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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Perhaps it's timely, while much of the 'civilised' West hops up &amp;amp; down at the beastliness of several Muslim countries - to note that the Scottish courts have yet again jailed  the same man for the obviously dreadful crime of appearing naked in a public place... even when no-one has complained &amp;amp; no 'peace' has been breached.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Clearly, the oppressive regime there must be crushed by any means necessary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14649394&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842/Funkadelic-SuperStupid.mp3"&gt;Funkadelic  -  Super Stupid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Maggot Brain - 1971 - Westbound&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;amp;field-keywords=Maggot+Brain&amp;amp;x=0&amp;amp;y=0"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-4105296633026799146?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/so8Jm18PkQg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/4105296633026799146/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2011/08/thats-justice.html#comment-form" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/4105296633026799146?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/4105296633026799146?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/so8Jm18PkQg/thats-justice.html" title="That's Justice" /><author><name>Andy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07554416130980283246</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2011/08/thats-justice.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YGRH07fCp7ImA9Wx9aEkk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-8673087578192778426</id><published>2011-03-04T12:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2011-03-04T12:18:45.304Z</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-03-04T12:18:45.304Z</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Randy Newman" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eric Burdon" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Three Dog Night" /><title>Muammar Told Me not to come...</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yWewUVtnAZI/TXBIHSb6xZI/AAAAAAAABGQ/k7yrFVpVn0c/s1600/225px-Muammar_al-Gaddafi_at_the_AU_summit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yWewUVtnAZI/TXBIHSb6xZI/AAAAAAAABGQ/k7yrFVpVn0c/s200/225px-Muammar_al-Gaddafi_at_the_AU_summit.jpg" width="133" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;"That ain't the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;way to have fun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A piss-poor joke, I'll grant you - but sometimes that, &amp;amp; some renewed media coverage of the  "&lt;i&gt;Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya&lt;/i&gt;" is all it takes to get me off the pile of gold &amp;amp; posting some music again...&lt;br /&gt;
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Of course - everyone knows this slightly funky version, and it is rather good.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842/ThreeDogNight-MamaToldMe.mp3"&gt;Mama Told Me Not to Come  -  Three Dog Night&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
It Ain't Easy  -  Dunhill &amp;nbsp;- 1970&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Three-Dog-Night/e/B000APXRMI/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1299205254&amp;amp;sr=8-2-ent"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Randy Newman is the guy that wrote the song in 1966 - intended for Eric Burdon to perform.&lt;br /&gt;
I'm very partial to the country leanings of this - guitars by Clarence White (The Byrds etc) &amp;amp; yes, Ry Cooder, top it off just nicely, thanks.&lt;br /&gt;
Interesting how different the placing of lyrics over the music is, and the emphasis that adds &amp;amp; removes. The line about a (presumably) rather large cigarette makes me smile.&lt;br /&gt;
♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842/RandyNewman-MamaToldMe.mp3"&gt;Mama Told Me Not To Come  -  Randy Newman &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
12 Songs  -  Reprise Records - 1970&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/12-Songs-Randy-Newman/dp/B000002KOP/ref=ntt_mus_ep_wlb_oe_audioCD"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D-kv0MxXf7o/TXBKKJ7qtFI/AAAAAAAABGU/aI1DRmJJEjk/s1600/RandyNewman12Songs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="312" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D-kv0MxXf7o/TXBKKJ7qtFI/AAAAAAAABGU/aI1DRmJJEjk/s320/RandyNewman12Songs.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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This one by Eric Burdon &amp;amp; 'the Animals' sounds a bit umm, orchestral in the backing - which isn't surprising, seeing as that's exactly what it was... the Horace Ott Orchestra. I suppose it's as intended, but I can't really get into it. Maybe it went over better live - nice sleeve though.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842/EricBurdonAnimals-MamaToldMe.mp3"&gt; Mama Told Me Not To Come  -  Eric Burdon &amp;amp; The Animals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Eric Is Here  - MGM &amp;nbsp;- 1967&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eric-Here-Burdon/dp/B000002R76/ref=sr_1_29?s=music&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1299205428&amp;amp;sr=1-29"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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As ever, push comes to shove &amp;amp; memory fails - but my upstairs jukebox did belt out something suitable - which proves that the Dutch were well versed on, (or at least benefited from), England's fascination with the USA.&lt;br /&gt;
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Call it cheesy, call it bubblegum… you may say they were no better than Baccara, or even the Brotherhood of Man (nothing wrong with Baccara in my book, mind you). But chances are you &lt;i&gt;remember&lt;/i&gt; it, right from the opening pedal steel guitar (which Carpenters song is that? - Sssh...). &lt;br /&gt;
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Now this is &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; the kind of thing - it's about experiences in a city, how it feels to be there.&lt;br /&gt;
Still not quite the feel of too many to count American city songs, it's true - and perhaps I should find an English artist. Good enough though, Alexander - especially on a grey &amp;amp; rainy summer day in Portsmouth.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842/FridaHyvonen-London.mp3"&gt;Frida Hyvönen  -  London! &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Silence Is Wild (2008 - Licking Fingers)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.klicktrack.com/lf/releases/frida-hyvonen/silence-is-wild?cp=248"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/fridahyvonen"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I ran into this whilst looking around - I could sniff about how I prefer the original, and it seems a bit metronomic; but hey, it's nice - cheer up eh.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842/FridaHyvonen-Jesus.mp3"&gt;Frida Hyvönen  -  Jesus Was a Cross Maker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Crayon Angel: A Tribute To The Music of Judee Sill (2009 - American Dust)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.americandust.net/discography?id=124"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh goodness ! - a new post here? - surely not, Ha&lt;br /&gt;
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I've been driving back n forth to my Dad's a bit lately, and after growing tired of most of an Eminem cd, (and too lazy to stop &amp;amp; replace it) - the radio's been on… &lt;a href="http://www.thecoast106.com/"&gt; Coast&lt;/a&gt; since you ask.&lt;br /&gt;
