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New-to-me music for the rest of my unemployment

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

A few months ago I commented on a friend’s Facebook page that he should check out the new Longwave album. He gently reminded me that the album wasn’t new; it came out last year. He went on to suggest what the college-aged Norm would have said, were someone to dare refer to an album not [...]

Filed in Feeling Sorry for Yourself, Music, Technology, Travel, Unemployment | Also tagged And The Ever Expanding Universe, Ballboy, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bowerbirds, Canada, David Bowie, Desolation Wilderness, Duran Duran, eMusic, Facebook, Fantasies, Galaxie 500, Great Lake Swimmers, Here We Go Magic, Iron and Wine, Jets Overhead, Kyrie, Ladytron, Let's Dance, Longwave, Manners, Mercury Rev, Metric, New Universe, No Nations, Now Or Heaven, Old 97's, Passion Pit, Pet Shop Boys, Pop Goes The World, Promises Promises, Rhett Miller, The Broken West, The Church, The Clientele, The Knot, The Most Serene Republic, The Sounds, The Violet Hour, These Four Walls, Upper Air, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Whitesnake, Wye Oak, XM | Comments (3)

Entrance music for my every unemployed occasion

Thursday, June 11, 2009

I want my own theme song, almost as bad as I want a job. I don’t mean music that plays during the credits before and after each episode of my life. The “Night Court” and “Facts of Life” songs are taken anyway, as is the theme to “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” (number one in the [...]

Filed in Music, Technology, Unemployment | Also tagged 2112, 50 Cent, All My Love, American Music Club, Andrew Ridgely, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Beck, Bill Cosby, Boards Of Canada, Cut Copy, David Lee Roth, Dayvan Cowboy, Don't Stop Believin', Drop Dead Legs, Facts of Life, Feel The Love, Foreigner, Freedom, George Michael, ghetto blaster, Here Comes The Phantom, Hulk Hogan, I Believe I Can Fly, I Get Money, It's The Sun, Jose Reyes, Journey, K-Tel, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, New York Mets, Night Court, Panama, Paris Hilton, Primus, Pudding Time, Real American, Rick Derringer, Romper Room, Rush, The Clientele, Urgent, Van Halen, Wham, Where It's At | Comments (3)