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How Obama Got Elected: Media Malpractice

Dallas VonKillbot — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:48:28 +0000

Let’s beat this dead horse til it cries uncle. The Republicans are getting a little pissed off about Obama taking the White House, and rightfully so. They pulled the biggest blunder the American public has ever witnessed by throwing Sarah Palin on a virtually perfect reincarnation of Ronald Reagan and blew the election bigger than [...]

Synthesis Book Review: “Please God Save Us”

spencer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:31:38 +0000

Please God Save Us By Derek Hess and Kent Smith Strhess Press We should all know about the Bush administration recklessly imposing Christian ideology, reconfiguring our tax structure to favor the wealthy, decimating decades worth of environmental protection policies and starting two wars which have proved costly and difficult to escape. But Please God Save Us is a [...]

Headline of the Day: “Death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it”

spencer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:43:25 +0000

I have never read about a man who more deserved to get a black metal album dedicated to him. When questioned by Synthesis about his motives for pulling his eye out and eating it, Andre Thomas responded, “I did it for the lulz.” Death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated [...]

NO NEEDING FOR PANIC

spencer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:24:18 +0000

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Digital Magazine Euphoria

Elizabeth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:08:00 +0000

Synthesis is giving you a face-full of San Francisco by way of the glorious digital magazine. What’s a digital magazine? A free .pdf that is easily downloadable by you, the reader and appreciator of eye candy, music news, burrito news, and indie art news. No stupid pop-ups, no Rick Rolling, just 100% SF juice, pure [...]

Synthesis Band of the Day Band You’ve Never Heard of: The Amblers

some guy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:50:02 +0000

Written by Dustin Bennett in November of 2008 The house was almost empty—random items strewn about, half-packed boxes and a few pieces of furniture still lingering. The setting very much fit the part of a house being moved out of. But on this particular afternoon, it also happened to be a very quiet, practical place to [...]

Speaking of Hippies: Allman Brothers Band

spencer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:21:00 +0000

Since I’m on a roll, how about some tour dates from the ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND….featuring ONE ALLMAN BROTHER! The group–GREGG ALLMAN (vocals and keyboards), BUTCH TRUCKS (drums and tympani), JAIMOE (drums), WARREN HAYNES (vocals, lead and slide guitar), DEREK TRUCKS (slide and lead guitar), OTEIL BURBRIDGE (bass) and MARC QUINONES (congas and percussion)—will, as usual [...]

Cute Things Falling Asleep

Dallas VonKillbot — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:19:10 +0000

Finally something interesting on the internetz. While running through Google’s hot trends today, I came across the greatest thing EVAR: Cute Things Falling Asleep. Now most people would just check this stuff out and go “AwwwWwwWw”, but I think I’m going to turn this into a quasi-therapy tool. Hear me out: [...]

See You In The Parking Lot: The Dead on Tour

spencer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:07:49 +0000

Whatever Killbot, if you want the real shit, go see THE DEAD. I’ll be the one in the parking lot, finger in the air mumbling “mirrrricle.” If you’re a hippy and want more info, go here. Presale tickets available 1/13. Date: City: [...]

Drop What You’re Doing: Phish Is Reuniting

Dallas VonKillbot — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:59:08 +0000

Apparently only Ryan, our graphics mastermind, and I are the only Phish fans in the office. It’s not like a passive distaste for them either; I threw on a track from their live album today and I’m pretty sure I almost got beaten to death. Well to confirm their statement given on Oct. 1st, Phish [...]

Two Tongues EPK

Dallas VonKillbot — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:17:39 +0000

The countdown to the Two Tongues record is counting down pretty fast now, and I’m pretty excited about seeing how people react to their debut. I’m pretty sure that this disk is going to be hit or miss with a lot of the Say Anything and Saves The Day fans, but for what it’s [...]

Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard Of…OF THE DAY!!11 - O Vesicae & The Found Mountain

Daniel Taylor — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:40:25 +0000

The brainchild of former Sherwood guitarist turned wandering minstrel of the West Coast, Chris Armstrong, O Vesicae and the Found Mountain also includes production genius Chris Keene of Surrogate

Autoimmunity, Obesity, and the Ecology of Health

Daniel Taylor — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:57:28 +0000

The always engaging Charles Eisenstein ruminates on the twin scourges of modern health, obesity and Autoimmune disorders in a two part series for Reality Sandwich

Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard Of Of The Day: By Sunlight

Dallas VonKillbot — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:48:57 +0000

We’ve been lacking hard in the Band You’ve Never Heard Of postings, so lets kick it off again with a group of indie killers. Hailing from Seattle, WA, By Sunlight are gaining notoriety around the North West and West coast areas. Their shimmery sound has been crafted over the years under their former [...]

Video Matt Is Pissed At Pete Wentz

Dallas VonKillbot — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:40:35 +0000

I think it’s safe to say we don’t have an excessive amount of love for most of the up and coming emo-pop-synth-rockers around the office. It’s probably because we’re either A. too pretentious to admit when a group of 18 year olds writes a hook that we wish we would have thought of, or B. [...]

Michael Jackson Isn’t Feeling The Recession

Dallas VonKillbot — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:21:42 +0000

With stock prices bouncing up and down and the sub-prime mortgage crisis causing the value of homes to plummet, it’s a damn good time to have some extra cash laying around. Personally, if I had an extra couple million laying around I would just buy GM, get super hammered and drive Corvettes around on [...]

Fuck Metallica: Believe In The Sword

spencer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:38:35 +0000

Don’t get me wrong; I love Metallica… Well, at least I loved Metallica back in the day when they still wrote badass, heavy songs and Cliff Burton was alive, smoking bongs and living the storied life as the epitome of hessian bass players. But Metallica might be shooting themselves in the foot by allowing Austin [...]

Badass YouTube Music Moment: “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Gavin Castleton

spencer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:53:55 +0000

Okay, If I wasn’t a Prince fan I probably would not have watched more than 20 seconds of this, but after Gavin Castleton gets his loops going the song really becomes his own. Check it out. Sinead would be proud. Tags: castleton | Music | prince fan Related posts Xmas Music: The Yule Logs (0) Woe is me, [...]

Paris Hilton Says She’s “Only Slept With a Couple of People”

Daniel Taylor — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:06:16 +0000

Paris Hilton has only slept with "a couple of people," because she respects herself too much.

Get Video Matt on MTV

Daniel Taylor — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:30:37 +0000

Our little boy, Video Matt, is all growed up. You can tell by all his tattoos. Anyways, he's trying to stretch his wings and fly, and has entered himself into the running to be a host on MTV