I wrote out this whole long introduction to the mix tape and then scrapped it. I just read some horrible news about drummer Jerry Fuchs passing away sometime late last night or…
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The Top Ten Reasons Why Swan Fungus Is A Better Blog Than The Hype Machine’s Choices For The Top 10 Music Blogs You Haven’t Heard (Or Read)
Hey, you guys, I don’t want to boast or anything…but Swan Fungus is now the #6 Google result for “Gail Simmons.” Hell, you don’t even have to use quotation marks. My authority…
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Film Review: Krautrock The Rebirth Of Germany
A recent thread on the Electrical Audio forum keyed me into an available download of the recent BBC documentary entitled Krautrock – The Rebirth Of Germany. As an avid fan of German…
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Room For One
This was written March 17th, 2005. A few days after I officially started this blog! (I don’t have a recent free-write to share so I went into the archives) Square one says…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 164
Sorry I forgot to post this on Sunday! RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or…
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 10 (The Last Day)
My trip back east ended not with a bang, but a whimper. I began my day with a 3-mile run, then fixed myself a rather large breakfast (two-egg omelet with the yummy…
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 9
Thursday. The trip is drawing to a close. An early morning appointment forced me out of bed before I would have liked, but a neurotic piece of shit like me would gladly…
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 8
Wegmans. I finally go to Wegmans today. I rose from slumber relatively early, went for a run at the gym in my mother’s condo development, and then she and I drove through…
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 7
Today was a lazy day. I had a bagel and watched about six hours of television before my mother and sister bothered to check-in on me. I had two hilarious conversations —…
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Odd-y-ssey: Day 6
Oof. Last night. Wow. I’m definitely not feeling it today. Who would have thought an otherwise boring day (lunch with sister, a trip to the mall with mom) would turn out so…