Three years, really? It's been that long, and it's been through all the ups and downs. I have been mostly lurking (reading posts by my trusted mogs) around here for the last couple of months. There are a number of reasons, my own blog, other writing that I have been working on (a lot of fiction), and really I am not feeling so mogtastic these days. A lot of the energy and flow of the early days...
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Posts by Iren
21 June 2006 www.mog.com/iren goes on line, 20 June 2009 Iren goes Idel
5 2009 Playlist
In 2006 I started keeping monthly playlists in my iTunes where I added songs that had caught my attention that month. When the month is over, I file the old list, start a new one. I joined Mog.com (www.mog.com/iren) in June of 2006 and started writing a summary and/or commentary for each track, sometimes posting a related video as well. As time passed Mog started to wane, and I decided to bran...
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4 2009 Playlist
In 2006 I started keeping monthly playlists in my iTunes where I added songs that had caught my attention that month. When the month is over, I file the old list, start a new one. I joined Mog.com (www.mog.com/iren) in June of 2006 and started writing a summary and/or commentary for each track, sometimes posting a related video as well. As time passed Mog started to wane, and I decided to bran...
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3 2009 Playlist
My monthly playlist is a project that I have been working on for three years now, it's simply a new iTunes play list each month titled for the month, and I add what ever tracks catch my ear or stick in my brain during the month to it. When the month is over, I file the old list, start a new one. When I joined Mog.com (www.mog.com/iren) in June of 2006 and started writing a summary and/or commen...
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Nothing Means Nothing Anymore! 90's Music chopped, repackaged and re-marketed!
The Buzz Box.(I am guessing that the Buzz comes from the fact that a lot of these tracks were Buzz tracks on MTV in the early 90s)I must be going though the stages of grief, first there was;1. SHOCK & DENIALReally, no really, am I really seeing this. Let me back up, last night I was catching a couple of moments of the Fall of Rome (Rock of Love) on VH1 (or which ever station the devil was showi...
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Country Music Round Up over at the Onion
Nashvlile or Bust is a new feature over at the Onion where their Hip Hop reporter Nathan Rabin is going to spend a year looking into country music. So far he has posted in into essay and one on Johnny Cash and his final years with the American Recordings projects. Anyone out there who likes to tell people 'I like all kinds of music--- well everything but country' needs to check this series out...
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E.M.C.D. Alert- SXSW Mix Tape
I have been playing around and down loading tracks from SXSW lately. The deal is that a lot of the bands that are playing SXSW have an MP3 for download, and I went though the list looking for what ever stuck my fancy. So far this is what I have picked up;Craighead County Sky By Abalone DotsWhite As Diamonds By Alela DianeCornbread By The Band of Heathens(Baskery) One Horse Down By BaskeryDeersl...
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2 2009 Playlist
This month, I just want to sayThis month's playlistBag of Monsters by Nova ExpressCaught Between Heaven And Hell by Ripsnorter People Got A Lotta Nerve by Neko CaseAll the machines are quiet by Robert Calvert Tribute To Buddy Holly by Mike Berry & The OutlawsEveryday by Buddy Holly That'll be the day by Buddy Holly The Natives Are Restless by The CrampsCornfed Dames by The CrampsVoodoo Idol by...
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Mogger Doesn't Make the 33 1/3 Short list
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Artist:The Screaming Trees
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Album:Dust
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Track:All That I Know
Yep, there will be no Screaming Trees Dust: A Grunge Requiem as part of the 33 1/3 series.... not to worry I figure I should write it anyway, and maybe post it on my blog... or here or something like that... this might also mean that I will have the time and energy to complete my abandon October Project from 2008.... we shall see... a little video for you all....
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For a Fallen Voodoo Idol
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Maybe I should call this We Will Fall Pt. 2?Lux Interior, lead singer for The Cramps... has left the building! Shocking! Sad! With out Warning! The fallen Voodoo Idol!I never met the man, I saw him live once, The First Ave in Minneapolis when I lived there. He climbed the stacks and jumped around. They played this hits... ok, not hits cause I don't think they ever topped the charts, but what th...
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