Rejected here. Bummer—78 seconds of unfettered snarky creativity wasted.
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All your future partys are belong to Arnold Dreyblatt and the Orchestra of Excited Strings. Came across him yesterday while researching a review, and both Animal Magnetism and Nodal Excitation are composerly avant-garde sieved through drums and wires.
“8:21″ (mp3) is from 1982’s Excitation, and supposedly [...]

I know I’ve written about this band before, but whatever. I’ll stop from saying too much about Cookies for fear of tainting a few paragraphs I’ll be writing elsewhere, but “Super Legal” (mp3) is one of the b-sides to the wonderful single “Meet Me At the Lights,” so it’s fair game. While the [...]

Now we all get to see three or four songs by Van Morrison. He climaxes, as he always did in those days, with “Cyprus Avenue” from Astral Weeks. After going through all the verses, he drives the song, the band, and himself to a finish which has since become one of his trademarks [...]

The Sopranos: Final Episode (prediction) The most prominent element in Citizen Kane, for me at least, wasn’t the sled. It was the tiny snowglobe for which Kane was so fond—the one that Greg Toland probably spent two months building a lens in order to get the ridiculously deep-focused shot of, in Kane’s hand, [...]

So I’d sorta forgotten that AOL had a music thing, mostly because the only contact I have with them is their instant messaging program and the fact that I edit their internal promotional videos, but I got an email yesterday (from the guy who made it, aw) that pointed me toward this little cartoon thing [...]