What are you listening to right now?

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Pedro the Lion - "Criticism as Inspiration"

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Math the Band - "Let's Hear it for Capitalism!"

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Liz Phair - Why Can't I?

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is this your first retread of a username?

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is this your first retread of a username?

Yes. Explanation why is above.

you're going to see them. I saw a video of them from 07: ing sad. I doubt the lead singer even has health insurance. but in any event: there was no architect designed this view.

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Saves the Day - I'm Sorry I'm Leaving

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you're supporting Chaing Kai-shek while I'm supporting Mao

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arctic monkeys from the ritz to the rubble (2006, when the Mets won the NL East by 12 games and the Democrats took the Senate on a lonely Wednesday morning in the badlands of Billings. Montana)

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http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=14343

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Electrelane - 'To The East'

nice.  brings back semi-fond memories of November 2007.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYWw1sduJwM
^Gin Blossoms on 12/31/1999 at 1040pm EST.

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The Rookie Lot - "The Verona Kings"      the precursor to Brand New.  horrible music, but so Long Island.

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The Rookie Lot - "The Verona Kings"      the precursor to Brand New.  horrible music, but so Long Island.

that's actually not right.   got it confused with a Lifetime song.  the song is titled Verona Nights.  for all of those anxiously awaiting.

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Alkaline Trio - "Steamer Trunk".  I turned my friends on to Alk3, and they in turn turned me on to Steamer Trunk, a gem hidden within the recesses of the second album.  I mourn, mourn hard for the evening of March 30th, when I killed the better part of a PBR 30 rack with my good friend Chasen and talked about girls of New Jersey past, first pitch of the baseball season mere hours away.  but all that's gone now, gone for good, and all I've left is an Rx for antidepressants and an ID that reads "21".

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"...My Nine Rides Shotgun" - Brand New.  bonus track to 2001's Your Favorite Weapon.  can't help but remind me of a girl who is, studying abroad, right now (as the song wishes "have fun studying abroad... I'm kidding").  and so we go on.

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Stokely Carmichael - Black Power


http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/stokelycarmichaelblackpower.html

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Say Anything - "Shameless"; long live 2010

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Eminem - The Real Slim Shady

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Hot Action Cop - Fever for the Flava.  after years of listening to emo and pop punk it is nice to sometimes listen to music that is unapologetic about wanting to have sex with women (and in which the protagonist occasionally succeeds).

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My professor talking.

The poor bastard - my sympathy goes out to the poor man.

"if you have to be a wage-slave, it's best to be a middle-class wage slave like me" - my professor

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1 Nephi 11 on lds.org

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Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - "The Only Thing You Talk About"

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Metallica debut album Kill 'Em All.  I am of course vociferously opposed to metal but a good friend recommended it to me, and, as Maslow said, "choose the growth option a dozen times a day", and this seemed like an easy one.

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for the first time since November 8,

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Ramshackle Glory - "First Song, Part 2"     awesome song.



I  took the needle out of my arm about a year ago today, and every day since then i’ve been taking the needle out of my brain. so when i’m staring down at my hands i can’t explain just what it is that i’m thinking of, except thank god that all my veins have to pump is my blood. and i’ve done you so much wrong i can’t believe you would still talk to me. and i say so much bullsh**t i can’t believe that anyone around me can breathe. i know that it’s a little dramatic, but the word for not changing is “death.” so i’m getting better, my friends, but please don’t hold your breath. and i met a man in rehab the first time, an organizer in prison. he lived in chicago when the cops shot fred hampton, but he was just a kid back then. justice doesn’t flow from police guns. i’m reminded of that all the time. as long as there is a law, peace will be a crime. what the news calls economics, i still call it violence. if your god is a judge or a jailer, i’m still an atheist. but i try to have faith in the things that will happen; i get saved from myself when i do. so maybe “god” isn’t the right word, but i believe in you.

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Jawbreaker's 1989/1990 debut album Unfun, for the first time in a long time.  hitting the spot on a particularly misanthropic day, as did Chapter 11 of the Big Book.