Um, you guys, I think I just lost about 300 gigs of music. So…I’ll be looking for a data recovery wizard over the next few days and wincing as I…
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Jeff Giles
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I just got a request over at my fucking MySpace page for a Bootleg City entry on Mr. Mister’s unreleased final album, The Pull. Only problem is, while I do…
Jeff Giles
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I just got a request over at my fucking MySpace page for a Bootleg City entry on Mr. Mister’s unreleased final album, The Pull. Only problem is, while I do…
Jeff Giles
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Apologies for the lack of activity here this week, friends Á¢€” I had something like a perfect storm converge to keep me away. Busy week at work(s), a sick baby,…
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Hidey ho, neighbors. Any NRBQ fans out there? I’d dearly love to start an Idiot’s Guide to the band this year, but my collection is nowhere near complete, and I’m…
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We were touched by the holy finger of VH1 today, resulting in an awesome ’splosion of traffic (the blog is right now riding high at #1 over at the beautiful,…
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I got a question in the comments the other day about the name of this blog and how to pronounce it, so in case anybody else has ever wondered, I…
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I have in my possession a new and unopened copy of Willie Wisely’s Parador Á¢€” released recently by the good people at Not Lame and pimped here at the blog…
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I have in my possession a new and unopened copy of Willie Wisely’s Parador Á¢€” released recently by the good people at Not Lame and pimped here at the blog…
Jeff Giles
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Thanks to a handful of kind souls, the unofficial pledge drive’s official tally currently stands at $36.50 $61.50 $96.50 $116.50 $141.50 $156.50 $171.50 $176.50 $186.50 $201.50 $221.50. While this isn’t…
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Looks like I’m going to be about 50 gigs over my bandwidth limit this month, at $1/gig. Gonna be switching hosts in the next few months, but until then, as…
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So. When I was getting ready for my two weeks away from here, doing all that pre-writing and post-dating and whatnot, I guess it didn’t occur to me that I’d…
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I know I say “I write what I want to when I want to” and all, but still…apologies for the lack of recent music reviews lately. It’s just that, you…
Jeff Giles
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Whoa. It’s November 1 already? As some of you already know, or may have guessed, my wife and I are the proud owners of a shiny new baby. Her arrival…
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Hey folks, I hate to have to do this, but my mp3 archives are over their bandwidth limit again. Last month was our first month with the new host, as…
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If you’ve been searching for this week’s Guide, not to worry: It’s been written. Actually, it’s been written for hours now. It’s just that I’m apparently hosting with Our Lady…
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According to SiteMeter (which hasn’t been running as long as the site’s been up, but whatever), this place registered its 20,000th visitor today. This makes me feel like having a…
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It was brought to my attention that this site has been ALL FUCKED UP in Safari and Firefox lately. I think Rahul has fixed it. He’s awesome. Are those of…
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Hey, looks like Salon has discovered my Complete Idiot’s Guide to Toto and whaddya know, they like it. Too bad they’ve credited it to catchdubs. The fucking Web, man:
Jeff Giles
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So apparently now I’m sort of syndicated, yet still completely unpaid. I guess this is the new wave for newspaper websites — now that everyone’s a-bloggin’, they just go around…
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Linked to by stereogum. I feel like an ugly kid who just got invited to his first party.
Jeff Giles
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Linked to by stereogum. I feel like an ugly kid who just got invited to his first party.
Jeff Giles
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All that McCartney ranting yesterday, and hey, the new single ain’t bad: Paul McCartney – Fine Line (download) Huh. I’m sure this is just Macca’s way of getting my hopes…
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Two announcements: 1. Tomorrow’s Complete Idiot’s Guide will be Part One of Two. 2. It will be about Rush. 3. It’ll be written by my good friend Ted. Not to…
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New day, new host, new lease on life for this place. The mp3s’ new home actually provides more room and more transfer than I’d been allocating before, so that’s nice….
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I apologize for the current mp3 outage:we’ve been heavily linked this week, our traffic spiked, and our host noticed what we’ve been up to, so plasticmusicsociety is under involuntary lockdown…
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Meet The Boy: As of a few weeks ago, he and his mom are living with us, and since my eating habits tend to mirror those of a six-year-old boy’s…
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Someone came to the site today through a Google search for “Maura Tierney butthole.”
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Been a heady week here at jefitoblog Á¢€” last week’s Stone of Sisyphus review was discovered by the folks at chicagofans.org, not to mention former Chicago guitarist Dawayne Bailey, not…
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Ha! Check out the grossest piece of fruit you’ve ever seen: I wonder what Saxton Freymann would think of this. What a gorgeous Sunday. We got up this morning, hit…