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Mexican Institute Of Sound  México   Favoriting Politico   
Optiganally Yours  Held   Favoriting Ebony and Ivory Revisited   
Giusto Pio  Ananta   Favoriting Motore Immobile   
Van Dyke Parks  Public Domain   Favoriting Song Cycle   
Vince Guaraldi Trio  Alma-Ville   Favoriting Cast Your Fate To The Wind   
Conlon Nancarrow  Study for Player Piano No. 3a   Favoriting Nancarrow: Studies For Player Piano Vol. 1   
Christian Bök  Mushroom Clouds   Favoriting Vox ex Machina   
Meridian Brothers  Soy el Pinchadiscos del Amor   Favoriting Deseperanza   
Trio Aguilillas  La Media Calandria (Son Michoacano)   Favoriting Sones of Mexico   
Meridian Brothers  Fiesta (Con el Whiskey del Folclore)   Favoriting Deseperanza   
Davy Jones  I Can Make You Happy   Favoriting Scooby-Doo's Snack Tracks: The Ultimate Collection   
Richard Grossman  g g g g   Favoriting Clown Chapters  0:26:33 (Pop-up)
Sigge Hill  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh   Favoriting Stora Snapsvise  0:26:52 (Pop-up)
Dick Higgins  Danger Music   Favoriting Flux Tellus 13  0:27:13 (Pop-up)
Various  Me And My Shadow   Favoriting Scooby-Doo's Snack Tracks  0:27:36 (Pop-up)

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Percy Faith 
Summer Place '76 (Theme From A Summer Place)   Favoriting
Summer Place '76 
0:27:38 (Pop-up)
The Searching Years  Puppets   Favoriting Classroom Projects  0:31:34 (Pop-up)
The Searching Years  Action Beat   Favoriting Classroom Projects  0:32:48 (Pop-up)
Serge Gainsbourg  Premiers Symptomes   Favoriting L'Homme å Tete De Chou (12" LP 2009 Reissue)  0:34:01 (Pop-up)
Bernard Parmegiani  Ondes Croisées   Favoriting De Natura Sonorum  0:35:07 (Pop-up)
Francis Bebey  Bissau   Favoriting Akwaaba  0:36:59 (Pop-up)
Huun Huur Tu  Chylandyk   Favoriting If i'd Been Born an Eagle  0:39:32 (Pop-up)
China Radio International  Guqin: 6020 kHz, 11.19.05 (0137 UTC)   Favoriting shortwavemusic.blogspot.com R.I.P :(  0:40:38 (Pop-up)
Philip Jeck  Spirits Up   Favoriting Surf  0:43:24 (Pop-up)
Pearls Before Swine  I Look Into Her Eyes   Favoriting These Things Too  0:45:56 (Pop-up)
Sun Islanders Steel Orchestra  Interlude (Moonlight Sonata)   Favoriting Barbados Steel Drums  0:50:28 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Percy Faith 
Summer Place '76 (Theme From A Summer Place)   Favoriting
Summer Place '76 
0:53:07 (Pop-up)
Graham Quinton-Jones  Humoresque   Favoriting Classroom Projects  0:57:20 (Pop-up)
OST  Scooby Doo, Where Are You! [Main Title, 1969]   Favoriting Scooby-Doo's Snack Tracks: The Ultimate Collection  0:58:35 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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groucho:

WOOHOO!
Avatar 6:55pm
groucho:

Inspired by Graham Duff's set last week, here's a playlist of haunting female vocal-led songs I like open.spotify.com...
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ranjit:

ditto
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People Like Us:

Herro
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People Like Us:

starting in a sec
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People Like Us:

And Off We Go
Avatar 7:01pm
groucho:

oop, forgot me seatbelt
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groucho:

K, I'm sorted
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People Like Us:

clunk click
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northguineahills:

W00t! Viva Mexico chingaitos! (a certain Mexi at my pad hates it when I coin Mexi slang).
Avatar 7:04pm
groucho:

CLUNK CLICK! believe it or not I had to go into Halfords this week and buy one of them. I'm a carer for me gran & drive her around alot, she needs a Clunk Click thing to stop the seatbelt strangling her. They don't sell them anymore so I had to spend £11.99 on a new metal and leather thing. And that's the end of my dead interesting seatbelt patter
Avatar 7:04pm
tim:

Estoy sortado.
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People Like Us:

Action packed playlist tonight, all over the place
including Mexico
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People Like Us:

evening Tim
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dale:

ready to fly off to faerie land. or idlewild. or wherever this show takes me.
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People Like Us:

yes, you are safe with people like us
Avatar 7:07pm
groucho:

the band Idlewild had an album called American English. kinda fitting for this show!
Avatar 7:08pm
tim:

I was raised by people a lot like people like us. Hi.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
dale:

i was raised by wolves.
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dale:

or my wife claims i was raised in a barn.
Avatar 7:09pm
groucho:

I was raised by people like wolves
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groucho:

or my wife claims i was raised by people like barns
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People Like Us:

"born in a barn" if you don't shut the door apparently
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag.
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ranjit:

raised by barn wolves
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fleep:

