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Bonnaroo Lineup
Dave Matthews Band • Kings of Leon • Stevie Wonder • Jay-Z • Tenacious D • Weezer • The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs perform "Dark Side of the Moon" • The Dead Weather • Damian Marley & Nas • Phoenix • Norah Jones • Michael Franti & Spearhead • John Fogerty • Regina Spektor • Jimmy Cliff • LCD Soundsystem • The Avett Brothers • ( Read more... ) -
The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone
After much consideration (and over four weeks late), I have concluded that The Hazards of Love, a rock opera and concept album by The Decemberists, is the best album of 2009.
Honorable mentions go to:
• Lungs by Florence + the Machine
• The Vanishing Sessions (B-Sides Part I) by Sarah Fimm
• Them Crooked Vultures by Them Crooked Vultures
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Chitterlings taste exactly like what they are. -
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If there was ever any doubt that I'm a hopeless geek, it was obliterated just a moment ago when, while listening to some enka, I realized the kanji character 高 totally looks like a K't'inga class battle cruiser from the original Star Trek as viewed from the bow. -
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I have been listening to music pretty much non-stop since yesterday. This is unremarkable because . . . well, I do that every day, but I'm bored, so here are some thoughts on some of the things I've been listening to.
Don't expect profundity.
• My new music crush is Rupa & the April Fishes, and Un Americaine a Paris is my favorite song of the ( Read more... ) -
My Own Writer's Block
Inspired by a question on the Straight Dope Message Board:
Would You Choose to be Reincarnated?My answer is no. My understanding of reincarnation is that you are reborn without memories of your previous life, which defeats the whole purpose of reincarnation to me. In my mind, your "soul" is the intangible sum of your personality, memories, and ( Read more... ) -
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I recently made a biographical mix for Eliza, and after she wound up liking it, I thought I would make another one one for a different friend. I'm really, really anal about song choice when it comes making mixes, though -- I made two for Eliza because I hated the first one so much after I made it, and have only made one other mix of this type for ( Read more... ) -
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"They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, ( Read more... )
