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Joe Hawley's Xmas Tune

Tally Hall's future is uncertain but Joe Hawley treats us to some brief Christmas joy.

Spotify Instructions

1. Get software: https://www.spotify.com/int/download/

2. Proxy your ISP: http://www.daveproxy.co.uk -- enter spotify.com

3. Create account with a UK postcode (SN1 1EL is Swindon... Home of XTC).

(Done.)

Wow.

I have no words for this but WoW.

And this.

And, uh, these.

Fields of Gold

I'm a purist when it comes to covers, but this girl just rocks.

All Quiet On The Noise Floor

New Jason Falkner... He's finally submitted to a producer: the brilliant David Holmes (you know him from the funky-cool Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen soundtracks, on which Jason Falkner played funky-cool bass).

UPDATE: I received my copy and JF did pretty much everything. With or without an outside producer, he's still amazing.

Welcome To Tally Hall

If you're a fan of Fountains Of Wayne, Jellyfish, Cake, They Might Be Giants and/or Beck, Tally Hall will surprise and delight you.

The CCM Phrasebook of Doom

Words and phrases commercial christian songwriters should stop using:

• count the cost
• laid down his life (for his friends, or anyone else)
• so that others might anything
• greatest love
• no turning back
• let your will be done
• begotten
• thy
• shall
• any combination of open, eyes, and heart
• grace falling as if it were precipitation (thanks @GKX)
• I long to... (thanks @GKX)

Anything I should add?

Seth Meyer - SNL News

"The Iranian government this week demanded an apology from Hollywood saying the films 300 and The Wrestler were insulting to Iranians. Well, how about this, Iran? You apologize for the hostage crisis, pursuing nuclear weapons, high gas prices, financing Hamas, denying the Holocaust and setting fire to the Danish Embassy because of a couple of cartoons and then you'll get your apology for The Wrestler."

I need a better case.

After destroying yet another gig bag, I've decided to buy something of a better quality. Monocases are cool. I want one.