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Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, 1990.

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The Smiths | How Soon Is Now

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"If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn me on with long, silent, soulful, secret looks. If you can laugh with a woman, everything else falls into place."

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releasings: inamillionways: David 16 years old, cancer paitent David 17 years old, cancer survivor Every strand of hair on my head, every eyelash, ever eyebrow, every last facial hair I am so great full for. The hardest battles are given to the strongest warriors. This is one of my new favorite posts <3

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I have to see you again and again 
Take me, Spanish Caravan 
Yes, I know you can 

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knowledgeequalsblackpower: lasiguanaba: Amelia Venegas Pachuca arrested for carrying brass knuckles during the Zoot Suit riot summer of 1943 in Los Angeles  22 year old Venegas, a wife of a sailor (fighting overseas), was going to the store with a baby in her arms to get some milk. Because skirmishes between servicemen and Mexican-Americans had already been going on, she grabbed some brass knuckles to be safe. On her trip, she and the baby witnessed police officers taunting and abusing some Mexican-Americans youths. Unable to control her emotions, she began cursing the officers. She was immediately arrested and jailed for “disturbing the peace.” Her baby was taken to jail with her and eventually passed along to a relative. (The Woman in the Zoot Suit:Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory by Catherine Ramirez) Zoot Suit Riot is more than just a 1990s song. It was an actual historical event. In the summer of 1943, Mexican American youth in Los Angeles faced discrimination and violence in their own neighborhoods at the hands of U.S. servicemen. World War II is often credited with pulling the country together. As their compatriots defended democracy abroad, however, some Americans met hostile forces on the home front. Los Angeles in the 1940s was swamped with GIs. The entertainment capital drew thousands of servicemen on leave from nearby bases and training centers. Like today, the civilian population of L.A. then included a large Mexican American, or Chicano, minority. Many of the white servicemen in town came from areas of the country where there weren’t a lot of Chicanos. Here they heard stories about Chicano youth gangs and about how to pick up Chicanas, or Mexican women. A Chicano teenage fashion trend called the zoot suit — modeled on flashy, mobster attire African-American Jazz/Harlem culture— was widely ridiculed in the white press. Visiting servicemen joined in harassing “zoot-suiters.” In the spring and summer of 1943, tension between GIs and young Mexican American males turned violent. In Oakland and Venice, Calif., sailors and marines “raided” Chicano gatherings and attacked the zoot-suiters, stripping them of their clothes. On June 3 in Los Angeles, a reported dispute over Chicanos set off a military riot. For five straight nights, Whites in uniform stormed the streets. They dragged zoot-suiters out of bars and nabbed them in movie theaters by turning the lights on. What started as an assault on Mexican Americans quickly expanded to include blacks and Filipinos. Each night, police officers waited until the GIs left and then swooped in to arrest the victims of the violence. Fearing mutiny, military officials declared the downtown district off limits to military personnel. The measure restored order, but real peace was harder to achieve. In a national newspaper column, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt blamed the riots on “long-standing discrimination against the Mexicans in the Southwest.” A rebuttal by the Los Angeles Times ended with the statement, “We like the Mexicans and think they like us.” This wording made clear, as far as official Los Angeles was concerned, Mexican Americans were still “them.” (via Teaching Tolerance) Learn more about the riots and the escalating violence here. 
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Ella Fitzgerald - “Night & Day”

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In-Between Days.

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