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Post by Mary on May 18, 2004 19:16:26 GMT -5
Yeah bowiglou when I took a college class on post-50s America we read a few books -I can no longer remember their names - about the Nixon presidency and they were pretty chilling. I've never read Woodward, though.... The books on that list are more in the style of "grand philosophy" if that means anything. Not so much concerned with very particular details of domestic politics, as with the gradual disappearance of the utopian imagination from political theory - the feeling that marxism and socialism and anarchism are all dried up, exhausted, self-cannibalised, but nothing has arisen to take their place. The sense that critical theory has spent so much time elaborating its own limitations that it's cut the ground out from beneath its own feet completely, and there's no longer a space from which anyone can feel comfortable offering a positive political project. It's more of a myopic academic concern I guess...your average joe on the street doesn't give a shit of Adorno eventually abandoned hope of political transformation and concentrated on artistic transcendence instead... but academic myopia is one of my strengths...  Cheers, M |
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Post by lumencandle on May 18, 2004 19:31:02 GMT -5
Top Two Worst Songs On The Radio Jesus Christ, what a useless goddamn fashion accessory for a dude. If it doesn't have a goddamn clock attached to it, get it off your fucking wrist, shitface. And in the video, I think they're all shouting in the rain and stuff. What a bunch of candyass losers. I hate mallpunks, if Hitler would have built camps for them instead of Jews, I'd shave my head and get a swastika inked on my ass. That's the fucking funniest thing I've read in ages, that's all. Especially the part about the swastika. |
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Post by Dr. Drum on May 18, 2004 19:55:49 GMT -5
10 Paintings I really like:1. Jasper Johns – Flag  2. Tom Thomson – The Jack Pine 3. JMW Turner – Burning of the Houses of Parliament 4. Francisco Goya – The Third of May, 1808 5. Anselm Kiefer – Wayland’s Song 6. Piet Mondrian – Broadway Boogie Woogie 7. Garry Kennedy – Free, Fast and Easy 8. Gerard Pas – Curnoe in the Forest City – Mariposa T.T. 9. Claude Monet – Water Lilies (The Clouds) 10. Robert Raushenberg* – Tracer *Just for you, RocDoc
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Post by Dwazee on May 18, 2004 20:43:08 GMT -5
what about me?  hmm. for me to pick top ten would be rather difficult and require thought. but instead, ill just list my fav painters as of now. 1. marlene dumas 2. lucian freud 3. gary hume 4. soutine 5. david salle (even with the bit of misgyny (sp?) ) 6. hans holbein the younger 7. thomas gainsborough 8. jenny saville 9. richard prince (specifically the new nurse series) 10. jacques basquiat |
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Post by Dr. Drum on May 19, 2004 6:23:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I wouldn't say that was an all time top 10, dwazee, that's why I just said "10 Paintings I really like". I have always loved Jasper Johns though and specifically Flag, so that would be a strong contender for no. 1. Here's Curnoe in the Forest City – Mariposa T.T.. For all the bike lovers:  |
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Post by Kensterberg on May 19, 2004 9:49:26 GMT -5
Love that pic, Drum!
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Post by Meursault on May 19, 2004 11:16:34 GMT -5
Does biking take much of a toll on the knees or legs after years of doing it?
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Post by Thorngrub on May 19, 2004 13:05:33 GMT -5
Does biking take much of a toll on the knees or legs after years of doing it? |
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Post by RocDoc on May 19, 2004 13:30:07 GMT -5
Bicycling is one of the MOST biomechanically non-injurious exercises which a human being can do...UNLESS:
-You do not adjust the seat properly(especially if you don't have good knee extension on the downstroke; ie 'the seat's too low')
-Are either fairly extremely knock-kneed or bow-legged...which contributes to knee laxity, which is especially important to patellar(kneecap)tracking. Chondromalacia patella can result...roughening of the underside of the patella. Vastus medialis obliquiis training can very often solve those tracking problems....
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...the only safer sport is swimming...IF your form is good.
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Post by Meursault on May 19, 2004 13:37:56 GMT -5
I'm a bit knee knocked, can i fix this?
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Post by Thorngrub on May 19, 2004 13:40:28 GMT -5
 My bicycle is my LIFE. I don't know what I'd do w/out my trusty steed. It is the single most valuable item I own.  |
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Post by RocDoc on May 19, 2004 14:09:33 GMT -5
'Fixed'? No.
As a scholar once said, 'You am what you is'.
Your anatomy is you.
Unless you're picked for 'Extreme Makeover' that is. SICK fucking show, that.
But you strengthen the shit out of your legs by doing knee extension exercises on a Universal Gym-type machine and you'll very likely not have any trouble while cycling.
Tho there are specific VMO/chondromalacia XRCs...
Or just try it out anyway. There's a natural strengthening that comes from the bike...for the quads and glutes first ofall...and if you learn how to 'spin' in toe clips it'll get all the complementary muscles too...the hamstrings and hip flexors.
If you try and your knees start to ache, THEN go to the Universal knee extensions...
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Post by Kensterberg on May 19, 2004 14:11:36 GMT -5
Nice bike Thorn. What are the specs on it? And I guess we should take this convo over to the Peloton so as not to tick off the non-biker types here. |
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Post by bowiglou on May 19, 2004 17:30:22 GMT -5
I would die and vanish without swimming.......but I tell you RN, not that in anyway am I subtlely trying to get any DC consult, but as you know I surf and swim everyday, and though I have been injury free (knocks fervently on wood), my shoulders and lats have been feeling some pain of late.............
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Post by riley on May 19, 2004 20:42:17 GMT -5
Okay you guys need to stop posting pictures of bicycles, cuz it's really starting to weird me out 10 songs I've heard recently that make we want to shake ass. "Bandages" - Hot Hot Heat "Take Me Out" - Fran Ferdinand "Deceptacon" - Le Tigre "Combat Baby" - Metric "People Everyday" - Arrested Development "The Only One I KNow" - The Charlatans "Waterfall" - Stone Roses "Funky Jam" - Primal Scream "Step On" - Happy Mondays "Do The Dog" - The Specials |
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