Indie 69 September 2011 New Music Playlist

ASCII and ye shall receive

Letter Nate than Beaver, as they say.

Oh that cannot be right. Isn’t that what they say?

Oh, yeah. Better late than never. Very true, unless you’re waiting for an organ.

Minimalist cover art this month, eh? It’s a new trend for me, I think.  For a while anyway. This image caught my eye, as I have been reading a few non-fiction books covering the influences of 60’s culture on science and technology. The best so far has been “What the Dormouse Said – How the 60’s Counterculture shaped the personal computer” (non-affiliate links to Amazon), but I’m still digging into “How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival” and really enjoying it.  So when I saw this GEM of an old kit computer, AND it said “69” on the display, I stopped looking. Perfection.

If someone tries to tell you the 60’s was a waste of a decade, slam a pie in that person’s face. That person is full of poop. Why not full of pie as well? Mmmm… pie.

Oh, I almost forgot to make excuses.

Here it goes…..

Umm, my dog ate my playlist. Traffic was HORRIBLE! I just found out that one guy, yeah, who used to clip my uncle’s toenails and collect them in jars? Yeah he like, died and stuff. We were so close. TERRORISM! (was scary) My boss made me stay late ’cause Greg called in sick.  My socks didn’t match and it took me 14 days to find a pair.  I was naming my new band and all I could come up with were combinations of  the words tropical, party, vacation, summer, youth, young, camp, ocean, lagoon, river,  a whole bunch of Canadian provinces/cities, and lake.  Weird. Kept.  me.  busy. ( is it just me?? or does anyone else notice this stuff?? )  My playlist fell of the back of my truck.  No, seriously.  And I don’t even have a truck.  Wow.

The truth is actually a tiny bit personal and a little of the same old, same old problems with Internet, memory cards/sticks, etc. When I finally did have time, I didn’t want to do a rush job. It ended up taking a lot longer than I’d expected (or am used to). So there’s that. Seems to be yet another trend. Note to self: Start earlier AND never type “note to self” again….. again.

The good news is…. great playlist.  138 tracks! Another double-sizer.

You can get it …HERE… and in all of the usual dens.

Sorry if you spot any dupes/repeats (songs that have already been featured in previous months). I do my best to catch them. But there are 2 or 3 tracks in there that are not particularly new. Just new for me, and hopefully you too.

See you here and in October.  I’ve gotta get to recording *Camp Alberta Lake Summer Youth Party Vacation Lagoon Kids‘ debut E.P. , tentatively titled “The  End Of Summer Bonfire Singalong E.P.”  Or maybe it’ll be self-titled.  See you here (perhaps) soon and in October for sure.

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* the band previously known as “you will know us by the trail of excuses your mom made to herself in order to drink until her pee was flammable and sleep with random bellboys….”

(that’s 4 dots at the end, very important)

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Indie 69 August 2011 Playlist Released

empty.... full

August already? The summer is going by fast, and not as “summery” where I am.  Not much to say this month except that I think its a good , if sparse , playlist this time.

Get it HERE ( TPB link )

No “Tasty Leftovers” planned this month. May be a failed experiment. Hard to say.

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See you here, and in September.

Enjoy. Get some sun while you can.

Indie 69 July Playlist Released!

BANG!

A few days late, but worth it. This one just took FORfriggenEVER! There will again be a “Tasty Leftovers” playlist in July, some time around the 15th. There were again just far too many good tracks to fit into a 69 or even 100 track playlist. And when the size of the whole thing approaches a GIG, you know it’s just too much for one music download.

Not much to say here aside from posting the link. I’ve been busy with a few other things, far too busy to be posting my musings and meanderings here in the old blog. But that will change as the summer moves along. I had some trouble with truncated files again. Somewhere through the process of using memory sticks to bring all the files with me so I could work with them wherever I decided to be for the day, many files ended up with the end of the song missing, or the file going from around 6mb to around 300kb. NOT good. So I ended up spending a LOT of time, last minute, seeking out copies on Hypem. I sent off e-mails to the artists whose tracks I could not locate copies of. Sadly, I couldn’t wait around for replies. So if you are one of those people, not to worry. You’ll get on next month.

