Recent content by Decessa

I have always loved that cover of Berlin, don't know why it slipped my mind. I just like it when a band can do a cover that is uniquely them without extensively screwing with the original (looking at you, horrible cover of "Behind Blue Eyes"). There are exceptions of course, but many of those...

I have a little bit of a list. Dream Theater - Stargazer (Rainbow) Smashing Pumpkins - Dancing in the Moonlight (Thin Lizzy), You're All I've Got Tonight (The Cars) Slayer - I'm Gonna Be Your God (The Stooges [I Wanna Be Your Dog]) Deftones - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (The Cure) Nine...

In that learning is itself is a constant rewiring of the brain, I tend to disagree. There is nothing natural about modern society. While evolution took us to a point where we could apply meaning to the things around us, the meaning we apply is made up of cultural values and beliefs. That...

Perhaps then my issue is in the use of evolve here. Human behaviors are not evolutionary artifacts, they are cultural ones. They are learned and reinforced socially, there is little to no physiological change involved. While this is ultimately a semantic difference, it is an important one to...

How about some citations there. The gendered division of labor is likely a more recent phenomena of our race than you are claiming (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061207-sex-humans.html). Tribes were often egalitarian: hunting often required many members of the tribe (such as a...

I generally have respect for the Escapist community, but I try to avoid these gender posts because they are generally a hotbed for natural law language, generalizations and false logic. IF these generalizations hold true (at least in "westernized" countries because they certainly don't hold up...

In no particular order: Imogen Heap Dream Theater Queen Pantera The Who Slayer Rush nine inch nails Tool Zeppelin My favorites often change though a few are always there.

Jerky from a good butcher shop is amazing. I despised jerky up until I worked at this butcher shop in southern Kansas. 5 time Grand Champion at the Kansas Meat Packers Association Product Show. I wouldn't of even tried it if I didn't get it free, and even then it took me a few weeks before I...

That my smoking (outdoors only) is killing anyone but myself. I understand the need for places of business to be smoke-free, but I cannot accept the opinion that I shouldn't be able to smoke outside when automobiles and factories pump carcinogens in to the air at a much faster rate. In the...

It takes six seconds for a CPD standard-issue sidearm to discharge thirteen rounds. Six seconds is a very long time. or alternatively Now I?m going to castrate you and suffocate you on your own cock and balls, you poisonous little thug. Because I have had enough of your squalid, ignorant...

There was a time I would say Queen, but than I met homophobes so I would have to say Boston. Yet to meet anyone who hates or even dislikes them.