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tomorrow evening i’ll be winging my way east on a red-eye flight to nashville via charlotte (and yes, i know about the shortest distance between two places thing. i also know about the cheapest flight thing) to meet friends, pick up a car and head down to manchester, tennessee on thursday morning. that must mean [...]

and the hits just keep on coming.

if you don’t already know about the mountain goats, you should. some day i’ll explain why i think john darnielle, who for all intents and purposes is the mountain goats (though he would likely take umbrage at that, graciously sharing the goatness, as he does, with his comrade in [...]

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i had a birthday and got to see one of my favorite bands.

so much has been written about the decemberists and so much of it has been laudatory. rightly so, in my opinion. so, at the risk of sounding like a broken mp3, i’ll add a bit to the heap of praise.

the decemberists have put [...]

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every now and then something rends the time-space continuum to such a degree that you have to slap yourself silly just to make sure you haven’t suddenly fallen into an alternative universe or mistakenly downed a quart of robitussin.

such was the case when i saw a listing back in april for a show by the [...]

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