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 Modest Mouse - "The Ocean Breathes Salty": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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It’s never as bad as you think it’s going to be.
No part of our trip, from our pre-dawn departure from Sweden in blowing snow to our pre-dawn walk on the beach 32 hours later, was a lot of fun. Neither was it the disaster that it could have been when we got of the ground […]

 

 Wilco - "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" [6:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Today is our last day in Sweden. We’ll jet off into the dark western sky for another hop over the North Sea. After landing in Heathrow we’re in for what is bound to be a harried race across London to Gatwick Airport - with slightly more luggage than we arrived in Sweden with ten days […]

 

 Moonbabies - "War on Sound" [3:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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“I was dreaming of a steel guitar engagement
When you drink my health in scented jasmine tea
You knifed me in my dirty filthy basement
With that jaded faded junky nurse
Oh, what pleasant company…”
-The Rolling Stones - “Let It Bleed”*
I’ve not got a lot of great photos of Sweden to share with you today because, if the truth […]

 

 The Rolling Stones - "Let It Bleed" [5:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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“Well I think I’m losing my mind this time
This time I’m losing my mind
That’s right, said I think I’m losing my mind this time
This time I’m losing my mind
Yeh, you can’t front on that…”
-The Beastie Boys - “So, What’cha Want?”
The Easter holidays in Britain mean a wonderful four day weekend in the height of Spring. […]

 

 The Beastie Boys - "So, What'cha Want?" [3:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Today on A Free Man: Aussie Rules - No Through Road
“Well, I took a stroll on the old long walk
Of a day -I-ay-I-ay
I met a little girl and we stopped to talk
Of a fine soft day -I-ay-I-ay…”
-Steve Earle - “The Galway Girl”
I should cut Steve Earle some slack. Yes, his last couple of albums […]

 

 Steve Earle - "The Galway Girl" [3:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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…he spent the whole day screaming.

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As a geneticist I knew, intellectually, that my son would be 50% identical to me at the DNA level. What I didn’t realize was what that meant in real life - that I would look at him and often see myself looking back. It is not like a mirror because it’s three dimensional and tangible […]

 

 Barenaked Ladies - "What A Good Boy": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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“Not on your arm
Not on your leg
Not in the toast
Not in the eggs
Not on the carpet
Nor the linoleum
Just how’d your little brother get it smeared all over him…”
-Over the Rhine - “The Poopsmith Song”
The strains of preparing for a trans-continental move must be getting to me because I’m finding the blogging juices have run bone […]

 

 Over the Rhine - "The Poopsmith Song" [2:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Great Lake Swimmers - "See You On The Moon" [4:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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More About Wordless Wednesday
Six months isn’t a proper birthday, but it is certainly an unbirthday worth noting.

 

 The Sugarcubes - "Birthday": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Sufjan Stevens - "Happy Birthday": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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