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	<description>Courtney muses on music, burritos and life&#039;s little mysteries</description>
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		<title>Music I Love: Nite Jewel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been making my top ten list of records for 2009 since about January when the Animal Collective album came out. I&#8217;m that kind of a nerd and I don&#8217;t want rehabilitation for it, thank you. There are several things that will make the list that everyone who knows much about music outside of Lady [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=159&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/music-i-love-nite-jewel/</link>
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		<title>Shining Musical Moments from John Hughes&#8217; &#8217;80s Teen Masterworks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross posted with more media on The Playlist.

In honor of the late, always great director John Hughes we at The Playlist put together a collection for you of his greatest movie music moments from some of his greatest &#8217;80s teen movies. For a lot of us John Hughes in the &#8217;80s was the expression of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=149&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/shining-musical-moments-from-john-hughes-80s-teen-masterworks/</link>
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		<title>Twilight Conference Recap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to TwiCon in Dallas this past weekend. I spoke on a panel about the music of Twilight. Marah of Bloodshot Records organized our panel and, along with Angela at Wired and Genevive at The Onion, we planned for months what to talk about. Some of us were very nervous, which only increased when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=145&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/twilight-conference-recap/</link>
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		<title>Invisible (a band, not a feeling)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems one of my favorite albums from 2009 still shows no movement towards being released in the U.S. (or such is the word from inside the UK label who initially signed them). If you haven&#8217;t yet listened to the Invisible then please sit down a moment and let me tell you about how great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=142&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/invisible-a-band-not-a-feeling/</link>
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		<title>The Jonas Brothers Are Not the New Beatles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan McGee, in his never ending wisdom that seems to get less wise as he gets older, recently posted a blog on the Guardian about The Monkees, the Jonas Brothers and Britney Spears that I assume had some sort of point about credibility in music which he never got around to actually making. It reminded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=137&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/the-jonas-brothers-are-not-the-new-beatles/</link>
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		<title>Song Obsession: Dri &#8220;You Know I Tried&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having a total song obsession right now with Dri&#8217;s &#8220;I Know You Tried.&#8221; I want to listen to it over and over. So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying to figure out:
1) How did this album come out in 2007 and the first I heard of it wasn&#8217;t until the end of 2008, and then it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=133&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/song-obsession-dri-you-know-i-tried/</link>
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		<title>P.J. Harvey Scores Mary-Louise Parker&#8217;s Broadway &#8220;Hedda Gabler&#8221;</title>
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Cross posted on The Playlist.
Broadway is bringing us the perfect storm of three crazy women in one play: P.J. Harvey, Mary-Louise Parker and Hedda Gabler. Jim Farber reports that P.J. Harvey has written the score to director Ian Rick-son&#8217;s new production of &#8220;Hedda Gabler,&#8221; opening in New York this Sunday.
The score is reportedly based on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=131&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/pj-harvey-scores-mary-louise-parkers-broadway-hedda-gabler/</link>
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		<title>Ryan Gosling Gets Cool Band, New Movies, Kind of Rules Right Now</title>
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Cross posted on The Playlist. 
Generally speaking, when actors decide to have music side projects there are no amount of snide remarks that adequately capture the stunning self-indulgent, needless stupidity and absolute terribleness of their musical results. In the case of Dead Man&#8217;s Bones, a new band featuring Ryan Gosling (&#8220;Half-Nelson&#8221; and &#8220;Lars and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=129&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/ryan-gosling-kind-of-rules-right-now/</link>
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		<title>Day Five &#8211; Palm Springs, CA to Los Angeles, CA Via Joshua Tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the delay in posting this! I&#8217;d like to blame Internet troubles but really I&#8217;m just lazy.
On my fifth day I took the very round about way from Palm Springs to L.A. with a circular detour through Joshua Tree National Park. However, before leaving Palm Springs I lounged around my hotel&#8230;and lounged&#8230;and lounged. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=122&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/day-five-palm-springs-ca-to-los-angeles-ca-via-joshua-tree/</link>
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		<title>Day Four &#8211; Tucson, AZ to Palm Springs, CA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parting Tucson was such sweet sorrow &#8211; I actually liked it a lot. Granted, I only saw a bit of it because that 7 1/2 hour drive made me very sleepy and cranky but the parts I did see and the people I met were lovely. I like how the mountains surrounding the city are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=109&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/day-four-tucson-az-to-palm-springs-ca/</link>
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		<title>Road Trip &#8211; Day Three &#8211; Marfa, TX to Tucson, AZ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sat on my butt too long today and now I think I&#8217;m crippled. Well, I&#8217;m at least emotionally crippled.
Follow my route today.
So I peaced out of Marfa really early today. And by really early I mean 9AM. It was COLD! 34 degrees &#8211; but the weather report on TV predicted El Paso would hit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=94&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/road-trip-day-three-marfa-tx-to-tucson-az/</link>
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		<title>Road Trip &#8211; Day Two &#8211; Kerrville, TX to Marfa, TX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the delay on getting this up &#8211; a wind storm in Marfa (allegedly) knocked out the Internet at my hotel, including ethernet (allegedly). I&#8217;ll get to that by and by&#8230;
I started off on Tuesday with no idea of what the landscape for the day would look like exactly, never having seen it firsthand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=89&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/road-trip-day-two-kerrville-tx-to-marfa-tx/</link>
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		<title>Road Trip &#8211; Day One &#8211; Montgomery, TX to Kerrville, TX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I checked the weather report before I left Montgomery this morning and it predicted super cold (in the low 40s) and cloudy all day &#8211; so I opted to stay in bed with the puppies and watch TV until 10AM and not leave the house until 11AM. Total lazy ass start to my halfway-cross-country trip. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=78&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/road-trip-day-one-montgomery-tx-to-kerrville-tx/</link>
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		<title>My Top Ten Albums of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Los Campesinos! &#8220;Hold On Now Youngster&#8221; (Arts &#38; Crafts)
Interestingly the press described this Los Camps record as twee, but it&#8217;s not any one thing &#8211; it&#8217;s twee/emo/punk/pop and completely heart wrenching. I love everything about this record &#8211; the pop hooks, the drawn out pauses between songs and most of all the lyrical references. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=59&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/my-top-ten-albums-of-2008/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Day The Earth Stood Still&#8221; Is A Typical Summer Blockbuster Released in Dead of Winter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Cross posted on The Playlist]
There was very little chance that &#8220;The Day The Earth Stood Still&#8221; was going to be a good movie. We were, at best, hoping for something on par with &#8220;Independence Day&#8221; or &#8220;Armageddon&#8221; (or at least &#8220;Starship Troopers&#8221;). With Keanu Reeves apparently cast as an alien who feels no human emotions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com&blog=4323748&post=56&subd=howsthatworkingout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://howsthatworkingout.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-is-a-typical-summer-blockbuster-released-in-dead-of-winter/</link>
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