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My pop habit
Posted by Billy K. on August 5, 2008 around 11am

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Or: How I learned to stop worrying and kind of like Bono

As I’ve grown older, I’ve become more omnivorous in my listening habits. No longer do I rely so heavily on the guitar-heavy indie rock I came of age with — I’ve expanded to jazz and funk and [gasp!] even electronica, which, due to its being the opposite of guitar-heavy indie rock, I had long suspected was not ‘real’ music. But the real difficulty for me as a listener has been coming to terms with my guiltier pleasures. Pop was my enemy, or so I thought, but in the last couple years I’ve been trying real hard to make friends. These days, Lil’ Wayne happily shares space on my iPod alongside Les Savy Fav and Lou Reed, and I’m okay with that. Honesty is healing. With that in mind, here are four more forbidden loves I need to get off my chest.
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From Russia with eyeliner
Posted by Billy K. on July 24, 2008 around 4pm

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Not merely content with suppressing Chechen insurgents, playing hardball with George W. Bush over his proposed European-based missile defense system and, erm, supplying James Bond with four sweet, sweet decades of Cold War-era job security, Russia today turned a hostile eye toward its most insidious adversary yet — emo kids.

Worried about the future of a youth populace growing up on bands like My Chemical Romance, legislators are considering a “Government Strategy in the Sphere of Spiritual and Ethical Education” which, according to London’s The Guardian, would involve “heavy regulation of emo websites and the banning of emo and goth fashion from schools and government buildings.”
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