Editor’s Note: Tamboosh has been incredibly busy with a new money-making venture the past week and the Bean has been experiencing Internet service troubles (again and again, over and over). So, I’ve been holding down the fort as best I can. No complaining. It was 13 years ago, but when I spin Alanis Morissette’s Jagged [...]
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As usual, I think I might be breaking the rules with New Band Day. Well, honestly, I’m not sure if I am or not. True, Like Drawing Blood isn’t Gotye’s first album (that would be the 2004 offering Boardface). Also true, Like Drawing Blood isn’t even a new album, having been released in Australia in [...]
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This month has been very merry merry. August saw so many good releases that I’m having a hard time picking the one that stood out the most, so like the parent of a spoiled kid at a toy store, I decided to stop crying about it and let me pick two of my favorites. So [...]
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With the Hoo-Ha! of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions now behind us and the next two months set to be a knock-down, drag-out fight to the finish between the Obama-Biden and McCain-Palin campaigns, I got to thinking about presidential campaign theme songs of the past. I’m thinking here about those from 1960 to the [...]
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I’m going to have to make it quick this week, so I just have a trio of violent and ridiculous (in the exasperating, slightly scary sort of way) stories to share with you all. These three all popped into my blog reader over the last week or so, making for a lovely post-apocolyptic feel to [...]
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