Life goes round and round
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Security Haiku by Mike Cokenour (via redteams)
Spin Cycle
Henry Rollins on Rollins Band. Raw, powerful and simple music. It’s in your face.
If you haven’t heard Rollins Band or the spoken word by Henry Rollins I urge you to do it.
Here’s Starve and some Spoken Word (funny) and Spoken Word serious.
(text added by me, Minimal)
This is great and interesting! Interesting because I was going to post some Rollins today myself from the song “Bottom” that he did with Tool.
”If I let you, you would make me destroy myself.
In order to survive you, i must first survive myself.
I can sink no further, and I cannot forgive you.
There’s no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you.
I’ve gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.
I will use my mistakes against you.
There is no other choice.
I’m shameless now, I’m nameless now, I’m nothing now, I’m no one now,
But my soul must be iron ‘cause my fear is naked
I’m naked and fearless
And my fear is naked”
(Source: bunnypoison)
Buoy
Water is very dense, and can either be something we struggle against, or something that buoys us up, that helps us float. Life is the same way. Don’t struggle against it — creating arbitrary goals, trying to control things, complaining, being inconsiderate to others, creating too many tasks for yourself, having too many expectations, creating false needs and wants … these are ways that we create struggle. If you let go of these things, and learn to glide, life buoys you up.
- Leo Babauta
From an interview with Arvind Devalia
(Source: arvinddevalia.com)
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Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever
Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay.
Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. A continuous rhythm of 60 BPM causes the brainwaves and heart rate to synchronise with the rhythm: a process known as ‘entrainment’. Low underlying bass tones relax the listener and a low whooshing sound with a trance-like quality takes the listener into an even deeper state of calm.
Dr David Lewis, one of the UK’s leading stress specialists said: “‘Weightless’ induced the greatest relaxation – higher than any of the other music tested. Brain imaging studies have shown that music works at a very deep level within the brain, stimulating not only those regions responsible for processing sound but also ones associated with emotions.”
The study - commissioned by bubble bath and shower gel firm Radox Spa - found the song was even more relaxing than a massage, walk or cup of tea. So relaxing is the tune, apparently, that people are being Rex advised against listening to it while driving.
The top 10 most relaxing tunes were: 1. Marconi Union - Weightless 2. Airstream - Electra 3. DJ Shah - Mellomaniac (Chill Out Mix) 4. Enya - Watermark 5. Coldplay - Strawberry Swing 6. Barcelona - Please Don’t Go 7. All Saints - Pure Shores 8. AdelevSomeone Like You 9. Mozart - Canzonetta Sull’aria 10. Cafe Del Mar - We Can Flymy muscles stopped functioning
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