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Listen Within Your Means

March 10, 2009 – 10:30 am
A couple weeks back I buffeted a friend with a hastily-issued remonstration regarding a Facebook status update where she urged people to write President Obama and plead the case for financially strapped college students like herself. I responded to her saying that, if anything, Obama needed to help people who could never even dream […]
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Lips, Sweat and Fake Asian Names

March 5, 2009 – 10:30 am
This morning I woke to a local news story about an aspiring Hip-Hop mogul caught up in a plot involving drugs, guns and kidnapping just a few towns away. While at the local news outlet’s site I noticed they have a new Twitter feed, which I clicked, intending to “follow” it. The first […]
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So All You Fly Mothers, Get On Out There and Dance, Dance I Say…

February 2, 2009 – 10:30 am
It’s true, Merriweather Post Pavilion surprised me with its unexpected adoption of club thump and trunk rattling shudder, easily becoming my favorite record of the new year so far. I mean I love indieternativewhateveryouwannacallit just fine, but I love synthesizers and drum-machine beats too, so a record that combines the two is more likely […]
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The British May In Fact Be Coming

January 22, 2009 – 10:30 am
Yeah, so our new pres is freakin’ awesome, there’s change in the air, and America has a reason to be proud of itself for once. That’s all pretty righteous, but most of the music on the radio still blows, so we shouldn’t forget there’s a whole world of sound out there to explore. […]
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Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are The Very Best

January 12, 2009 – 10:30 am
For those not in the know, or anyone who was just born too late to get the reference, the title of my four-part year-end wrap-up was inspired by the song “You’re the Best” by Joe “Bean” Esposito. The tune, which is one of my favorite soundtrack songs of all time, was one of the […]
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