axolotl
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You must remember when I cited Pepsi Cola as an anagram for Episcopal.
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Nickyboy
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Now do Antidisestablishmentarianism.
axolotl
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Are you crazy? This is no place for politics.
axolotl
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- “Room 8” ( 1947–1968 )
Room 8 was a neighborhood cat who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California. He lived in the school during the school year and then disappeared for the summer, returning when classes started again. This pattern continued without interruption until the mid-1960s.
News cameras would arrive at the school at the beginning of the year waiting for the cat's return; he became famous and would receive up to 100 letters a day addressed to him at the school. Eventually, he was featured in a documentary called Big Cat, Little Cat and a children's book, A Cat Called Room 8. Look magazine ran a three-page Room 8 feature by photographer Richard Hewett in November 1962, titled "Room 8: The School Cat". Leo Kottke wrote an instrumental called "Room 8" that was included in his 1971 album, Mudlark.
As he got older, Room 8 was injured in a cat fight and suffered from feline pneumonia, so a family near the school volunteered to take him in. The school's janitor would find him at the end of the school day and carry him across the street.
His obituary in the Los Angeles Times rivaled that of major political figures, running three columns with a photograph. The cat was so famous that his obituary ran in papers as far away as Hartford, Connecticut. The students raised the funds for his gravestone. He is buried at the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park in Calabasas, California.
Unsomnambulist
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Have you ever gone so long without listening to an album that when you do finally listen to it again, it's like listening to a new album? Very rarely, but it does happen to me.
I think it means that my brain occasionally runs out of space and deletes very old data!
I think it means that my brain occasionally runs out of space and deletes very old data!
Ojai Sam
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Nickyboy
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50 years after his death, finding the truth about Gram Parsons: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/arts/music/gram-parsons.html
Nickyboy
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You can now tour Serge Gainbourg's house in Paris: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...gainsbourgs-paris-home?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Unsomnambulist
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Watch out for the bedbugs!
axolotl
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"We'll always have bedbugs."
Unsomnambulist
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Discogs’ vibrant vinyl community is shattering
How Discogs built — and broke — a community of diehard music fans and sellers.
www.theverge.com
axolotl
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It's an old thread, but I'm a much older listener to slowcore.
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Slowcore: A Brief Timeline
Though there was no cohesive scene or geographic focus, slowcore does have a distinct aesthetic. We explain, and examine the originators, the popularizers, and contemporary artists mining its influence.
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Ojai Sam
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This is an interesting article, but it has the feel of a hit piece. If there really is someone who nets €20,000 a month selling records without a physical store, I doubt that an additional 1% (40 cents on a $40 album) will make or break them.Discogs’ vibrant vinyl community is shattering
How Discogs built — and broke — a community of diehard music fans and sellers.
Over on the Steve Hoffman music forums, there’s a whole thread of Discogs horror stories. I must be extraordinarily lucky, because in hundreds of transactions in all price ranges I’ve never had a problem that wasn’t immediately rectified.
Unsomnambulist
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Writer was high when she wrote this? It's bad.
Zeeba Neighba
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The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
The 250 Greatest Guitarists: Jimi Hendrix, Prince, St. Vincent, H.E.R. and More
www.rollingstone.com
Sure you hate these Rolling Stones lists - and yet you just might look
“I’ll just see where (insert guitarist here) fell”
Rick: “must resist seeing where David Gilmour is”
axolotl
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The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
The 250 Greatest Guitarists: Jimi Hendrix, Prince, St. Vincent, H.E.R. and More
Sure you hate these Rolling Stones lists - and yet you just might look
“I’ll just see where (insert guitarist here) fell”
Rick: “must resist seeing where David Gilmour is”
I admit; I looked through the last 20 or so, and thought, "Why am I looking at this on a weekend when I have so much work to do?"
So, I will need to come back to this. Maybe hit it again when I'm 80.
axolotl
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‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ Movie Review: Look What We Made Her Do (Published 2023)
Swift’s cultural phenomenon arrives on the big screen with lots of little revelations, along with some what-could-have-beens.
Zeeba Neighba
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I actually enjoy much of her music as decent pop‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ Movie Review: Look What We Made Her Do (Published 2023)
Swift’s cultural phenomenon arrives on the big screen with lots of little revelations, along with some what-could-have-beens.www.nytimes.com
Would never go to her show (especially at those prices)
And kind of want to see this
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