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Two things strike me about the station&lt;br /&gt;
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1: In between songs, they play a spoken message, boasting about how they don't interrupt the songs by talking.&lt;br /&gt;
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2: They float on a whole raft of songs about American states &amp;amp; cities - maybe every MOR'ish station here does.&lt;br /&gt;
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The latter got me thinking of how few tunes I knew of featuring English counties, towns &amp;amp; cities (or rivers eh), which doesn't mean there aren't many, but it certainly feels that way.&lt;br /&gt;
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This first track actually isn't at all the sort of thing I'm looking for - but it did come to mind, and is rarely heard, so what the hell&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842/DoryPrevin-LonelyGirl.mp3"&gt;Lonely Girl in London  -  Dory Previn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Leprechauns Are Upon Me (1958 - Verve Records)&lt;br /&gt;
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If the piano sounds more than useful - that's André Previn tinkling the ivories - back before he married Dory. Ok, so she wasn't Previn then, but  Dory Langdon (born Dorothy Veronica Langan). &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-6166742568665166785?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/Oa1NXt1HX6Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/6166742568665166785/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/08/oh-england.html#comment-form" title="6 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/6166742568665166785?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/6166742568665166785?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/Oa1NXt1HX6Q/oh-england.html" title="Oh! England" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/THFFfbJZt3I/AAAAAAAABFA/pfgC4R0yPyY/s72-c/Dory-Previn-Dory-Previn--Andr-476866.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>6</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/08/oh-england.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkIBSX04fyp7ImA9WxFUGU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-2723534242505230293</id><published>2010-06-30T21:36:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-30T21:42:38.337+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-06-30T21:42:38.337+01:00</app:edited><title>What's Worse ?</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
If you've kept an occasional eye on Google's difficulties with the Chinese government - you'll know that the mandarins (ha!) in Beijing have been increasingly unhappy with Google's supposedly brave stance against censorship, which lately has involved nothing less blatant than &lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"&gt;an automatic redirect to their Hong Kong site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;... which provides results unfettered by China's requirements, which are then filtered by Chinese firewalls anyway, before the average user there gets a chance to see them.&lt;br /&gt;
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A couple of days ago, Google announced a &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-on-china.html"&gt;'new approach'&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
"instead of automatically redirecting all our users..." &lt;br /&gt;
"and today we re-submitted our ICP license renewal application based on this approach"&lt;br /&gt;
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Well, their 'new' plan consists of making&lt;a href="http://google.cn/"&gt; http://google.cn/&lt;/a&gt;  into a make-believe 'landing page' where you can't make searches, or actually &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; anything - and a mouse-click anywhere at all results in... ? That's right !- &lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"&gt;an automatic redirect to their Hong Kong site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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I don't imagine that Google think for one moment, that this majorly minor non-change will assuage any Official misgivings about their operations over there - in fact, they seem to be saying&lt;br /&gt;
'hey world, we believe the Chinese government to be so backward  in matters of the internet, that they won't notice this blatant ruse, ho ho'. Maybe they pulled a comical face too eh?.&lt;br /&gt;
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Business, or rather Brinkmanship, as usual then.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842/DeathInVegas-23Lies.mp3"&gt;Death in Vegas &amp;nbsp;- &amp;nbsp;23 Lies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;Scorpio Rising (2002)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scorpio-Rising-Death-Vegas/dp/B00009PJRE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=music&amp;amp;qid=1277929421&amp;amp;sr=8-3"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/deathinvegas"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-2723534242505230293?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/ObiUEYRUb0M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/2723534242505230293/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/06/if-youve-kept-occasional-eye-on-googles.html#comment-form" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/2723534242505230293?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/2723534242505230293?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/ObiUEYRUb0M/if-youve-kept-occasional-eye-on-googles.html" title="What's Worse ?" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/06/if-youve-kept-occasional-eye-on-googles.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0QFQX4yfip7ImA9WxFWGUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-5644950144514933426</id><published>2010-06-07T21:05:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-07T21:08:30.096+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-06-07T21:08:30.096+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mott the Hoople" /><title>Home</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/TA1Pp9seSsI/AAAAAAAABEc/9g87l03iic4/s1600/fly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/TA1Pp9seSsI/AAAAAAAABEc/9g87l03iic4/s320/fly.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Back in England - Portsmouth, to be reasonably specific - a car that wouldn't start due to a flat battery and some bugger next door who dug new foundations smack next to/under mine, with the consequential front door that sticks in the frame, &amp;amp; broken glass panel above it, as well as various cracks in walls &amp;amp; ceilings.&lt;br /&gt;
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Big deal, - and so it is - for one thing that stood out, a reminder that really rankled, was the local 7-11 type store having cheese &amp;amp; bacon tucked safely away, well behind the counter, to prevent their theft by the grubby hands of presumably - more than one or two, regular 'customers'.&lt;br /&gt;
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There's something rather wrong with that. The booze, other than spirits, is out n about where light fingers might easily lift it. You're (comparatively) welcome to chance your arm shoplifting a meat pie, or a mozzarella salad ready meal - anything in fact, from Apples to umm, whatever they may sell beginning with Z, but cheese &amp;amp; bacon is clearly just too tempting, and must be segregated, along with cigarettes &amp;amp; lottery tickets.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now, what kind of people live round here, that some crappy convenience store finds it necessary to ring-fence these fairly basic foodstuffs ?. Well I'll tell you - they aren't hugely poor or especially criminally inclined; not mainly students, immigrants, or any other group you could slap a name on.&lt;br /&gt;
