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06 Apr, 2009

Cold Fuzz: March/April Mixtape

Posted by: Ryan In: comics| music

Here, finally is the new mixtape.

02 Feb, 2009

January Super-Mixtape!

Posted by: Ryan In: music

Here’s my January (and a little February) 2009 mixtape. This mixtape fell together mostly through shuffle on my iPhone, and didn’t take me as long to make as last month’s. I am already working on next month’s, so it looks like I might be able to churn these out monthly like I hoped!

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23 Dec, 2008

A Christmas Music Party

Posted by: Ryan In: music

Christmas music to listen to and download! Including an exclusive track from Rosie Thomas and an old radio show featuring yours truly! Read it!

19 Dec, 2008

A Year-End Mixtape

Posted by: Ryan In: music

As promised at the bottom of my first Albums of the Year post, I have finally completed a mixtape with [mostly] 2008 tracks. Click through to listen/download.

10 Dec, 2008

Albums of the Year 2008 Followup

Posted by: Ryan In: lists| music| reviews

Looking back at my several-days-old 2008 AOTY list, I screwed up. A bunch of really good albums failed to place on my list. Not because I didn’t like them as much, but because I forgot about them. Lame. Click through to read some other lists about music from 2008.

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07 Dec, 2008

Albums of the Year 2008

Posted by: Ryan In: lists| music| reviews

Click through to see my top albums for 2008.

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18 Nov, 2008

These could be Tweets: a Life Update

Posted by: Ryan In: Film| comics| life| lists| music

Isabella’s saying ‘Dada’ and ‘Mama’ now with some frequency.
I drink Diet Dr Pepper daily–I’m starting to break my Diet Coke addiction.
I would like a barbecue feast.
No one was interested in seeing M83 with School of Seven Bells, so I’m probably not going.
Rossy was interested, but when I asked about it later admitted that she didn’t [...]

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Man, it’s been (and continues to be) a crazy month: I’m still playing catchup for the school-starting rush at work, getting used to feeding Isabella baby food (rather than just bottles), alternately dealing with and avoiding politics, trying to avoid sickness, getting ready for the holidays, paying debts, pretending not to worry about our financial [...]

24 Sep, 2008

Thanks a Lot, Genius

Posted by: Ryan In: music

Apple’s new feature, Genius, has been getting some “it works pretty good” responses from musically inclined computer users. I don’t share that assessment. Until an editing feature is implemented, I think that Genius just doesn’t have the skills to be your personal iPod DJ. [click to read the whole post]

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“People will be quick to forgive if the songs are hot.”
–Fred

Get Timbaland, The Neptunes, Dangermouse and, say, Just Blaze to produce a new album. Get Quincy Jones, too. For old times’ sake.
Get Ghostface, MF Doom, Jay-Z, Kanye West and Cee-lo to guest.
Get a Michel Gondry to do a couple of [...]

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