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Morning Earworm: No idea why this has been stuck in my head all day but no complaints. This song feels timeless to me, it feels hard to imagine a time without it. But it also came out long before I was born, so.

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Morning Earworm: This is not in the bonkers 1995 tech-thriller Virtuosity, but it sounds like it could have been. At least that's what my brain seems to think, since I have this stuck in my head after watching it last night. And now I keep mentally mashing it up with GHLOW's "Lost My Mind," which I think works somewhat well! Fell off of these for a while, but for obvious reasons Lily Allen's "Fuck You" was stuck in my head for a full week recently.

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Morning Earworm: It's flipped back and forth between this, one of Liam's favorite songs he wrote for the band, and "Walking in the Wind." The lyrics in that one really hit differently now.

Thanks for the songs and the memories, Liam.

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Morning Earworm: This was on my brain this morning thanks to KEXP's countdown of the top 500 opening tracks of all time. this came on while I was listening to the top 200ish or so tracks, I believe, and it just sounded so GOOD after all these years. I saw Marika Hackman in concert yesterday so I thought "Big Sigh" or some such would be on the brain, but nope! It's a song from 16 years ago!

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Morning Earworm: Saw these guys for the tenth time since 1998 last night. I hadn't expected them to play this song, figured it would only be their hits. I grabbed by boyfriend and yelled OHMYGOD when I heard this intro. It was my boyfriend's first show of theirs, he enjoyed it, was surprised at the number of songs he recognized. Makes me happy. Means I can bring him take him to the eleventh...whenever I'm lucky enough for that to be.

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Morning Earworm: I rediscovered this song on an old mixtape (are there new mixtapes?) a year or so ago and listen to it every so often now. I love the starkness of it; really moody and beautiful. I first heard it, of course, on 97x (BAM!).

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Morning Earworm: Favorite album of the year? Maybe!

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Morning Earworm for days/the year: I keep getting this stuck in my head. It's months and I keep returning to it. In the running for my favorite song of the year. I've liked everything I've heard off the album, too. Picking it up here on Sept 6 for Bandcamp Friday.

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Morning Earworm: I did a horrible job of keeping up when The Afghan Whigs released How Do You Burn? in 2022. But I'm seeing them on Friday and their set list seems to mostly be stuff from this album and their 2017 release, so I gave this a listen on a long drive two days ago. I haven't seen this song on recent set lists; looks like they played it a lot in 2022 (when I didn't see them). Which sucks because ahhhhhh this fucking song! Great to play driving on the highway. It's also stuck in my head while I make coffee in this small rented cabin. Ha.

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Morning Earworm: Saw this last night and you better believe it was the first thing on my mind today.

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Morning Earworm: This song has gotten stuck in my head all day off and on for two weeks. I love the reverb-y piano bit. This album is in the running to be my favorite of the year.

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Can't beat the real thing.

The Real Crow

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Morning Earworm: Listened to this for the first time in a while and now it's on my brain this morning because it's perfect.

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Morning Earworm: I have not been as obsessed with an album start to finish as much as this one in a long, long time. I'm making an effort to listen to more new music this year, rather than new-to-me music (which has value but for years I've been lost in a haze of '90s shoegaze I missed as a teen) and holy hell, thank you KEXP for introducing me SPRINTS. Here's their Bandcamp.

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Don't surrender.

Did you know?

Democrats have won the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections going back to 1992? The only time the GOP has won the popular vote in the last 36 years in a presidential election was in 2004, and it was a pretty narrow margin. This was a wartime election and the first election post-9/11. The Democratic candidate was the unfortunately uninspiring John Kerry, who had been lied about. You know how in politics we say someone has been "swiftboated" when a successful lie is told about them? That term originates with the 2004 election because a bunch of people concocted an elaborate lie about John Kerry's military service. He wasn't super inspiring as a candidate, but that was the worst thing he did. He wasn't a bad guy. He was just running in a very gross, jingoistic time after the worst terror attack in American history, and had a bunch of successful lies told about him to the point where a whole word about a specific kind of lie was invented about it. THIS is the only time since 1988 that the Republican party has won the popular vote. George W. Bush did not win the popular vote in 2000. The Supreme Court ordered that votes stop being counted in Florida and handed the victory to Bush.

Donald Trump has never ever won the popular vote. The electoral college handed him the victory in 2016, less than 15,000 votes across three states decided the election. Hillary Clinton in total won about 3.7 million more votes than Donald Trump. Trump HATES hearing this number. He hates even more that Joe Biden got about 7 million more votes. He hates even more that you bring up the fact that he lost his midterm elections for his party in 2018, badly. And that the "Red Wave" in 2022 did not happen because of backlash at his Supreme Court. Or that in 2023 voters continued to reject his Supreme Court at the polls.

He knows, the Republicans know, that if more people vote, they lose. They don't want small d democracy. They want authoritarianism. They want to suppress it.

So when you get cute about not wanting to vote, you're not doing activism. You're surrendering.

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Morning Earworm: Listened to this five or six time yesterday. It's catchy as hell so of course it's on my brain this morning.

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Morning Earworm: Like anyone else post-Saltburn watch, I have this song stuck in my head. I didn't like it when I first heard it weeks ago, but now that I've actually seen the movie, it's sticking with me whether I like it or not. But I like it enough.

The movie, however...I'd heard mixed things from friends but I was a sucker for that pretty trailer. But I ended up not liking it despite wanting to. Spoiler alert (I know the zero people reading this are here for movie critiques), but reviews kept mentioning how the main character was like Tom Ripley, and I think that's a big spoiler! Says a lot about the character and what he gets away with. And I finally read The Talented Mister Ripley for the first time last month, so it was really on my brain while watching. Not this movie was an adaptation. I'm not dinging points for that. I'm dinging points for it being hollow.

But Rosamund Pike's line about how she knows "Common People" was not written about her was fantastic.