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theatlantic:

Jack White’s Women Problem

Women have long been up to no good in the eccentric world of Jack White’s songs. But on Blunderbuss, his solo album out this week, they finally indulge in White’s most famous bugaboo: cell phones. “Two black gadgets in her hand are all she thinks about,” White spits about a female antagonist on “Freedom at 21,” before getting Pat-Robertson-preachy: “No responsibility, no guilt or morals cloud her judgment.”

There are other strange transgressions by women against men on Blunderbuss. During the opener “Missing Pieces,” a girl figuratively amputates White’s limbs. Later, on “Sixteen Saltines,” he cowers before a woman whose “spike heels make a hole in a lifeboat.”

White as a lyricist has been obsessed with women for more than a decade now, perhaps to a greater extent than any other rock star in his generation. Certainly, he’s got more girl problems than any of his blues-rock contemporaries. Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys will call women “psychotic” and lament exes, but it rarely gets personal the way it does with White. Spoon’s Britt Daniel waxes flirtier and artsier. In fact, with his nasty barbs and self-pitying complaints, White’s lyrics almost have more resemblance to early-2000s emo bands like Fall Out Boy and Panic! At The Disco.

But Blunderbuss, more than anything that’s come before it, crystalizes White’s longstanding issues with women. Maybe that’s because it’s his first-ever solo record, and maybe that’s because it comes on the heels of his second divorce, from model Karen Elson. Either way, what it reveals is fascinating—though not pretty.

Read more. [Image: AP]

We’re reading a ton of interesting responses to this essay — so many, in fact, that we’re going to pick one and ask Jessica Misener to respond to it. So, let us know: Do you think Jack White has a problem with women?

Hm, I feel like this article takes lyrical metaphors, and creates them into something they aren’t. As a fan of Jack Whites, I’ve watched numerous interviews and the documentary of him and Meg during his time with the White Stripes, and I’ve never seen this. Sure he’s a strange man but, this i think maybe pushing it.

(via bbook)

8bitfuture:

World’s largest digital camera passes first hurdle.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will capture the largest, deepest view of the night sky ever with its 3.2 billion pixel resolution. The LSST passed “Critical Decision 1”, meaning the project can continue to work towards construction which will begin in 2014. Primary work has begun on the 8.4 meter primary mirror being built on top of a mountain in Chile.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will survey the entire visible sky every week, creating an unprecedented public archive of data – about 6 million gigabytes per year, the equivalent of shooting roughly 800,000 images with a regular eight-megapixel digital camera every night, but of much higher quality and scientific value. Its deep and frequent cosmic vistas will help answer critical questions about the nature of dark energy and dark matter and aid studies of near-Earth asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, the structure of our galaxy and many other areas of astronomy and fundamental physics.

(via 8bitfuture)

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