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• Tuesday Music - Seven Standouts from SXSW 2006 Here’s my second set of favorites from the 2006 SXSW BitTorrent, 7 this time. A little background on the process: I’ve got all the songs in an iTunes smart playlist - anything with the album of ‘SXSW 2006 Showcasing Artist’, playcount less than 1, and shuffle is on. Today’s a pretty serious heads down work
• Tuesday’s Triple Play - Love Songs to Insane Girlfriends  We all know them, we all love them, this week’s triple play goes out to your favorite unstable girlfriend. Someone is Crazy from Jonathan Coulton Total Breakdown from Brad Sucks F’d up Girl from the Vandal’s Hitler Bad, Vandals Good.
• Drive 105 Repo’d. Replaced with Love The last hold-out in the Twin Cities commercial ‘alternative’ radio dial succumbed to Love today. “Every mini-van driving soccer mom with a 15 year old will be pleased as punch when she turns on her radio and hears this festival of shit pouring forth from her speakers.” - Sornie Two choices remain; The Current, or some mythical
• A Song for Each Side of a Workplace Break Up  So, despite your better judgement you got involved in a workplace romance. Now you’re no longer crazy about your colleague or the job. Time to move on. A song for you: The Gentle Readers - Last Day at the Office A song for your other: Jeremy Messersmiths - Day Job
• The Better Beatles Over the weekend, we picked up a little stuffed IKEA octopus (technically a pentapus) for C. On the drive back, I remembered of working the strawberry fields listening to the Beatles on a cassette Walkman over and over and over again (an irony I only now see). Discovering and rediscovering each album. As I tried