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Fellows:

Aijung
Alyssa
Angela
Bobby
Carla
Dave
Ester
Jesse
Jonah
Josie
Kate
Lillie
Nori
Rabi
Rebecca

Mincetapes

e-mince

Photos!

Nice

Archives:

Stuck in my Head
"Kiss Me Harder" by Bertine Zetlitz
"Hot" by Avril
"Brain Problem Situation" by They Might Be Giants


Now Reading
Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

Recently Finished
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Mad Tony and Me by Carl Hoffman
Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guaralnick
This Must Be The Place: Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century by David Bowman
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Movies Lately
Sicko
4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour
2 Days in Paris
United 93
The Savages
The Bourne Ultimatum
Sweeney Todd
The Departed
Juno
Enchanted
What Would Jesus Buy?
Ghost World
Superbad
I'm Not There
She's The Man
Superbad
Lars and the Real Girl
Romance and Cigarettes
No Country for Old Men
Into the Wild
Gattaca
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
Across the Universe

Shows Lately
Damo Suzuki/Stinking Lizaveta @ Mill Creek
Death and the Maiden @ Curio
Devon Sproule/Carsie Blanton/Devin Greenwood/John Francis @ Tin Angel
Assassins @ The Arden
Oakley Hall and the Teeth @ Johnny Brendas
Isabella and Flamingo/Winnebago and Map Me and Gatz and Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Sonic Dances and Strawberry Farm and The Emperor Jones and No Dice and Hearts of Man and Principles of Uncertainty and Isabella and BATCH and Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century and Car and Sports Trilogy and Explanatorium and Wandering Alice and Must Don't Whip Um and Festival of Lies and A Room of Ones Own and Recitatif @ the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe
Martha Graham Cracker and Eliot Levin and Kilo etc. @ the Fringe Cabaret
Lullatone and Teletextile @ Boulder Coffee [Rochester]
TV Sound @ the M Room
Aretha Franklin @ East Dell, Fairmount Pk.
Romeo + Juliet in Clark Park
Daft Punk @ Red Rocks
Spoon @ Rockefeller Park
Ponytail at Pony Pants' House
Mirah/Benjy Ferree @ the 1UC
Tortoise @ World Cafe Live
Hall & Oates...ish
"Nuclear Dreams" - Mascher Dance Group, x2
The Four of Us @ 1812
Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines by Rainpan whatever
Mascher Dance Group/Nathaniel Bartlett
Cornelius @ TLA
Sloan @ World Cafe
In Fluxxxx
Slavic Soul Party!/Red Heart the Ticker @ I-House
the Fantasticks @ Mum
Peter Bjork + Jorn/Fujiya + Miyagi @ fkaTLA
John Vanderslice @ Johnny Brendas
The Books & Todd Reynolds @ 1UC
Into the Woods @ LPAC
The Fishbowl @ the Frear
Caroline, or, Change @ the Arden
Low & Loney, Dear. @ 1UC




Friday, September 27

thursday night is heavy backpack night. scrabble board for the club, which was poorerly attended because of the rain i think (and in one case an asap workshop), but we roped in some newbies including Joanne, to whom i soundly lost a game, continuing a streak. we also played anagrams, in which i fared better. I made ORANGUTAN and ENRAVELERS and PIEBALD and PLINKING. a lot of people were playing. and cds for radio. here's what i played, copied from my tape j-card rather than the program log which seems to have gotten disappeared:

Merrick : Ladders to Fire

Spoon : Back to the Life (P)
Saloon : My Everyday Silver is Plastic (P)
Microphones : Lanterns (P)
Radio 4 : Save Your City (P)

Imperial Teen : My Spy
John Vanderslice : Amitriptyline (P)
Aden : Intertwining Hands (P)

Currituck County : Intertwining Hands
Jill Sobule : Bitter
Rufus Wainwright : Rebel Prince

Susie Ibarra : Illumination
Susie Ibarra : Azúl

The Magnetic Fields : All the Umbrellas in London
The Beta Band : Broken Up A Ding Dong
The Aluminum Group : 2-Bit Faux Construction

Stereolab : Lo Boob Oscillator
Old 97s : Time Bomb
Stereolab : [the rest of the song]

Papas Fritas : Rolling in the Sand & Live by the Water [both dedicated to Sanderson the Hermit Crab]
Aloha : Protest Song (P)

The Magnetic Fields : I Don't Believe You
The Magnetic Fields : Old Orchard Beach
The Magnetic Fields : When I'm Not Looking, You're Not There
The Magnetic Fields : 100000 Fireflies
The Magnetic Fields : Rats in the Garbage of the Western World

Prodigy via Lo-Fi Allstars : Outer Space
Secret Machines : It's a Bad Wind That Don't Blow Somebody Some Good (P)
Archer Prewitt : The Day to Day (P)

The Apples in Stereo : It's Something I Do (P)
Palomar : Knockout (P)

I think that's it.