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I keep one playlist on iTunes just for my favorite songs of the moment. Here's what's on the list now:
The Allman Brothers Band
"Dreams"
Charles Mingus
"E's Flat Ah's Flat Too"
Cream
"White Room"
Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Fortunate Son"
Curtis Mayfield
"Move On Up"
Dennis Coffey
"Scorpio"
Elastica
"In The City"
Frank Morey
"Uncle Lefty's Lament"
Gogol Bordello
"Start Wearing Purple"
Grateful Dead
"Franklin's Tower"
The Isley Brothers
"Work To Do"
Jennifer Convertibles
"Speedracer"
Johnny Cash
"The Man Who Couldn't Cry"
Les Negresses Vertes
"Marcelle Ratafia"
Locket
"Dead Pet"
Mano Negra
"King Of Bongo"
Mano Negra
"Ronde De Nuit"
Randy Newman
"God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)"
Solomon Burke
"Baby (I Wanna Be Loved)"
Solomon Burke
"It's Been A Change"
Stevie Wonder
"Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
Stevie Wonder
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
The Temptations
"Cloud Nine"
Tom Waits
"The Piano Has Been Drinking"
Tommy James & The Shondells
"Draggin' The Line"
X
"Nausea"
(October 3, 2005)
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Joshua Tanzer is the founder and editor of Offoffoff.com. He has been a journalist for a really long time and a blogger for a really short time. He likes romantic dinners by candlelight and long walks on the beach. His turnoffs are regressive tax policy and mean people. Being of mixed French, German and Russian ancestry makes him feel like an honorary member of the Axis of Evil.
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Picture of the week #6: Portland
My picture-a-week resolution didn't work out that well, considering it's December and I'm on week 6. (And not planning to take pictures in the near future.)
Still, I have a few leftovers from earlier in the year, and I was kind of tickled by this one. Strange thing about going back to hometown Portland after not having lived there in 18 years — it really isn't the same place anymore. The neighborhoods have changed, the businesses . . . [more]
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Techs' appeal
Conversation overheard among some 20-something white-collar types getting acquainted in a Seattle Starbucks:
Guy: So, do you work for Microsoft or Amazon?
Gal: Microsoft.
Guy: Oh, cool. . . . [more]
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Tempus Puget
The weird thing about Seattle is that it has this trendy mystique around the country but when I'm here I can't help seeing everything that's wrong with the place. Maybe that's because I . . . [more]
RANDOM THOUGHTS |
Blogger's block
I sort of lost the will to write this spring, and haven't really done the blog thing since then. I still don't know whether I have the time or inclination, but in the absence of any current-day inspiration, I thought I would go back and post a few . . . [more]
| Week of December 18, 2005 |
| | NEWS | Cheney in Iraq
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| Week of November 20, 2005 |
| | NEWS | Bush in Mongolia
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| Week of April 3, 2005 |
| | NEWS | Submission accomplished
FILM | Prince and repeat
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| Week of March 27, 2005 |
| | NEW YORK | Things not permitted in the Port Authority
PICTURES | Picture a week #5: Central Park, early spring
NEWS | John Paul's peace
TRAVEL | Catch twenty-shoe
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| Week of March 6, 2005 |
| | POLITICS | The increasingly hollow Holocaust
FOOD | R.I.P.izza
JOURNALISM | Perils of passive voice
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| Week of February 20, 2005 |
| | NEW YORK | Curtains for Christo
POLITICS | So which is it?
IRAQ | Interesting story of the day #3
POLITICS | Interesting story of the day #2
NEW YORK | Interesting story of the day #1
MEDIA/ADVERTISING | We hate to spell and it shows
MUSIC | Scammy Grammy
NEW YORK | A noted Authority
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| Week of January 30, 2005 |
| | PICTURES | Picture a week #4: Santa Monica
TRAVEL | Cha Cha Chicken
TRAVEL | Santa Monica airport
TRAVEL | Zero Charlie Delta
PICTURES | Picture a week #3: San Francisco
TRAVEL | San Francisco
WORK | The streak ends!
POLITICS | Sorry, we just spent your Social Security in Fallujah
POLITICS | Polish joke
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| Week of January 9, 2005 |
| | FILM | Old hobbits die hard
NEWS | It's hard work
EVENTS OF THE DAY | Wait, uh, dude, I totally take that back
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| Week of January 2, 2005 |
| | FILM | Everyone's a critic
NEWS | Two's just a coincidence
PICTURES | Picture a week #2: Midtown Manhattan
FILM | Wrapped in kaleidoscopic cool
EVENTS OF THE DAY | The worst of Times Square
NEWS | Happy meal
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| Week of December 26, 2004 |
| | PICTURES | Picture a week #1: Hoboken
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