Nonalignment Pact
 
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Sorry for the brevity

2008-10-07 13:47:00 by stacey in Nonalignment Pact
 
On the eve before the store opens, I am consumed by a bunch of emotions and thoughts and tasks to do I am thinking about the last time I helped to run a business and how it went up in flames and how I really don't want that to happen this time. On the one hand, I am sure that the close to twenty years that has passed between the two ventures...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Fortnight in Music

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2008-10-06 23:59:00 by Conor in Nonalignment Pact
...musical concert, mostly heard as light party music for rich folks' young'uns back in the day. As such it was pleasant enough, but not the sort of the thing that gets my juices flowing very much 2008-09-24 Wed : Frederic Rzewski @ Mills College, Oakland, CA With the concert hall still under renovation, this was held at Lisser Hall. Frederic...
 
 
 
 
 
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2008-10-05 23:59:00 by cherry blossom in Nonalignment Pact
 
...musical training since age 3, he doesn't seem to have much attachment to music of any kind. I was thinking that it would be hard for me to construct my own story without it being punctuated by music I was either learning, playing, performing, or writing. The songs I wrote, themselves, are like those tattered photos with the embarrassing hair...
 
 
 
 
 
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Young Country

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2008-10-04 13:51:00 by mrshl in Nonalignment Pact
...music all the time (mostly to the still extant KSBJ-FM 89.3 and KHCB-FM 105.7 ). Yes, my Christian music years were a sad, lonesome desert. But that is a topic for another post. Because Id rather talk about what I loved before my familys conversion: country music Specifically, the KILT and KIKK brands of late-70s /early-80s country music....
 
 
 
 
 
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I Only Said

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2008-10-03 20:27:00 by Justin in Nonalignment Pact
...bands I've seen since that might have been louder. So when they announced that they were going to play a limited number of dates this year, I thought it sounded like a great idea to go and see them The tickets said that the show was supposed to start at 8:30, so I was there right on time, only to find that there were a couple of desperately...
 
 
 
 
 
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Week 101: Bossa

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2008-10-02 00:27:00 by Carlos Anaconda in Nonalignment Pact
 
This year Bossa Nova turns 50, not so nova anymore, but still plenty bossa. har har THE FATHER AND HIS DAUGHTER THE PURIST LA REGINA THE MOVIE THE BRAZILIAN LAWRENCE WELK PASSOS A FUTURO
 
 
 
 
 
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Decision Time

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2008-10-01 02:35:00 by Wednesday in Nonalignment Pact
...music industry made me the freelance software developer that I am Lessons for the business world from the world of broken dreams Decision Time D ecisions are things we make. We make them all the time. Like the one I made the other day that sort of surprised me because I thought I was going to make another decision. How did that...
 
 
 
 
 
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Reading and Writing

2008-09-30 11:31:00 by stacey in Nonalignment Pact
 
...music, or painting, etc. I am consumed by organization, and the system of things I realize a good portion of pursuing a traditional art is built on practice, but I don't know how much of it is. I have a feeling a lot is based on talent I see you guys seemingly whip it out. Nicely done. Must be related to being musicians, which I am not I...
 
 
 
 
 
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Succour

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2008-09-29 22:30:00 by Conor in Nonalignment Pact
A few songs I've always found palliative 00:00;00 Seefeel "Extract 07:26;04 Whipped Cream "Explosion 11:58;20 Yo La Tengo "Moby Octopad 17:43;29 My Bloody Valentine "Soon 24:40;00 R.E.M. "Me in Honey 28:45;15 end You can download this here (for a week or 100 downloads). I was going to put it on PodOmatic, but because we're not "pro", they now...
 
 
 
 
 
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thank god for the truck

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2008-09-28 22:23:00 by cherry blossom in Nonalignment Pact
...music. I'm afraid it might be getting tedious for you. Nevertheless, it's all I've got today. I am too traumatized to make a good story out of it, so I'll just say what happened. I watched a shootout unfold this afternoon below my window in my alley and I watched a man kill another man. I watched him shoot his gun around the white truck and...