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‘That’s my opinion’

New album out by my favorite Swedish twins. I had it on in the car the other night as I was soliloquizing on the way home from work, as I do most nights, and I was ten minutes into one of the ambient tracks before I realized that the whole thing sounded like a movie monologue, what I was saying. It was awesome. I really wanted to post “Raging Lung” but EMI blocked it so…

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One peril of parenting I wasn’t prepared for

Ray bought Holden this cute little guitar that plays a few tunes, and it has three real strings and a whammy bar that make cool sounds. It plays four awesome songs — “Love Shack,” “Wild Thing,” “Message in a Bottle,” and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.” It also plays “All Star.” By Smash Mouth. Guess which song is the most powerful earworm of the bunch.

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‘Big boned and fey’

When the weather gets like this I tend to gravitate back toward this album. While searching for this song on YouTube, I came across these insightful comments: It’s comforting to know that even though I am not on the internet very much anymore that it is still just the fucking same as always.

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