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The Blues is number 1. Talk about the blues – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Findings: 008
I just don’t understand learning without asking questions. I really don’t learn much from lectures, webinars, and just hate step-by-step tutorials. I think this is why I have so much trouble reading. By “trouble reading” I mean reading anything. Text books, news, fiction, whatever. If information is presented to me one way, I really have to ask a question to get it presented to me another way, that way I’ll understand the information as, like, the “space between” the two. Does that make sense? You want me to s

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In addition to the music we own, the way we think to subdivide our music gives a number of clues into our perspective of language, gender, race, and emotion, as well as our work habits. What do you see here? What do you see in your own playlists? List Title: artists Britty: Arctic Monkeys, Ballboy, Blur, Frightened Rabbit, Kate Nash, Keane, The Kooks, Lilly Allen, a few various compilation artists Necessary Hip Hop: Black Star, K’naan, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Organized Konfusion, Restiform Bodies, The Roots, Talib Kweli, a few various compilation artists Not-English: Aaron Copland, Antonio Vivaldi, Bi

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I wish the internet was 15 to 20 years ahead of schedule. If I’d known more music as a teenager I’d have better picked up what my very jazzy guitar teacher was puttin’ down. Sadly, growing up under a musical rock, I knew mostly Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Beatles, and Clapton. Somehow I think Tuck Andress would have kept my head in the game.

A Better Flash Mob
I don’t like musicals. The dancing is pretty silly and never moves me. The stories are ok, but not worth it becasue the lyrics drive me nuts! For similar reasons, I don’t enjoy the all-singing all-dancing flash mobs of the world. This, however, is totally awesome! (Sure, it’s a movie and music video, but this is what those flash mobs think they look like, isn’t it?) Best Coast | When I’m With You via