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On the fluffy side: If they ever let NPH not host, they're idiots.
But I wouldn't be posting if it was just that.

What I mainly came here to say was:
Holy SHIT, Glen Campbell's "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" - written after his alzheimers diagnosis - is a total gut punch of a song.

www.youtube.com/watch

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I _need_ the lyrics to the song by Clam Chowder. Does anyone have them around, or have it memorized well enough to transcribe them?

I'll buy the CD eventually (would that it were on CD Baby) or hook up the turntable... but I'd like to have the lyrics sooner than later.

Anyone?

Thanks!

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(Is there a way to get DW to link to LJ users instead of changing ... tags in to (effectively) dw user ( Read more... )

(I've never tried to do lj user tags here and I don't expect it to work, but that's the whole point of this post so here goes...)

So just how many people that I know who DON'T live in NYC are here (or near) this weekend??

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It seems these days some of my best working-music is in the Space Rock genre, or at least at the edges of it: Quarkspace (when they're not singing), Øresund Space Collective, Radio Massacre International, Gong (who I know well enough to not have to spend brain cycles to parse that there's singing), Steve Hillage's 70s and 80s work (Ditto), ( Read more... )

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I've recently come across 2 different references to said institution in 2 different bits of British comedy of 2 different (modern-ish) eras ( Read more... )

In mid late October last year, I was in England, watching TV in my hotel room one night, and there was a documentary (on an Asian-focused cable or satellite channel, I believe) about a Japanese train scheduler and the challenges of his work... how a 5 second change could change the flow in and out of a station changing the efficiency of the loading ( Read more... )