I found a few surprises in the inbox as I was going through submissions. One was a very special song by an artist that I love, based upon a true story I wrote. It was moving, beautiful.  I cannot WAIT to get permission to share it with all of you. The other news was that I was sent an invitation to Google Music Beta!!! I’m excited to give it a shot and when I’ve used it for a few days I’ll be sure to write a review up and post it here. Has anyone who reads this blog tried it? What did you think?

So on to what you’re all here for…

Grab the July Indie 69 New Music Playlist

HERE

(and in all of the usual places you steal it from… lol)

SEED SEED SEED!

Hope you enjoy the hell out of it. I think it’s a “very special” playlist this time. Like a very special episode of your favorite sitcom. Except without a victim.

Whatever that means.

Be sure to read the NFO file inside the playlist and give me some of the specific feedback I’m asking. (open it with notepad or your favorite plain-text reader of choice… look for PDF versions in the near future)

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See you in a couple of weeks for the Tasty Leftovers. I’m going to have some real fun with it this time.

Indie69 June 2011 Tasty Leftovers Now Released

I can has head?

Okay, so what the hell is this??

Well, these days I’m getting about 400 tracks a month or more. And to be honest, there’s only room for just SO many tracks on the main playlist. And I’ve noticed that there’s SO MUCH good music left over every month, it just gets tossed into a folder and forgotten, for the most part.

That’s not fair if the whole point of this is to get new music HEARD. So I decided to put together a second playlist now, every month (I presume), featuring these leftover tracks.

These TASTY leftover tracks. So eat up!!

GRAB IT HERE!!: GULP!

Yummy.

You may notice a lot more remixes, instrumentals and more obscure experimental or weird stuff here on this playlist. So if that’s your thing, you may like this one even more.

But that’s not everything here… there’s plenty of sweet pop goodness and rock delectibles and edibles to chew on.

Enough eating metaphors to fill you up yet??

groan.

Anyway. Enjoy. And remember, if you found YOUR music here, it doesn’t mean I thought any less of it.. quite the contrary. These are NOT REJECTED TRACKS!! Those go in the trash.

That comes to about half of what I get going into the recycle bin.

Hope you all like it. It was fun to put together. As much as the other playlist. I imagine I will even do this one with quite a bit more care and attention from now on, even throwing
in some older stuff and personal favorites from time to time. A kind of playground for my evil whims. Bwahahahaha!

See you in July, Guy.

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P.S. – The concensus is in. The concensus being that I decided. I’ll put these out when I have enough tracks to justify it about halfway through the month.

Indie69 June 2011 New Music Playlist now available

The mantis quietly judges you.

Well, well. June has arrived. And change is in the air.

…So that’s what that smell is…

I’m going to do things this month a little bit differently. Instead of stuffing a few tracks left over into a folder, and because there are now usually SO MANY good tracks left after I’ve narrowed it all down, I’ve decided to do a second playlist every month featuring what I call the “Tasty Leftovers”.  These are not rejected tracks. These are the ones that I liked but for whatever reason just didn’t seem to fit. Or would have made the playlist just TOO huge. Since I started off about halfway through the month this time with (around) 400 tracks, and STILL didn’t catch up with 100% of the e-mail submissions alone (if you were left out and your track was great.. chances are I just have not heard it yet.. check next month), I decided that it’s just getting far too huge for a convenient download. I cannot imagine everyone wanting to download over a gig of music just from my playlist alone, every month. So now there’s a second playlist (watch for it here) to take care of what was left for the month that didn’t suck. The whole idea of all this is to help this music get heard, new music. And with so much of it being so good, it just seemed wrong to stuff it in a folder and forget about it.  And let’s face it, that’s what was happening. There are only so many hours in a day and so many days in a month. The “Tasty Leftovers” for this month number more than 100 tracks. It’s up to you if you want to grab both playlists or just the main one. If you dig the instrumentals and remixes, the extremely eclectic or bizarre.. you may find a few examples of that in the leftovers. But there are quite a few pop and rock tracks in there as well.

