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I saw a link to this article from the Washington Post about how they got a brilliant musician to play in a metro station for a morning and see if anybody noticed. It’s a fun read.
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
– from “Leisure,” by W.H. [...]

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The opening lines of a song I listened to on the train today:
I don’t miss where I came from
But each night I dream about being back home
When I wake up in the morning
I’m too tired, tired of being alone

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I wonder if I will ever listen to Sufjan Stevens‘ Illinois (wikipedia, metacritic) album without feeling incredibly nostalgic.
Ah, 2005.
It was a good year.
(what the hell, nostalgic for two years ago, at my age?)

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I’m reminded again of that quote from High Fidelity (I don’t remember how true to the book this bit was):
What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to [...]

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I was listening to Snow Patrol’s Final Straw on the train home today. It brought back a bunch of memories from school as I was listening.
I first heard of them because I saw a quote of one of their songs in somebody else’s AIM profile, or maybe it was an away message, I don’t [...]

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So sitting here awake entirely too early this morning, it seems it must be Wednesday as I just watched the latest in the series of kind of bizarre shorts that I understand [tag]Adidas[/tag] commissioned for their [tag]adicolor[/tag] line.
I’ve been keeping on top of these through [tag]coolhunting[/tag].com. That is, if you go to [...]

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I’m coming out of my cage / and I‚Äôve been doing just fine / gotta gotta gotta be down / because I want it all
Much like my recent post regarding Interpol, here is one about [tag]The Killers[/tag].
Before lunch not once but twice did I hear parts of songs by the Killers, namely Mr. [...]

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“but she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she’s bad”
As much as I like listening to [tag]Interpol[/tag], I feel like I might be in the bad habit of listening to Interpol extra-much in times like these. And really, that seems like a bad idea.
Perhaps it’s time for [...]

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I was reading this article about how it’s getting tough to distinguish 22 year olds from 40 year olds in terms of their culture, that is, music and clothes and so forth. He terms them [tag]grups[/tag] in some sort of bizarre star trek reference I didn’t get.
I found it particularly amusing to [...]

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Ok so for as long as I’m in the library right now, I’ve set up a shoutcast server.
128.135.224.231:8000 is where it’s at, and at the moment it’s set up for up to 3 users, and I’m streaming at 192kbps. Taking requests via AIM, if you’re so inclined.
I don’t know how to [...]

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