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What the hell? - it's a reasonably ok area - certainly one you could walk alone at night without expecting any problems. So there must be some modern-day Fagin encouraging his 'boys' to pinch particular comestibles, &amp;nbsp;or a black market in knock-off cheddar &amp;amp; bacon, that I'm not privy to. Or perhaps an underclass of addicted fatties, hoping their ghost appears; anxiously willing the arrival of a guy in PR shoes ? (never mind the hat) .&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842/MottTheHoople-Home.mp3"&gt; Home Is Where I Want to Be  -  Mott the Hoople&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Wildlife (1971)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wildlife-Mott-Hoople/dp/B0000AJ5T9/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=music&amp;amp;qid=1275940436&amp;amp;sr=8-9"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Love this - tho' it doesn't really sound like Mott the Hoople to me.&lt;br /&gt;
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I went out for lunch with my old Dad yesterday - I can call him that, at eighty five, I think.&lt;br /&gt;
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He chose the venue ( and paid, for that matter - thanks Dad! ) - a once bustley lunchtime pub right on the old main road, or it was before they built a bypass... not that the road's exactly quiet, even so. A somewhat odd place, over all the near thirty years I've known it - seemingly obsessed for long after the possibility faded away, with using signage to dissuade coaches (buses) full of potential drinkers &amp;amp; diners.&lt;br /&gt;
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Seems a very seventies thing, from my perspective; although no doubt people still do travel by bus &amp;amp; coach, despite far more prevalent car-ownership, and presumably the non-scheduled holiday types, do make stops for refreshments. So it's not the notion of there being modest numbers of hungry punters on the road, but that there still exist establishments who think they're busy or highfalutin enough to turn them away no matter what, and even spend money on a sign with which to do so.&lt;br /&gt;
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In fairness, the unwelcome signs have gone, externally - leaving just incumbent regulars &amp;nbsp;to deter the cheerful chance customer.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you live in London, or Portsmouth or Brighton, you probably rarely hear anyone banging on about how bleedin' wonderful the town or city is... but take the man (ok, &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; men) away from their 'home', and all they do is carp &amp;amp; boast of the numerous ways in which the place they moved away from, is so much better than where they are now. Specifically, in this case, London, and even more particularly, North of the River. "There's nuffink any good, Sarf' of the River, Nuffink!"... and apparently especially, no good football teams.&lt;br /&gt;
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Since I'm carping myself, bunging olives in Tomato sauce right before you serve 'em, doesn't count as 'marinaded'. It's also nice to ditch the dried first slice of a pre-used cucumber; and mildly encouraging if the staff care enough about what they're selling, to update the 'specials' board before 1pm, so as to reflect the day's dishes. There are good reasons why a Pub beside a busy road, close to a quaint town centre, is quiet as can be, on a (lately) rare sunny lunchtime; and tempted though I am to blame Old Men &amp;amp; Pints of Beer... the cause likely lies squarely at the feet of them that run the place.&lt;br /&gt;
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A pertinent tune then? - you're out of luck there too - but this is rather good, in a Poppier, Rockier, but still engagingly &amp;amp; audaciously, slightly shambolic, Camper Van Beethoveny sorta way. So maybe it &lt;i&gt;is &lt;/i&gt;pertinent? - antidotally so.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842//TPATY-FuckingHonestly.mp3"&gt;Fucking Honestly &amp;nbsp;- &amp;nbsp;The Please &amp;amp; Thank Yous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Mind Yr P's &amp;amp; Q's (2010)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://myspace.com/tpaty"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;| &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theiceageiscoming.net/ia04.htm"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;| &amp;nbsp;free &lt;a href="http://tpaty.bandcamp.com/"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Getting on for a year since I first heard New York duo &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/theropes"&gt;The Ropes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with this rather impressive EP title track...&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/2zdw4m2qnwa/The%20Ropes%20-%20Be%20My%20Gun.mp3"&gt;Be My Gun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Be My Gun EP (2009)&lt;br /&gt;
free&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://theropesonline.com/bmgdigital/"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;| &amp;nbsp;buy the &lt;a href="http://www.theropesonline.com/bmgcd/"&gt;CD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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They've a fine &amp;amp; shiny new EP out now, which is similarly available completely free at their &lt;a href="http://theropesonline.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/2m4qn0umgz5/The%20Ropes%20-%20I%20Miss%20You%20Being%20Gone.mp3"&gt;I Miss You Being Gone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I Miss You Being Gone EP (2010)&lt;br /&gt;
free mp3 &lt;a href="http://www.theropesonline.com/imybgdigital/"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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♫&lt;a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/jjzioaxtmmj/The%20Ropes%20-%20Love%20is%20a%20Chain%20Store.mp3"&gt; Love Is a Chain Store&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Love Is a Chain Store EP (2009)&lt;br /&gt;
free&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.theropesonline.com/liacsdigital/"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-2088339673352817689?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/AhPEcIsgcVo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/2088339673352817689/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/02/ropes-we-want-to-fight-you.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/2088339673352817689?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/2088339673352817689?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/AhPEcIsgcVo/ropes-we-want-to-fight-you.html" title="The Ropes - We want to fight you" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S4UOs7IDjII/AAAAAAAABD4/iWqpOXlrYZU/s72-c/Ropes1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/02/ropes-we-want-to-fight-you.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkICRno9eyp7ImA9WxBVF0w.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-9203462272523050635</id><published>2010-02-21T01:09:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-02-21T01:09:27.463Z</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-02-21T01:09:27.463Z</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Lachi" /><title>They Say I'm Normal</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S4BzTajKtHI/AAAAAAAABDw/9NF7N88Yb54/s1600-h/Lachi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S4BzTajKtHI/AAAAAAAABDw/9NF7N88Yb54/s320/Lachi.jpg" width="284" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I do like this - it's long and jazzy and wonderfully open, feels torch-songy, despite the subject; and proves that if you're good, you can write about most anything.&lt;br /&gt;
