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I only have seven songs I could think of without falling into a panic of stress pressure so I am probably bogusing up the theme but this is how I roll

2010-12-22T22:13:00.001-08:00

My Top Songs of this year. Not necessarily from this year, just of this year. You know what I fucking mean.

Lavender Diamond 'Open Your Heart'

Neko Case 'Middle Cyclone' (please ignore this terrible video- just listen)

Yeasayer 'Tightrope'

Jay Z '99 Problems'

Florence and the Machine 'Cosmic Love'

Ryan Adams 'To Be Young'

Mountain Man 'Animal Tracks'

2010: a bass odyssey

2010-12-17T11:27:00.000-08:00

here's how my ears felt about the year.

t--e--s' Top 10 Live Shows of 2010
10. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - Sunset Junction (aug)
09. Hercules & Love Affair - Echoplex (jul)
08. Matthew Dear - Vanguard (nov)
07. Four Tet - Echoplex (feb)
06. DJ Koze - Heaven (nov)
05. Jonsi - The Wiltern (oct)
04. The XX - Music Box (jun)
03. Hot Chip - Hollywood Bowl (oct)
02. LCD Soundsystem - Hollywood Palladium (jun)
01. LCD Soundsystem - Hollywood Bowl (oct)

t--e--s' Top 3 Songs from the Internet
03. Justin Beiber - U Smile (-800%)
02. The Gregory Brothers feat. Yosemite Bear - The Double Rainbow Song
01. Antoine Dodson feat. The Gregory Brothers - Bed Intruder Song

t--e--s' Top 10 Releases Exclusive to Vinyl
10. DJ Qu - Party People Clap (Levon Vincent remix)
09. Sound Stream - #5
08. Ripperton - Nocturnal Reflection #1
07. Storm Queen - Look Right Through
06. Isolee - The Fantastic Researches of Yushin Maru
05. Oni Ayhun - OAR #4
04. DVS1 - Love Under Pressure
03. Shackleton - Man on a String pts. 1& 2
02. Moodymann - Ol' Dirty Vinyl
01. Portable - Life Magically Is

t--e--s' Top 3 Least Favourite Individual Pieces of Music from 2010
02. (tie) ke¢ha - tik-tok
02. (tie) katy perry - california girls (identical songs written/produced by one guy)
01. phoenix - lisztomania

t--e--s' Top 10 Individual Pieces of Music from 2010
10. Matthew Dear - (Little People) Black City
09. Kanye West - Runaway
08. Caribou - Odessa
07. Martyn - Is This Insanity? (Ben Klock remix)
06. Apparat - Interlude
05. Oni Ayhun - OAR #4 A1
04. DVS1 - Pressure
03. DJ Food - All Covered in Darkness (Mr. P remix suite) (pt. 2 in 3)
02. Art Department - Without You
01. The Crystal Ark - The City Never Sleeps

to commemorate 2010 i woke up this morning and condensed it into 80 minutes of sonic raw power

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sound cloud link: 2010: a bass odyysey

tracklisting:
01 - apparat - interlude
02 - dj food - all covered in darkness (mr p remix suite) (pt. 2 in 3)
03 - the xx - vcr (matthew dear remix)
04 - florence & the machine - dog days (jamie jones remix)
05 - storm queen - look right through (dub)
06 - storm queen - look right through (vox)
07 - the chemical brothers - swoon (lindstrom & prins thomas remix)
08 - caribou - odessa (dj koze campfire remix)
09 - caribou - odessa
10 - matthew dear - (little people) black city
11 - art department - without you
12 - the crystal ark - the city never sleeps
13 - martyn - is this insanity? (ben klock remix)
14 - oni ayhun - oar #4 A1
15 - portable - life magically is
16 - nicolas jaar - time for us

2010 in Top 10s

2010-12-13T16:55:00.000-08:00

Shall we do this??? Perusing the usual rags' Tops was a bore (insert Kanye dig here). Let's see what made CD nerds tick in 0-Ten -- Round 'em up!
I'll start it off...

