some nights, for one reason or another, i can’t get myself to sleep. twenty past eight in the morning, sun­light ear­holing my peri­pheral vision, trying it’s best to give me one of those head­aches that spreads out from the back of your eye sockets. nights like these, i kinda just kick back, roll a joint, and see where the internet takes me.
this is shannyn sos­samon. i’ve kind of loved her for a while, since the …

The Bal­timore Police Depart­ment sus­pended a police officer after a video sur­faced on the Internet showing the officer berating two kids for skate­boarding, put­ting one of them in a head­lock and pushing the boy on the con­crete.
The video shows Officer Sal­vatore Rivieri approach the kids at the Inner Harbor of Bal­timore, the area where they appar­ently were skate­boarding. The kids tell Rivieri they didn’t know they couldn’t skate­board there.
“You back-​talk me, I’m not your …

by one of my favourite polit­ical journalists/​foreign cor­res­pond­ents, john pilger. this is a doc­u­mentary on amer­ican empire, and the dis­con­nect between preaching freedom and then over­throwing democratically-​elected gov­ern­ments throughout the world. focus is on central and latin america, though there’s a uni­ver­sality to the story.

‘Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the his­toric and cur­rent rela­tion­ship of Wash­ington with coun­tries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger claims …

this tape slips and slides over a variety of styles, from dis­torted jazzy num­bers, classic soul, dirty breaks, trippy bed­sheet beats, strict turntables, and a little hip hop for good measure. for making out or passing out in equal measure.
dirty & sophisticated

i just think she’s so fucking cute, dressed down, looking all bohemian. i’ve always liked them half gypsy, half i-don’t-give-a-fuck. it’s that fucking hat.