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    Fantasy Footy

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Yeah scoring 4 minutes into his debut is about as perfect as it gets. And he looked really good the entire match, working really well with Clichy too. A good day...the Arsenal win and the "new and improved" Tottenham lose.

    Fantasy Footy

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Not impossible: Fox Soccer Channel.

     

    With Comcast I have the sports pack which includes Fox Soccer Channel (has EPL, Italian Serie A, MLS, Argentine league and Fox Football Fone-In) and GolTV (German and Spanish leagues) for only $7/mo. Also, if you don't have DirecTV or the Dish you can get Setanta Broadband for $15/mo. It has the EPL matches not on Fox Soccer Channel plus Coca Cola Championship, Dutch and French leagues. It's just a bummer there's no way to get the games on FSC (online) if you cannot get it through your cable or satellite.

    Fantasy Footy

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Anybody interested in having a VC league created?

     

    I am up for any site but the Guardian's (http://www.guardian.co.uk/fantasyfootball) this year seem interesting with the new point system

     

    Don't just pick the obvious players. Guardian Fantasy Football is far richer than most fantasy football games. Players don't just score points for clean sheets, assists and goals, but saves, accurate crosses, tackles and more.

     

    More about the scoring.

     

    Facebook could be another option.

    giant digital 78 rpm collection online

    in Someone Else's Song

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    http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/one-mans-quest.html

     

    One Man's Quest to Digitize and Publicize Rare Records

     

    Thousands of recordings that had been largely consigned to the realm of prehistory in the digital age have gained a new life, thanks to the tireless efforts of one man.

     

    Cliff Bolling didn't realize what he was getting into when he picked up a copy of the first record he ever owned (Cliff Steward's "Aba Daba Honeymoon") and realized soon after that "there's a whole world of music that you don't hear anymore, and it's on 78 RPM records."

     

    (8/13 Update: Bolling's site is offline.)

     

    Once that first discovery started him collecting the early singles known as 78s, he decided to dub some of them to cassette for playing in his car and sharing the music with fellow enthusiasts. That was about ten years ago.

     

    As the digital music movement started in earnest, Bolling began digitizing his records, and posted a list of first 1,500 songs he had digitized so fellow collectors could see what kind of progress he had made. Finally, he decided to upload MP3s of every song on the list so that he could access them from anywhere, and so that curiosity seekers could find them.

     

    As things stand now, the 57-year-old Portland, Oregon, native has uploaded 3,739 MP3s, with plenty more in the pipeline.

     

    Even with the MP3s, Bolling's site only received 10-30 hits per day until appearing on reddit and StumbleUpon in July, reaching over 11,000 hits at its peak. "I really didn't know there were so many people in the world interested in this music," said Bolling told wired.com. "A lot of younger people go to the site, and it's amazing that they hear songs today that originally were recorded 75 years ago. It's pretty cool that people get to listen to this stuff. As far as copyrights, apparently I'm okay, because nobody's come to shut me down or anything."

     

    But his wife had worried that recordings from the early half of last century would prove offensive to 21st century ears. Would listeners be sophisticated enough to handle once-mainstream sentiments that have since been revealed as racist or sexist? As a result, the site contains a a note that reads, "Please note that what was considered humor early in the 20th century might today be deemed offensive and politically incorrect. Some of these old songs reflect that."

     

    Bolling explained, "My wife told me that I shouldn't put those songs on there because they're racially offensive or sexually offensive. So I asked around, and people said, 'you know, First Amendment

    Top Albums of 2008

    in Someone Else's Song

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    top 10 in rough order:

     

    Paul Westerberg "49:00"

    Frightened Rabbit "The Midnight Organ Fight"

    The Tallest Man On Earth "Shallow Grave"

    Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes"

    Vampire Weekend "Vampire Weekend"

    The Raveonettes "Lust, Lust, Lust"

    Wye Oak "If Children"

    Oxford Collapse "Bits"

    British Sea Power "Do You Like Rock Music?"

    Hayden "In Field & Town"

     

    Need to listen more to the new Sloan and Elliott Brood.

    Via Chicago's Top 100 Albums of All Time: Summer 2008 edition

    in Someone Else's Song

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    1) Guided by Voices "Bee Thousand"

    2) Ryan Adams "Heartbreaker"

    3) The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

    4) The Wrens "The Meadowlands"

    5) The Afghan Whigs "Gentlemen"

    6) Pavement "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain"

    7) The Beatles "Rubber Soul"

    8) Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"

    9) Broken Social Scene "Broken Social Scene"

    10) The Replacements "Let it Be"

    11) Sloan "One Chord to Another"

    12) Guided by Voices "Alien Lanes"

    13) Whiskeytown "Stranger's Almanac"

    14) Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians "Element of Light"

    15) The National "Alligator"

    16) Ted Leo and The Pharmacists "The Tyranny of Distance"

    17) The Clash "London Calling"

    18) Radiohead "The Bends"

    19) Yo La Tengo "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One"

    20) Sebadoh "Bakesale"

     

    Before making my list I would have expected all these to be on it: Johnny Cash's prison albums, Elvis Costello, The Smiths, Stones, Dylan, Galaxie 500, Sonic Youth. And if I did this list again next year they probably all would be. I guess that's why making lists like these are fun/painful.

     

    If EPs were allowed then the Voxtrot EPs would have been on my list (as one entry as I tend to think of them as one).

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