I must apologize, however, for not having the time to double-check for duplicates this time. I scanned over it and trusted my memory this month. I hope it served me well and did not fail all of you. But if it did, I hope it’s not too much trouble to delete a couple of dupes. But let’s get to the playlist now and I’ll save my babbling on for a little further down the page…

You can grab Indie69 June 2011 New Music Playlist HERE and at all of the usual places you find it.

I would also like to announce my official intention to move the site to a new host with more flexibility, even though I adore WordPress.com. There are just a few tiny, specific reasons why I want to move to a new place. One of them is better community flexibility and more direct control over ways to submit music, as well as a specific interface I prefer at the new host. IF you are interested in guest blogging, let me know. I’m interested in finding music lovers who would like to post short reviews and mp3 downloads. Although I adore music criticism, I prefer to focus on what you DO like rather than posting articles about things you hear that you do not. I find very little value in being “warned” about bad music when so much of it is available for free. What’s the risk?? If I like a sample track, chances are I won’t HATE the album. And if I hate the sample track or single, why on earth would I buy the album? There’s no risk anymore which kind of takes the purpose of a lot of the criticism and flushes it right down along with things like Blockbuster stores and floppy drives. It’s still really enjoyable to read a well written review, and there are so many of those out there. But when things go negative these days, I tend to find myself wondering about things like motive and personal issues rather than the music. Is it just me? I’m not saying  “love everything you write about”, I AM saying “don’t write about music that you think is terrible”. There are exceptions, of course.  If something is so terrible that it becomes humorous or compelling in some other way, by all means write about it. I also ask that the focus be on new music or specific genre. If this all sounds fantastic and you’re okay with just getting a link and credit, get in touch at indiesixtynine@gmail.com . I expect to start the move this month.

Coincidentally, May was this blog’s best month ever, stats-wise. That was nice to see.

I hope you love the playlist(s) this month. Keep in touch, I love the e-mails and submissions. You know where to find me now on Twitter and Facebook (personal profile coming soon, I think). And keep your eyes open for the “Tasty Leftovers”, expect to wait no more than a few days, if that long. Comment if you’d rather see it arrive halfway through the month instead.

..and remember, always.. SEED SEED SEED! (even the old stuff.. I just re-seeded all of the 2009-2010 playlists)

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Sasquatch! 2011 Playlist upped.

Everybody Run!

I didn’t do this one, but it looks pretty good and has a TON of tracks.

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I would have loved to have been there, and if you’re like me and couldn’t make it this year ( I heard it sold out) ,  this will give you a “nice” reminder of what you missed.

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This features 350 tracks, it’s a big torrent. And rather than the usual 1 track from each act, there are multiple tracks from many. I have no idea if this is official in any way whatsoever. So it’s up to you. It’s also over 2 gigs, and so far only has one seed. But that will change soon as it’s being leeched heavily. It should not take too long to be well seeded.  (EDIT: as far as I know, these are not live tracks)

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Get it HERE.   ..Enjoy. Just a heads up. (TPB link via tinyurl)

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Indie69 April 2011 Playlist is out!

Sorry, no April fools joke this year*. Just couldn’t come up with a good one. Saying I’m quitting is old hat now, so it’s just played out and tired to do the same old thing over and over. Bleh.

So this year is the year I decide to leave the jokes and pranks to others.

The music is a big improvement over March, with many happy surprises. I’m going to leave it at that for the most part and just remind you that I love music submissions ( indiesixtynine@gmail.com ) and if you search sxsw on TPB you will find my best of SXSW 2011 torrent. I picked what I thought were the strongest 100 tracks out of the thousands that were made available this year at the official site and the unofficial torrents of said tracks.  Get that thing here. (tpb link via tinyurl)

But I know what you really want…

Indie 69 April 2011 New Music Playlist (TPB link via TinyUrl)

Grab it, seed it, share it, talk about it, use it to decide what to buy! Find a way to support the artists you love. Then do it. Vital.

