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Finally see it on NPR. UPDATE:

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Perhaps your friends and or co-workers should learn to use status messages to tell people they're not available. I prefer instant messaging over the phone. I prefer to write and read. I don't like listening to a speaker nor putting some object on my shoulder on my ear and wait as someone else or elevator music dully bludgeon me.

Thanks again, NPR.

Learning curve hour(s) is mingling hour(s)!

Some amalgamated list of best LPs & EPs from 2000-2009 100) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 099) Mos Def - The Ecstatic 098) Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust 097) Fiery Furnaces, The - Bitter Tea 096) Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul 095) Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond 094) Liars - Liars 093) White Rabbits - It's Frightening 092) Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit 091) The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away 090) Santogold - Santogold 089) St. Vincent - Actor 088) Peter Bjorn And John - Writer's Block 087) Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English 086) West, Kanye - Late R

Recently played Small World and Power Grid, both of which also include a lot of weighted graphs and lots of decision making. I guess some people could feel daunted by a game that asks players to make use of their brain and constantly recalculate good moves. I think someone mentioned Puerto Rico but not Ra earlier. I enjoyed playing all of the aforementioned games.

Pretty intricate game. There's a lot of decisions involved and a lot of angles to attack.

•headline: Animal Collective •support: Grouper 2009, May 18th 08:00PM Royal Oak, Michigan Royal Oak Music Theatre Open up your open up your open up your open up your open up your open up your open up your open up your throat! •on the ticket: Yo La Tengo 2009, July 18th Detroit, Michigan Max M. Fisher Music Center 17th Concert Of Colors Meijer Main Stage I need to see this band live much more often. They played a pretty blistering set starting from Here To Fall (before Popular Songs came out) all the way to the ecstatic frustratingly manic and frenetic I Heard You Looking. Man. •headline:

The word for tonight is comfort.

Glenn Kotche is not Kanye West, Brandon Flowers, Liam Gallagher, nor Clipse.

If you're worried about your cool points for following and or listening to a band, perhaps you'll find better friends at Stereogum.

They remind me of Spoon, minus the Pixies. But that's oversimplification. They make excellently restrained pop. I wish XX and jj would make a stop in Michigan.

We would? Thank you. But does that automatically mean I'm the mommy?

Top 50 Tracks Of 2009 50) Rye Rye featuring M.I.A. - Bang 49) Phoenix - 1901 48) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Skeletons 47) Super Furry Animals - Inaugural Trams 46) UUVVWWZ - Castle 45) Nodzzz - Is She There? 44) Sonic Youth - Antenna 43) Major Lazer featuring Nina Sky & Ricky Blaze - Keep It Goin' Louder 42) jj - Ecstasy 41) Rain Machine - Give Blood 40) Dinosaur Jr. - I Don't Wanna Go There 39) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll 38) Wilco - Bull Black Nova 37) Fiery Furnaces, The - Lost At Sea 36) Big Pink, The - A Brief History Of Love 35) Delorean - Seasun 34) Free Energy - Dream City 33) Washed

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Oh, thank you! I thought I was the only one.

Is the "hardcover book" dead?

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today came out last year. Nevertheless, I really like it. David Byrne and Brian Eno's names are pretty big. When was the last time an EP made it to nominations? Airbag, or was it Fight Test? DCFC's name is pretty big (thanks to Zach Braff). Depeche Mode have been around for quite a long time and have a pretty big reputation. Phoenix finally got the attention they deserved. You couldn't switch college music stations without hearing their songs this spring/summer. Oh, and they got that nice spot on SNL. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, yeah yeah yeah, you get the

I don't even have to pretend: their words speak enough about who they are and what they plan to do. If they feel, justify, and or rationalize that they are right all the time, then we won't ever get the chance to talk. How do you know that they will discuss politics? How do you know that they will listen? How do you know that they will bother to read the fine print? And this is the point. Do they pay attention to anything that doesn't agree with them? Do they know how to empathize? Do they know about their American duty to better the future? Do they know that it doesn't happen throug

Yet her/their actions point to "I will only discuss politics with people who agree with me."

Technically, I'm attacking her fans; but I'm not ego-stroking, and I have better ways to stroke and better things to stroke. Statements such as the subject title do not offer any opening for audiences who would like to discuss the future of this country. If we want to work on this country, then initially, we should to come to terms with everyone's differences, regardless of right and wrong. If you're going to talk about your views among only people who agree with you, you'll never get your point across: you're just polarizing America, and secluding your thoughts from other ideas, better and

01 Björk 02 M.I.A. 03 Patti Smith 04 Kate Bush 05 Nina Simone 06 Aretha Franklin 07 Laurie Anderson 08 Sleater-Kinney 09 Feist 10 Neko Case Honroable Mention: Antony Hegarty - Technically, he's female if we accept that gender != sex. I want to include Yeah Yeah Yeahs on this list but without specified requirements, female artist could range from single female artist to female artist in a band to female artist as a producer and etc.

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