links for 2005-08-25
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"My friend Nate had heard that every Platinum Record that Capitol Records gave out was actually a copy of come Frank Sinatra record...We decided that something had to be done to get to the bottom..."
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"Just try to navigate the aisles of any of the big-chain booksellers and you're apt to feel like Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind as she attempts to get through the streets of Atlanta, which are choked with the sprawling bodies of Confederate soldiers."
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"Can a famous brand name survive when language changes and it becomes the symbol of something hated around the world? Gene Gable thinks so, and credits graphic design and packaging consistency as two of the reasons we still love Spam."
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Will Sheff, of Okkervil River and Shearwater, writes about Tim Hardin.
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A hidden feature, and you have to do some URL hacking, but still neat.
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"I've come up with an obnoxious but effective answer of my own to the what-kind-of-music-do-you-like gambit. I look my interrogator straight in the eye, with the guiltiest expression I can conjure up, pause a moment, and say: 'bad music.'"
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Says Ted Leo, "I also really appreciate the more advanced pop pastiche aspects of ['Since U Been Gone' ... It's] put together in such a perfect little package. It's undeniable."
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"The filmmaker tracks the photographer on trips to Kentucky, Los Angeles and New York, but gives particular attention to downtime in Memphis, Eggleston's home base."
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