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	<title>Confessions of a Culture Whore</title>
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		<title>Why no melancholy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty is quite possibly my favourite Disney animated feature. However, what makes me love the film is a subtext that may not be at all intended. The main thrust of this is that Maleficent is the most intriguing, complex, and powerful villain to ever grace an animated film, and none of the ostensible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=358&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>coming on to it I wasn&#8217;t sure what I was looking at</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2 Foot Flame]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 Foot Flame: 2 Foot Flame

The musicians involved in 2 Foot Flame come from art backgrounds and this is very much an art project. Hell, there&#8217;s nothing more art than savaging the credentials of artists you disrespect, and with the first track, they tear New Zealand/Czech portraitist Gottfried Lindauer to shreds. I think. As is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=354&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>solely in my chest is my heart a drum of water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Music Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best of 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School of Seven Bells]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms

Having listened to Secret Machines&#8217; 2008 self-titled album made it clear that Benjamin Curtis had absconded from the band with all their atmosphere and mathematical complexity. When I realized that he had done so in favour of starting an electronic/dream pop act, I was certainly intrigued. There are only the faintest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=351&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;d rather die than give you control</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Best of 1989]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nine Inch Nails]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine

Five years later, Trent Reznor would plunge steel meathooks into the great industrial beast and drag its agonized hulk into the present, with a sound of barbed wire, chain links, and corroded machinery, a skull full of disease and blood spatter. That, however, is five years later, and Pretty Hate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=349&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s rough out there, high water everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Best of 2001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Dylan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Dylan: Love and Theft

Sometimes an album gathers an historical relation that does not fit it. On the morning of September 11th, 2001, I got up at seven-thirty and walked to school, for the first day of my first full week in university. It was when my professor walked up to the front of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=347&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somewhere impossible light still shines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Adams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Adams &#38; the Cardinals: Cardinology

The random, frequently garbage youthful eclecticism (or less charitably, casting about for direction) that marked (and often marred) Ryan Adams&#8217; older albums has by this point pretty much entirely departed. He has settled into a well-worn groove of romantic tragedy and elegant heartbreak, with a country-rock sound heavily recollecting Gram [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=345&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>care not for whom they play The Turk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Best of 2004]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat

When Gallowsbird&#8217;s Bark came out, its humid old South eccentricities overtook me like a summer fever and it simmered in me for months. I championed it to everyone and was eager to hear their next deranged shot in the dark. My first impression upon listening to Blueberry Boat was &#8216;Christ, you need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=341&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I never doubt your possibilities, please let go of my sleeve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kyuss: &#8230;And the Circus Leaves Town

&#8230;and so the mighty Sabbath was reincarnated, displaced from its rainy Birmingham roots to the blazing psychedelic heat of California&#8217;s Palm Desert. Weaned on cactus juice and peyote, they played their guitars in deep, glacier-cut grooves. A Kyuss album gets better the louder a volume it is played at. &#8230;And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=339&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>what were we hoping for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloc Party: Silent Alarm

I am of two minds regarding Silent Alarm. It is either exactly what I want to hear or it really grates on my nerves. Three years of listening to it have done little to solidify my feel for it. So, in the spirit of fairness and fake bullshit objectivity (which is so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=337&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>haven&#8217;t u ever heard of the healing power of laughter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prince: Batman

What really fascinates me about Prince&#8217;s songs for Tim Burton&#8217;s Batman movie (you know, beyond the fact that someone at Warner Brothers thought &#8216;Yeah, Batman and Prince, that&#8217;s a winning combination!&#8217;) is that these songs show that Prince&#8217;s impression of the movie is rather bizarre and incomprehensible. He seems to think the movie takes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=335&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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