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111 Wussiest Songs of All Time
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Wes Phillips  |  Dec 04, 2006  |  1 comments
Some questionable calls here. "Daydream Believer?" Did Boyce and Hart ever write a wussy song? Also some good advice: "Waltz time is a direct, foolproof route to wussiness."
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12 Iconic Designs
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Wes Phillips  |  May 03, 2006  |  5 comments
Business Week lauds 12 modern products that so perfectly encapsulated new manufacturing techniques or materials that they remain classics years later. It's a strange list.
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12 Tones, No Waiting?
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Wes Phillips  |  Jun 27, 2007  |  0 comments
Does the Western 12-tone scale represent every tone possibility? Oh, grasshopper, you have so much to learn.
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13 Lamest Songs Evah!
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Wes Phillips  |  Nov 01, 2005  |  2 comments
I love lists like this. What are your candidates?
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137-Year-Old Submarine Discovered
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Wes Phillips  |  Apr 24, 2006  |  0 comments
Actually, people knew it was there, they just didn't realize what it was. Be sure to check out the photo gallery.
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15 Book-to-Film Adaptations That Live Up to the Source Material
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Wes Phillips  |  Jul 20, 2006  |  0 comments
What, no Angels and Insects? No Blade Runner? No Giant? Okay, I'm wrong about Giant—I've always over-rated it because it was almost exclusively made up of boring parts, so I got to make out with my girlfriend in the movie theater for nearly three hours. Now that was a visceral cinematic experience.
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15 lb. Cat in a 10 lb. Box
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Wes Phillips  |  Mar 03, 2006  |  1 comments
"These things used to be roomier," Huckleberry grouses.
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187 of the Greatest Hits by the Twelve Tone Masters
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Wes Phillips  |  Feb 23, 2006  |  1 comments
Alex Ross links to this fabulously funny informercial hawking the International Mattias Bamert Society's collection of the catchiest twelve-tone rows ever! Alban, Arny, and Anton—they're triple-Ariffic!
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1976?
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Wes Phillips  |  Nov 21, 2006  |  0 comments
Over at Locust St., the blog has been featuring an ongoing series called "100 Years (in Ten Jumps)." It's good stuff, but I'm particularly in awe of the entry "1976," which links such disparate artists as Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Anthony Braxton, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, and The Ramones.
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20 Easy Rules for Writing about Country Music the Way the Pros Do It!
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Wes Phillips  |  Jun 05, 2006  |  3 comments
Remind you of anybody? Heck yes, just about everybody!
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