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Monthly Archives: March 2012

Sweet 16

Friday, March 30, 2012

WE TRIED RESURRECTING some clattertrap projectors that haven’t been fired up in years and—with patience and careful tending—they roll. Last night we screened a triple-stack of 16-millimeter films from the archive (“Multiple Tube Bender,” “Springtime,” “Eureka Graduation,” “Canoeing Manitoba,” and others cycled in). Featuring Lucas Alm on bass. Playing both vids at once is a surprisingly [...]

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Dialed In: a Twin Cities public radio sampler

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

MY STATION PRESETS ARE SYNCED across my car, clock radio and home stereo. I have more feedback for pledge-drive volunteers than they can politely absorb. I’m known to plan road trips around FM schedules. That is to say I care about radio—that most public of media, mobile before we demanded everything be, and democratic in [...]

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Worked over

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

JOHANNA WILL TALK TO HER GRANDPARENTS only if she can spend the conversation in a laundry basket. She’ll also ask me to carry the basket around the house while she chats, though this I decline to do. Peculiar demands are popping up daily as her Negotiator Gene manifests. I remember wearing my mom out with [...]

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Homage sale

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

RADICAL COVERS have me craving karaoke. Who’s with me? Totally over my Robert Palmer and Rick Astley rut, promise. Original by John Lennon Original by Sir Mix-A-Lot Original by The Beatles Original by Les McCann and Eddie Harris Dinosaur Jr. tunes reimagined by Built to Spill’s bassist as 80′s synth pop a la OMD. Stop and [...]

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