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Free Gui Boratto Download

February 27, 2008 – 7:45 pm

The whole staff at Sixsquare.com encourages you to drop by Rcrd Lbl and grab “Beautiful Life,” the track by Brazilian dance music flavor of the year, Gui Boratto. He’s in style for a reason. It’s a gorgeous slice of electronic pulsazione. Here’s the link. Go fetch.

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Terminators Rise In New Mexico

February 25, 2008 – 8:03 pm

McG helms the newest installment of the Terminator franchise. Christian Bale stars as John Connor. Filming begins on what Variety says is “part of a planned three-picture arc” here in New Mexico starting May 5. Full article here. No snarky comment at this time because…well, I rather liked the third one.

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Jason Bentley & Variety

February 22, 2008 – 12:08 pm

This is total fluff, but I was pleased to see in Variety that KCRW DJ Jason Bentley had a crush on Erin Gray. I’d just been thinking about her recently.

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CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar For Michael Bay

February 20, 2008 – 11:28 am

Having just suffered through the embarrassing Transformers, I thought this was especially funny. From The Onion. “‘There is no way this would have been possible five years ago,’ Krajcsik said, later admitting that CGI technology is still decades away from making an Academy Award win for Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner look plausible.”

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If You Love Jesus…

February 19, 2008 – 7:00 pm

This comes by way of McSweeney’s. It’s your list for the day. Things You Can Do If You Love Jesus Other Than Honk.

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Yahoo Media Player Issues

February 19, 2008 – 12:04 pm

Though it seems to operate fine on most systems, there have been a few problems with the Yahoo Media Player I’m using for the site. It seems the problems are somewhat widespread, and are being tackled by Lucas Gonze, the developer on point for the software and are well documented over at aurgasm.us. So I’ll […]

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Nicole Atkins Interview at Allmusic

February 12, 2008 – 10:10 am

The Allmusic Blog sports a brief interview with 2007 fave Nicole Atkins, in which she talks about her writing process, the album cover art for Neptune City and the hunt for the perfect bagel. See also here and here.

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Putting the Strike Into Perspective

February 11, 2008 – 1:12 pm

Interesting article over at Variety that turns the telescope of hindsight back on the past few months. As the strike wraps up (it’s not over yet, folks!) and we wander among the rubble there will be a lot of articles like this, asking whether it was worth it. Answer? Yes.

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Site Redesign

January 22, 2008 – 10:23 am

Just a quick aside (literally — look at the category) to say that the big red letters reading UNDER CONSTRUCTION above are serious. This site is about to get a complete makeover. It hasn’t looked the way I’ve wanted for a couple years. So stay tuned. The theme’s almost ready to go, but, as usual, […]

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After Insomnia

September 1, 2007 – 7:26 am

From this morning’s dream log: “His combination of social humor, gallows humor and towering, lizard-man humor seemed inappropriate at the hospital bedside. Especially this morning.” I can’t help but wonder what it is about that morning that makes towering lizard-man humor less acceptable than others.

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