Category: Music
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Old Sad Bastard Music
PLAYLIST: October Project: “Bury My Lovely” “I Don’t Want to Get Over You” the Magnetic Fields “CALL ME CALL ME” The Seatbelts feat. Steve Conte “Letters” Stroke 9 “A Murder of One” Counting Crows I’ll write about the amazing Writer Unboxed conference another day — I’m still unpacking, literally and figuratively! …But a bit ago, […]
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What Power Is…
PLAYLIST: “Bump In the Night” AllStars “Pet Cemetery” The Ramones “Dead Man’s Party” Oingo Boingo “Halloween” Siouxsie and the Banshees Anyone who knows me knows that Halloween is kind of my jam. In college I threw Halloween parties in the Oneida Hall 4 A-L lounge that were the social event of the season. Now that […]
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How To Map Blind
PLAYLIST FOR THIS POST: “Death To My Hometown” Bruce Springsteen “Back on the Chain Gang” The Pretenders “Winter Song” The Crash Test Dummies “I Were What” Sinister Yu Let’s talk about setting. The other night my friend Jim tweeted that our old Binghamton University dorms, College in the Woods, were being slated for heavy renovations and […]
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Mix Tape Blush
In an effort to make some sense of the chaos that is my existence, I’ve been on this big tear of organizing ephemera into more chronological categories. I just recently finished the photographs…and now it’s onto the mix CDs. And, whoo-boy, are some of these embarrassing. My earliest mix CDs were similar to radio tapes […]
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All I’ve Got is a Photograph…
Ian and I are in the long, arduous process of buying a house and moving (while also planning a wedding and working 7 days a week, because we don’t half-ass anything) and while searching through his dad’s basement (where much of our stuff is currently stored) I came across an old, beat-up photo album, containing […]
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Sad Songs (Say So Much)
Jason and I are doing this MixCD thing pretty hard. It’s a language we always spoke, a means of communicating what neither of us were very good at saying aloud. In the two months since we’ve been back in touch, we’ve made a total of seven albums, (four from me, three from him). It’s a […]
Libby Cudmore 