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song of the day "bird, chrome"
underworld "beautiful burnout"
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvU0RWQzHik
blood on the tissue on the floor of the train
sun goes down
temperature drops
beautiful burnout, beautiful burnout
bird
chrome
that's it. simplicity always creates a stronger image.
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2009 was a pretty straightforward year
...according to last.fm, anyway.
my top 20 artists for the year:- depeche mode
- pet shop boys
- brian eno
- coil
- the cure
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i can't escape from you
i miss the podcast. i miss sharing music i like with my friends. le sigh. so ( Read more... ) -
song of the day "life's an optical illusion, like other optical illusions"
damn. i miss doing the podcast. i also miss writing here regularly. that hasn't really happened since i left NYC. i don't doubt for one minute that the energy of the city made me more alive and more energetic. go ahead, go back to 2004, 2005 entries. the quality and quantity of emblogenation there is far greater than this (though i won't listen to ( Read more... ) -
podcast...podcast?
well, maybe you've been wondering what has happened to my podcast. i talked a lot about having some exciting stuff planned for my 100th episode (and around then), but that was in july. months have passed, and nothing. well, all of the exciting stuff i wanted to do, i couldn't get anything more than lukewarm responses from the folks i wanted to have ( Read more... ) -
why i like the suburbs
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back to irregularly scheduled deprogramming
hey Blog.
so i've got a wackload of pictures from my august travels. (for me, a wackload is a lot...like about 2 dozen.) first i gotta sort 'em and tweak 'em, so i'll just leave you with a teaser.
this is the view i had for a few weeks at my grandparents' on lake michigan:
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home's front door
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Mackinac Bridge from Fort Mackinac (a/k/a looking north to the UP): do you like how I stuck the flag in there, like it's a chee(r/s)y postcard?"]
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living up to their name
surprising local concert action tonight: gang gang dance played at the bug jar (aka the hipster bar). $10, hellza yes, i'm there. shout-out to the prof who said "hey, you'll never guess who's coming to the bug jar?"
so, crap, what a good show. i haven't seen a band with such good sense of rhythmic interplay since TNT-era tortoise. of course you ( Read more... )