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Sorry for being so quite the last week. Work was a bitch the first couple of days of the week (I really do enjoy my job (database stuff) but if I’m cooking for 8 hours at work, like I was on Monday and Tuesday, then I’m useless when I get home. Just completely [...]

The following email appeared in my inbox today,

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME RECORDS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:
THE HHBTM SINGLES CLUB 2007
13 singles to be distributed in 3 shipments over the next year. The first and second shipments will have 4 singles each, while the third shipment will have 5.
THE LINEUP FOR THE SINGLES IS AS [...]

Wrock artist, Roonil Wazlib posted an interesting entry on her blog questioning the proliferation of Wrock songs on myspace that are not set up to be downloaded. The resulting discussion has proven to be pretty interesting.
I’ve already talked about my feelings on the issue near the end of this post. There was a [...]

Matt from The Whomping Willow is running a charity auction for First Book.
The winner of the auction receives the following goodies,

*original drafts of song lyrics for the entire Welcome to the House of Awesome! record, including failed attempts at songs that may never get beyond the brainstorming process
*original drafts of all my brainstorming notes
*a CD [...]

So, the reason I’ve been quiet the last couple of days is because I’m sick. I’m still not 100% and I’m giving some serious thought to just calling in sick tomorrow, but I wanted to drop a note about what I’ve been listening to today.
While doing a little clean up today I came across [...]

OK, let’s extend the break from the Wrock for just a little bit longer (don’t worry, I’ll get back to Wrock)
Through a sordid path which begins with the pop princess herself Courtney, I ended up reading a blog I’d never seen before called Skatterbrain. A quick glance through the front page has shown me [...]

OK, show of hands. How many of you own One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found?
*shakes head*
As you may be able to guess from the title, this is a four disc box set of singles from various 60s girl groups. And it is simply amazing in every way [...]

OK, a few quick notes that I need to take care of real quick.
First, Lauren, from the Moaning Myrtles has posted the audio of the Remus Lupins track Snape, which she did with Alex. You can see the video for this song here and can get the audio at their supplemental page. And [...]

I think its time for me to just bite the bullet.
My RSS feeds are getting out of hand and there are more blogs that I really should be subscribed to, even if they don’t update that much. I really need to do something to rectify the situation.
And so, I’ve done something I swore I [...]

So, I don’t care what the reality of the situation is, I’m totally claiming credit for this.
Back at the beginning of March, Lev Grossman made a post at his Time blog asking about a Daft Punk video. I responded to the post with a link to a Wikipedia entry that answered his question.
In his [...]