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RECENT TUNES....................................................... ............................................................ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ......

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þ iron & wine ~ 2/10..... messiah college....

þ apples in stereo ~ 2/16..... the north star....

þ palomar ~ 2/23.... tritone ....

þ of .... montreal .... ~ 3/8..... the troc ....

þ the shins ~ 3/13..... electric factory....

þ heartless bastards ~ 3/20..... sonar (.... baltimore ....)....

þ snow patrol/ silversun pickups ~ 3/24..... tweeter ....

þ the broken west ~ 3/25..... the khyber ....

þ the decemberists ~ 3/27..... tower theatre....

þ cold war kids ~ 3/29...... first unitarian church....

þ field music/ menomena ~ 3/30..... johnny brendas ....

þ the decemberists ~ 3/31..... messiah college....

þ sebadoh ~ 4/2..... the north star....

þ the tragically hip ~ 4/28...... TLA....

þ the arcade fire ~ 5/5...... tower theatre....

þ the veils ~ 6/12..... the khyber ....

þ the heartless bastards ~ 6/15...... the north star....

þ the decemberists ~ 7/15...... mann theatre....

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¨ dappled cities ~ 8/4..... johnny brendas....

¨ blonde redhead ~ 8/7..... the TLA....

¨ muse and cold war kids ~ 8/10..... festival pier....

¨ Manchester Orchestra~ 8/15..... north star....

¨ yeah yeah yeahs ~ 8/16..... electric factory....

¨ modest mouse ~ 8/19..... festival pier....

¨ camera obscura ~ 8/22..... TLA....

¨ a-sides and bitter bitter weeks ~ 8/30..... johnny brendas....

¨ interpol ~ 9/15..... tower theatre....

¨ rilo kiley ~ 9/25..... the troc....

¨ spoon   ~ 10/19..... the electric factory....

¨ the new Pornographers ~ 10/26..... the troc ....

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Indie Personality Test Results
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Scoring highly suggests you are likely to be very liberal, independent minded, self identify as an outsider, shun materialism and popular culture, and have an aversion to organized religion. While high scorers are more intellectual than average, they are probably more artistically astute than intellectually avante guard (i.e. they are more likely to know of new interesting new bands/artists/writers than the best way to extract energy from a hydrogen atom. Low scorers, will generally tend towards the opposite of the above. They will tend to be more materialistic, conservative, corporate friendly, social and are more likely to be religious.
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The Important Stuff
(All that you never knew you didn't need to know)

001. What is Your Name? john
002. How old are you? 37
003. What is the link to your website, blog, or myspace?
004. Where you were born: frankfurt, germany
005. Where you grew up: oz
006. Place you attended first grade: bennington, kansas
007. Favorite food as a child: tomato soup
008. Dogs or cats: cats
009. Favorite movie: planes, trains, & automobiles
010. First car you owned: pinto
011. Last foreign country you traveled to: china
012. Name of your first pet: freddy the pig
013. Favorite author: noam chomsky
014. Favorite season: fall
015. First concert you attended: kiss
016. Relative you are most like: grandma
017. Favorite president: Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro
018. Your most missed memory: the farm
019. Favorite beer: Gaffel Kölsch
020. Best beach you've been on: playa del este, cuba
021. Favorite pizza place: just pizza (buffalo, ny)
022. Last concert you attended: matt pond PA
023. Place you would like to vist: venezuela
024. Favorite bar: the old pink (buffalo, ny)
025. Your vacation home would be in: tuscany
026. Morning person or night person: night
027. Favorite philosopher: karl marx
028. Your bedtime: 1
029. Favorite resturaunt: la bodeguita del medio (havana)
030. FavoriteTV show: six feet under (ever) californication (now)
031. Favorite band last year: decemberists
032. Favorite band this year: matt pond PA
033. Favorite band of all-time: the replacements
034. Most common grocery store purchase: peanuts
035. Favorite place to see a concert: johnny brendas
036. Favorite team: the bills & the philles
037. Most recent song that stuck in your head: not so bad at all(matt pond PA)
038. Place you feel most at home: queen village :)
039. Favorite holiday: capitalistmas
040. Political affiliation: marxist
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Fidel Castro, Noam Chomsky, Hugo Chavez, Jimmy Carter, Henry Giroux, bell hooks, Michael Apple, and Bernie Sanders. ....................................................

Prof Noam Chomsky


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Noam Chomsky speaks to BBC's Francine Stock at London's St Paul's Cathedral, ..d>

My Blog

Religion and Democracy

The two greatest threats to what's left of participatory democracy in the U.S. are 1) a rapidly rising oligarchy (fueled by neoliberalism) and 2) religion and those who seek the erosion of our increas...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:29:00 GMT

Democracy of Convenience

    I have finally collapsed.  After four hours of news coverage on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's invited question and answer session at Columbia University&.. I can honestly say that my knee...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:51:00 GMT

The Bridge that Neo-Liberalism Destroyed...

Typical of the media-fueled alarmism in America, the disaster in Minnesota has sparked a nationwide game of finger pointing& every bridge, tunnel, and manhole cover is now being questioned for its saf...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:53:00 GMT

In the case of Cuba...

The best argument I have& on a regular basis& with my fellow Americans is the argument over Cuba.  "if Cuba  is so great" they say, why are they paddling towards our shores on boats b...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:11:00 GMT