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I always love it when Joe Stumble old schools it. Hip hop over to Last Days Of Man On Earth for some education about the Patty Duke featuring among others the Metro Politician Spoonie Gee.

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Or maybe just down into a grave dug by Richie Hebner. If you want to understand that, just go by and visit one of America's best writers, Josh Wilker, at Cardboard Gods. Just find the link to Hebner under the Pirates and enjoy. I've also found myself visiting I Found My Childhood On Ebay alot lately. Punk rock and heavy metal. That's what my old friends would tell you if you asked them what

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I once barfed all over the carpet in the Taylor's living room. It was the in the early morning hours after the One For The Sun concert at Hermitage Landing in 1984. The sun drenched day I spent there watching Alcatrazz, Kick Axe, Duke Jupiter, Peter Criss, Greg Allman, Ratt, and many others had become a sun burned and sun stroked sick bed for me. I was weak and perhaps still disturbed by the

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I, too, like Fire Joe Morgan do not think that baseball is lame and boring, but I can't say that I had ever heard the term Donald Ducking before. Whoever originated it....it's sheer comedic genius. "...your friend is wearing a shirt and shoes but no pants," and I'm like "He's Donald Ducking it, bra -- it's classic!"

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I got an L.A. Dodgers cap the other day. My wife said that I was really fickle when it came to sports teams. Perhaps, but in this instance she is mistaken. When it comes to major league baseball I have a favorite American League team and a favored National League squad. They are the Kansas City Royals and the Los Angeles Dodgers with the Royals taking an edge in a head to head competition. How I

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I've been digging S.E. Hinton, the LA Dodgers, Top Chef 4, long bike rides, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, and Pavement. Before I can move forward I have to take twelve steps flashback.

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Mike E's top ten punk artists. I can dig Shawn Kerri since I always loved the Circle Jerks skanking dude, but I also dig BLack Belt Holmes and his take on Bert and Ernie.

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When I was a young lad toiling away at Mitchell-Neilson Elmentary School my music teacher was a young lady named Miss Kidd. She rocked the Dorothy Hamill haircut and had the obligatory amount of folk singing fervor and enthusiasm that was the hallmark of elementary education music instructors perhaps the world over. I don't remember much about what we actually did in the class that met a few

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punk ass former deli junction wannabe graf artist moved to NYC and I guess, well he can make it anywhere check out his righteous mellow romantic blog chadkrobot also check out his better half's blog: wonting. Much love to both.

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I've run across three great live bootlegs in the mp3 format in the last few weeks which is always a treat since I'm not one of those bit torrent types. First up: The Replacements from July 1st, 1985 in their hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can find it at Pop Headwound. It's a sufficiently rowdy and robust document of a band during 7th Street Entry gig. It's known under the title "Simply

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I've run out of things to write about. I'd like to think it is but a temporary lull, but even if I had some ideas I don't have the time. So to keep this dead horse on its feet, let's stuff it full of things found from one of my old notebooks circa April 1992. You see, I once fancied myself as a creative type - rock and roll songs, fanzine creator, and just general mayhem maker. I'd get these

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I need tips. Some sidebar tips. I've been looking through my links and I've jettisoned some. I think I'd like to get rid of some others, but I don't want to be the hatchet man. I'll leave that to you. Suggest some for the delete pile. But also suggest some links I can add. If you want to promote your own blog I'll even trade links if I dig your site. Either email me or add your twenty cents (man

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This veers off into territory unexpected somewhat. Just remember to be careful when you're on Anderson Road near Percy Priest Lake. Now if we all know Sukie was a girl and she liked to hang out in the graveyard, then we should also know that all of my Riverdale High School memories revolve around the rock band Journey. They were already icons to me way before The Sopranos elevated the group to

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How my mind works, sorta: I've been reading through Charles Dickens of late. I just started Our Mutual Friend this morning and encountered a character named Mortimer. I finished the first couple of chapters and in came Lola the pet cat of Wally Manor. This confluence of events reminded me that I once knew a cat named Mortimer. He belonged to that crazy Zorlac skateboarding riding miscreant Toby

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Kick it out on the dancefloor like you just don't care! After spending an inordinate amount of time writing some sub-Meltzer piece about how Accelerate is the perfect mid-life crisis album reflecting how time speeds up as one's metabolism slows down I decided not to inflict such weirdness on the world. Supranational history lesson: 1984/85 discovered this hot combo from Athens, GA by way

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I had an email from Future Me in my inbox this morning. I almost deleted it as spam, but I opened it out of curiosity. Here's what it said: Dear FutureMe, It's been four years since I wrote this. I hope everything is going well. One word of advice for the future me: cool out. Seriously, chill. Read some books and play some music. Play with the kids. Take the wife out for a night. chow,

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I visited some familiar ground a few weeks ago. I went to Ripley, Mississippi to attend my Aunt Ermie's funeral. She had run a sandwich shop for 42 years selling the most delicious slugburgers in all of North Mississippi. It seemed like she was closed during each of my infrequent visits over the last 20 years or so and I had planned on a visit this month, but she died a week before. Maybe her

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The economics of having a thousand fans.

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Since I'm in a full on Eddie Haskell mood at the moment: there's a swell interview with John Darnielle over at Sixeyes. If you're into The Mountain Goats or even, maybe especially if you're not, you should check it out.

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Amazon has the video for R.E.M.'s first single for their new album Accelerate. It looks like R.E.M. has gotten revitalized. Go check out "Supernatural Superserious" for yourselves.

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Maybe, I've just been going too much Jimmy Valiant lately...you know - caught up in the boogie. I'll have to try and visit the internet a little more often. For now; here's some links I've dug lately: The isolated David Lee Roth vocal track at WFMU. The Popdose guide to Material Issue. Boing Boing hipped me to this Orwell essay about working at a used book store. Just substitute record for

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2007 is running down with its inevitable best of lists sprouting up like liver spots on an aging man, Christmas specials running so often I'm sick of shows I once cherished, crowded highways and shops, extravagant light displays, and the generalized murmur about the erosion of the Chrismtas spirit. I veer from feeling this time of year is smashing to wanting to smash it. But this brief post isn't

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My old workplace, Phonoluxe Records, got a write-up today by the Tennessean today in honor of its 20th anniversary. It's sort of weird that I even found the article since I never read the Tennessean. I had googled Phonoluxe just to get the zip code (I know the street address by heart - 2609 Nolensville Road) so I could send owner Mike Smyth a Christmas card. I spent five years great years there

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According to MSN, Kevin DuBrow is dead. The man that the Gonz dubbed "Old Yeller" back in my high school days is no more. I've still got my vinyl copy of Metal Health mainly because none of the local used record stores would take it (not even Phonoluxe when I worked there!), but I've still got a nostalgic spark for the platter. It was one of the first albums I bought before it became a big hit

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I would really love to get an antique portable typewriter for my 41st birthday. But I'll settle for a big cookie.

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