(Mirrored at conformer.wordpress.com.)About a hundred years ago, Your Humble Narrator had a job at the local community college's radio station. In addition to initiating an appreciation of jazz, forcing a surface knowledge of classical music, and exercising cut-and-paste mixing skills, the other primary takeaway was an exposure to a relatively ( Read more... )

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On a recent trip to Thrillsville's local used bookshop after a relatively extended interim, I was drawn towards this U.K. printing of Gordon Dickson's Dorsai!


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It's been difficult, as of late, to convince myself that I have any worth, that existence is something else than pointless, that it's possible to rise above the status of stardust ( Read more... )

• Ralph Schuckett: Alabama Song
  
• Johnny Cash: When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
  
• Wilco: Hotel Arizona
  
• People Like Us: Arkansas Explorer
  
• Propellerheads: Take California
  
• R. L. Burnside: Georgia Women
  
• Elvis: Blue Hawaii
  
• The B-52s: Private Idaho
  
• Tom Waits: Johnsburg, Illinois
  
• The Birdlanders: Indiana
  
• Lee "Scratch" Perry: Kentucky Skank
  
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• Annabouboula: Baby Wants Kisses (Greek)
  
• The Beatles: Sie Liebt Dich (bad German)
  
• Chumbawamba: Tubthumping (French mix)
  
• Cibo Matto: Águas de Março (Portuguese)
  
• Everything But The Girl: Corcovado: (Portuguese)
  
• Faith No More: Das Schutzenfest (German)
  
• Falco: Der Kommissar (German)
  
• Les Négresses Vertes: Sous Le Soliel De Bodega (French)
  
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• The Ready Men: Shortnin' Bread
  
• Dizzy Gillespie: Salt Peanuts
  
• Mr. Scruff: Fish
  
• Shonen Knife: Banana Chips
  
• Booker T. & the MGs: Green Onions
  
• Mudhoney: Goat Cheese
  
• Negativland: Perfect Scrambled Eggs
  
• People Under The Stairs: Eat Street
  
• Lee "Scratch" Perry: Roast Fish & Cornbread
  
• Macka B: Baked Beans & Egg
  
• Elvis: Queenie Wahine's Papaya
  
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• Bella & Me: Whatever Happened To The 7 Day Week?
  
• Wilco: Was I In Your Dreams?
  
• The KLF: What Time Is Love?
  
• Pet Shop Boys: Was It Worth It?
  
• They Might Be Giants: How Can I Sing Like A Girl?
  
• Dreadful Snakes: Who's That Knocking At My Door?
  
• Badly Drawn Boy: What Is It Now?
  
• Banco de Gaia: How Much Reality Can You Take?
  
• PJ Harvey: Is This Desire?
  
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