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Thankfully living in Orange County it doesn’t apply
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Thankfully living in Orange County it doesn’t apply — apparently in my absence Orange County hosted another big radio rock festival thing. Korn and Limp Bizkit played! Eminem was going to play but had to make more money elsewhere! Moby […]

The artificiality of mood is deeply underrated when it comes to music
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… Note, for instance, the seeming contradictions between playing music to set a mood and playing it to get into a mood. Currently I’m listening to Brother JT, who might or might not be insane. Certainly when I saw him live at Terrastock 2, a[…]

In answer to the band best-of lists
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… I deem it both meet and right to speak about the music and related things I loathe. In an underrated essay from Neil Tennant that appeared in a mid-1992 issue of Details, he discussed hate as a motivating factor for creation and sense of sel[…]

Empty Mailboxes: Charles Schulz 1922-2000
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For the past two days I have at points been totally stopped in my tracks with grief. I literally have been on the verge of losing it entirely more than once now. I just can’t accept that this has happened.
Almost a decade ago, Jim Henson and Dr[…]

A Cult That Wasn’t
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Earwig – Under My Skin I Am Laughing
In some respects, this band was perfect for nineties cult worship, so that’s why I’m very surprised that they’re apparently not more well-known or remembered among the underground types. Th[…]

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