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Playing with a new digital toy and way to push my personal musical tastes on the handful of people who even know this LiveJournal account exists.

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Been in my head all week. Unfortunately, this Scottish group only has an EP out that they're selling out of their MySpace page, which means that I'm probably too cheap to pay the shipping to get it across the ocean to me, no matter how hooked I am on this song and eager to hear more.

Never heard of this band before WFMU linked to 'em, and their lead singer looks like a skinny Neal Hamburger, but they're full of red-hot fiery rockabilly action! Bonus: They put out an album called "Every Song We Fuckin' Know". That's just awesome.

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1. This list was initially 50 items long and all composed of actual accusations made against me by people I went to high school with.

2. Technically, I'm not the first Michael Van Vleet in my nuclear family. I had an older brother who passed away before I was born, so my parents just used the same name again.
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A song that never fails to fill me with melancholy. Even the way the singer sings "love you" has the sound of someone who already realizes, as soon as the words leave their lips, that it's too late. Everything has already fallen apart.

Should be listened to on headphones.