Posts by Viva La Britt
Current Top 3 Reasons I love my ears
1. Spoon- "My Little Japanese Cigarette Case"So I've tried very hard to like Spoon's new record. This is a problem- I shouldn't _have_ to try and, for this, I am resentful. It took me a handful of listens to "get" their other records, but once I truly paid attention it was golden. I listened intently from the first listen with _Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga_ and my payoff has not been the same. One of the four
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I never learn
Before 2005, you'd be hard-pressed to see me buy a ticket to a show and not use it. Pre '05, in 10 years of concert-going, there are 4 tickets that I bought and did not use; in 2006, I did it just as many times. I vowed this year to not repeat the mistake...my count is now up to 3.I did it in June with the Black Keys. The show was sponsored by Camel and the tickets were some of those "Entry Not Gu
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An Evening with Ween 8.8.07
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Let me start by saying that I actively fought off getting involved with Ween for many years. During 1994, praise of their record Chocolate and Cheese- as well as the album's "salacious cover":http://www.thecriticscorner.com/Covers4/WeenD2-Cover.jpg - was regularly featured in my then-favorite magazine Rolling Stone. The artwork touched a nerve with my young inner feminist (I think she went offline
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APB for MOGs
It seems that, for many of us here on MOG, real life has finally caught up with us. The demands of the flesh-and-bloods have cut down on time available to post and commiserate for hours on end as we did in the early days of membership. For those whose number of Trusteds clock in at triple digits, keeping up with posts and tracking comments may now be a labor of love instead of the guilty - yet bea
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