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January 30, 2005

   


January 27, 2005

 

i am made of fucking magic

I got strep throat. Again. Twice in one month. Fuck April, January is the cruelest month....
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January 26, 2005

 

confluence! : baker street

Matt emails me on Sunday, asking if I happen to have an mp3 of Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street. I, of course, do and send it off to him. I haven't listened to it in years, and can't remember hearing it in forever, mostly because the cheesy pop fodder from bygone eras I want to hear is not what muzak and the like have decided is worth broadcasting in coffee shops and grocery...
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btk: talkative

Another BTK package may have surfaced Tuesday, when a postcard mailed to a Wichita television station led reporters, and then police, to a suspicious cereal box that was leaning against a road sign near Valley Center. [...] KAKE-TV reported that its crew found a Post Toasties box leaning against a road sign denoting a curve on a dirt stretch of Seneca between 69th and 77th streets north. The box was weighed down...
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January 25, 2005

 

watch the magic pumpkin

It's still early yet, but my friend Jeff promises this will be the internet's foremost resource for Halloween III enthusiasts. The first real conversation we had (at a bar) involved him asking me what I thought of Halloween III and me replying "Oh, that's one of the most hackneyed pieces of garbage..." after which he revealed it was his favorite film of all time. And in the 7 years since, rarely...
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January 24, 2005

 

last call

I'll be mailing out copies of Bible of Song X this week. So those of you who've expressed an interest, send your address to xtop3000[at]thoughtpeach[dot]com if you're one of the ones who want one who aren't Laurenn or Adam....
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January 22, 2005

 

six questions

asked via google that brought people here (god help us all): who wrote ghetto superstar what rhymes with folsom when the lights go down in the city where to find prostitutes in socal why indians are ugly how to smoke in the shower...
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January 20, 2005

 

12 in a row

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January 16, 2005

 

i have watched like 12 films since i got sick and this is the greatest fucking film ever

"You really wanna mess with whitey? I can show you how."...
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January 15, 2005

 

hobo socks

this is what happens when you have the strep throat (which I have apparently had since last Wednesday) and haven't gone out in like a week and you watch way too much of Ken Burns' Civil War and eat only soup and the first stages of cabin fever / batshit madness begin to set in. You create hobo socks. then you talk about it on the inertnet....
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January 14, 2005

 

kafka on the shore

Got the call today from my local bookstore, they're now holding one for me and it is apparently available for purchase as we type, though amazon and murkami's official site says not until Tuesday. Still...new Murakami!...
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January 12, 2005

 

preserved sounds

Inside a bombproof vault a few blocks from the White House, Dan Sheehy is surrounded by audio ghosts: the clickety-clack of typewriters, the tumble of glass bottles inside a soda machine, a 1960s-era telephone ring. Here, sonic blasts from the past are entombed in a hodgepodge of vinyl records, compact discs and reel-to-reel tapes. “We are a museum of sound,” said Sheehy, whose job is to preserve America’s acoustic heritage for an...
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January 10, 2005

   


January 08, 2005

 

bible of song x

because everybody else is doing it, here's volume ten (i think) of my long-running Bible of Song series of mixtapes, which started back in, uh, 98? Complete with obnoxious commentary for those who can't live without music accompanied by overthinking and fancy description. Bible of Song X A Quick One (Which Has Taken An Awful Long Time) 22 tracks • 77m 39s 1. Jon Brion Knock Yourself Out From I ♥ Huckabees,...
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January 07, 2005

 

normalizing

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January 06, 2005

 

and your little dog, too

For Chris Shields, it wasn't ska music or the Who album-cum-Mod film Quadrophenia that delivered him into the arms of the scooter lifestyle. It was the crappy economy. A piece for the Pitch that I wasn't exactly excited about at the original 180 word count and mildly dreaded when it got bumped up to 550 a day later. But considering I did all the legwork and wrote it while in the depths...
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January 04, 2005

 

"can i try that again?"

I never have dreams about showing up naked to school or sitting down for a test and realizing I forgot to study for it. My anxiety dreams tend to revolve around haunted houses, falling and losing things. So I’m confused, sitting up here on stage in front of a piano, my hands shaking like blurry exposures and the songs I’d spent all week practicing suddenly gone, inaccessible, while 20 strangers, my teacher...
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