Nathan's Top 10 Albums of 2010:
10. Salem - King Night
9. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
8. Jeff The Brotherhood - Heavy Days
7. Delphic - Acolyte
6. Abe Vigoda - Crush
5. Zola Jesus - Stridulum
4. Typhoon - Hunger and Thirst
3. Robyn - Body Talk
2. Caribou - Swim
1. Glasser - Ring

Nathan's Top 10 Single Tracks of 2010 (not from Top 10 albums):
10. Total Babe - Bearbones
9. Erase Errata - Damaged
8. Diana Joy - ∆∆∆
7. The Good Natured - Your Body Is A Machine
6. Tamaryn - Love Fade
5. Tu Fawning - The Felt Sense
4. The Spirit Spout - October
3. Wet Look - Ride
2. Light Asylum - Shallow Tears
1. Crystal Castles - Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith)

Nathan's Top 10 Live Shows of 2010:
10. Joy Formidable - Bootleg Theatre
9. Broken Bells - Bootleg Theatre
8. Jasmine Ash / Marina and the Diamonds - Troubador
7. Haim - Echo
6. Typhoon - Spaceland
5. Cold Cave - Echoplex
4. Belle Brigade / Whispertown (Morgan Nagler) - Bootleg Theatre
3. Laurie Anderson - Royce Hall
2. Light Asylum - Show Cave
1. Figurine - Pehrspace

So Sad

2010-11-18T13:26:00.001-08:00

One song

Twelve versions

One disc

Many sads

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Brought to you by the Letter "C"

2010-11-18T12:38:00.000-08:00

In December of last year Sauce went all alphabetical on us by dropping a fifteen track compilation brought to us by the letter "C".

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Diablo's Discotheque

2010-10-26T16:30:00.000-07:00

so we didnt do a halloween mix this year, but i did...two, in fact.

and "this is some vampire nightclub shit right here"
-seth troxler

for decades after WWII Halloween Eve in The D became known as "Devil's Night". Every year on Oct. 30th Detroit would see a ridiculous amount of vandalism and arson. with that out of the way wikipedia can tell you the rest. regarding the mix though:

after closing my eyes and picturing DJ Dark Prince rocking a party in the Seventh Layer of Hell I took the following approach:
capture the spirit and essence of the holiday and present it like any good horror/slasher/monster/zombie film does; at times macabre, haunting, messy, eerie, foggy, dark, cheeky, lugubrious, humorous, self aware, DIY, and even occasionally terrifying and stunning.

The results blend together: dubstep, instrumental prog, headphone hip hop, garage rock, synth wave, french film score, acid, minimal, and of course, house and techno.

Pressing play on this while carving pumpkins at your costume ball is guaranteed to bob your apple.

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it's a cd club halloween!

2009-10-30T16:24:00.000-07:00

finishing off our halloween week is our first collaborative compilation. with everyone chipping in their one song, we've built quite the eclectic compilation here. enjoy a safe and happy holiday!

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(image source - americana)

Happy Hallow-Frankenstein-o-ween

2009-10-29T13:29:00.000-07:00

Hello from Face Omelet East. Celebrate Halloween with all things Frankenstein.

Download here

hello

2009-10-26T17:02:00.001-07:00

blazing through twenty-two tracks with his smashing introductory mix for the omelet, nathan gives us some personal insight by showcasing some of the best of what the pacific northwest, scandanavia, and his family have to offer. click the link below to download mr. hazard's "hello" compilation.

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the lost archives: halloween in thee garage

2009-10-26T15:39:00.000-07:00

kicking off our week-long celebration of all things halloween, we dig back into our vaults to dust off a spooky gem of a compilation. back in 2006 when this website was merely a twinkle in it's father's eyes, mr. brian studler cranked out two discs chock-full of ghastly garage rock guaranteed to make your monster mash a graveyard smash. click the link below to download "halloween in thee garage"

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(image source - jessica hellman)

