“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

— Albert Camus

Fingerbanger 1: Tickler Tea & Magic Fuzz – The Shakedown (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Jay Street – Low Down Dirty Man (don lowed)

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There is pleasure in pathless woods;
There is rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar.
I love not man the less, but nature more…

-Lord Byron

Fingerbanger 3: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Put A Spell On You (TRRBOR emix) (don lowed)

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All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
– Osho

Fingerbanger 4: Small Town Big Man – What’s The Matter (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 5: White Arrows – 8050 (TooFast, TooSlow) (don lowed)

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Over//End//Out – p.Tone

Shake off this base faint-heartnedness and arise.

[More Chemanu]

Dryhump Champion: Chemanu – Level Reber (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 1: Otis Gayle – I’ll Be Around (don lowed)

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Rule #447: We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Fingerbanger 2: Can – Thief (don lowed)

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The bronze boy stands kneedeep in centuries,
and never grieves,
remembering a thousand autumns,
with sunlight of a thousand years upon his lips
and his eyes gone blind with leaves.

—Sylvia Plath

Fingerbanger 3: Tunng – Hustle (don lowed)

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If it weren’t for Avocados, Artichokes, Mushrooms and Sourdough Bread… I’m not sure what good the grocery store would be.

Fingerbanger 4: Labyrinth Ear – Snow White (don lowed)

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500 gig portable HD’s for $40… I’m out with my battle armor… basketball heads get pumped!

Fingerbanger 5: Delinquent Habits – Western Ways (don lowed)

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I feel almost compelled to drop a bit of Todd Terry history on y’all, but sometimes you just had to have been there, and I’m probably not that old. So seminal house music producer history waits another day. Besides, jackin’ ain’t what it use to be.

Dryhump Champion: Todd Terry – Rain (ReMastered) (don lowed)

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. – Dickens

Tonic: Kings Of Convenience – The Weight Of My Words (Four Tet Remix) (don lowed)

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I am the serial killer
I am the bloody hand
I am the chief whore taker
I am the chosen one.

Italo-disco revival – love of love – let the tube amps ring. Never Panic.

Fingerbanger 1: (sic) – Orange Sky (don lowed)

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I am the red straight razor,
The one who bathes in blood;
I am the boogey-man, I am
The empty yawning hood,
Look not for pity, no;
I am the heartless man,
I come to fix all things,
I am the one man band.

Fingerbanger 2: Maceo Plex – Gravy Train (Nicolas Jaar Remix) (don lowed)

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You cannot yet imagine,
How you will dance for me;
But you will dance forever
To the tune that I decree.
The kingdom of the worm,
Is all things to us all,
But I will teach you many things,
before I let you fall.

Fingerbanger 3: Super Flu – Poppycock( Super Flus Dj Edith) (don lowed)

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I am the black dead nightmare.
I bring a light so bright;
To illuminate the path we take;
I show the way that all hearts break,
And I will see the old world’s back be broken

1988 like a crocket… crocket… It’s like taking nose candy off a baby.

Fingerbanger 4: Jay Wikid – Panty Slingshot (don lowed)

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As we descend into the awful

Howling,

Night. – Motorhead

Fingerbanger 5: Blunderground Massive – U Know My Steeze (don lowed)

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Dryhump Champion: Max Bett – Mad Clinic (don lowed)

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Something has got to give….

Fingerbanger 1: Manni Dee – Callaway Days (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 2: Son Of Kick – Guacha Rekix (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: The Original Brothers – Black Out (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 4: Nigo – Too Much (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 5: Emanon Feat. Dr. OOP – I Remember (don lowed)

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Tunawax is the 2010 Intercontinental Dryhump Champions. But rather than hold it over your heads, we’re giving back…Finely picked dance tracks to go cotton to cotton with.

Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love;

O’er courtiers’ knees, that dream on curtsies straight;

O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees;

O’er ladies’ lips, who straight on kisses dream,

Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,

Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.

Sometimes she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose,

And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;

And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail

Tickling a parson’s nose as ‘a lies asleep,

Then dreams he of another benefice.

Sometimes she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck,

And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,

Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,

Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon

Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,

And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two

And sleeps again. This is that very Mab

That plats the manes of horses in the night

And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,

Which once untangled much misfortune bodes.

This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,

That presses them and learns them first to bear,

Making them women of good carriage.

This is she…

Dryhump Champion: Donato Bilancia – Honey Bunny ( House husbands Remix) (don lowed)

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Been digging into the sounds of Norwegian electronic musician Kim Hiorthoy this week, searching for something more fitting of the bluing landscape, while I pretend to prepare for things unknown and unreal, and until known and real, unimportant.

Fingerbanger 1: Kim Hiorthoy – Soliga Dagens Slappiga Trosor (don lowed)

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In high school I disliked those kids that were overly loud, always making a fuss about gossip,  throwing themselves into a hyper popularity contest, and intensely dramatizing every aspect of their lives. I stewed with disgust at their boring predictability, and imagined a more distinguished and inspired environment where personal intellectual activism and bleeding heart creativity was the individual goal. Maybe naive, but that is what I thought college would be. Some sort of bee hive of those that were either too illusioned or disillusioned ( almost like Real Genius mashed with Dead Poets Society) to not try and shift the world off its axis, and finally I would find a place without idiots. I think it was my first day on campus that I realized all the idiots had come to college and those that were talented, inspired, intelligent, issusioned and disillusioned… went missing. It didn’t make sense to me, but it started the questions coming. Such as, why is everyone here, here? And why are people so interested in dramatizing their lives? Not only their lives, but everything else too. Why do we feed off of PANIC!! and OMGZ!! and gossip, controversy, and are needlessly opinionated about everything? What I realized is that all those trivialities get people excited, even if the ideas behind them are banal and predictable (see: fear mongering politics for more examples) they work emotions into a frenzy of false importance (and I anticipate there is probably some sort of dopamine release that goes along with that too). Which leads me to:

Rule #121: Drama makes people feel important.

Fingerbanger 2: Kim Hiorthoy – Politiska Dikten Atervander (don lowed)

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Fingerbanger 3: Grasscut – The Tin Man (don lowed)

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In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story: #6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

“The word adventure has been over used. To me adventure is when everything goes wrong. That’s where adventure starts.” – Yvon Chouinard

The goal isn’t the ending, or the goal.

Fingerbanger 4: Felix And Volcano! – Boku-Maru (don lowed)

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Tweet: I want some waffles right now.

Fingerbanger 5: The Bird And The Bee – I Cant Go For That (don lowed)

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