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Fira Självständighetsdagen!

July 3, 2008 – 10:55 am
Earlier today, while waiting to catch a bus, I watched as an older woman wearing unsettlingly tight clothing and too much makeup emerged from an apartment building across from the bus-stop, crossed the street and approached the gathered throng of commuters. Raising her arms like some Old Testament prophet about to deliver and edict […]
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Melodramatic Song is still Popular?

November 7, 2007 – 11:42 am
If you’ve browsed around MySpace looking at music profiles you might have noticed the genre designation “Melodramatic Popular Song” adorning the odd profile. It’s one of my favorite made-up genre-names because it sets up huge expectations of what the band sounds like. The phrase “Melodramatic Popular Song” conjures up all sorts of images, and it […]
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