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dialogue with the youth: October 2009
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Dialogue with the youth. Tuesday, October 6, 2009. DWY005: The Society of Poor Academics / the Black Lines. Four songs / 12:02 total time. 1 Laocoön (by the Black Lines / sung by The Society of Poor Academics). 2 Black Lips (by the Black Lines / sung by The Society of Poor Academics). 3 Spiderman III (by The Society of Poor Academics / sung by the Black Lines). 4 You Provoke Me (by The Society of Poor Academics / sung by the Black Lines). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Dialogue with the youth.
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My ears are bleeding: April 2009
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My ears are bleeding. But the music is so good, i just don't care. Saturday, April 18, 2009. It's a mystery how we're so unaware. Sometimes you take a long time to express affection for someone or something that you love. I love the bats. Try doing a google search for this fixture of new zealand indie rock (before that they were 'alternative', before that 'new wave'- at least according to the daddy's highway. Press kit, or was it law of things. As they did in 1984 when they began making records. It's ahr...
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My ears are bleeding: September 2009
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My ears are bleeding. But the music is so good, i just don't care. Tuesday, September 8, 2009. Their own pretty ways. I always think it's funny when i can precisely pinpoint where and when i heard a band for the first time; especially when it's love-at-first-listen. With two elfin, flannel-clad young women sitting in a forest, singing a spare and full-throated version of "tiger mountain peasant song," by fleet foxes. Whoof i was hooked. But that's it. otherwise, the ep is fantastic, flat-out. This, if i ...
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My ears are bleeding: chunky, not smooth.
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My ears are bleeding. But the music is so good, i just don't care. Monday, July 13, 2009. Chunky, not smooth. Remember the eighties and nineties? There were those tape. Thingees. and for most people i knew that meant that you had a pile of pirated cassettes (taped on double-deck stereos of real, bought tapes sometimes, but mostly they were from records. i certainly had a high percentage of my music on tapes horded from friends. it was (cough. and is. John cusack can do a better job singing their praises.
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My ears are bleeding: March 2009
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My ears are bleeding. But the music is so good, i just don't care. Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Several years ago i interviewed martin donald of the australian twee-pop trio the lucksmiths. For a small seattle lit/culture magazine called rivet. It was pretty exciting. i was crazy about this band (still am to be frank), and very people had heard of them yet on this side of the pond. the rivet. A heavily edited version of this interview originally ran in rivet. Also, how important is the humor to your songs?
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My ears are bleeding: it's not the radio
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My ears are bleeding. But the music is so good, i just don't care. Monday, December 13, 2010. It's not the radio. The first of which being a decent turntable. Accordingly, i have been listening to a lot of records on vinyl. Accordingly, i have been listening to other people's vinyl records also. It's cool, i get to hear stuff i haven't really heard or paid attention to before. Also, how did i never pay attntion to teenage fanclub? Well that, too, is being paid proper due now. They struck different chords...
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My ears are bleeding: July 2009
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My ears are bleeding. But the music is so good, i just don't care. Monday, July 13, 2009. Chunky, not smooth. Remember the eighties and nineties? There were those tape. Thingees. and for most people i knew that meant that you had a pile of pirated cassettes (taped on double-deck stereos of real, bought tapes sometimes, but mostly they were from records. i certainly had a high percentage of my music on tapes horded from friends. it was (cough. and is. John cusack can do a better job singing their praises.
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My ears are bleeding: December 2008
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My ears are bleeding. But the music is so good, i just don't care. Wednesday, December 31, 2008. Not a top ten. Is there a problem with top-ten lists? Does 'em every month and their end-of-the-ear issue is almost exclusively t-10s. some buck-toothed dood on teevee does 'em too. they can be funny. evry music mag and blogger does 'em too. so why should i? Sent out a best-of and. Which is a little disingenuous, heh. Released three records this year; sorta tilts the field, y'know? Give me a little leeway!
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My ears are bleeding: hometowns & heartbreaks
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My ears are bleeding. But the music is so good, i just don't care. Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Sometimes one finds one's self far away from what he knows. saint louis, missouri, for example: a city with enough similarities to long-ago places like iowa, wisconsin, chicago, and minneapolis, that the chilly, hard midwestern air feels familiar, but different in those small essential ways that bring on a sense of mild alienation and discomfort. what does one do in such circumstances? If one is this. The sec...
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My ears are bleeding: February 2009
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My ears are bleeding. But the music is so good, i just don't care. Wednesday, February 11, 2009. Are you sitting down? As christopher lee so memorably said in the wicker man. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent." so are you sitting down? I hope you're sitting down, because what i'm about to tell you will. I went. out. last. night. Where (oh, where), you must be saying, was this place? Neither of whom had i heard of. I was trepedatious, because i have been very sick lately, even missing...
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