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What the Hell?!

At some point around the middle of the last decade I stopped listening to pop radio. This wasn't an indictment on radio stations or pop music. There are a lot of modern music radio stations that I like, and there are…
Top Tracks, Etc.

According to Last.fm, these were my ten most listened to tracks over the past week: One Wrong Foot - P!nkBlue School - Blue ScholarsI'm Feeling You (featuring Michelle Branch & The Wreckers) - SantanaSpeechless - Mus…
The Issue With Commitment Issues

Last Thursday I was standing outside of Starbucks with the intent of smoking a cigarette when I realized that I had left my lighter at home. I walked over to a guy named Rodney (who coincidentally looks a lot like Rodne…
Ushering Generation X

I know who Usher is and this is mainly because I had a girlfriend in college who wouldn’t shut up about him. Although I had known of Usher since 1994, it was around 1997 when he was climbing the Billboard R&B charts…
Ingrid's Paradox

It is commonly thought among people that I know a lot about music. This assumption is probably highly inaccurate. For example, because I’m a pretentious bastard when it comes to music, I want to suspect that you don’t…
The Day That Love Failed Me

I don’t understand the mind of an arsonist. Actually, that’s not entirely true. I can understand some arsonists. I can understand someone who is so broke from the economic recession that he burns down his home in orde…