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With A Little Help From Above, I May Be Able To Get This Song Out Of My Head

For the past five hours, a piece of music has been lodged in my brain so firmly that nothing I listen to—not even the theme to Hawaii Five-O, which is the ultimate music-eraser—has managed to stop it from looping in my head. And since it's Friday and I, too, am all about spreading the love, I present its video—the extended movie tie-in version, even!—to you in the hopes that you will not only share in my pain, you'll help me find something that will knock it out of my mind. It can even be a worse song! Just please, send help fast. More »

1:05 PM on Fri Nov 9 2007
By mjohnston
699 views, 15 comments

Latest by The old Campion: I find the Star Wars theme to be reliable for me. But it didn't help a friend at work who told me she's repeatedly afflicted with Sammy Davis Jr's "Candyman", so YMMV. more »

But something about this description of the Hug Shirt simultaneously creeped me out and brought a bit of a tear to my eye: "When a friend sends you a virtual hug, your cell phone notifies the shirt wirelessly, via Bluetooth and then the next thing you know is that the shirt re-creates that person's distinctive cuddle, replicating his or her warmth, pressure, duration and even heartbeat. And, yes, the Hug Shirt is fully washable." In case you need to get any misdirected-text-message cooties off of you, no doubt. [LIFT]

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here we go again

"Indie" Has Its 3,764th Existential Crisis; World Shrugs, Goes Back To Downloading Sean Kingston Songs

Today's sentence that had me reaching for the Advil comes from Guardian music blogger Owen Adams: "When is indie genuine indie, when is faux-indie indie, and when is genuine indie not indie?" Yes, folks, that's right: It's time once again to debate the semantics of the word "indie," although perhaps after this week's blow-up over This Is Next (52 comments and counting!) maybe it's time to completely just do away with the whole concept of indie-as-genre—or even as adjective, period—once and for all. More »

2:00 PM on Fri Aug 24 2007
By mjohnston
3,675 views, 34 comments

Latest by TheMojoPin: I gave up trying to sort my CD collection based on genre years ago...it's too damn hard to figure out where the "borders" begin and end. I did, however, kill time doing stupid HF-ish things like grouping everything together by more »