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Is your hipster cred waning? Having trouble keeping up with the indie scene? Getting bored of the same old "mainstream" indie and looking for some new candles? Or are you just really pretentious and want to be the most obscure kid on the bloc?If you answered yes to any of these questions or picked up on the dcfc/bloc party references then here's a hobby I would suggest for you:Sign up on last.fm

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I was reading up on the Dire Strait's history on wikipedia and listening to "Romeo and Juliet" and I noticed their member list was quite diverse. Subsequently the question came to my mind, "At what point is a band not the same because of shifting members?" In the Dire Straits example it's not too drastic because they did keep the lead singer(Mark Knopfler) and bassist(John Illsey) but at the same

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I've been dawning on this kind of realization that what I'm searching for isn't really getting my "hipster cred" and hanging out with my "indie" friends. Stereotypes aside, what really embodies the concept of "indie" has gone beyond alternative rock music. You could classify it by the hipster/scenester crowd and groups like Flaming Lips and Bloc Party but that's really only breaking the surface;

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I recently spilled a bag of packaging peanuts that was in my room and the little foam objects went everywhere, hundreds of them. I thought to myself, "What is the use of these things? They don't accomplish anything REALLY(or at least that something much better couldn't do), they destroy the environment by sitting in landfills and getting eaten by small animals, and they're a general pain in the

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after the renaissance, logic and "free thinking" have overcome just about every control society has had on the world. weve formed governments that represent the people, weve made life easier with technology, and created the middle class all of which made life "better" in most concrete aspects. but with the "improvements" came the dangers of powerful technology and eventually weaponry. besides

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you want to know what indie is? A true hipster listens to obscure music, discusses it with their hipster friends, and pushes away other "mainstream" music saying how "pretentious" it is. The more hardcore hipsters where tight jeans, converse, and usually band t-shirts from thrift stores. Others go for sweaters and collared shirts and sometimes scarves. If you wear these things that it does not

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Funcom announced today that they're pushing the release of Age of Conan back (again) to March 25, 2008. With this push Age of Conan will have officially been delayed three years and I doubt the community is responding too well to that. Now the game will be releasing just behind Warhammer Online which may affect sales if people decide to invest in it instead. This push doesn't come as much of a

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I came across this website a few days and was astonished at what it suggested. Essentially what you do is sign up and install the Viewbar™ and browse the internet like you normally would. You accumulate hours of browsing (up to 5 monthly) and receive the money that is being payed as you surf. You see, every time you search, download a file, upload pictures and videos, and generally browse the

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I've thought about the differences between being wise and being intelligent. I am reading a recent essay from Paul Graham entitled "Is It Worth Being Wise?" and he says that wisdom is knowing what to do in certain situations while intelligence is well....quite similar but there are some gray areas. I've always thought that wisdom was much different from knowledge or intelligence. Wisdom is being

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I've been beginning to make up some songs on guitar and bass, starting to think about that solo project. I came up with Face First Into the Sky as a name for something....maybe an album or song, i dunno. Once I find/get some proper recording apparatus I'll start putting together the songs and try to make up some words.

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So I was just urbaning up on some random stereotypes and I came upon scenester. The descriptions seemed pretty accurate but the pictures had me torn. At first I was thinking, "that's hardly scene, that's called emo...just needs some Dashboard Confessional and guys in their girlfriend's jeans," but then I realized, emo IS scenester. I mean, there's certainly a difference, but there isn't really

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The last paintball extravaganza ended in my marker freezing up....i took it apart and set it in front of the fire and fixed a couple things that were wrong with it. I think I've decided it best to just replace it. I'll definetly keep my Rebel '02 but I'm lookin for a cheap sniper, there's a decent Spyder at the locals Dick's that i might buy for myself (birthday is tomorrow 3/15). The list of

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Well first of all I just finished reading an interview with the Game Director for Age of Conan:http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=146522I've been looking at it for awhile, trying to decide on my next MMO, and it sounds like an amazing game! Much more action and story oriented than most cliche, point-and-click, grind-your-ass-off, WoW clones that are around the market these days,

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Ever needed to search google but didn't feel like it was exciting, fun, or deadly enough? Well try ninja.com!