I get My Funny Valentine and Cry Me a River going round my head, hearing this...&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842//Lachi-SucculentMayonnaise.mp3"&gt;Succulent Mayonnaise &amp;nbsp;- &amp;nbsp;Lachi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/lachimusic"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;| &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Lachi"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;| &amp;nbsp;more free &lt;a href="http://www.ilike.com/artist/Lachi"&gt;mp3s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;amp; yeah, it's not on the album, or any album, so far as I can tell... sue me.&lt;br /&gt;
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Back last April, I was really very enthused about Rosie &amp;amp; Me, particularly the delightful&lt;br /&gt;
'Come Back', which as others have pointed out, seems to be ripe for a high-profile TV ad' - &amp;nbsp;not to cheapen the music, heavens no... but it's catchy &amp;amp; charming &amp;amp; innocent &amp;amp; sweet as can be.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842//RosieAndMe-Bonfires.mp3"&gt;Bonfires  -  Rosie and Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842//RosieAndMe-ComeBack.mp3"&gt;Come Back - Rosie and Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Bird and Whale EP (2010)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/rosieandme"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt; |  &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/rosie+and+me"&gt;last.fm&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.rosieandmemusic.com/"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/rosieandme_"&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Seems no labels took my advice to sign these guys last year - so they've a self-released EP out very soon, available to buy &lt;a href="http://www.rosieandmestore.cjb.net/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in high quality mp3 format, or as a physical CD... all the way from Brazil.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'm soooo behind eh - not that it makes a lot of difference...&lt;br /&gt;
Another more than pleasing performance from the latest Music Alliance Pact collection.The Wooden Constructions, on this track at least, bring a very angular, dancey, new-wavey Roxy Music to mind. Maybe one song at a time is enough though? - but this is well good, and no mistake.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842//WoodenConstructions-NoNo.mp3"&gt;No No (Hip Hop) - The Wooden Constructions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Dont ask me man, I dont know why EP (2009)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/woodenconstructions"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;  |  free &lt;a href="http://www.mininova.org/tor/2348982"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Battered, tattered &amp; torn - not to mention a bit crackly... (although even when new, this pressing was more than a little noisy). Getting old it is too, like me eh - a day, &amp; technically, a year older since yesterday...&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt; I'm gonna reach into your chest, and fumble with your emotions&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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So sings  &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamin%27_Jay_Hawkins"&gt;Jalacy Hawkins&lt;/a&gt;, backed by Keith Richards on this darker than usual version of his oft-covered song. I like to contemplate the imaginary video - a cross between  a less choreographed Thriller &amp;amp; the Titty Twister acts in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dusk_till_Dawn"&gt;From Dusk 'til Dawn&lt;/a&gt;... Keith Richards looking undead, some ghoulishly attractive backing singers, a zombie stand-up drummer; and Screamin Jay Hawkins presiding - threatening not just spells, but weird disfigurement &amp;amp; more in his macabre efforts to hold on to a woman. Maybe he's some land-based version of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman_(opera)"&gt;Flying Dutchman&lt;/a&gt;, appearing on Halloween every seven years, hoping to escape his cursed fate through the use of witchcraft.&lt;br /&gt;
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I guess a graveyard setting, coffins... - no wait; that's just his live act.&lt;br /&gt;
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A single release on Polydor in 1980, this &amp;amp; the B-side 'Armpit #6' were recorded on December 18, 1979, at Blue Rock Studios in NYC. Producer was Allan Schwartzberg; presumably the prolific &lt;a href="http://www.stereosociety.com/allanschwartzberg.html"&gt;session drummer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842//ScreaminJay-SpellOnYou.mp3"&gt;I Put a Spell on You  -  Screamin' Jay Hawkins&lt;/a&gt;  (Keith Richards on guitar)&lt;br /&gt;
7" 45 - Polydor POSP 183 (1980)&lt;br /&gt;
buy? you might find it on ebay or somewhere specialist for $15 or so&lt;br /&gt;
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I love it; have always found the 'normal' version rather uhh, silly for the sake of it whereas this sounds more serious; the production &amp;amp; Keith's guitar help of course. I think I mean that there's an air of menace, as opposed to tomfoolery; and to borrow a line from Jon Spencer - "We don't play no blues, We play Rock &amp;amp; Roll".&lt;br /&gt;
If you think  that sounds like I don't rate the usual Hawkins versions - yes, you're right. Somehow, the first rendition I ever remember hearing of I Put a Spell on You, was on the vinyl you hear above; &amp;amp; the others sound too tame in comparison.&lt;br /&gt;
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There've been dozens of cover versions of Spell on You, I can't be doing with finding 'em all, but expect a few for comparison later on - one's rather bizarre.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sooo, not a huge Jalacy Hawkins fan overall - but I thought he was excellent in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Train_(film)"&gt;Mystery Train&lt;/a&gt;, a film I'd warmly recommend; I've never heard the word 'chimpanzee' in the same way since watching it.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-8405271617382851035?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/w7FAPNj5h90" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/8405271617382851035/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/02/lazy-ways-birthdays.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/8405271617382851035?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/8405271617382851035?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/w7FAPNj5h90/lazy-ways-birthdays.html" title="Lazy Ways &amp; Birthdays" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SXWtV3YcSCI/AAAAAAAAAVg/rHpJRsvNwLU/s72-c/spell.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/02/lazy-ways-birthdays.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEEDR3k6eCp7ImA9WxBWF04.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-6802046779876028088</id><published>2010-02-09T17:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-02-09T17:31:16.710Z</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-02-09T17:31:16.710Z</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Purple Hearts" /><title>Keeping Records</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SXRv8hbO84I/AAAAAAAAAVY/qdcegCB3BMI/s1600-h/purple+hearts.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292978547622605698" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SXRv8hbO84I/AAAAAAAAAVY/qdcegCB3BMI/s320/purple+hearts.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 318px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Having moved house, and a lot of other things in the last year - I'm finally getting around to shifting some oldish 45 rpm singles, left over from a not-so feckless youth. For someone who likes music, I never bought very much of it... but perhaps I'm unwittingly making comparisons with a pal or two, who had serious vinyl habits.&lt;br /&gt;
