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Six Hours and Ten Minutes
by Dan
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Vic Thrill - "Circus of Enlightenment" Let Vic Thrill, apparently a hippie now, squeeze you gently with his goldfish warble and his flighty ideals. Imagine peace + love were all you knew. Forget about those things losing their value, I wouldn't even know what to do with myself. I'd probably act something like this song. I'd start by grinning, looking around, tapping my foot. Then I'd start shouting "this is it! this is it! this is it!" I'd probably snowball into oblivion. I'd happy my heart to death at an early, early age. I'd live for about four minutes. [Site] -- Almost luckily, we don't live in a world with only peace + love, so it stands out when it's present. Like you, readers. Thank you so much for funding us for another year. I know a bunch "didn't get" to donate, and I'll mention two causes I believe in strongly, if you're still feeling generous: 2. WFMU, over the past year, has become the only radio station I listen to. It started with Matthew telling me (us) about The Best Show on WFMU, and ever since the Best Show podcast was introduced, I haven't missed a show. So, WFMU is having their annual fundraiser where they, an entirely listener-sponsored station, raise their funding for an entire year in 2 weeks. It's worked before, and it needs to work again. Best Show is not doing anymore shows during the fundraising marathon, but Yo La Tengo will be taking requests for pledges on Friday (8-11), so you can pledge then, or any time really. But, I wanted to share with you this sound clip I extracted from one of Best Show's (host Tom Scharpling) fundraiser shows, because it reminds me of you (I'm speaking to the donors and would-be donors for this site). It gives me chills, and makes me proud to have pledged, all of us a soldier in the army of our choosing: Tom Scharpling - on supporting truly independent art
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really interesting episode of "this american life" featuring vic thrill: http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/04/268.html Posted by george at March 14, 2007 9:55 AMPost a comment |
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all songs are removed within a week or two of posting. said the gramophone launched in march 2003, and added songs in november of that year. it was one of the world's very first mp3blogs. if you would like to say hello, find out our mailing addresses or invite us to shows, please get in touch: montreal, canada: sean toronto, canada: jordan montreal, canada: dan please don't send us emails with tons of huge attachments; if emailing a bunch of mp3s etc, use a service like MailBigFile. if you are the copyright holder of any song posted here, please contact us if you would like the song taken down early. please do not direct link to any of these tracks. please love and wonder. "and i shall watch the ferry-boats / and they'll get high on a bluer ocean / against tomorrow's sky / and i will never grow so old again." we are a member of MBV.
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Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is writing a novel. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
Dan Beirne is an actor and writer living in Montreal. He writes fiction fiction fiction on here. It may feel true, but it is never True. He is most proud of his most recent project The Bitter End. Email him here Jordan Himelfarb lives in Toronto, where he is editor in chief of The Mark. Jordan's posts appear at Said the Gramophone only on the last Wednesday of every month. Email him here. Site design and header typography by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. The header graphic is randomized: this one is by .
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