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music-nerd data-porn
so i discovered last.fm a little over three years, and i’ve faithfully (read as: automatically) submitted my listening whims to them (via the awesome scrobblepod). every once in a while i’d check out my last.fm profile to see what the algorithms thought i might like, but i mostly kept streaming them my listening data in […]
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invisible ink
i can listen to pretty much any aimee mann song and hear it as a parable directly about my life. i know this doesn’t make me special: i know most (if not all) people could say the same. but that doesn’t make it any less meaningful to me. if you don’t have live at st. […]
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kcmp 89.3 the current
the current is responsible for most of my purchases at the amazon .mp3 store these days. some recent awesomeness bestowed on me by them includes: broken bells – ‘broken bells’: debut album from james mercer (of the shins) and danger mouse. good in a way i haven’t figure out yet, but definitely good. edward sharpe […]
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summer babe
i should be prepping for scotland and getting ahead on paperwork for the top of next season, but i’m having a hard time focusing and being productive in the brutal heat today. so, a list of my current summer music obsessions: ratatat’s ‘lp3’ is my favorite new find minus the bear’s ‘highly refined pirates’ narrowly […]
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the blues ain’t always sad
case in point: los lobos and, my current musical obsession, the black keys. if you don’t already, you should own los lobos’s “colossal head†and “this time;†and pretty much every black keys album, but especially “chulahoma.†i wholeheartedly recommend listening to them in a car in summer with the windows down. and yesterday was […]
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late to the game
i hope to be living proof that it is never too late to start listening to (unordered excerpt of much longer list): mogwai beta band tom waits frank zappa aimee mann that side project of your favorite band that you never got around to following up on
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transient
to the stunning readhead sitting across from me on the q train, with ipod earbuds in and the slightest, most captivating grin: here we sit, two people on their morning commute, carving out our solitary spaces amongst everyone else on the train. i’m still waking up, listening to aimee mann’s “lost in space,” mouthing along […]
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a list
things i am into right now: the guy on the 2 train home a few weeks ago reading the economist wearing the exact same “fat-albert-ass headphones” i wear every day early tom waits albums, big star, the beta band, aimee mann, nick drake the associated grocery store on my walk home from the train visiting […]
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just another saturday night
so, more than a month without a post… not that anyone should be all that surprised. i found a draft of a post called “ow my liver” about a wonderful but very drunken weekend with the vanya and st. joan casts, steve cramer, and emily and entourage for her birthday. the few nights with steve […]