Whatever the case, I purchased relatively little in the way of records &amp;amp; tapes, save for a few hardly heady years post '79 or so; but I do have a pile of singles beside me, presumably chosen some time back, for their likelihood of fetching more than a penny on ebay.&lt;br /&gt;
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What the hell, they don't get played, so let's have a crack at selling them - and while I'm at it, see what time has done.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/2/2302842//PurpleHearts-Frustration.mp3"&gt;Frustration &amp;nbsp;- &amp;nbsp;Purple Hearts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
7" 45 b/w Extraordinary Sensations (Fiction Records - 1979)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Purple-Hearts/e/B001LH5BIW/ref=ntt_mus_dp_pel"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thepurpleheartsofficial"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It's actually rather good that - about as 'mod' as Supergrass or The Clash, mind - or err The Jam, for that matter. Suits &amp; ties really, perhaps a scooter out back.&lt;br /&gt;
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Piles of cash to the usual address - or look out for it on ebay eh - ho ho.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Farewell Circuit are a four-piece band out of Minneapolis, Minnesota - they sent an email back in December, mentioning "somewhat silently" releasing &lt;b&gt;Birdless Sky&lt;/b&gt; - their debut album. Describing themselves as similar to Death Cab, Sigur Ros, Radiohead etc, along with the unassuming manner in which the album's being pushed, you might not expect anything wonderful... so be pleasantly surprised then, becuase they're really rather good.&lt;br /&gt;
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I've been playing this one over &amp;amp; over - so it must be my favourite eh?.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/hgfhjgfjhgf/files/FarewellCircuit-InexorableMarchOfTime.mp3"&gt;The Inexorable March of Time - The Farewell Circuit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Birdless Sky (2009)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://thefarewellcircuit.bigcartel.com/product/birdless-sky-digital-album"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/farewellcircuit"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.thefarewellcircuit.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Seems the band consists of:&lt;br /&gt;
Danny - Vocals, Guitar, Keys, Vibes, Bass, Programming &lt;br /&gt;
DJ - Guitar, Vibraharp, Keys, Sampling &lt;br /&gt;
Geoff - Drums, Love Machine, Hand Claps &lt;br /&gt;
David - Vibraharp, Vocals, Keys, Guitar, Percussion&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm not sure we see them all here - but I doo love this live version of the above album-opener.&lt;br /&gt;
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As an aside - it's farewell to nearly all the mp3's that are linked to on last years posts - due to a cheap-ass web host deciding to err terminate the sorta promotional free account I had, months before it was due to expire, at which time I was actually going to pay them money... not any more though - I'll bumble along without, and let someone else stump up for all the Chinese &amp;amp; Russians hot-linking &amp;amp; using 'em as background music for shoe-shopping websites - fiddle dee dee, I say, being such a polite English gent.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-4712510525706529069?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/cw2C62AtLGg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/4712510525706529069/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/02/farewell-circuit.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/4712510525706529069?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/4712510525706529069?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/cw2C62AtLGg/farewell-circuit.html" title="The Farewell Circuit" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S2sgq0P615I/AAAAAAAABDQ/qaNcqukXCRQ/s72-c/FarewellCircuit.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/02/farewell-circuit.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkUER3wyeSp7ImA9WxBWEk8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-2264906602648417989</id><published>2010-02-01T16:26:00.002Z</published><updated>2010-02-03T19:10:06.291Z</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-02-03T19:10:06.291Z</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Vikesh Kapoor" /><title>Well, it ain't ol' Blue Eyes...</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I first heard &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_The_Knife"&gt;Mack the Knife&lt;/a&gt; sung by Bobby Darin, when I was a kid in the early '70's - it fascinated me right off the bat, even spending some of my not so heard-earned on one of his albums... which wasn't a patch on the one song I bought it for.&lt;br /&gt;
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Anyways, I'm listening to January's "Music Alliance Pact" collection, &amp; found that &lt;a href="http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com/"&gt;I Guess I'm Floating&lt;/a&gt; had chosen this excellent &amp; very properly story-telling version of the song, along with an extra verse that lends some atmosphere - although it stands shy of revealing Mackie's true unpleasantness.&lt;br /&gt;
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This is real good - and he's from just up the street, maybe I can catch a gig sometime?&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/hgfhjgfjhgf/files/03MackTheKnife.mp3"&gt;Mack the Knife - Vikesh Kapoor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Newspress Scare (7" ep - 2010)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/vikeshkapoor"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://vikeshkapoor.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.vikeshkapoor.bigcartel.com/product/newspress-scare-oh-siv-mack-the-knife-7"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Trying to get back into this lark - I've been trawling, nay trudging, through the icy slush of new sounds that get sent your way if you have so much as a sniff of a music blog. Dreary &amp;amp; grey tho much of it is, like life, ones persistence &amp;amp; hope can be rewarded.&lt;br /&gt;