I expect May to be my official celebratory playlist, double length. February was my real anniversary, marking the start of my THIRD year of doing this. Crazy, I know. It doesn’t seem like that long, but there it is. I was in far too bad shape at the time to really do it justice. But I’m far better now. So look out. See you then, and in between here.

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*Oops, 96 tracks instead of 69. Must have mixed up my numbers. My bad.

Best 100 of SXSW 2011 (unofficial) Released

(unofficial) Best 100 of SXSW 2011

Well, after weeks of hard listening and extreme ear fatigue, I finally sifted through the thousands of tracks available in the Unofficial SXSW torrents and selected/curated what I feel are the best 100 tracks of the bunch. Now, of course, my opinion will vary from many others. But my selection process weeded out only what I felt were either sound-alikes or not representative of musical ideas that captured the independent spirit (as nebulous an idea as that is) or just simply sounded like crap, and not in a lo-fi way. I also assumed that listeners would want variety, which would include tracks that sounded good but were not my “cup of tea”.  I narrowed it down to 134 tracks from the 1154 tracks in the two unofficial  torrents representing the promotional tracks made available on the official SXSW site for this year. Then I went back over that 134 and narrowed it down to a very difficult 100 tracks. That was tough, dropping tracks that I thought were great but not as great as others. But I finally did it and here it is…

Best 100 of SXSW 2011 (unofficial) *tpb link*

Grab it if you want a decent cross-section of the good stuff this year but don’t want to download 6 and a half GIGS of music to do so.  I did this because I figured that most people wouldn’t want to devote that much space to something that would probably only yield about 100 tracks they’d want to keep anyway. (for most, probably much, much fewer) I found as of yesterday I’ve kept about 20 tracks. I did have a few duplicates in there. If you download my playlists and other’s, chances are you will find a few duplicates as well. I really hope this is something people will want and if they end up downloading it in droves, I’ll do it again next year. (unless I’m actually there… in which case I’ll most likely do it many days after it’s all over due to being worn the hell out)

Indie69’s April Playlist is coming, hopefully early this time instead of the usual lateness. Enjoy this in the meantime.

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The Dears – Degeneration Street

My expectations for this album were high. Very high. Their last album Missles, for me, was a masterpiece. Others didn’t agree. Most of them, in fact. (maybe even me at first) Even some fans disliked it. (and to demonstrate that, sort of, even in a few of the good reviews of the new album, some show that they are not even paying attention, with comparisons to Coldplay ??!!?? and TV on The Radio, which hints of a non-musical comparison in my humble opinion, if you get my drift) But for me, it was a grow-er, not a show-er. It was subdued, reflective and all the other words you use to describe something not quite as loud and flamboyant as the last thing one of your favorite artists created. The tracks were wonderful, and to me, perfect. But they also held a promise.  A bit like that ugly duckling, except we’re clued in on what that duck really is. Now all we have to do is wait and watch everyone else discover what’s to come. Now that wait is over and The Dears have become part what they were, part what they turned into and part something entirely new. Some have failed to see it that way, sure.  But then again some of those same people prefer to listen to what sounds like the Beach Boys finding a software synth and recording their music in a broom closet with a mini-cassette recorder* with towels over their mouths.  I guess I mean… I wasn’t too surprised. Degeneration Street is in my opinion the culmination of everything The Dears have done right over the years, finally captured and executed fearlessly.

I wanted to wait a period of time before writing anything about this album, I wanted to get inside it and listen to it’s dark corners, to be able to know it rather than just be familiar. I must make a small disclaimer here, I am a Fan. (yes, with a capital F) But this album is too good, too right for this moment in time to discard my opinion just because I’ve loved what they’ve done in the past.