20 Reasons I Wish I Was Black

2009-10-26T13:58:00.000-07:00

1 Gang Starr - Now You're Mine
2 Slick Rick Kill - Niggaz
3 Da Brat Featuring The Notorious B.I.G. - Da B Side
4 Black Sheep - Pass the 40
5 Boogie Down Productions - The Bridge is Over
6 Ice Cube - You Know How We Do It
7 2Pac - Pour Out A Little Liquor
8 Outkast - Hootie Hoo
9 Warren G - And Ya Don't Stop
10 Common - Chapter 13 (Rich Man vs. Poor Man)
11 Redman - Tonights Da Night
12 Domino - Getto Jam
13 Slum Village - Forth & Back [Rock Music]
14 Souls of Mischief - That's When Ya Lost
15 Salt-N-Pepa - Tramp
16 Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check
17 Wu-Tang Clan - Shame On A Nigga
18 Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype
19 Snoop Doggy Dogg aka. Snoopy Dog Dog - Who Am I (What's My Name)?
20 The Notorious B.I.G. - I Got A Story To Tell

Download here, mothafuckaz!

every time i look into your pants i see the present (the love seat & the bed)

2009-10-22T16:15:00.001-07:00

sun soaked make-out music is on full display here by todd stolarski under his kumate guise. this face omelet installment also sees the first digital only release with part two of his mix. each is included below in separate pieces for easy download. unmixed compilation available upon request. full tracklist and description in the comments section. click the links below to download kumate's "every time i look into your pants i see the present" pts.1&2 (the love seat & the bed)

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d-o-w-n-l-o-a-d pt.2 (the bed)

(image source- god i wish i knew)

the lost archives: songs for my dark lord

2009-10-22T15:49:00.000-07:00

as a new feature here at the omelet we will be unearthing some of the hidden treasures not seen since the previous incarnation of our beloved club. with halloween approaching next week, it's only apt that we begin with brian's disc devoted entirely to the most evil of entities. click the link below to download the 2006 compilation "songs for my dark lord"

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(image source- 19th century french tarot card)

chorus

2009-10-22T14:10:00.000-07:00

what do judy garland, muhammad ali, and the alexandrov red army ensemble of lenningrad all have in common?...........none of them exist in the form in which we fell in love with them. additionally, they're all contained within this choral gem of a compilation. here, dana keeps it strictly oral here over twenty-seven broad reaching tracks.

click the link below to download "chorus"

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(image source- new zealand harbour capital chorus)

road trip usa

2009-10-22T13:30:00.001-07:00

One area in which the USA has unquestionably excelled for over two hundred years has been it's series of interwoven paved roads designed for ground transportation. one are in which both psychedelically inclined hippies and misinformed fools from the early 90's have unquestionably excelled at is trippin'. here, king brian of the omelet unites the two worlds over twenty-two carefully selected tracks for your next interstate journey.

click the link below to download "road trip usa"

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(image source- flickr)

oof-dah

2009-10-14T17:58:00.001-07:00

the dog in this photo wishes he was resting on the warm and inviting lap of The Omelet's own Ben Stein. Instead, old yeller gets to hang out with this bland credit score peddling curmudgeon. Fortunately, we've all been treated to an introductory compilation from the REAL ben stein that you can download below.

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(image source- washington & lee univ.)

'me so sorry

2009-09-30T17:06:00.000-07:00

for eons, racist musicians have directly expressed their views through their material. for eons, asian people from all countries in the region have embraced the usage of gongs. with the help of dana and brian, finally, the two have achieved symbiosis.

click the link below to download brian and dana's compilation " 'me so sorry".

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(image source - ap)

Shake Your Groove Thang

2009-09-03T11:15:00.000-07:00

Kristin Smith is a woman of many talents. Croquet, Bocce Ball and some of the wittiest emails writings you will ever receive. Some things you may not know about her include: her love of southern indian food, she pronounces "Bill" like "Belle" and her deep, driven, unwavering love for DISCO.

Kristin's Disco Freak Out Dance Party! Mix lifted the club to its highest highs (after one of the lowest lows) and got everyone boppin in their chairs. Especially Diana Won and Todd Stolarski. Although you probably couldn't stop those kids from boppin to most anything with a beat if you tried. A FUNKALICIOUS BEAT.

Download Here. IF YOU CAN HANDLE THE FUNK.

All Things Go, All Things Go.

2009-08-30T18:16:00.001-07:00

CD Club spanned the emotional rainbow today you guys. Here is my sad bastard mix for all to enjoy. Or cry sadly in your car to.