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This is very good I thinks, from Denver, Colorado two-piece 28-200 (twenty eight to two hundred) who are Aimée (drums &amp; vocals) + Mister L (guitar, bass &amp; vocals) - likely I'd lose nearly a minute off the end... short , sweet &amp; leave 'em wanting more, that's the way - just call me picky.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/hgfhjgfjhgf/files/03IKissU.mp3"&gt;I Kiss U - 28-200&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Video Games &amp;amp; Popsicle Sticks (2009)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/28200"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Video-Games-Popsicle-Sticks/dp/B00359L5KM/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1264277178&amp;amp;sr=301-1"&gt;amazon&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.28-200.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-1583777507036164276?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/H8ZfxwJlAqE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/1583777507036164276/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/01/i-kiss-u-la-la-la-la.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/1583777507036164276?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/1583777507036164276?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/H8ZfxwJlAqE/i-kiss-u-la-la-la-la.html" title="I Kiss U (la la la la)" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S2RZZa0SRlI/AAAAAAAABCo/4qB_TpXyGaQ/s72-c/28-200.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/01/i-kiss-u-la-la-la-la.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUEFRHk6cCp7ImA9WxBXF0s.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-5087822592029774866</id><published>2010-01-29T11:13:00.000Z</published><updated>2010-01-29T11:13:35.718Z</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-01-29T11:13:35.718Z</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Secret History" /><title>The Secret History - Johnny Anorak</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S2FtzvJ-miI/AAAAAAAABCg/-Mh1UTdkFMM/s1600-h/SecretHistory2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S2FtzvJ-miI/AAAAAAAABCg/-Mh1UTdkFMM/s320/SecretHistory2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;So The Secret History have been around a while now (2007), and yet seem surprisingly little-mentioned on music blogs. Perhaps I price myself too low? . They've been busy, it seems - recording their first full album "The World that Never Was" and here's a single from it.&lt;br /&gt;
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♫ &lt;a href="http://howmarvellous.com/music/SecretHistory/SecretHistory-JohnnyAnorak.mp3"&gt;Johnny Anorak - The Secret History&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The World that Never Was (March 16 on &lt;a href="http://www.magistery.com/"&gt;Le Grand Magistery&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/friendsofthesecrethistory"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/the-secret-history/id292962234"&gt;iTunes&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-History/e/B001LHAMIG/ref=ntt_mus_dp_pel"&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;  |  buy from &lt;a href="http://darla.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&amp;amp;item_cat_id=37350"&gt;Darla&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;I'd lose the football-chant intro for that, as a single release/radio-edit &amp;amp; let the music loose from the get-go; tho' even that seems to start out somewhat rockier for the first few bars until taking a more expected turn. &amp;nbsp;Perhaps it'd make more sense in the album context?.&lt;br /&gt;
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and by way of an introduction, at the end... from their Desolation Town EP - I rather liked this... and it may make sense of my comments above.&lt;br /&gt;
♫&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://howmarvellous.com/music/SecretHistory/SecretHistory-TheBalladofTheHauntedHearts.mp3"&gt;The Ballad of The Haunted Hearts - The Secret History&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Desolation Town EP (2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://darla.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&amp;amp;item_cat_id=34544"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-5087822592029774866?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/hgllFtK67B8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/5087822592029774866/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/01/secret-history-johnny-anorak.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/5087822592029774866?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/5087822592029774866?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/hgllFtK67B8/secret-history-johnny-anorak.html" title="The Secret History - Johnny Anorak" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S2FtzvJ-miI/AAAAAAAABCg/-Mh1UTdkFMM/s72-c/SecretHistory2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/01/secret-history-johnny-anorak.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CU4FSHs6fCp7ImA9WxBQFko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-552820656493203638</id><published>2010-01-16T20:22:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-01-16T20:31:59.514Z</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-01-16T20:31:59.514Z</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Louis Armstrong" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bee Gees" /><title>Swan Sung Blue</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S1IWKJHhi5I/AAAAAAAABB4/zmKr7rxKSuI/s1600-h/SwanBlue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S1IWKJHhi5I/AAAAAAAABB4/zmKr7rxKSuI/s400/SwanBlue.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Just a dry-cleaner's wall sign, from the more well-worn end of Washington Street in Brighton, Mass.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/SwanSongBlue/SwanSong.mp3"&gt;listen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Idea-Bee-Gees/dp/B000GIWS74/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=music&amp;amp;qid=1263671988&amp;amp;sr=1-1"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt; | &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://beegees.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;| &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea_(album)"&gt;info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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they've some cool signs &amp;amp; posters - here's another... no doubt swans come from far &amp;amp; wide to get a spruce up for Springtime.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S1IfMcZXP6I/AAAAAAAABCQ/Dsn9c16gBZs/s1600-h/swanfluff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S1IfMcZXP6I/AAAAAAAABCQ/Dsn9c16gBZs/s320/swanfluff.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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and this... because it's blue too :) and fishy... and we had a great time there.&lt;br /&gt;
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and this.... because he/she's as cute as can be, and very very sleepy - aww.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S1IdJdNFuUI/AAAAAAAABCI/zYT6ow9a0Hc/s1600-h/sleepyPenguin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/S1IdJdNFuUI/AAAAAAAABCI/zYT6ow9a0Hc/s400/sleepyPenguin.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/Flickr/SleepyTime.mp3"&gt;listen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2804/4274509575_ed4db33942.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A Cross?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/TwoPassingShadows.mp3"&gt;listen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.elephantstonerecords.com/stockup.html"&gt;Buy&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/doraflood"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt; | Free &lt;a href="http://doraflood.com/music.html"&gt;Download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img alt="Stop" height="500" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/4267396228_65a22f3da5.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/RedLight.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Listen &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Collection-Billy-Ocean/dp/B000VFGSUK/ref=ntt_mus_ep_wlb_dpt"&gt;Buy&lt;/a&gt; |  &lt;a href="http://www.billyocean.co.uk/"&gt;Website&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/billyoceanofficialmusic"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-4394467305863632827?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/7c_EEt_qMuk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/4394467305863632827/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/01/red.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/4394467305863632827?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/4394467305863632827?