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October 2005

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Listening to:
- Innaway: Innaway [Some]
- Calexico/Iron & Wine: In the Reins [Overcoat]
- Today is the Day: Temple of the Morning Star [Relapse]
- M83: M83 [Mute]
- Junior Kimbrough: God Knows I’ve Tried [Fat Possum]

Dusting off:
- Bob Dylan: Desire [Columbia]
- The London Suede: Head Music [Nude/Columbia]
- The For Carnation: The For Carnation [Touch & Go]

Disappointed with (but haven’t given up on):
- Opeth: Ghost Reveries [Roadrunner]

Tired of:
- Sigur Rós

Wikimania!

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I’ve been addicted to Wikipedia lately. No, the site is nothing new, but my addiction is. It’s like going to school again. I love it.

An interesting fact about Wikipedia: WNYC (my favorite radio station) did a story on it maybe six months ago, and interviewed the founders. While talking about what happens when erroneous information is posted, the founders said they recently did a study on how long the erroneous information stays up there before being corrected: on average, erroneous information only remains on the site for two minutes. Two minutes. That’s damn impressive.

Recent Wikipedia reads:
Dreamachine
Brion Gysin
Edward R. Murrow
The Fourth Estate
Supply-side Economics

September 2005

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Listening to:
- Neil Young: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere [Reprise]
- Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly [Capitol]
- Ranking Joe: World in Trouble [M-Records/Twilight]
- Pelican: The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw [Hydra Head]
- Prince Far I: Black Man Land [Virgin Front Line]
- Dennis Alcapone: Guns Don’t Argue [Trojan]

Reclaimed (from a girl)
- The Charlatans UK: Us and Us Only [MCA]

Dusting off:
- The Police: Syncronicity [A&M]
- King Missile: Mystical Shit [Shimmy-Disc]
- Tears For Fears: Songs From the Big Chair [Mercury]
- Bruce Springsteen: Darkness On the Edge of Town [Columbia]