reblogged from: Synaptic Burble Baubles & Infinite Ammo
Rites of Spring - For Want Of
One of my favorite vocal performances ever. When I hear this song, I just imagine chunks of his shredded soul sicking to the microphone like some sort of shimmering ecto spittle. Others have gone harder, done more sheer physiological damage and gone further into places reserved for banshees; but Guy Picciotto remains the champ of laying down so much feeling and spirit with each line that you sorta hope someone had the presence of mind to send the windscreen to the Ghostbusters when the band got done recording to see if they could analyze it and learn something from it about the human soul at the breaking point. Make whatever you want of the historical threads, but Rites Of Spring have OG cred on the emo game because this is what everyone else wants to live up to, whether they know it or not.
I can’t help but re-blog this song whenever it’s posted.
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pitusinha:
thedailywhat:
Beautiful Perspective of the Day: Infographic on drug-related deaths vs. proportion of users vs. media coverage in the UK, prepared by David McCandless of Information Is Beautiful for a Guardian blog article on the subject.
Note on cannabis-related deaths:
The cannabis deaths figure is a bit dubious in my opinion. Firstly, how can you die from cannabis? It’s extremely non-toxic. There has never been a single documented case of fatal cannabis overdose. Also, the government’s own figures don’t tally. While drug figures from the Office Of National Statistics register 19 cannabis related deaths, the mortality stats from the same office log only 1 death.
You can view the raw data used to compile this inforgraphic here.
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