Can't stop

Lana Del Rey - Born to Die


As I said to a friend today, I'm tired of feeling bad for loving her, I'm just going to love her. 

Fleet Foxes - The Shrine/An Argument

Angry Racist White People - Not just in America! (...I kid America, I kid)

Woman goes on a super NSFW racist rant on a British tram, while holding her little kid in her lap.

Alex, you love This is England, which is set in the 1980s. But the reframing of English history as one of a noble people being cheated out of what is rightfully theirs by foreigners is alive and well - and indeed, exacerbated in hard economic times. The rise of the British National Party (BNP) is a testament to this.

Here's an excellent TV doc that aired last year in England on the psychology and narrative framing of far-right extremism among young Britons called, explicitly enough: Young, Angry and White (it's on youtube, I hope it plays outside the UK).

One of the last Japanese Swordsmiths talks about his Dying Craft