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Pledge Driving Me Insane

YLTMTCCincinnati’s NPR station, WVXU, is in the middle of its spring pledge drive right now, and it’s pledge-driving me insane.

I get it. I like public radio. But I’ve already donated and I can only listen to the same commercial so many times. Can’t you at least do something interesting like maybe bring The High and Low or Wussy into the studio?

The good folks over at New Jersey’s WFMU figured out 10 years ago that entertainment is such a crucial piece of the fundraising puzzle that it doesn’t even have to be good. Get Yo La Tengo in here and have them take requests. The kids will love it.

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Living With War

I've heard it said that you should never to discuss politics or religion in public, but in my mind hearty debate is what makes life interesting. We may not respect each others' views, but we absolutely must respect each others'…

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Super Furry Addiction

Strangely similiar to the Mazarin photo....hmmm

The flowers are blooming, baby birdies are hatching, and the bees are buzzing. Is that love that I smell in the air? It just might be; it just might be. I definitely do smell spring in the air. It is that time again! You may not be able to depend on the weather quite yet, but the one thing you can depend on is that the whole Super Furry Animals catalog is back into rotation on my ipod. Welcome back old friends. This is my springtime ritual. They illustrate the pure essence of a new spring beginning perfectly with the lyric turned mantra You’ve got to tolerate/all the people that you hate/I’m not in love with you/but I won’t hold that against you. What better soundtrack for my goofy-ass spring-bloomed smile?

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Shuffle Along, Irv

photo by Jason Odell

Some albums are so fucking awesome, they just don’t sound as good out of order. But I’d wager that most albums sound better on shuffle. This isn’t a slight on most bands, although maybe it is a slight on whoever organizes the tracks on an album (producer?). It’s really just the way it is, and I think most of us are used to it. The nice thing about daps is that you can load multiple albums onto them and listen to an album in whole or as part of a huge random mix.

Really this is just my hope that if you don’t like my next suggestion, you’ll try listening to it in a couple of different ways.

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Personality Goes A Long Way

Josh Ritter

Have you ever met someone who always has a smile on his face? Someone who you can’t quite figure out what the hell he has to be happy about? But that smile… that smile never disappears and in the end it somehow makes you happy, too.

Last night at the Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky, I met a man that fits that description. A man who, if you listen to what he has to say, sounds like he’s rather pissed. Yet there Josh Ritter stood, grinning ear to ear from the moment he bounded onto the stage to the moment he left. And the longer I watched him, the bigger my smile grew.

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