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/7c_EEt_qMuk/red.html" title="Red" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2781/4267396228_65a22f3da5_t.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2010/01/red.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D08GR307eSp7ImA9WxNQFUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-7480424132630148718</id><published>2009-09-22T01:31:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-22T03:17:06.301+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-09-22T03:17:06.301+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Woodlands" /><title>The Woodlands</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/Sramw4p6nhI/AAAAAAAABBc/d_3a8-eGQbs/s1600-h/Woodlands+BW.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/Sramw4p6nhI/AAAAAAAABBc/d_3a8-eGQbs/s320/Woodlands+BW.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383673763340131858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A month eh?, it's passed slowly at times in the living, yet quickly (some of it) in the looking back - outright painfully too, in part...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I clean missed any mention of &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thewoodlandsmusic"&gt;The Woodlands&lt;/a&gt; when their self-released (and titled and recorded and produced) album came out in May this year -  not surprising, haven't exactly had a digit on any kind of musical pulse in recent months... it's well worth seeking out though, the two tracks below are accompanied by another eight nicely differing, yet equally fine songs - all created by the wife &amp; husband duo of Hannah &amp; Samuel Robertson, who come from Portland, Oregon, and to my ears, have created some wonderful music together - charming, delicate &amp; full of feeling; deceptively simple sounding production &amp; arrangements, the sorta thing that sounds effortlessly good being joyful or otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Warmly recommended then, to umm, all my readers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bit bouncier here, and a fine showcase for the precise allure of Hannah's voice...&lt;br /&gt;♫ &lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/Woodlands/Woodlands-Summerland.mp3"&gt;Summerland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ace strings &amp; harmonies now, not that it's unique in that regard - but you can't hear &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;all&lt;/span&gt; the tracks here.&lt;br /&gt;♫ &lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/Woodlands/Woodlands-CanWeStay.mp3"&gt;Can We Stay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Woodlands (2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/woodlandsmusic"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thewoodlandsmusic"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;  | &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Woodlands"&gt; last.fm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-7480424132630148718?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/S1e9q3L5iX8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/7480424132630148718/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2009/09/woodlands.html#comment-form" title="5 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/7480424132630148718?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/7480424132630148718?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/S1e9q3L5iX8/woodlands.html" title="The Woodlands" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/Sramw4p6nhI/AAAAAAAABBc/d_3a8-eGQbs/s72-c/Woodlands+BW.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2009/09/woodlands.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEMMR3s6eCp7ImA9WxNSEEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-1755451718344400048</id><published>2009-08-23T23:27:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-23T23:28:06.510+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-08-23T23:28:06.510+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="My Gold Mask" /><title>Bette Davis Eyes - by My Gold Mask</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SpG6Q1H1xJI/AAAAAAAABBU/RXTg3wXdkBo/s1600-h/MyGoldMask.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SpG6Q1H1xJI/AAAAAAAABBU/RXTg3wXdkBo/s320/MyGoldMask.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373280628730348690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; A new track from the wonderful My Gold Mask - two posts in one day?, I must be on something; just coffee &amp; cigarettes actually, omg!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yep, it's a fine cover of the early eighties hit for Kim Carnes, written in 1974 by Donna Weiss and Jackie De Shannon, first recorded by De Shannon for her album - New Arrangement - which if you know me, you'll know I've tried to find so's I can post the original... but I haven't got it yet, maybe tomorrow on a less slothful connection?. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fine it is then, though I might have left out the nods to Val Garay's production, myself - picky so &amp; so, ain't I just.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♫ &lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/MyGoldMask/MyGoldMask-BetteDavisEyes.mp3"&gt;Bette Davis Eyes  -  My Gold Mask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mygoldmask.bandcamp.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/mygoldmask"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-1755451718344400048?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/6MijFNz5A80" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/1755451718344400048/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2009/08/bette-davis-eyes-by-my-gold-mask.html#comment-form" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/1755451718344400048?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/1755451718344400048?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/6MijFNz5A80/bette-davis-eyes-by-my-gold-mask.html" title="Bette Davis Eyes - by My Gold Mask" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SpG6Q1H1xJI/AAAAAAAABBU/RXTg3wXdkBo/s72-c/MyGoldMask.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2009/08/bette-davis-eyes-by-my-gold-mask.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUcNSXk8eyp7ImA9WxNSEEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-7717502590090764880</id><published>2009-08-23T20:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-23T20:51:38.773+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-08-23T20:51:38.773+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Library" /><title>The Library</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SpFlgyD2QjI/AAAAAAAABBM/8_8KIDZ0cXE/s1600-h/Library.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SpFlgyD2QjI/AAAAAAAABBM/8_8KIDZ0cXE/s320/Library.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373187444297843250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Do bands ever surprise you by what they sound like after you've seen a photo? - or vice-versa?. I know, I know, books and covers, cameras &amp; lies, but I just can't help observing...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first track here is by far my favourite from  The Life and Times of Rosa Lee - indeed, was this that made me go back &amp; re-listen to the others with fresh ears. Does it scream The Only Ones at you? - does me, I can &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;hear&lt;/span&gt; Peter Perrett, singing it, not that I'd cite The Library as sounding similar; oh I'm rambling now - just listen eh?.