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Mike Doughty played, as it were, Harvard Law back in April of 2005...nice:http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4272
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2005 "interactive interview" with Mike Doughty
"Vinyl ethics"
Indefatigable blogger (among many, many other things) Ethan Zuckerman has written an interesting post about Anthology Records, which I plan to check out at my earliest convenience.
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Myanmar rocks
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Artist:Lay Phyu
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Album:Kha Na Layy Myarr
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Track:Ma Mayt Pyit Net
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In response to my post about Ben MacMillan, Pleaseeasaur wrote to say, "It's so wild to me how certain albums or bands conjure up specific eras and even specific moments in my memory." I agree. I am always blown away by how microscopically certain bands/albums/songs evoke moments and stretches of time. I can't listen to "Joe's friend's band" (that was how Pleaseeasaur's Superchunk, "Foolish" ta...
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RIP, Ben
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Artist:Ben MacMillan
Ben MacMillan died recently. I am really saddened by this news. My sincere condolences to Ben's fiance, family, and friends -- and fans.My friend and fellow fan Pleaseeasaur wrote me yesterday to point me to a Seattle PI reader's blog with some songs and videos from the two bands Ben sang for: Skin Yard and Gruntruck, both of which I adored when I was growing up.I still love both of these bands...
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I went to Isis' "10th anniversary" show on their former home turf, The Middle East, in Cambridge, MA. I've been seeing them play for 7, 8 years now. This was the best show of theirs I've been to in 4 or 5 years. Just mindbogglingly amazing so that I don't know what to say. Here's what I think the set list was (please, if you were at the show and have corrections, then let me know; thanks):1 Hiv...
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old school detritus
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The Maggot will be having a house guest while I am away next week visiting The Fam, so I've tried to clean up my desk area, which is in the living/guest room. Part of the clean up has been to reorganize the piles and piles and piles of tapes in light of my new motivation for continuing with the tape digitization project, mainly MOG. Yes, these MOG posts are affording me some focus on the process.
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distortions
Apropos motivation number two, outlined below, I have three hundred CDs (and a shitload of tapes, which - very slowly - I am digitizing) that have yet to make it into my mp3 library. Consequently, some of my most beloved albums are not reflected in my MOG profile and so do not influence how MOG calculates my affinity with others. It's going to take me awhile to get "there."
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tertiary beginnings
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Not quite sure yet what I'm doing here in MOGland. One of my motivations for joining was my desire to show friends and family what I am acquiring and listening to, but, so far, I'm not entirely pleased with the way in which the mog-o-matic overrides my metadata, making my brother's band, e.g., into some other group I've never heard. A second motivation was to explore the conceit that one's musi...
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