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Songdiary #889

Shawn — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:36:56 +0000

Contents of this week's edition:

Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - "Monochrome Day"
This Mortal Coil - "Not Me"
Kirlian Camera - "Edges" (Dance version)
The Pointer Sisters - "Pinball Number Count"
Baby Dayliner - "Small Town Halls"

sngdry.blogspot.com. #889. Week 45. (11/9/08).

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Songdiary #888

Shawn — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:05:06 +0000

Contents of this week's edition:

Boytronic - "Recycled"
The Postmarks - "7-11"
Summer At Shatter Creek - "Worlds Away"
George Winston - "Night, Pt. 3: Minstrels"

This is week 44 of 2008.

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Songdiary #887

Shawn — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:51:32 +0000

Contents of this week's edition:

Baby Dayliner - "Breezy"
Bang Gang - "Find What You Get"
Tindersticks - "Yesterdays Tomorrows"

This is week 43 of 2008.
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Songdiary #886

Shawn — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:14:11 +0000

Contents of this week's edition:

Bang Gang - "The World Is Gray"
Tindersticks - "The Hungry Saw"
Baby Dayliner - "At Least"
Wall Of Voodoo - "Factory"

#886

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Songdiary #885

Shawn — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:55:11 +0000

Contents of this week's edition:

Tools You Can Trust - "Working And Shopping"
Chesterfields - "Ask Johnny Dee"
Neil Halstead - "Queen Bee"

#885
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Last.fm Makes Beautiful Wallpaper from Your Favorite Album Art

Shawn — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:51:19 +0000

I seldom bother to look at the links in the footer of a webpage, but this time I'm glad that I did. If you click on the Build link at the bottom of the Last.fm pages, you'll be whisked off to build.last.fm—a site full of "free extras built by the community to extend your Last.fm experience." Many of them look pretty cool, but the one that I liked the best was Gijsco's Desktop Generator. This free application is full of customizable options that allow you to tweak everything just the way you like it: from canvas size to individual album size. It even lets you select what pool of data to draw the albums from, whether it be from your Top Overall, to All albums listened to in the past 3/6/12 months. The result is a beautiful collage of album covers that make for a stunning desktop wallpaper or page background. I settled on a simple grid of 16×16px album covers, randomly drawn from the pool of albums I've scrobbled from in the last year. Here's a full-scale screenshot showing just a portion:

What-not

Shawn — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:25:18 +0000

A what-not is a piece of furniture derived from the French étagère, which was exceedingly popular in England in the first three-quarters of the 19th century. It usually consists of slender uprights or pillars, supporting a series of shelves for holding china, ornaments or trifles of any kind, hence the allusive name. In its English form, although a convenient drawing room receptacle, it was rarely beautiful. The early mahogany examples are, however, sometimes graceful in their simplicity. In some parts of the United States, the term what-nots has come to mean the decorative ornaments so displayed. Soure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What-not

Neil Halstead releases 2nd solo LP

Shawn — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:04:12 +0000

Six excruciating years after his debut, "Oh! Mighty Engine" is finally out on Brushfire Records. It brings the greatness. Give it a listen! http://www.last.fm/music/Neil+Halstead/Oh%21+Mighty+Engine

allmusic.com | Album of the Day

Shawn — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:13:11 +0000

oh, Look! http://www.allmusic.com/ Thanks, Ian!

Portugal. The Man - "Censored Colors"

Shawn — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:54:30 +0000

Alaska’s Portugal. The Man arrive with their third full length, the highly ambitious Censored Colors. The album is split into two parts by a single track, “Intermission”. THE COLORS collects six formidable, single-worthy tracks full of soaring string melodies; while THE TWENTY-FIVE subtracts out the strings—boasting seamless track-to-track transitions, trippy brass parts, and [...]