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It’s Quittin’ Time

July 1, 2008 – 11:50 pm

Big ol’ Sixsquare announcement coming soon. Soon’s I get it all organized and pretty.

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Earlimart’s ‘Hymn and Her’ Around the Corner

June 28, 2008 – 8:20 am

Just wanted to point out that the new Earlimart album is getting a solid review from Andrew Leahey over at Allmusic, which only serves to whet the edge of my anticipation of Tuesday’s release of Hymn And Her. They’ll be at Spaceland mid-July to kick off support of the album. Guess you know where I’ll [...]

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Coolest WordPress Plugin Ever

June 27, 2008 – 9:08 pm

Hey, this is off-topic, I suppose, but I swapped out the static, boring, life-throttling category list in the footer of this blog with a Flash-based revolving Tag Cloud. Scroll down and check it out. It rotates. It swirls. It moves. It’s so shiny. And it underscores the sad fact that I don’t have near enough [...]

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We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful

June 13, 2008 – 8:11 am

I was working out at the gym on my lunch hour when I happened to look up and saw that my buddy, Mark Lawson was on the television screen. He had no shirt on. He was giving some sort of pep talk to some kid. Both of them had brilliant green skin and hair. When [...]

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Ingrid Michaelson at El Rey

June 11, 2008 – 10:12 pm

Hey, just wanted to say I’m listening to Ingrid Michaelson for the first time right now. Some of it’s very Grey’s Anatomy, and some of it’s pretty terrific. Some of it is actually both. See for yourself. She’s coming to El Rey on June 24th.

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Rush in L.A.

May 12, 2008 – 1:13 am

Hey, I actually did go see Rush downtown last week. I would have written about it here, but new job, a DJ gig and the nascent apartment hunt made me fall behind over at metblogs. So here’s the link. From Portishead (coachella) to Young MC (wedding) to Rush, it’s been a helluva nine days.

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Earlimart at Echoplex

April 29, 2008 – 12:41 pm

One of my fave live bands will be at the Echoplex on May 17th. Says Aaron Espinoza, “we’ll be previewing a bunch of new material from our upcoming release HYMN and HER we’re pretty damn excited!!! you know…..tryin’ some new stuff out. OH…and get yer tickets early!!!! think they’ve already sold a bunch.”
For the record, [...]

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Reward: Lost Pig

April 29, 2008 – 12:17 am

According to Listening Post at Wired Media, the Coachella concert promoters want the pig back. I suspect Roger Waters doesn’t care a whit about it, but Coachella is offering a $10,000 reward for the safe return of the pig. Let the hunt begin.

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LA Metroblogging

April 16, 2008 – 9:15 am

Yet another impediment to my frequent posts here is that I’m now blogging over at metblogs.com. It actually makes sense. Back when this site was called Hollywoodland I posted about music, movies, writing and Los Angeles. Now that I’ve carved away that last topic I’ll need some place to post pictures of the Sunset & [...]

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Thomas Newman Posts Restored

March 31, 2008 – 5:30 pm

As promised on my 404 Page, I’ve restored the mp3’s to my Newman posts. I get a surprising amount of traffic from fans looking for info, including the occasional plea to re-post the tunes that I took down a year ago. Here’s the category. Just three posts. Check back later this week. I’ll post some [...]

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