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QotD: My Current Top 10

What are your top 10 most-played songs currently?

A sort of amalgamation of last.fm and the CDs kicking it on top of my stereo because I never put them away. I'm really more of an album listener:

Xiu Xiu - "Suha" - so uplifting. A song to really smile about. :-)

Deerhoof  - "Cast Off Crown" - probably my favorite song from "Friend Opportunity," maybe tied with "Matchbook Seeks Maniac."

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Life in LA"

Nadja - "Flowers of Flesh" - dream doom. Kind of an electronic metal thing riding into dark shoegaze territory.

Harvey Milk - "Brown Water "- creaky vocals, suspense laden pauses, and heavy as anvils riffs.

Stars of the Lid - "Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage." Ambient group definitely winning a lot of prizes, among them: Best Album of the Year So Far and Best Song Titles (the final track on their double CD And Their Refinement of the Decline is called "December Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckface")

Hidden Cameras - "Animals of Prey" (Smell of Our Own has been on the iPod a lot lately)

Dungen - Familj - "Swedes please" or "Swedes, please." Both are correct.

Grails - "Space Prophet Dogon." Grails are a major new discovery for me, (as are Sun City Girls, the originators of this song). Kind of new age/ world music meets Post Rock.

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QotD: This Time Last Year

What were you doing one year ago today?
Submitted by CassandraMorgan.

One year ago today, I was commuting way too far to work in a boring office at a job that I really don't like and that makes my head pound with mind-numbing boredom and  that causes my skin to get all blotchy from lack of sleep. And mostly I was spending all day browsing the internet to alleviate some of that boredom.

And today I'm ... oh my. Now I'm certainly depressed. At least I've discovered Inkscape since then, and finally got a resume together.

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QoTD: Talk to the Stove

How do you handle  telemarketers?

Back when I still had a land line it was located in the kitchen. Telemarketers seemed to most enjoy calling between six and eight, when I was no doubt preparing meals and usually expecting other calls. Upon hearing the start of some no doubt lengthy spiel, I would simply rest the phone on the counter and continue with whatever I had been doing. It always warmed my heart just a little to hear someone repeatedly squawking "hello? sir?" on the phone while I sauteed onions.
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