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• The Future Soon Flickr Flick I got another Jonathan Coulton tune stuck in my head last week. As I’ve discovered, the best way to get the earworm out is to make a music video for it (i.e. purposefully listen to it repeatedly hundreds of times). Inspired by JC’s classic Flickr, and the recently launched JoCoPro, I present you: Future Flickr [quicktime]. Thanks
• Sam’s a Genius - National Geographic Lullabies Before Bedtime A couple weeks after Cooper was born, Sam sent over National Geographic Around the World Lullabies. Of course, it went straight into Cooper’s playlist on the iPod. Tonight Cooper was inconsolable. None of the usual settling down techniques were working and we were scratching our heads with what to do. Attempting to think strategically between
• iTunes, Bringing Back Old Friends Our CDs, DVDs, and VHS tapes are still in the boxes we packed them in when we moved from Chicago 3 years ago. The other night, Jen and I were trying to figure out the lyrics to Kenny Rogers’ Gambler, so we dug out the boxes. Most of the CDs in our collection went right back
• Tuesday’s Triple Play - 3 From Wonderlick  Ever since enticing me with their LL Cool J and 2Live Crew covers then switching it up with some of the most painfully melancholy audio, Tim Quirk and the guys from Too Much Joy have always hit me pretty hard. This week’s Triple play are 3 songs from Wonderlick - one of their latest incarnations
• A Middle Man’s a Middle Man “Apple is no different than Best Buy, Wal-Mart, or RIAA….No modern consumer is going to stop listening to their favorite band because Circuit City doesn’t carry their CD.” - Benn Jordan Benn’s post is one of the many articles online showing how little compensation musicians receive from the business organizations that are said to be supporting