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Author: Tor Aarestad

Tor Aarestad lives in Boston where he spends much of his time walking his dogs.

Dizzy Gillespie

By: Tor Aarestad

Driven by a desire to create music that white bandleaders couldn’t play.

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Mikhail Lermontov

By: Tor Aarestad

His antihero, Pechorin, would kill on reality TV.

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Frantz Fanon

By: Tor Aarestad

Can violence ever be praised so? What enormity is required?

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Darryl “D.M.C” McDaniels

By: Tor Aarestad

“Perfection to D, is quite essential / He has to live up to his potential.”

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Dan Auerbach

By: Tor Aarestad

A display of multi-tasking that one watches live in a state of disbelief.

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Shannen Doherty

By: Tor Aarestad

No one does teenage fragility and aggrieved hostility better.

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Thomas Frank

By: Tor Aarestad

He was John Brown and his people were slaves to big business hucksterism.

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David Graeber

By: Tor Aarestad

Informal rule-making and systems of obligation are everywhere.

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Karen O

By: Tor Aarestad

Dorky chic, unmusically musical, awkwardly sexy.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

By: Tor Aarestad

A lethally and incessantly clever futurist.

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Anthony Michael Hall

By: Tor Aarestad

Not as smarmy as Eddie Haskell, or as supercilious as Ferris Bueller

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Bronisław Malinowski

By: Tor Aarestad

He pioneered DIY data production, and transformed Anthropology.

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Mark E. Smith

By: Tor Aarestad

“We are Northern white crap that talks back.”

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Henry Rollins

By: Tor Aarestad

Rollins is CEO, “Henry Rollins” is his product, plenitude is the priority.

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E.P. Thompson

By: Tor Aarestad

His study of the cultural practices and mentalité of the poor was transformative.

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