With the release of major-label debut What Will We Be (Warner Bros.), Devendra Banhart proves once again he has the potential to be one of his generation’s major players. His voice, with its careening vibrato and fuse-blowing intensity, sounds something like Marc Bolan’s, but his repertoire may be more all over the map than anyone making records today. He combines a love of arcane folk music with hard-rocking psychedelia and an ability to sing beautifully in English or Spanish, a skill he learned growing up in Caracas, Venezuela. He refers to himself, jokingly, as a “fake hippie,” but he appears to be the real thing, a refreshing return to the revolutionary thinking that once seemed capable of changing the course of human events. Who’s to say it couldn’t happen again? Banhart will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.
Fail Blog
Adam Tullie showed me this a while back. Very painful, very funny.
Explain This Image
This (pictured) is an endless well of whatness. (Thanks, Maria Trofimova!)
Wisconsin Medical Society: Savant Syndrome
There are amazing artists on this. Amazing.
Stone Spheres Of Costa Rica
This is a true miraculous mystery that, I think, warrants investigation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide
http://www.valentinoachakdeng.org/blog/?p=266
http://www.narf.org/
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Unadulterated words, some true words dude. You rocked my day.