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Rice University plans to sell its radio station KTRU (91.7 FM). This would remove a rare source of local, independent, non-corporate radio programming. Secret negotiations excluded input from Rice students and alumni. KTRU, which was created independently of the university by students with alumni funding, was never funded by Rice and is only "owned" by the university through a technicality. Help us oppose this sale by following the simple steps on this page:

http://savektru.org/

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Anti-racism is a non-solution. It tells us that if we just prohibit anyone from liking their heritage, we will leave in Utopian peace forevermore. That's a form of racism against people who have one line of heritage, such as Jews, Germans, Zulus, Swedes, Japanese, Koreans, Inca, etc.

http://www.last.fm/group/Anti-racism+is+racism+against+those+of+one+race

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Arguments start when people don't define their terms. So here's my definition:

Open-minded, adj. Willing to consider any possibility until there is a logical reason for discounting it.

Listens to any and all music without ever finding some favorites, or picking any one album over others.

Deliberately picking random, goofy, weird, "unique," bizarre, unusual, "different," just to look cool. Most people outgrow that stage by grade 10.

These threads seem to be popular other places, but I figure any ANUS version of this thread is going to be more direct, simpler and more realistic.

15 albums that shaped your consciousness, helped you grow up, made life clearer. Here's mine:

1. Kraftwerk - Computer World
2. Burzum - Burzum
3. Immortal - Diabolical Full Moon Mysticism
4. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
5. Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
6. Slayer - South of Heaven
7. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
8. Deicide - Legion
9. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
10. Robert…

I got curious about nihilism and went to find out more about it. The closest I can come to an "official" definition that's also credible (sorry, Wikipedia) is this:

Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/nihilism/

Order of Nine Angles: Sinister Luciferians, or people who recognize that natural selection must keep humanity in check, while praising the amoral reign of Satan on earth.

http://www.last.fm/group/Order+of+Nine+Angles

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"Glorious Times: A Pictorial of the Death Metal Scene (1984-1991)" is a retrospective of the early death metal scene, written by the bands themselves, and edited by Alan Moses (Buttface Zine) and Brian Pattison (Chainsaw Abortions Zine). If you want to see what the early bands were thinking, doing and how they helped invent death metal, this original book gives you a window into the past and future of death metal.

Glorious Times: A Pictorial of the Death Metal Scene (1984-1991), interview with Alan Moses and Brian Pattison, and review of the book

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For years, we have struggled to maintain higher standards, but it just hasn't worked. It's inconvenient. To recognize this, we propose a Federal holiday to celebrate a lowest common denominator state of mind. This is the National Lowered Standards Day, and we celebrate it every August 4.

National Lowered Standards Day (August 4)

If you can't fake your way in, and biting the head off a bat is too difficult, try buying your way into black metal:

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A $20 metal t-shirt, black jeans (also $20), and the $300 fully-configured scene camouflage jacket at the right will make anyone think you're a diehard. You can literally buy your way into metal, and not ever "get it": understand the spirit, the lifestyle, the music itself. To you, it's just sonic wallpaper or another amusement while you stumble through life.

Buy your way into metal

You just can't walk into death metal history without doing something goofy and ingenious like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GduDCY2I-o

It's Master (the longest-enduring Speckmann project) covering Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" (which, surprisingly, is not about what happens when you eat too many jalapenos).