October 2008
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This Week in Music
Blue (Donna’s 4-Demo) / Elastica
Time Isn’t Kind / Fine Young Cannibals
C’mon Every Beatbox / Big Audio Dynamite
Country Club Gun / Guadalcanal Diary
I Won’t Stand / Insane Jane
Dog Eat Dog / Adam & The Ants
On The Roof / The Feelies
The Way Things Are / Fiona Apple
Sunday Morning / The Bolshoi
Birth! School! Dole! Angst! / Edson
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Cordy Lon, Please
I have been trying for some 20 years to find Cordy Lon’s demo tape—they were a sometimes quartet from Athens, GA, early ’90s, and they played some cool music. Think moody cello meets folk angst. Gang of Four meets Nick Drake. On a codeine bender. In Elliott Smith’s basement. Good stuff.
Anywho, they put out a cassette tape (maybe 200 copies?) and mine was stolen in 1993 by...
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Getting Naked in Short Selling by Paddy Hirsch
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Not Mary's Dad's Farm
Ah, smog fall is in the air. Time to throw the kids into the Wagon Queen Family Truckster and head up to Burt’s Farm to bask in the warm glow that is Halloween Alpha. Naturally, as it’s a pumpkin farm—and we needed a pumpkin—we purchased nothing.
We also stopped by Amicola Falls, if only to remind ourselves why we stopped going there years ago. Timing our leave perfectly,...
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This Week in Music
Between the Bars / Elliott Smith
Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Cool for Cats / Squeeze
Natural Blues / Moby
Burning / The Whitest Boy Alive
Atomic / Blondie
Love Will Tear Us Apart / Joy Division
Saint Simon / The Shins
Going Underground / The Jam
God Put a Smile On Your Face / Mark Ronson feat. The Daptone Horns
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October: this is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks....
– Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Credit Crisis as Antarctic Expedition by Paddy Hirsch
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This Week in Music
Geno / Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Eardrum Buzz / Wire
Seven / The Connells
Debaser / Pixies
Ana Ng / They Might Be Giants
Make A Circuit With Me / The Polecats
No. 13 Baby / Pixies
Lost Weekend / Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
Love Vigilantes / Poi Dog Pondering
Better World / The Rave-Ups
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Uncorking CDOs by Paddy Hirsch
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Untangling Credit Default Swaps by Paddy Hirsch
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We’re very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and...
– Derek Smalls
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This Week in Music
Express Yourself / Charles Wright
Rush / Big Audio Dynamite
This Charming Man / The Smiths
No Guilt / The Waitresses
On The Road To Find Out / Cat Stevens
Love and Happiness / Al Green
I Want You Back / Hoodoo Gurus
The Humpty Dance / Digital Underground
True Affection / The Blow
Cannonball / Brandi Carlile
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for...
– Franklin P. Jones
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