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You've got ani-mail! Get it like animals! Get it! Like you've got three animals telling you about America Online this week on Commune College! Get It! You've go

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GrKnBsgxvAAapJT1i4IZ9iqfYsZbznyrO_IZ8SCNb7U/edit?usp=sharing

This week, Keeble takes us on a deep dive through the extremely buckwild career of the KLF, aka the JAMS, aka the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, aka the Timelords, aka holy shit there's a lot going on here!

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UPLPsGUBtsRxx4G3tcGAf3p9kuQZD_tRG591r7e8nhM/edit?usp=sharing

Keeble was moving this week, so enjoy some more of our favorite bits from the Commune College cutting room floor!

Jay Tholen - Granny Cream's Hot Butter Ice Cream (slowed & reverbed by Proxy)

Kye Fox - Cloud Rave

Kye Fox - Cool Ghost Friend

Kye Fox - Hecktro

Kye Fox - Intersections

This week on Commune College, Hyperlink guides the group deep into the distorted worldview of ArtOfManliness.com, a popular Man Blog for learning to be a really Manly Good Man who Mans and Is Men. Also FUCK Theodore Roosevelt bro he SUCKS dude

Features two original songs by prroxy:

prroxy - "chudcore"

prroxy - "chordstrum rack"

Sources:

- https://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2011/05/menaissance-by-brett-mckay.html

- https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1908/080905-debs-equalityofreward.pdf

- https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-man-who-coined-the-term-metrosexual-on-the-word-being-mia-from-the-queer-eye-reboot

- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/jordan-petersons-gospel-of-masculinity

- https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/how-have-men-changed-after-generations-of-being-raised-by-single-mothers

- https://qz.com/432947/learning-to-be-a-man-when-youre-raised-by-two-moms/

- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/02/14/gender-equality-millennial-men-still-dont-do-laundry-house-cleaning/4748860002/

- https://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com/2011/05/menaissance-by-brett-mckay.html

- https://www.artofmanliness.com/about-2/

- https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-ask-a-girl-out/

- https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/what-can-manly-men-expect-of-women/

- https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/what-is-the-core-of-masculinity/

- https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/art-of-manliness

- https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/

- https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/what-is-the-core-of-masculinity/

- https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/03/21/teddy-roosevelt-legacy-100-years

This week on Commune College, Proxy gives us a tour of NoitaminA, a late night anime block which has featured more than 70 shows! She's seen almost every single one! Anime cat!

Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tR0jUA_NVzafwAUnZzwqEC6loGjtWaHxcgYMXU2Dba4/edit

This week, Keeble revisits an essay from back in the day and talks all about vermouth! Obvious alcohol content warning for this episode all about alcohol!

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13pl7IiPZxTgjqztaXV3Ioo0yejGABYipLRnU8IVGjlg/edit

This week on Commune College, Hyperlink talks about the neoliberal commodification of self-care! What if taking care of ourselves wasn't just a multi million dollar industry and we were both queer 😳

Sources:

- https://reallifemag.com/immaterial-girls/

- https://socialistrevolution.org/self-improvement-and-self-care-survival-tactics-of-late-capitalism/

- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/21/self-care-radical-feminist-idea-mass-market

- https://self-compassion.org/test-how-self-compassionate-you-are/

- https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/best-self-care-gifts

- https://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/self-care-gift-guide-for-the-person-who-does-it-all

- https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/audre-lorde-thought-self-care-act-political-warfare

- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-politics-of-selfcare

- https://www.onewomanproject.org/blog/self-care

- Authentic TM by Sarah Banet-Weiser (primarily intro + chapter 1)

- Banet-Weiser, Sarah; ‘Free Self-Esteem Tools?’ Brand Culture, Gender, and the Dove Real Beauty Campaign. New York; New York University Press, 2012, Pages 39-56

[Content warning for this episode: mentions of racism, gore, and animal cruelty. smh, Cannibal Holocaust]

This week, you are about to hear footage from the last known interactions of Proxy, Keeble, and Hyperlink. Proxy brings everyone through the filmmaking technique of found footage, its origins and history, and makes a few recommendations. If you have any information regarding their whereabouts, please contact no one in particular.

Notes + sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_lr3d3rfCK7xyMZyNIod-ikEqT-RaAXannjEyBZuMHM/edit?usp=sharing

This week, Sylv (@__Sylv__ on twitter, @[email protected] on Mastodon) drops by the show to talk about how Manchester is developing in ways that are uhhh kinda bad!!!

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_w4AQc_pTfNW-73tjVlhY5i21KdUbVKYOc7Zs45vJAs/edit?usp=sharing

This week on Commune College, Keeble uncovers the surprising history of TGI Friday's, recounting how it morphed from a genuinely chill bar into something much more suburban. CW for food and alcohol discussion throughout!

Show notes:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13dW4g2IzB3Pcpquy5xNBuh8k0s16h88LYbzguEYK4D4/edit