Follow the bouncing ball, kids! From Malchus comes word that Crowded House is streaming a track from its forthcoming album, Time on Earth, at its official site. Malchus’ tip led…
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Jeff Giles
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As some of you might recall, I had the good fortune recently to be able to team up with some of my favorite bloggers to try and help raise money…
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[Jefito’s Note: While the blog gnomes and I scurry behind the scenes to get things back in semi-working order around here, please allow me to present the following missive, penned…
Jeff Giles
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The details are still being ironed out, but if everything goes the way it’s supposed to, I’ll have some Big News for you guys soon. This sounds ridiculous, and I…
Jeff Giles
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First of all, I want to thank all of you who have commented, sent e-mail, or called since Friday. For the record, I’m not distraught about all this Á¢€” the…
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Picked up from J at Thinking About: Of all the bands and artists in your collection, of which one do you own the most albums? Oh God. Well, according to…
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I’m excited and very pleased to announce the debut of Bloggers for a Cure, which is what it sounds like, a collaborative effort between a bunch of us bloggers to…
Jeff Giles
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We missed the Van-A-Day post today, obviously, but it wasn’t my fault, I swear Á¢€” I just couldn’t upload the tracks, on account of tomorrow’s Bootleg City taking forfuckingever to…
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A big group of us are sitting around and talking about some old #1 songs over at Kurt’s place. C’mon over and join the fun!
Jeff Giles
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I’ve been keeping this under wraps until now, but it gives me no small amount of giddy, schoolgirl-like joy to introduce to you: Now, I really want to take credit…
Jeff Giles
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Call it end-of-the-year goodie cleansing or Mellowmas guilt Á¢€” whatever’s to blame, I’ve got another Jefitoblog Sweepstakes for you today, and if it’s a little tougher than last week’s, the…
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Things that are making me happy right now: 1. My bitchin’ new 17″ laptop. Oh. My. God. 2. I’m about to get my first byline at Rotten Tomatoes. 3. Our…
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As those of us who devour pop culture rags and websites — or write for ‘em — know, ’tis the season to be list-y, as in “Best of 2006″ lists….
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Greetings, and welcome back from the Land of Tryptophan! I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend as much as I did. As you can see below, I’ve posted the…
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Lordy, lordy. Two days and no posts? What’s gotten into me? Well, work, mostly. If you’re interested in knowing what it is I do on a typical Monday, here it…
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Here’s what I’m reviewing at Bullz-Eye this week: Enigma’s A Posteriori : (“It isn’t bad, necessarily, but why in the world does anybody need more than one Enigma album? There…
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I’ve read a couple of embarrassingly flattering posts at other blogs this week about my recent decision to relax the posting schedule here, which leads me to believe I should…
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Yep, I’m aware that the downloads aren’t working. Seems our file host has a bone to pick with us all of a sudden. I’m guessing today’s traffic surge might have…
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So I bagged on two songs yesterday, Fergie’s “London Bridge” and Joanna Newsom’s “The Book of Right-On.” Given that “London Bridge” is the more popular of the two by far…
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A new house and a new office means I’ve finally got my tape deck wired into my sound card again Á¢€” which means The Cassingle Vault will be making its…
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So hey, maybe you noticed the new masthead. Those fucking Twinkies have been bugging me for MONTHS. I’m so glad I finally have some scenery to replace them with. Anyway,…
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Greetings from northern Illinois! There was no time to write any updates on the trip yesterday. Only time for driving. And driving. And more driving. We covered nearly 1,000 miles…
Jeff Giles
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Two things, real quick: 1. I’m posting this from a moving car. Technology is pretty cool, when it does what I want. 2. My buddy Gene rescued about 99% of…
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Greetings from Sundance, Wyoming! Yesterday we spent pretty much our entire day on I-90, driving through Montana (the uglier 2/3 of it, as correctly noted by A Giac) and Wyoming….
Jeff Giles
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If it’s Thursday, it must be Montana! We’ve actually been here in Big Sky Country since yesterday Á¢€” we headed east from Spokane, through Coeur d’Alene (which is gorgeous, by…
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Greetings from scenic Spokane, Washington! We drove from Santa Clara, CA all the way up here yesterday, a haul of over 1,000 miles. The AAA TripTik said it would take…
Jeff Giles
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Okay, folks, this is it Á¢€” as of tonight, my desktop will be packed up in boxes. As of tomorrow, it’ll be on the moving truck, bound for New Hampshire….
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The desktop’s back. Hallelujah! $300 later, I can confidently tell you that only a fool tries to make the Knievel-esque jump from Intel to AMD hardware without the assistance of…
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First of all, a word of heartfelt thanks to everyone who has volunteered assistance of any kind in this mess…hopefully I won’t need it, but it’s nice to be reminded…