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I can’t stop listening to this lady

I love it when music finds me at the right time and I don’t have to do any work. I was getting sick of all my CDs and suddenly my friend Ay swoops in with a disc of ditties that I’ve not been able to stop listening to for two straight days. I’ve not even been able to pause it for long enough to listen to another CD she made me. I sure hope that…

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Describing Billie

I’ve been on a real Billie Holiday kick lately. I attribute this development to something akin to typical mid-twenties labor pains and the fact that it’s already nasty hot and it’s not even summer yet. Putting a Billie Holiday record on has roughly the same effect on a room as turning on an oscillating fan and taking off a couple of layers of clothes. The only way the setting could possibly improve is if you’ve…

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Party time, excellent

Because the weekend was kind of a blur of zombies (both the undead and the liquid kind), rock ‘n’ roll, tequila shots, birthday dinners, friends visiting, superhero masks, talk of “squishing,” talk of cats, talk of sand fleas, talk of dolphins counting in English, talk of feminine drag, and me saying stupid shit and rolling around on my floor, and other people rolling around on my floor but saying much less stupid shit than I…

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Anti-suckage

Oh happy day, I actually had a really good weekend. I know that this in no way has any bearing on how the remainder of my week will play out, nor does it indicate that the Universe is going to take it easy on me or anyone else for a while (the Universe don’t roll like that, y’all), but I still would like to recount the ways the past few days have not pissed me…

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‘Our love would live a half-life on the surface’

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, an apocalyptic, poetic love song with a Kubrick reference and a double entendre in the title — “The Temptation of Adam.” Awesome. Too bad the video’s dark and you can barely see anything. Doesn’t matter. Just close your eyes and listen.

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‘I believe in you, even through all the tears and lies’

Just downloaded the new Cat Power album. It sounds like smoke and dust. And longing. I dig it. Makes me want to turn off all the lights and sip bourbon. And just fully feel all the fucking heartache in the world.

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Blasts from the past

Some radio station I stumbled upon today was rocking out the ’90s music. What caught my attention was that Silverchair song that was so popular back in ’95. I sat and listened to it and remembered singing along with it back in high school, and how’d I’d sketch the word “Silverchair” in the Frogstomp typeface on all my folders in school, along with the logos of the countless other bands I listened to at the…

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