as much a band as an indie rock accessory. They're as integral (and essentially inessential) to trendy college radio kids as tight shirts, sideburns shaped like Italy, low-hung backpacks, Goodwill coats (that could be going to people who don't have a trust fund), Parliament cigarettes, septum piercings, and...
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Joan of Arc
Live in Chicago, 1999
[Jade Tree; 1999]
Rating: 1.9
Joan of Arc is not as much a band as an indie rock accessory. They're as integral (and essentially inessential) to trendy college radio kids as tight shirts, sideburns shaped like Italy, low-hung backpacks, Goodwill coats (that could be going to people who don't have a trust fund), Parliament cigarettes, septum piercings, and...
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Joan of Arc
Live in Chicago, 1999
[Jade Tree; 1999]
Rating: 1.9
Joan of Arc is not as much a band as an indie rock accessory. They're as integral (and essentially inessential) to trendy college radio kids as tight shirts, sideburns shaped like Italy, low-hung backpacks, Goodwill coats (that could be going to people who don't have a trust fund), Parliament cigarettes, septum piercings, and...
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"Perhaps, thinks Hauser, I could produce a series of squares moving in almost indiscernable increments from black to gray, and substitute them consecutively for each square on the table. After a number of careful substitutions, the black square would wither to gray and the gray square would ripen to black. Gahern might realize something was happening, but perhaps would not understand what. Suddenly he would...
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Question: Can you comment on the passing of two of your friends--Allen Ginsberg and Townes Van Zandt?

Hunter Thompson: Yeah. Allen was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing. I didn't know Townes that well: he's a really good friend of Lyle Lovett's. He was really good. I was once arrested with Ginsburg. He...
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"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
Malcolm X

"Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering,...
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The Wilson-Bush Letters:
19 Hermes 80 p.s.U.



Your Royal Fraudulency King George II:

I wish to support your efforts to abolish as much as possible of the federal government and transfer its functions to faith-based organizations. I suggest that you should apply this idea especially to the controversial matter of capital punishment.

Let faith-based organizations take over our seasonal rites of human sacrifice; after all,...
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" I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good. "
- Richard Feynman

"But your new album is gonna be pretty completely personal, I guess, based on --

Yeah, this one is. But it's a bizarre thing. I don't understand it really. Shit, young people who never even saw the Minutemen have told me that they've had dreams of D. Boon telling them to pick up a guitar and play.

Really!? Wow! Would you say he was the...
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