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News of the TPE World October 28th, 2004

Album listened to this morning:
Jimmy Eat World Futures

Still feeling a little congested, but not as bad as yesterday. I should be back to 100% by tomorrow. I better be since I'm planning on seeing Ted Leo/Pharmacists tomorrow night.

NME is talking about Band Aid III this morning. Sounds like a nice line-up.

I don't know if this is as earth-shaking as when Kiss took off their make-up in the early 1980s, but this sounds kinda interesting.

As a fan of commentary tracks, I find The Onion AV Club's Commentary Tracks of the Damned highly entertaining. I've heard a lot of good tracks but there have been ones that were very dry, slow, boring and downright silly. This is like a public service for film geeks.

I haven't seen or know very much about Primer, but I think it's cool that it was filmed around here. The Onion AV Club has an interview with the film's director, Shane Carruth this week.

Mike Shumaker of Hey Mercedes has a blog now. Very nice.

No big plans for Halloween. My neighbors have done an admirable job of decorating their houses. One has a large spider over the balcony. Another one has drapes with jack-o-lantern eyes in the front. I wonder what Christmas decorations they have up their sleeves.

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