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For those of you who have trouble getting up in the morning...hitting the snooze button five times in a row...here's a clock that runs away from you when it goes off and forces you to get up and chase it. Better chance of you actually getting up ;)http://www.nandahome.com/products.clocky.html

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So with the course selections for this semester I've been thinking about the types of careers available to me in the future. Despite my love, and skill...I don't like to be vain, for music I don't see it as a career path. The next thing would be Business. Definitly a future there, Accounting is always a good position, I could even go into Music Business & Management I'd just rather do something

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Well I've been getting back into gaming lately...plenty of Unreal Tournament 2004 and Minion of Mirth. I should be getting a new, Windows, computer custom made. Probable just gonna build it myself. Gonna try and get Everquest 2. Can't wait for some news on Hero's Journey. Looks like it could be a great game with that unique engine that they built, the MMO market needs some fresh ideas.On the

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We finally got a gig, after all of those tries over the past year it might work out. We had a small time slot at a local coffee shop, Peaberrie's, they've got open mic nights every week so we might keep doing that. Our cover of One went well and our guitarist, Mike, played one of his own songs. Hopefully we can start going to the Teen Center's acoustic shows, would be fun, but they usually don't

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Feelin' good about Infrastructure, we recorded a cover of One by U2 over the weekend, I hate the bongo part I made up (it was a 20 min job anyways) so i invented a new one and it sounds a lot better, were gonna record it this week. Hopefully Michelle decides to start writing her own songs...The current version is here:http://www.purevolume.com/infrastructureThinkin about getting a stratocaster,

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I found this iPhone spoof on core77.com via notcot.org. Pretty funny, a phone scotch taped to an iPod, recently sold on eBay.Well I was talking to a friend of mine, a member of both of my bands, and he was thinking about ending Suave and the Normies. The past few rehearsals have been total busts. We do have some talent in the group but we just don't fit together well. We all have different styles

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It's official, the iPhone has been announced and is suspected to be available in June. This is an amazing piece of equipment, too many features to say. All it is is a 3.5" screen and one button, the rest you just use your finger on the special "Multi-Touch" touch screen. You can use all the basic phone functions(phone calls, texting, contacts...) along with iPod functions, Safari (web browsing),

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Well, me and a member of my current band decided to break off and start our own little conglomeration of music. We found someone who can sing (something we were lacking in SatN..) and plan to do some kind of Neutral Milk Hotel, Sonic Youth style stuff. I myself will mainly be on drums and various percussion instruments along with piano and the occasional bass part (I'm a one man rhythm section) ,

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Totally my idle. Or maybe that's just a summary of my life..either one.Yeah that's possibly the best webcomic ever..Questionable Content. You should read it.Not much happenin lately. Joined this site www.lost.eu its pretty cool, check it out. You can join (and help me get more points) at www.lost.eu/1504eFound out about some new bands from my brother...some of em are pretty good.The FormatMurder

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Four days til christmas! Always a good thought. Will be gettin my bass, can't wait, it is such a fun instrument. My band, Suave and the Normies has been working on some tunes, namely one Raconteurs-esque one. We don't have any lyrics or titles yet but they're some nice jams that we could work on. We don't have our own Purevolume quite yet but here's one of the guitarists in SatN, my friend Mike:

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This concert was pretty sick...lineup was Five for Fighting, Daughtry, KT Tunstall, Smashmouth, Goo Goo Dolls, Barenaked Ladies, and Guster. We had a fun time, the two or three rows of people that I was with ended up going down near the floor (I wish we had gone all the way up to the stage) and went pretty much crazy, there was a lot of drunk people around us, lot of spillt beer, and what smelled

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Well my band, SatN(Suave and the Normies), got together finally this weekend. We played some nice tunes...RHCP stuff...i busted out the brushes for some Chasing Cars and How to Save a Life (for those of you who don't know I'm a drummer). We also worked on a jam we've been piecing together. I hope it turns into something good...with a little more structure it could be an excellent song. It starts

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Last tuesday Blizzard released their latest patch "Before the Storm". With the patch came MANY great fixes. Spells were changed, all talent points are redistributable, and a new honor system was added. Also, the obnoxious LFG channel has been replaced by a program that apparently allows you to put yourself into a kind of LFG system...i don't really know how it works I haven't had a chance to try

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http://www.indiecult.com/This is a relatively new review site, started this year, that focuses on Indie Cult content including music, movies, and books. Their reviews differ from most other review sites because they don't use any kind of rating system, they feel that a numerical system doesn't do justice to truly great artists and that it's actually insulting them. They also don't limit the

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I was shown this excellent musician on YouTube today. He's got about 10 videos of songs, mostly ones he wrote, and they're all extremely well done. This one happens to be called Sentimental which I liked a lot. One of the covers he has done is of Third Eye Blind's "How' it Going to Be" if your at all interested in them.If you want to check him out you can see the rest of his videos at:http://

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I've decided to venture into the world of the blog, as you can see, though I'm not quite sure what I'll be talking about. I'm sure I can find some lovely topics to discuss. I spend a lot of time surfing the web and enjoying music so expect plenty of opinions on some of my favorite bands, some more obscure than others. Hope this turns out to be a fun experience!

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