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Warm & Willing
Music to Work or Study By
On the Rocks
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Play Asteroids, with a David Lee Roth Twist →
June 2011
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West Virginia looks so lonely. I’ll be adding Idaho to the list this summer.
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Old writing: Record Recomendations
A continuation of my previous post in which I extol the virtues of ubiquitous, throwaway thrift store LPs. Keep in mind that this was 1999, so time has altered interpretation of some of these artists, especially as irony has come to dominate the online landscape. So here we have a few old album recommendations from yours truly.
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Here are a few of my favorites-none of them are rare or...
Old writing: Thrift Store Shopper
This is another old piece of writing I did while on the clock at my hospital job in 1999. While I’m not quite as strident about record-buying as I used to be, this certainly sums up my attitude at the time quite well.
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Lower Your Standards:A Misguided Wham!-Loving Record Buyer Speaks Out
Like a lot of folks, I depend on the thrift stores for my music collection. If you are...
Old writing: Observations on Human behavior
I worked in a large university hospital for about 8 months in 1999-2000. At the time I was rudderless, virtually friendless and spent most of my desk-ridden job perusing the nascent Internet and writing down observations about human behavior that I witnessed at the hospital. I recently found a list of generalizations which have not been edited to make me funnier or more cogent, given the passage...
January 2011
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I took this picture in a thrift store and initially hated the way the glare covered up Mr. Keytar’s finer points. But now I imagine the glare as being flares of pure energy radiating from his legs, propelling Mr. Keytar through the air on a musical high. Much better.
The Louvin Brothers - Katie Dear →
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WatchHappy New Year. The bar is open.
December 2010
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“They’re plodding, focus-group-friendly nonentities. Like their spiritual...”
– Music Critic of the Year: @Discographies commenting on Kings Of Leon (via mattpayton)
BETTY DAVIS-"SHUT OFF THE LIGHT" (1975) →
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Part 2: By 2001, the Holiday Ball was too popular ...