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Monthly Archives: April 2004

Albums to get

The New Modest Mouse (first single, “Float On,” is not bad). I also need to get a new copy of “The Moon and Antarctica,” since mine is AWOL.
New Deerhoof–>”Milk Man.” Songwriting is supposed to be tighter than before…is that possible?
Of Montreal: Satanic Panic in the Attic
New Tortoise? Pitchfork panned it…
James Brown - Live at the [...]

Take three

Apartment shopping today. I stopped by four places and could probably live in any of them:

A fairly generic 1-br condo on R street, near Dupont East. The building is nice and seems quiet. Slow elevator. The apartment is neither big nor small. Small balcony. Kitchen is in great shape. Really the entire place is in [...]

Another try

Andrew tries ecto, which works better than Archipelago.

test post

I am writing this in the Archipelago editor, as I’m sick of writing entries directly in MT. Will this work?
Update: Archipelago sucks. Let’s go to Macupdate, and see if we can find something better.

Dartmouth Email

On average, I have received just over 200 pieces of spam for each legitimate email that’s gone to my Dartmouth account over the past two months.
My spam filter, which works with Dartmouth’s, has about a 95 percent success rate, so that I actually see only 10 spam messages for each legitimate email–except during the daytime, [...]

My Review of Wilco’s “A Ghost is Born”

It sounds like this, but maybe not as good.

Awesome!

“A Ghost Is Born” is co-produced by Jim O’Rourke, NME reports.

follow-up to an earlier post

The New Republic:

Bill Murray, whose unwillingness to utter prayers as a child in school brought about his mother’s fame in the first place, eventually became an evangelical Christian–surely the most literal born-again conversion of the century. “I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times,” Murray later announced. “One could call this a [...]

Tractor Rape Chain

I bought the guided by voices greatest hits album, human amusements at hourly rates normally when i bring a new album into itunes at least if its one that i really havent heard before i set the rating for every song to three stars out of five and then play it straight through usually as [...]