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♫&lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/Library/TheLibrary-NothingToLose.mp3"&gt; Nothing To Lose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♫ &lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/Library/TheLibrary-ClubAmnesia.mp3"&gt;Club Amnesia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wonderfully laid-back 70's slacker vibe going here, which I've a great deal of time for - suits the vocals much better, along with Nothing To Lose, than some of the other five tracks - they are growing on me mind you, think it's the tuning which got me at first, just a smidge lower than nicely low.&lt;br /&gt;♫ &lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/Library/TheLibrary-TomorrowIsBetter.mp3"&gt;Tomorrow Is Better&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all from The Life and Times of Rosa Lee (2009)&lt;br /&gt;free &lt;a href="http://www.ivaluva.com/thelibrary.html"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;  |  &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/thelibrarymusic"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And just so you can rubbish, or at least understand my comparison above - here's a fine song from The Only Ones... 1978 - goodness, what a long time ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♫ &lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/Library/TheOnlyOnes-Truth.mp3"&gt;It's The Truth  -  The Only Ones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Only Ones (1978)&lt;br /&gt;buy  |  &lt;a href="http://www.theonlyones.biz/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-7717502590090764880?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/loQR7giZ4Ko" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/7717502590090764880/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2009/08/library.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/7717502590090764880?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/7717502590090764880?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/loQR7giZ4Ko/library.html" title="The Library" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SpFlgyD2QjI/AAAAAAAABBM/8_8KIDZ0cXE/s72-c/Library.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2009/08/library.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEABRn46eyp7ImA9WxNTGEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789291622832395420.post-192747742092592676</id><published>2009-08-21T23:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-21T23:12:37.013+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-08-21T23:12:37.013+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Anna Ternheim" /><title>Summer Rain</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lovely hot sunny day here it was, just wisps of white cloud in an otherwise blue sky - too nice to fret about soaking wet floors in my temporary home, yet fret I did, or rather at the indifference of a man who'd give slumlords a bad name. Could be much worse though - it could be winter with just a teeny gas fire, or I might be flat broke, rather than just passing a few sometimes disagreeable months between bricks &amp; mortar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;90ºF and damp as hell, wasn't a whole lot of fun though, but blow this tip I will, and soon, all being well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've skipped the music, both playing and posting, lately - yet today, already improved from some numbingly frustrating phone calls &amp; conversations, I did fancy some, and returned to a lovely numinous version of a song I already liked - Summer Rain by Anna Ternheim, from Leaving on a Mayday, which finally saw a US release this month - hurrah!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♫ &lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/Anna/AnnaTernheim-SummerRain.mp3"&gt;Summer Rain  -  Anna Ternheim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaving On a Mayday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Mayday-Anna-Ternheim/dp/B002DBG0JY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1249998600&amp;sr=8-3"&gt;buy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the a cappella version that felt so elevating this evening - It's Anna, along with  Nina Kinert, Ane Brun, First Aid Kit and Ellekari Larsson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;♫ &lt;a href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/music/Anna/AnnaTernheim-SummerRainAcapella.mp3"&gt;Summer Rain  -  Anna Ternheim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks M~ for turning me onto it :) xx&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listen to more &amp; see the video on Anna's &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/annaternheim"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and some yummy tour dates... very tempted by the Amsterdam gig I am... although Salisbury Arts Centre'd be much nearer, but she ain't playing there - next year maybe? - it's a lovely venue, pretty please?.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2009-08-29 Popaganda, Stockholm (SE)&lt;br /&gt;2009-09-13 Stadtgarden, Cologne (GER) &lt;br /&gt;2009-09-14 Fabrik, Hamburg (GER) &lt;br /&gt;2009-09-15 Frannz, Berlin (GER) &lt;br /&gt;2009-09-16 E-Werk, Erlangen (GER) &lt;br /&gt;2009-09-17 Ringlokschuppen, Bielefeld (GER) &lt;br /&gt;2009-09-19 Volkshaus, Basel (CH) &lt;br /&gt;2009-09-20 Fri-Son, Fribourg (CH) &lt;br /&gt;2009-09-21 Jazzhaus, Freiburg (GER) &lt;br /&gt;2009-09-22 de Duif, Amsterdam (NL) &lt;br /&gt;2009-09-23 Alhambra, Paris (FR) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. TOUR 2009&lt;br /&gt;Special guest to Loney Dear / Asobi Seksu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2009-09-30 Casbah, San Diego, CA (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-01 Troubador, Los Angeles, CA (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-02 Slims, San Francisco, CA (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-03 Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-04 Chop Suey, Seattle, WA (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-06 Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC (CA)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-09 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-10 Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-11 Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-12 Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON (CA)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-13 Il Motore, Montreal, QC (CA)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-14 Great Scott, Boston, MA (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-15 Maxwells, Hoboken, NJ (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-16 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY (US)&lt;br /&gt;2009-10-17 Johnny Brendas, Philadelphia, PA (US)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MPWNzMBDPso&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MPWNzMBDPso&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QgMZADvMr0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QgMZADvMr0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8789291622832395420-192747742092592676?l=www.howmarvellous.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~4/LetuW0FpyvE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/feeds/192747742092592676/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.howmarvellous.com/2009/08/summer-rain.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/192747742092592676?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8789291622832395420/posts/default/192747742092592676?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowMarvellous/~3/LetuW0FpyvE/summer-rain.html" title="Summer Rain" /><author><name>HowMarvellous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LlCF_K4p_qs/SboODoijH1I/AAAAAAAAAqU/BjiAgJ4945A/S220/100_1371.jpg" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.howmarvellous.com/2009/08/summer-rain.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