Download here!

Hold Me Now

2009-07-20T19:01:00.000-07:00

My first contribution to the face omelet blog and it is basically just going to be photos of things that don't really feature cds. Or music. But really just the adorableness of our special guest: ROSIE!

I think my favourite part is tied for when Di got to hold her and subsequently started repeating "I WILL NEVER LET YOU GO!! I WILL NEVER LET YOU GO!" Or when Sauce picked her up and immediately gave us all the picture dictionary example of happiness:

Hey-ooo

2009-06-26T11:57:00.001-07:00

an era of the music industry died today along with the king of pop. folks here at the omelet, along with scores across the globe are mourning the unexpected loss. thankfully, he left an indelible imprint behind. goodnight sweet prince.

a nice number from a young Ed from his album "What Do yYou Want to be When You Grow Up?", it's almost like he's telling us an important message now that he's up on the couch with Johnny. Listen here

if not try downloading by putting this address in a new browser window!

http://files.me.com/danasnyder/ac1q11.mp3

1958 - 2009

2009-06-25T17:19:00.000-07:00

the king is dead. long live the king.

the archive

2009-06-17T10:58:00.000-07:00

Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world's largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. This is the story of a man and his records.

editor's note: please watch with caution. immediately upon completion, i began throwing money at vinyl in all directions; culminating with the purchase of this forthcoming spectral sound white label from audion aka matthew dear.

(source: very ape productions)

into the fun house mirror: the distortion of metal

2009-06-14T12:56:00.001-07:00

with this entry into the ever growing face omelet library, our very own diamond dave digs deep into the depths of metal's wide reaching two-way influence. unexpected covers and unexpected coverers run amok across seventeen tracks that elicit genuine omgs and wtfs.

click the link below to download dave's into the fun house mirror: the distortion of metal compilation.

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(image source: i got nuthin')

love songs

2009-06-13T16:41:00.000-07:00

debbie tackles humankind's most complex emotion as evidenced over the course of twenty one tracks that range from educational music for school children to music recorded in a barn by school children...and back again.

click the link below to download debbie's love songs compilation.

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(image source: dolk)

Just so you are aware...of the exciting things happening in music currently.

2009-06-02T21:27:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd post this little ditty by one Olle Hemmingsson, and his little trio, well actually it's a quartet, but one of the members happens to be his old, trusty tractor. Just for the record this scandanavian claims it keeps better time than half the drummers he's played with, which is two. Just a is a little slice of current rural musical life for all the face omeleteers!

All The best-
Snyde.

Danzig on Books

2009-05-18T18:18:00.001-07:00

(image source: xenex)

To Pointe Eau

2009-05-13T22:02:00.000-07:00

we're all growns up now. no more sippy cups and strollers for us. although nothing truly earth-shattering has happened to our web baby, here are the highlights:

brand spanking new sexy smooth layout
commenting bug has been fixed
blogroll added - i pilfered through our members' listed pages. feel free to leave a comment with a blog you'd like to see added or removed
proper photo citation

to celebrate these monumental technological leaps, and our upcoming meeting , i've uploaded a lost gem from our rich archives. check the previous post for jay edwards' mush mouth compilation. now, just brian's initial guilty pleasure's disc needs to be added to complete our digital collection. very exciting.

(image source - t-e-s)

mush mouth

2009-05-13T20:16:00.000-07:00

The proud man in the photo above is most certainly not the President of Face Omelet's Atlanta Wing, Jay Edwards. This gem of a gent is Cleveland legend "Mushmouth" Mariano Pachetti. In the 70's, he dominated the sport of competitive pizza eating. A regular on "The Hoolihan & Big Chuck Show," he displayed the uncanny skill to devour a pie in minutes. For this comp, our very own Jay Edwards shows us this ability translated to the world of compact discs.

Click the link below to download jay's mush mouth compilation.

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(image source - cleveland plain dealer)

dana & brian go to oz

2009-04-16T17:40:00.000-07:00

two of our very own touched down in sarah's motherland to spread the good word of face omelet...and hang with fun comic book folks. along they way, they encountered punky girl bands and a koala bear named barnacle. sadly, only one of those is included here in their nod to all things down under.

click the link below to download the dana & brian go to oz compilation.