I was first clued in to what was coming when I found THIS video one day on YouTube, a live recording from their residency shows in Mexico City, playing their entire new album for a live audience far before its release. Pretty unheard of. What I saw was new, strong (and loud) material from a band that seemed to be playing as if their lives depended on it, except with wide, knowing grins. There’s a moment in the video when Krief gets a look on his face that seems to be saying “am I here? AND a part of this? Nice!”, a moment that it all seems to have dawned on him. The passion was palpable from just that one video. You could cut the enthusiasm in the room (the band and audience) with a knife. I don’t think you have to be a fan to get chills from watching it for the first time. Then the second, third, and fourth times.  The Dears have never been this good live, period. Close, but no cigar. They have either found their passion again, or they spent some serious time in the “shed”, rehearsing the songs and playing together for hours at a time, for weeks without days off. They sound renewed. And Omega Dog is a perfect example, both its live and studio versions. The drums are front and center, then that familiar guitar kicks in.  It slowly progresses into a grandiose showcase for the guitar-freak-out talents of Patrick Krief perfectly juxtaposed before a bed of tape-strip choir voices/strings in the Mellotron style, then a digital harpsichord overtaken by space-out synth/effect noise and an onslaught of bass and drums. Then the abrupt end. What a pay-off.

This makes way on the album to the more familiar Dearsiness of  “5 Chords”, which delivers the romanticism they’re famous for. Then “Blood”, the second track previewed before the album’s release, (another with a great live version you can see HERE), contains a bit of that different stuff I was mentioning. It’s louder, harder and very in your face while keeping that Dears catchiness and pop genius.  This track really puts it out there, front and center, that this is by far the best sounding Dears album so far. The mix pops in just the right places.  “Thrones” follows strongly in spite of my inability to decipher it lyrically. Perhaps another metaphor for the band’s past troubles? “Lamentation” feels like it would belong on Missiles, at first. But on Missiles the track would have stuck with the tone of the first two minutes, never moving out of it’s (beautiful) comfort zone. Instead it explodes in unexpected directions.  “Torches” is a short interlude (instrumental), leading into what I consider the real standout of the album, “Galactic Tides”.  My god, this is nearly prog! Epic epicness at an epic scale. There’s not much here lyrically, but what is there counts. It feels pessimistic and gloomy, but in a beautiful, large way. As if to cheer us up, next we get “Yesteryear”, an upbeat, uplifting track with a Holland-Dozier-Holland beatstyle.  But with a chorus that would have made those guys flee the room, perhaps even in fear (in a good way, from today’s perspective).  Then in this same track, we have a middle section with a Beatlesque vocal interlude. And on a side note, is it misery or mercy? Or maybe both? In “Stick With Me, Kid”, we get what The Dears are great at, the romantic, triumphant, scream-along-in-the-crowd anthem.

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“I will run, till there’s nowhere left to run.

I will love, till there’s no-one left to love.”

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Trust me, if you ever get the chance to see this one live, you’ll pump your fist in the air and sing along. In the past, this track could have easily aped the lo-fi, back to basics era of Blur, but this is a Dears that has moved past, if not beyond, their influences to arrive in a place of their own. And they deserve credit for it. Damn it. This is one track that ends too soon and probably could have used another minute of sing-along anthemic goodness and some more of that Krief magic at the end.

While “Tiny Man” is probably my least favorite track, musically, it is a great song. It makes me think about the world as it is now, how we can feel like there’s no place to feel.. not necessarily safe.. but truly free to live lives rather than feeling like you’re constantly fighting just to stay alive and healthy within four walls. The lyrics feel like a fantasy escape, perhaps the kind of escape every father or husband fantasizes for his family and loved ones, in which he finally finds a way to protect and shelter, away from the fears and dangers of the world. Where nothing bad happens, materialism never corrupts, and they will want for nothing. An ark into space to planet perfect, where the children can “grow and no-one will know”.

“Easy Suffering” could easily fit on “No Cities Left”, as could “Unsung”,  especially when the change comes and Natalia gets another shot at the mic in the latter. Lovely song, with a Radiohead-esque intro (without aping them) and a nice big finish. So many of these songs seem to me to be talking directly about the band itself, none more-so than “1854”, with it’s common Dears theme of not giving up, no matter what. Echoes of “Never Destroy Us” are present, but subtly. Musically, it’s far away and above that track.

