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Now, I’m sure everyone and his brother has seen this by now, in one iteration or another, but we were watching the latest edition of “Where the Hell Is Matt?” at the end of our WIE editorial meeting the other day, and this morning I woke up thinking it would be a nice counter-post to […]

A friend just tipped me off to a fascinating song by a Denver band called the Flobots. They’re a Gen-Y alt rock/rap group doing what alt rock does best: lamenting the state of everything. Check out the video for their hit single “No Handlebars” below. Upon an initial viewing, I thought it was very powerful, […]

Only in California…
The dude in the shades near the end says it all. :)

What I don’t get is why, after leader Max Simon tells them to be still even if accosted by security guards, everyone seems to get up and leave when the security guards tell them to. How about a little passive resistance, […]

…according to the new Rolling Stone, who must’ve finally realized they should do a decent piece about everyone’s favorite new album. (Interesting factoid from the article: “All five members of Radiohead are married or have longtime partners, and each couple has at least two children.”)
But perhaps more interesting, for those who haven’t seen […]

Well, it’s about frakkin’ time. According to Variety, “The long-awaited second ‘X-Files’ film is finally a go, with 20th Century Fox setting a July 25, 2008 release date. . . . Studio is keeping the film’s logline under wraps, but stressed the pic is a stand-alone story and supernatural thriller that takes the […]

As all of the civilized world continues to delight in the heavenly soundscapes of Radiohead’s amazing new record, In Rainbows, rabid RH fans are hard at work analyzing the album with a fine-toothed microscope made of mixed metaphors and rock ‘n roll conspiracy theories. An article at Puddlegum delves into the mysterious recurrence of […]

Why the Smashing Pumpkins will always be beloved by my slightly tortured generation, summarized in a simple YouTube comment I just saw:

i love this video i love the smashing pumpkins i love billy and i love that they help me stay alive and keep my head on strait. i love this band and if it […]

A confession: I’m an old-timer (27) and don’t quite have the “blog” meme embedded in my consciousness like my younger Gen-Y cohorts, having grown up online in the heyday of mailing lists and message boards. So please forgive me for not quite getting this particular ball rolling yet. I fully intend to start […]

Having disbanded in 2000, my favorite contemporary rock band since I was a depressed 15-year-old (in 1995), The Smashing Pumpkins, played their first show in nearly seven years last night in Paris! (Former members James and D’arcy–and Melissa–you will be missed. But at least now we’re getting a little Gen-Y representation happening with new bassist/vocalist […]

Sheer genius . . .

(For those who don’t watch BSG, Adama and Tigh actually appear to be uber-straight males, hence the ironic craftiness of this clip.)

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  • Welcome to the personal blog of Tom Huston, one of the editors at What Is Enlightenment? magazine. Arising from the cultural milieu of late 20th-century America, armed with the combined powers of Integral Theory and Evolutionary Enlightenment, he has become … Kosmic Tom.
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