But it's all right now.
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groucho:

@ranjit now that's just silly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
dale:

hee hee - barn wolves.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

In fact, it's a gas!
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Rich in Washington:

Hello, Vicki. Hello fellow Do or DIYhards!
Avatar 7:13pm
groucho:

Do or DIY with People Like Barn Wolves
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People Like Us:

howdy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Rich in Washington:

I was raised like a barn, in Amish country.
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dale:

what would charlie brown say about this van dyke parks?
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People Like Us:

What would he say about Conlon Nancarrow
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People Like Us:

"good grief"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Rich in Washington:

Not really. I was raised in Finnish Apostolic Lutheran country. They were like Amish but could drive cars.
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ranjit:

"Good grief" -- drat you said it already
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dale:

D'OH - it's NOT van dyke parks (slaps head and pulls foot out of mouth).
  7:17pm
Taylor:

Conlon Nancarrow for the win.
Avatar 7:17pm
People Like Us:

no, it was when you said it
Avatar 7:17pm
tim:

He said dipthong. Righteous.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
dale:

can gwilley cover this song?
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tim:

Nancarrow counts as Mexican, a little.
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People Like Us:

I'm sure he could, yes
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People Like Us:

half
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jk:

but he also counts as texarkanan
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Rich in Washington:

Conlon Nancarrow hit the weird music guy name jackpot.
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People Like Us:

3/4
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People Like Us:

yes, it's a great name
he programmed music for pianos that only cats can play
Avatar 7:20pm
tim:

Un residente permenente y estimado del distrito federale.
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People Like Us:

music from south of the bored-er
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dale:

vicki does stand up! but probably sitting down.
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People Like Us:

paste, paste paste, paste paste
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Rich in Washington:

So much really weird music from Mexico and surrounding regions, relatively unheard in el norte.
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People Like Us:

get down!


get up again
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People Like Us:

yes, indeed Rich
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ranjit:

do you wfmu djs watch to see which songs get yellow stars on the playlist?
Avatar 7:23pm
groucho:

there should be a station of music from south of the bored-er. perhaps called Radio south-of-the-Bored-er-C
-ast.
Avatar 7:24pm
People Like Us:

no Ranjit, but maybe when they put wifi on longhaul flights...
  7:25pm
ccrides:

This guy is obviously a latino version of Frank Zappa..!..hehehe...:)O(:..
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People Like Us:

don't we only see our own yellow stars?
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groucho:

I always forget to yellow star things, I just copy/paste their names and google them to add to download/buy
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groucho:

*playlists/
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ranjit:

I had a theory that djs got a special secret control panel which could show the number of yellow stars.
Avatar 7:28pm
ranjit:

Not all my theories are good theories!
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Rich in Washington:

WFMU shows - and this one's no exception - induce so much right click Google searches and subsequent purchases (or AHEM - d'loading) that it's ridiculous.
Avatar 7:29pm
People Like Us:

ok I've caught up with myself now
I even just remembered to turn on my accuplaylist
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People Like Us:

refresh your page all
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groucho:

ooh, lots of new
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People Like Us:

in turn a google search will get you right back to WFMU again :)
Avatar 7:31pm
groucho:

that has happened before! quite a few times
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People Like Us:

the amount of times I've looked on google for a track and there it is on WFMU's playlists
  7:33pm
tom thum othalon:

hello~
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Rich in Washington:

Yes. So true. Either on a playlist or a BotB blog entry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

DIY for over ten years already...wow.
  7:34pm
Taylor:

You wouldn't be in the mood to grace us with something from "Music for the Fire" by any chance?
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People Like Us:

not allowed to play our own stuff, Taylor, that is for other DJs here to do :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Rich in Washington:

aw crap. Here I go, Googling this now.
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ranjit:

I just put the yellow stars on things and tell myself I'll come back and buy them later.
Avatar 7:37pm
People Like Us:

you'll find yourself back here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Rich in Washington:

Woah! I'm back here!
Avatar 7:38pm
groucho:

I love how much Ken plays your new album, I can't afford it yet (I'm on £58 a week believe it or not, carers allowance in the UK is definitely the music industry) so it's always exciting hearing the odd new track.
Avatar 7:38pm
People Like Us:

ha ha
that's what happens when you jump out of a window when you are having a dream, back on the window ledge
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ranjit:

don't give me bananas potatoes and yams at the same time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
dale:

i stopped buying music. money i give to the station is better curated than i would do.
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groucho:

*killing the music industry
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People Like Us:

they used to have parsnips instead of bananas during the war
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Bold prediction: Huun Huur Tu is not Mexican.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
dale:

nothing better than peeling a parsnip and slicing it on your wheatabix
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Twenty Benson & Hedges:

That's the positive side of war. More parsnips, fewer bananas.
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david_:

hello Vicki et al. Glad to tune to DoD live for a change.
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tim:

