December 2010
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From the blog - Christmas doldrums in Kells →
ontheheap: you know what I was talking about here? This is the Titus Andronicus of the midlands (more spiritually than geographically), full of world-weary and numinous disgust, the punk rock Joyce.  
Dec 31st
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“The reduction in the minimum wage has been controversial on social grounds but...”
– Bailout has steadied us for difficult road ahead - The Irish Times The fourth in a series of opinion pieces on the current economic situation this week: previously mentioned here, the liberal essayist and the political scientist; today, the hard-headed, straight-talking economist. Right? Well,...
Dec 30th
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“The reduction in the minimum wage has been controversial on social grounds but...”
– Bailout has steadied us for difficult road ahead - The Irish Times The fourth in a series of opinion pieces on the current economic situation this week: previously mentioned here, the liberal essayist and the political scientist; today, the hard-headed, straight-talking economist. Right? Well,...
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“If this new electoral volatility reflects emancipated, critical citizens, it...”
– Election may not usher in unexpected change - Michael Marsh - The Irish Times From the same series as this.
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“If this new electoral volatility reflects emancipated, critical citizens, it...”
– Election may not usher in unexpected change - Michael Marsh - The Irish Times From the same series as this.
Dec 29th
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“It’s the age of pass-the-buck, blame-anybody-but-yourself technology-induced,...”
– Snow! Hit the Panic Button - NYTimes.com - Roger Cohen - Dec. 23, 2010 If you want to assign some karmic reason to the heavy snow on the eastern US coast, I think this might be a good place to start.
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Listenandrewtsks: Moss Icon - Hate In Me Sometimes...
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I fell into a hornets’ nest of...”
– Julian Assange, on why he was accused of two counts of rape. Yeah. Ok. (via sex-ads) This motherfucker is rolling with such a huge case of hubris that it makes it harder and harder to be all “innocent until proven guilty” about the rape charges. He just acts like the kind of guy who’d commit date...
Dec 28th
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“Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I fell into a hornets’ nest of...”
– Julian Assange, on why he was accused of two counts of rape. Yeah. Ok. (via sex-ads) This motherfucker is rolling with such a huge case of hubris that it makes it harder and harder to be all “innocent until proven guilty” about the rape charges. He just acts like the kind of guy who’d commit date...
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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andrewtsks asked: Hey, that A House song was pretty awesome. I remember "Endless Art" being played on 120 Minutes, MTV's Sunday night alternative-rock program, circa 1992, and really liking it. In fact, I haven't heard it in probably 15 years but can still sing you snatches of the verses and all of the chorus. But anyway, your post was the first time I heard anything else by them. Clearly, I...
Dec 27th
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“It used to be the case that many of us drank alcohol and then drove. Thankfully,...”
– Joseph O’Connor - Building blocks in wreckage - The Irish Times This opinion piece starts as a somewhat by-the-numbers response to the current economic and political malaise, albeit an exceptionally well-written one (O’Connor was the Guardian’s go-to man for the bailout in...
Dec 27th
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“It used to be the case that many of us drank alcohol and then drove. Thankfully,...”
– Joseph O’Connor - Building blocks in wreckage - The Irish Times This opinion piece starts as a somewhat by-the-numbers response to the current economic and political malaise, albeit an exceptionally well-written one (O’Connor was the Guardian’s go-to man for the bailout in...
Dec 27th
andrewtsks asked: Hey, that A House song was pretty awesome. I remember "Endless Art" being played on 120 Minutes, MTV's Sunday night alternative-rock program, circa 1992, and really liking it. In fact, I haven't heard it in probably 15 years but can still sing you snatches of the verses and all of the chorus. But anyway, your post was the first time I heard anything else by them. Clearly, I...
Dec 26th
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BORN TO PRETEND
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Listenrendit: everygreatsongever: Vijay Iyer:...
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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epilogue II: 2010 in albums I would need to...
Das Racist, Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man - ‘mixtapes’, whatever they are, but funny stuff. barely an exaggeration to say this is the first rap I’ve really enjoyed listening to at length, but even then I can only take so many tracks before I need to go back to rock. Salem, King Night - contradicting any positive impressions the above may have given of me, I also like this,...
Dec 23rd
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epilogue II: 2010 in albums I would need to...
Das Racist, Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man - ‘mixtapes’, whatever they are, but funny stuff. barely an exaggeration to say this is the first rap I’ve really enjoyed listening to at length, but even then I can only take so many tracks before I need to go back to rock. Salem, King Night - contradicting any positive impressions the above may have given of me, I also like this,...
Dec 23rd
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epilogue I: 2010 in other LPs*
(*you know, records) Foals, Total Life Forever - UK post-punk BBC4 remake of Q and not U (i.e., really quite good) The Gaslight Anthem, American Slang - not as good as Titus Andronicus, but still better than the Hold Steady Xiu Xiu, Dear God I Hate Myself - shouty, vulnerable artist utilises Nintendo DS in a unusually accessible album. but you know this already Hoover, The Lurid Traversal of...
Dec 23rd
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“Counter to my usual tastes, the softer elements of these songs serves as a great...”
– Moneyfire - #2 TOP 10 2010 White Fox, Ham Sandwich This is very strange, having someone write a list that not only has the same #4 and #6 (Male Bonding and Fight Like Apes, respectively) as me, but #2 and #3 switched around - something I was considering before giving Woods my #2 slot,...
Dec 23rd
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“Counter to my usual tastes, the softer elements of these songs serves as a great...”
– Moneyfire - #2 TOP 10 2010 White Fox, Ham Sandwich This is very strange, having someone write a list that not only has the same #4 and #6 (Male Bonding and Fight Like Apes, respectively) as me, but #2 and #3 switched around - something I was considering before giving Woods my #2 slot,...
Dec 23rd
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Bestuv 2010: Honorable Mentions « The PrisonShip →
boatzone3: Over at my wordpress blog I’ve begun the “bestuv” list-making process. Next stop is the Top 10, but check out these outrageous also-rans.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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