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A Place to Bury Strangers & some neat Web 2.0 tools for 2009-01-05

To those who wait… A Place to Bury Strangers, Drawer B Fortunately, a year and a half later, Eric noted A Place to Bury Strangers playing on Sirius Radio and referenced an old Pitchfork review he had read about them and today I am very happily reunited with the sounds of Ackermann. Kismet! (tags: aptbs […]

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Refine Your Life

I was using this kind of nice ratchet hand screwdriver that Lynn received for listening to someone give her a sales pitch abut retirement plans. It worked well. I used it to open our CD player that had stopped working, and miraculously I got it to work again. The tag line on the box is […]

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Some neat Web 2.0 tools, ECAR study of IT & Undergraduates, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-01-04

WizeHive Home Manage your activities, collaborate with others, and organize your life (or business) all in one integrated platform. (tags: web2.0 social collaboration organization management Project organizer projectmanagement) Social Mention Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services. (tags: social […]

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Interview with Oliver

London Tourdates Magazine | issue #037 | A Place To Bury Strangers | C’mon Feel The Noize But one thing Oliver Ackermann is always pleasantly surprised by is the increasing number of kids at their shows – those cranium-perforating, pant-shitting, epilepsy-inducing live sets which have the intention of “totally overcoming the senses of anyone who […]

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Service Included

A witty and informative story of a woman who works her way up to the wait staff of a four-star NY restaurant, Per Se. This very readable book goes through the establishment of a new restaurant, and it’s striving for a great review from the NY Times food critic. The story also mirrors the author’s […]

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Eun-Ha Paek & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-01-02

ISE Cultural Foundation: Once Upon A Time | .FILAS, n{e}ws “Once Upon A Time” pulls its viewers back into the awe and wonder we experienced while captivated by Cinderella, Momotaro, or any fantastical folk-tales. Like kids with flashlights under the covers, curled up with the Brothers Grimm, we have always been tantalized by the unbounded […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers review 2008-12-25

A Place to Bury Strangers – A Place to Bury Strangers Review – sputnikmusic This band has true potential to become a giant in the genre way after the peak of shoegaze-A Place to Bury Strangers echo that gravity that captured the era damn well, eschewing lots of noise, atmospheric, techno-laden drums, and an altogether […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-12-24

Review / Mint Ive @ Bodega Social Club, New York, 20/05/08 / Gigs // Drowned In Sound Not since Loop’s penultimate visit to the city when its Trent University was a polytechnic, or even My Bloody Valentine and the Boo Radleys carving up the Loveless tour in 1992 have I witnessed anything so incredible in […]

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Oliver Ackermann links for 2008-12-23

The Hot List : Rolling Stone When My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy or Spoon’s Britt Daniel want to push their guitar sound to 11, they go to Oliver Ackermann, maker of the boutique line of guitar pedals called Death By Audio. For the last few years, Ackermann — who also fronts the […]

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Podcatcher & Podacaster links for 12-22-2008

PodcatcherMatrix – Choose your favorite podcatcher Podcast users can choose the right tool fitting their requirements. Podcast providers can optimize their content for the most popular Podcatchers. Podcast developers can check out feature trends and user needs. (tags: software online podcasting podcatcher) Podcast Software Review 2009 – TopTenREVIEWS Podcasting software can help you create professional […]

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