I once thought home taping was killing music... but I realize now music is simply killing itself. How very Scandinavian of it.
Avatar 7:43pm
People Like Us:

we our killing positive notions of how wonderful it is to share things (sorry, I was at a university earlier, makes me say boring things like that)
Avatar 7:44pm
david_:

true, tim, but at least music can see the aurora through the haze of its seasonal affective disorder. :)
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groucho:

ha. all the great things the Swiss have come up with and all anyone mentions anymore is suicide. I love it
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tim:

Duzziss mean we are having "discourse"?
  7:44pm
JakeGould:

Yay! Hello!
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People Like Us:

there's always someone or other killing music, you'd think it was dead by now
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groucho:

I just filmed a pilot for a tv show with british comedians Phill Jupitus and Ross Noble, they did a great 20 minute long bit about 'going swiss' which we couldn't use, but it was absolute gold
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People Like Us:

cooee
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tim:

Meta-necro-narrative.
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ranjit:

music has 9 lives like a cat, that's why keyboard cat will be the last music to survive. and Conlon Nancarrow who apparently is some sort of mecha-cat?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Andrew Waterloo:

I read an article last night that basically says the average consumer was spending $60 per year on music, now it's closer to $48 per year.
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People Like Us:

here's to parsnips and sister turnips
never said that before
Conlon IS a CAT yes, little known fact
  7:46pm
JakeGould:

I spent more than $48 last year. Get your act in gear, deadbeats.
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groucho:

$48? I spend more than that on WFMU t-shirts, and I'm poor as f*ck!
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People Like Us:

damn these average people!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Twenty Benson & Hedges:

I spent more than $48 last week.
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tim:

It's enough to make Tom Rapp.
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david_:

i mean the crazy thing is we pay for music in all sorts of indirect ways (internet and electric bills, to start), it's the problem of getting it to the artist...
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People Like Us:

the gift economy - people do pay for stuff, but maybe the returns come back in other ways
Avatar 7:49pm
ranjit:

ok, I did a google image search for 'cat "player piano"' and one of the top images is Conlon Nancarrow with a cat in his lap,so it must be true.
  7:49pm
JakeGould:

I pay for music indirectly via my gas bill.
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People Like Us:

ha ha! Share please
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david_:

if the US pushed to elimate unemployment the way Japan does, we'd still have shelves full of CDs...
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People Like Us:

I pay my water bill by playing Mary Poppins
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ranjit:

the Common Narrowcat radiom.org... (2nd image)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Guido from Cologne:

I better do not think about how much I spend on music. But I'm not average.
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People Like Us:

that might be fun - pay for one thing and get another, lucky dip
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tim:

tinyurl.com...
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People Like Us:

yay, Ode To Gravity - all roads lead to that which don't lead to WFMU (or do)
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People Like Us:

wonderful Conlon
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Guido from Cologne:

It would have been the duty of the rights societies to build a cellestial jukebox like spootify some 15 years ago.
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Monica:

lovely show this evening. this sun islanders steel orchestra track hits the spot.
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ranjit:

I used to listen to Ode to Gravity on KPFA decades ago. And John Gullak's No Other Radio Show - I really miss it!
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People Like Us:

oooh, a Celestial Jukebox
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People Like Us:

thanks Monica :)))
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Rich in Washington:

dang stream keeps stalling here and skipping to GTDR, the next thing on my URL playlist
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groucho:

This show has made me very happy. Thankyou
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People Like Us:

Ode To Gravity is archived on archive.org
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People Like Us:

not over yet
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ranjit:

I should mention No Other Radio Show again so someone googling it in the future will tell me how to get archives from the 80s. But I'm excited to hear about Ode to Gravity! And Speaking of Music is archived as an exploratorium podcast.
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david_:

hi Monica! miss you on the airwaves.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks for the lovely show tonight. Let us send you some more NFL football games for 2015.
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People Like Us:

if you have a look at my Radio Boredcast (wfmu.org/playlists/zz) there are a bunch of OTG's there, Ranjit
  7:55pm
JakeGould:

Vicki, maybe we should share a flat with someone who pays their food bill with their electric bill.
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People Like Us:

thanks for listening alls
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Risky:

LOVED THE SHOW! Thank you!
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Rich in Washington:

Thanks, Vicki! ALways loads o' fun!
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People Like Us:

thanks!
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ranjit:

thanks for broadcasting
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People Like Us:

2 more tracks to go
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Nfrae from Oregon:

I've never discovered a music blog that hasn't been dead for over four years... Great show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Risky:

YAAAAY!
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People Like Us:

ha ha, yes I know
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People Like Us:

download while it's there!
  7:58pm
JakeGould:

Music blogs dying… Like zines dying…
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People Like Us:

oh they'll pop up in some new form, where else is all that energy going to go eh?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
cklequ:

There are some still kicking about, Nfrae
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Risky:

roobie rooooooooooo!!!!
  7:59pm
JakeGould:

Tumblr posts & Instagrams. Those are my zines. Also the Twitter. And the Facebooks.
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groucho:

archive's Wayback machine?
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People Like Us:

let this comments board be a place to share such places
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People Like Us:

bye bye
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

My kids watched a Scooby-Doo DVD this weekend, so I heard this about 28 times.
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groucho:

archive.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Risky:

muah
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