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		<title>Song of the Day: Washed Out &#8211; &#8220;Feel it all around&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New favorite song/band discovered as the theme song for Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein&#8217;s &#8220;Portlandia&#8221;[New Yorker Review of S2], which is a hipster show which makes fun of hipsters. Also, it&#8217;s funny. I&#8217;m a sucker for sentimental music, which this certainly is. It reminds me of Boards of Canada in a way (Great retro video [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=activationenergy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5084430&amp;post=559&amp;subd=activationenergy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Day: Helmet &#8211; &#8220;Unsung&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://activationenergy.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/song-of-the-day-helmet-unsung/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adarshpandit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes fine &#8211; a lot of these are clearly from my formative musical days in the mid-90&#8242;s. I&#8217;m going to go with it until I run out of songs and make a sincere effort to post more recent stuff in the future. 2012 resolution or whatnot. To create a zig for yesterday&#8217;s sweet-tuned zag, today&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=activationenergy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5084430&amp;post=561&amp;subd=activationenergy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Day &#8211; Jenny Lewis &#8220;Rise Up with Fists&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://activationenergy.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/song-of-the-day-jenny-lewis-rise-up-with-fists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adarshpandit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s selection is from Jenny Lewis&#8216; really phenomenal 2006 album &#8220;Rabbit Fur Coat&#8221; recorded with the Watson Twins. Since she&#8217;s got a long acting resume in addition to fronting Rilo Kiley, she gets a lot of comparisons to Zooey Deschanel (latter better actress, former better musician). Anyhow, this song feels like the right way to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=activationenergy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5084430&amp;post=547&amp;subd=activationenergy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Day: Fishbone &#8211; &#8220;Unyielding Conditioning&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://activationenergy.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/song-of-the-day-fishbone-unyielding-conditioning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with the early 90&#8242;s theme, I pulled this classic out of the memories for today&#8217;s SOTD. Fishbone are a pretty interesting band, playing reggae/ska and hardcore, but also because the members of the band are clearly insane. During the release and subsequent touring of their classic album &#8220;Give a Monkey a Brain and He&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=activationenergy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5084430&amp;post=552&amp;subd=activationenergy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Day: Bell Biv Devoe &#8211; &#8220;I thought it was me&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://activationenergy.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/song-of-the-day-bell-biv-devoe-i-thought-it-was-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe split off of New Edition in 1989, after it more or less ran its course as boy bands from Boston do. (Yes, they&#8217;re from Boston&#8217;s Orchard Park housing projects and were formed by the same manager immediately before NKOTB, which was meant to be New Edition but with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=activationenergy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5084430&amp;post=548&amp;subd=activationenergy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Day: Maze &#8211; &#8220;Happy Feelings&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://activationenergy.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/song-of-the-day-maze-happy-feelings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the holiday-times so I&#8217;m going with some of my more favorite good-mood relaxing tracks. This one in particular was played for me by a friend while we were on an amazing vacation earlier in the year, certainly one of the highlights of 2011 for me. This one is from Maze, one of Marvin Gaye&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=activationenergy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5084430&amp;post=545&amp;subd=activationenergy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Day: The Zutons &#8211; &#8220;Not a Lot To Do&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://activationenergy.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/song-of-the-day-the-zutons-not-a-lot-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adarshpandit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I used to have a porch, this was my favorite song to play when sitting out there with a lemonade, watching shady people walk through the alley. From the album &#8220;Who Killed the Zutons?&#8221; which features horns, like everything they do, and frankly it&#8217;s hard to dislike a band with a horn section. Anyhow, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=activationenergy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5084430&amp;post=542&amp;subd=activationenergy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atheist Tree Topper</title>
		<link>http://activationenergy.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/atheist-tree-topper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Life and Death of Major Tom</title>
		<link>http://activationenergy.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/the-life-and-death-of-major-tom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adarshpandit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Dave sent me the below video, which is great on a number of levels, not the least of which is, this is another piece of mythology in the life of Major Tom, the fictional astronaut created by David Bowie: First, it&#8217;s an artifact from &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8220;, which has crept up to become the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=activationenergy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5084430&amp;post=527&amp;subd=activationenergy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Midnight in Paris&#8221; and why I&#8217;m done with Woody Allen movies</title>
		<link>http://activationenergy.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/midnight-in-paris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adarshpandit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw the new Woody Allen film &#8220;Midnight in Paris&#8221; against my better judgement and found it &#8220;enjoyable&#8221;, although it was not &#8220;good&#8221;. [ASIDE: There are many things which I find enjoyable but not good (Zombie movies, Fritos, "Toddlers and Tiaras") and there is a big gulf between the two. There are things which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=activationenergy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5084430&amp;post=509&amp;subd=activationenergy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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