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What transpired this weekend was a quickie trip to the Twin Cities where I saw two shows. The first was at Club Underground on Friday evening for an all-electro night. Opening was a duo whose performing name was never dropped within range, but no matter. They would likely be happier if I didn’t drop their [...]

Link: Meat Beat Manifesto The Inside Pulse: For a combo that started out as straight industrial, Meat Beat has certainly evolved over the years, incorporating hip-hop elements and gradually turning into a unique soundscape. For At The Center, the band continues their movement towards and focuses on jazz, tossing in a wide variety of samples, [...]

Hi, I’m home! I left Minneapolis at 3:30pm, hit a HUGE traffic backup due to an “incident” that all I could find eventually was two cops who were searching a vehicle (damned midwestern looky-loos slowing shit down) but still got home BEFORE 8:15pm. Yep, even with a bad traffic glitch I still made the trip [...]

Link: Mariah Carey The Inside Pulse: It’s been many a year since Mariah Carey was considered a serious adult contemporary artist. However, as she gets older, she acts younger and younger. The culmination of this behavior is The Emancipation of Mimi, another in a long line of dance-pop oriented R&B/hip-hop releases from Ms. Carey. Her [...]

Link: Nine Inch Nails The Inside Pulse: Even with most of the band’s mainstream fanbase disappointed with The Fragile, Trent Reznor set out not to recreate his earlier success but to grow in new directions with his fourth full-length release, With Teeth. The new direction is almost staggeringly different, as NIN infuses the newly popular [...]

By the way, this CD is so awful that I need to write a review of it ASAP so that I can stop listening to it ASAP. Good christ. I hate spoiling the shit I’m going to write but who the fuck ever told Kelly Osbourne that she could sing? She and Lindsay Lohan. I’ve [...]

New Kids on the Block? Pffft. Okay, so maybe for all of my junior high years, I completely worshipped the New Kids. But so what? I was going to start high school and I had moved on to bigger and better things. Off with the Boston boys and in with, well, any boyishly-looking rocker with [...]

WELCOME TO IP V2, WHEE! I’m still gloomchen and I’m still here, except now they made me a boss. Not Shang Tsung, but I’ll take the Goro spot for now. Anyway. Hope you likey! Back to columny goodness, as there’s not much else going on in the universe aside from me spending my weekend in [...]

I have saved email in Outlook dating back to 1999. Here are some fun giggle pieces of email (and some just plain neat shit) I’ve gotten over the years. From: “Kasim, Sud irman” To: “‘phairgirl@webtv.net’” Cc: “‘phairgirl@hotmail.com’” Subject: DIRMAN FROM INDONESIA Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 15:58:23 +0700 Hello Liz Phair, how are you, I [...]

I was eight years old when I found out Santa Claus wasn’t real. My mom had asked me to come over and sit with her for a bit while she watched television and my younger siblings were settling into bed. We were always a very openly emotional family, so regular cuddling with Mom wasn’t anything [...]