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Kim Powers <kpowers11@gmail.com>

Pop! Goes the Culture - 1/30

Kim Powers <kpowers11@gmail.com>Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:33 PM

To: Kim Powers <kpowers11@gmail.com>Crossfires:(Foosball for the non-athletic kids.)Hey there Pop'sms! and Hey there end of January! Welcome back to another edition of Pop! Goes the Culture, nowfortified with calcium (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiY8grQdvAE

)!Before we get started with this week's Pop!, I'd like to address a very serious epidemic that is taking America bystorm. Yes, I'm talking about FOF - family on facebook. It started out small - your brothers, sisters, maybe your cousin who's a year older and once bought you beer. But all of a sudden - BAM! Your uncle. BAM! Your cousin'scousins that you secretly had a crush on but were afraid to tell someone because you honestly didn't know if theywere considered "family". BAM!...your grandma?All of these relatives, clogging up your walls with stories about your childhood, posting awkward pictures from your childhood. Everything you were hoping to keep private on one of the post public forums of online posted - exposedto people who were in your freshman year intro to comm class that you spoke to once. How does one deal?Poppers!, fear not. I've had this conversation with many over the past couple of weeks, and have concluded thebest strategy: familybook. Create an entirely separate networking site and the only way you can be connected is if

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you are related. That way your Aunt Mae can post all the pictures she wants of you naked in a bathtub picking your nose. Your relatives will feel they are connected to you, but you can still keep private your drunk eyes fromSaturday night.Of course, you could always limit your relatives privacy function so they don't see your whole profile and theywould never know the difference...I mean, not like I do that for any of my relatives.*While you decide how best to proceed in these uncertain facebook posting times, let's get started, shall we?*/end super sarcasm intro. I would never, ever make fun of my relatives on facebook and/or limit their view of myprofile. Totally. Never.

Music:Mixtape Link:http://www.mediafire.com/?1mq1o1gjnxe

(voyeur raccoon sees all)1) The Voyeurshttp://www.myspace.com/wearethevoyeursYes. When I first heard this band, that was the word that kept on running through my mind. I hadn't heard of their

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former project, E>K>U>K, but Jonathan Hylander and Sean Johnson make very good musical partners. A greatblend of driving, jazzy rock, they have been gaining lots of buzz in Los Angeles, and just released their debutalbum "Well Known Drag" this past week.What really sells me on this group is the vocal layering of Hylander and Johnson. Their harmonies sound great - justa really, really solid blending of their voices. I think this band will start making waves this year.2) Effi Briesthttp://www.myspace.com/effibriestEarfarm recently posted a great collection of Brooklyn bands to look out for in 2009, one of whom were Effi Briest.Once I saw the band was made up of seven chicks, I knew I had to check them out - either they'd be a kitschyconcoction or a super rad traveling band of gypsies. Thankfully, they are in the latter.Named after a Theodor Fontane novel, it sounds like the band is still finding its main sound. Their songs dancethrough everything from new wave to tribal chants to your good 'ol indie rock. But every song has a great balance -you don't feel lik e there's a wasted member or part to a song, which bodes well for their future.Track Listing:1. Blind Man's Colour - The Warm Current's Pull (recommended by Mr. Kanye)2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Is This Love?3. Crime in Choir - Octopus in the Piano4. Effi Briest - Mirror Rim5. Effi Briest - The Newlywed Song6. Glasser - Apply7. Gustaf Spetz - You and Me8. Harlem - South of France9. Jacuzzi Boys - Island Avenue10. Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye11. Real Estate - Black Lake12. Sergios Mendes & Brazil '66 - Mas Que Nada13. The Voyeurs - Things People Say14. The Voyeurs - Why Why Why15. Wilco - I'm The Man Who Loves You

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(I'll try and stretch any connection to make a "more cowbell" joke)Dead Like Me: Life After DeathDead Like Me was a deadly (ahahaha - get it?) good show that ran on Showtime for two seasons I think back in03-04? starring Ellen Muth as sarcastic 18-year-old George Lass who, after being killed by being hit with a toilet

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