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Magnet Magazine is back in print. There is a nice article about them along with the a pretty negative review. It's not online yet but they give it five out of ten stars.

I thought that was pretty cool - partly because I lived about two blocks away from there a long time ago.

Analogman set up a page that provides all kinds of info on this: http://viachicago.org/topic/28070-bit-torrent-and-related-links/

Not heard, but read. The new issue of National Geographic has a short piece on the relationship between a song's tempo and its effect on athletic performance while working out. There is a chart showing different songs, their tempo (BPM), and different activities. The chart includes REM's Everybody Hurts at the slow end (63 BPM), the White Stripes' Rag and Bone at the high end (193 BPM), and Outtasite (Outta Mind) somewhere in the middle at 130 BPM.

That blog (http://thepowerofindependenttrucking.blogspot.com/) that PopTodd linked to has a bunch of that stuff for download, including a 22 song set of Mumur outtakes and different mixes.

This past summer the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston had an exhibit on vinyl records and as part of the exhibit they had the original art work for this album. It is a series of Polaroid pictures and is probably at least five feet by five feet. Unfortunately they didn't allow photos ...

Love Captain's Dead. I've been reading (and downloading) for years. Didn't realize you were here too.

Mangum plays at Occupy Wall Street. Video here: http://www.stereogum.com/830961/watch-jeff-mangum-play-occupywallstreet/video/

That's a shame. I saw his show at the MFA a few years ago and it was great.

It came out in 2005, before City of Thieves so I would bet your library has it. I haven't read it but it has pretty great reviews. (And in looking into this I learned that Benioff is married to Amanda Peet.)

I really loved City of Thieves so I picked this one up. It's good. It's a simpler story and a fairly quick read. Have you read his short story collection (When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories))?

It's too bad if it is true (and it certainly appears to be what's happening). Overall I think he's done a great job. But when you fold like that, someone's got to take the blame.

He's great but whenever I see him I can't help thinking of this:

This made me laugh really hard ... [media=''] [/media]

Me too. I'm loving it.

I just went out and bought the deluxe version. I have not listened to the stream or tracked it down via other methods so I'm looking forward to getting home tonight and listening to it all for the first time.

As another complete aside, this is absolutely correct. Such a great album.

Agreed. And I really really hope that “Hallelujah” is a new REM song and not a new REM cover of the Leonard Cohen song. Because the world does not need another cover of that song ...

Tracklist for REM's next greatest hits release out November 15. R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 Disc 1: 1. “Gardening At Night” 2. “Radio Free Europe” 3. “Talk About The Passion” 4. “Sitting Still” 5. “So. Central Rain” 6. “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville” 7. “Driver 8″ 8. “Life And How To Live It” 9. “Begin The Begin” 10. “Fall On Me” 11. “Finest Worksong” 12. “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” 13. “The One I Love” 14. “Stand” 15. “Pop Song 89″ 16. “Get Up” 17. “Orange Crush” 18. “Losing My Religion” 19. “Country Feedback” 20. “Shiny

Although Wilco was part of the 1995 H.O.R.D.E. tour ...

The one they refer to in the press release won't be out until November.