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... of annoying me! Last week I finally got around to picking up a copy of U2's new album, "No Line on the Horizon". To be fair, it normally takes me several listenings to get into an album but did this really deserve 5 stars from Rolling Stone? Maybe my reaction to this album is based more on U2s overexposure in the media - covers of Rollin… read more

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I always get good suggestions from people here so, why not... I recently came into possession of about 20 Bob Dylan records from the 1960s to the early 1980s. Records, not CDs, the original vinyl stuff. Yes, there's a copy of Blonde on Blonde (with pictures of the band in the inside cover, not the women), no copy of Blood on the Tracks (but I … read more

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Released on Numero Group's * label, Johnny Lunchbreak's album is... what? Something that has been on repeat on my computer for the past few days. Apparently the songs were recorded in the 1970s and the band hardly made it out of Connecticut in their 2 years of existence. Appetizer / Soup's On is pop-y, punk-y and is nowhere near the disco the … read more

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Way off the topic of animals, I was back at the theater the other night. Ken and I believed the hype and went to see Slumdog Millionaire. Heading into movies like this I am always worried that the hype will have ruined the movie for me and that, going in expecting so much, I will be disappointed. Thankfully I am slowly getting over the publi… read more

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It happened again. I was watching a movie, The Dog sound asleep on my chest, and the phone rings. I have a sort of Pavlovian response to that bell and I immediately made a move to get up to answer the stupid thing. The Dog was unceremoniously dumped onto the futon since he didn't make much of an effort to move. And who was it? If you gue… read more