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“We will surrender, at the sight of frozen hell..

and we will surrender, on the last ring of the bell…”

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Another Dears anthem, and it works. Chills. All the way to the strangely familiar sounding ending that I can’t put my finger on. Then there’s that last ring of the bell. Perfect. Of course you cannot ignore the title of the song, which refers to the year of the Kansas-Nebraska act and the first Lincoln-Douglas debate (before they ran against each other), where Lincoln first laid out his reasoned argument against slavery. How it must have felt, knowing that a semblance of freedom may be just around the corner, yet just out of reach. They probably realistically hoped only for their children, or their children’s children. Maybe I’m reading too much into it. In any case, chills again.

The title track ends the album beautifully. What a showcase for Murray’s voice this is. And there’s a guitar bit in there that sounds like a cross between Brain May and Robert Fripp, with a limp.  It all ends far too soon, like so many great things. (unlike this review, har har) And we are left wondering how long it will be before we get another Dears album, as well as who will be on it. I really, really hope they can keep this lineup together this time around. It’s magical. It will be hard to top this one. No, I don’t mean The Dears. I mean everyone else.

It would be far too easy to simply say that The Dears have “matured”, a term usually having more to do with comfort and a kind of settling when it comes to music. A term used by people who still revere their heroes, but are afraid to tell them they’re getting stale. No, I think The Dears are actually late bloomers, just now reaching their peak and finding their real voices. Let’s hope this is just the beginning and we get to keep The Dears around for a long time to come. Long live The Dears.

(you can still download “Blood”  from the Dangerbird site by giving them an e-mail address, and “Omega Dog, as well as other tracks, all over the blogosphere, but really you should buy this masterpiece, as the CD sounds magnificent!)

And this just in! Great live session on KEXP, short interview, 4 songs.

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*The first time I heard one of these, it was interesting. The second and third time is was quaint, a novelty. From the fourth onward, I wanted to claw my ears out with the broken, jagged keys of a Casiotone like a smoke-stained, over-sized plastic q-tip. Enjoy it, embrace it, love it while it’s here, but please stop worshiping it. I’m not putting a name to this genre because far too many good artists have been labeled using the same label as this dreck. So speculate away, bitches. I’m not playing. Lo-fi all you want, but when you use the same instruments, the same settings and the same vocal affectations…even the same beats… it gets real old, real fast. Parts of the 80s were fun, sure. But parts of them were also repetitive, forced and duplicative.

The (unofficial) SXSW 2011 Torrents are out!

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Every year I say to myself … “self, you suck for not going to SXSW this year and you will now promise yourself that you will go next year”. And every next year that arrives finds me sadly talking to myself again instead of getting my lame butt down there to see it all happen in front of me. That’s the bad news. The good news is that while I mumble to myself alone and in crowds each year, somewhere someone is quietly compiling all the free mp3s made available through SXSW’s official website and turning it into a massive Torrent that you can download. So maybe you’re like me and either cannot make it “this time”, or you’re there already and want a piece of the action you’re about to enjoy in person, a piece you can take back home with you. You’re in luck,because said Torrents for 2011 are ready for download, NOW!

SXSW Unofficial Torrents for 2011! (alternate link here, same site diff address)

But careful now, make sure you have the space for it, because these torrents are MASSIVE! So massive, in fact, that I’m compiling my own “best of SXSW even though I can’t be there” top 69 tracks torrent (coming soon). These torrents combined make for a merely huge, barely enormous,

6.58 GIGABYTES!! Holy cow! You can grab it all, or wait a couple of days for my truncated version. Either way you’re in for what will surely be some great musical rewards. I suggest grabbing it all. But rest assured I will not be choosing tracks based solely on my own musical tastes. I will be selecting tracks based on whether or not I think the track or artist sounds like a “sound-alike”. I will also be choosing a wide variety. Chances are if you trust my monthly selections, you’ll be happy with my choices. I’m sure others are doing the same thing. Maybe you should! Nothing stoppin’ ya! Self-mumblers unite!! (and take over)

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