Chill

If you’re interested in listening to some of my songs, here are the three singles from 2005’s The Paine Road E.P.:
“You, Your Mom, and Her Friends” (MP3)“I Wonder” (MP3)“The Science That We’re Made Of” (MP3)
All guitars, voices, keyboards, programming, and percussion performed by me. Chorus of handclaps on “The Science That We’re Made Of” [...]

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Anchor My Feet

Wow.
There have been some interesting exchanges on Chalkhills lately.
The first was my overwhelmingly negative review of Andy Partridge’s Monstrance.
Then came a particularly vitriolic response from Fred Weaver.
My response to his response:
Hi gang,
I’m glad my “Monstrance” review is sparking discussion. Discuss. As I wrote to Dom just moments ago, one of the [...]

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Keywords Are Mystical

Sometimes, when you visit Yahoo! News and click on a story, the relevance of advertising keywords to story keywords make sense. Other times, it doesn’t. Here’s a case in point. The story is about a dude in Houston who chopped up his ex-girlfriend and spent days grilling her body parts on his [...]

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"The Album, a Commodity in Disfavor"

This article, in today’s NYT, is terrifying. Money quote:
“I think the album is going to die,” said Aram Sinnreich, managing partner at Radar Research, a media consulting firm based in Los Angeles. “Consumers are listening to play lists,” or mixes of single songs from an assortment of different artists. “Consumers who have had iPods [...]

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From the "I Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself" Department

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Eyes, Indeed

Quick! Before EMI/Chrysalis/Whatever forces YouTube to take it down!

By the way, if you want to listen to my New Jack playlist (I know I do!), click here.

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More New Photos

For some reason, Flickr is being a beast and won’t let me create a new photoset. So here are some pictures I took today using the +2 macro lens that I “borrowed” from mom. To view the larger size, click the “View larger” link below the picture and it’ll open in a separate [...]

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R.E.M. and Eddie Vedder

This is a bit of a dream come true for me:

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Blackstreet, Baby!

This song was playing on XM Channel 9 yesterday when I was driving to Putnam. Hey Katie, remember when, freshman year, we went to that nasty party at Chi Delt and there was gross beer all over the floor and this song playing? Yeah, I remember that. Although that was basically every [...]

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The Sundays

UPDATE: This is great. You know how, usually, iTunes gives you crappy samples from the middle of a song? Well, not with The Sundays! Before you read the post below, remember what a great band they were, and buy all their albums, listen to this clip. Yes, iTunes wastes a whole [...]

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