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freaks, faggots, drunks, & junkies

2009-04-15T14:40:00.001-07:00

it's difficult to tell whether jake's intention here was to highlight some of the more socially transgressive artists of our time or if he was simply just trying to make a commentary about his friends. one thing is for certain; it's destined to remain one of life's greatest mysteries.

click the link below to download jake weisman's compilation freaks, faggots, drunks, & junkies

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desperate to impress

2009-04-15T12:50:00.000-07:00

sarah enjoys making mix cds and shooting photographs. both are showcased within this post. on her introductory disc she impresses us all with foam dinosaurs, japanese stationary stickers, duct tape, and, most of all, her wide ranging musical selections.

click the link below to download sarah brown's compilation desperate to impress

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20 ways to get me dancing @ your party

2009-04-14T21:58:00.000-07:00

Di provides us all with her tried and true recipe for rumpshaking. Her twenty ingredients reach across fifty years of music; giving us everything from el debarge to elvis presley...not alphabetically speaking.

click the link below to download diana won's 20 ways to get me dancing @ your party.

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tripping with sauce

2009-04-14T21:02:00.000-07:00

jake and sauce decide to take a psychedelic trip. looking to temporarily lose their minds; they instead permanently lose their innocence. this life altering event is now forever immortalized over a span of twelve tracks that dive deep into the ambient abyss.

click the link below to download jake weisman's tripping with sauce compilation.

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every time i look into your eyes i see the future

2009-03-24T15:42:00.001-07:00

under his dj moniker kumate, todd digitally dives deeper down the rabbit hole over fifteen tracks that each passed the litmus test on the theory that if the beat's alright, they'll dance all night.

click the link below to download todd stolarski's compilation kumate - every time i look into your eyes i see the future

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va - cd club march compiled by dana snyder

2009-03-24T14:39:00.000-07:00

undoubtedly the most schizophrenically eclectic introductory offering, dana delivers everything from praise filled american standard bathtub jingles to a western electric training guide for comprehending black americans...all served with a side of a decades old recording of a coney island freak-show barker doing his thing. shockingly, there's music too. lancelot layne and taj mahal bring things to a head just before dana as dana sits down with american screen legend burt reynolds for an insightful one-on-one interview. mr. reynolds, himself, wraps up the disc with a controversial gem of a track entitled "she's taken a gentle lover". burt may be interested to know that the above photograph could prove to be hard evidence as to why she may have done exactly just that.

click the link below to download dana snyder's cd club march compilation

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harold and maude: old women & the young men who appreciate them

2009-03-24T14:12:00.001-07:00

working with the loose concept of the 1971 film of the same name as his theme, jake crafts a harmonic love letter to sarah that simultaneously covers twenty tracks and the entire gamut of the musical spectrum.

click the link below to download jake weisman's compilation harold and maude: old women & the young men who appreciate them

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i started a joke

2009-03-24T13:03:00.001-07:00

jj started a joke and gets to the punchline nineteen tracks later. little bit of the bee gees. little bit of morrissey. little bit of this. little bit of that.

click the link below to download jj's compilation i started a joke

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kazoo! geshundteit!

2009-03-24T11:36:00.000-07:00

see what's going on in that picture above? matt ima pretty much does exactly that to us with his introductory compilation. getting freak nasty on the kazoo over the span of twenty five tracks, he brings full attention to the oft forgotten instrument.

click the link below to download matt ima's kazoo! geshundtheit! compilation.

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va - an unmarked disc in brown paper compiled by janet kim

2009-03-24T11:18:00.000-07:00

winner of the first annual cd club award for best packaging, janet presents twenty tracks on a mysteriously unlabeled silver compact disc.

click the link below to download janet kim's an unmarked disc in brown paper compilation.

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the bell curve

2009-03-23T20:42:00.001-07:00

across sixteen tracks, kristin takes the prince of math's greatest achievement and thematically guides us up and down the curve.

click the link below to download kristin smith's compilation the bell curve

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death songs

2009-03-23T20:01:00.000-07:00

dave's title for his concept comp pretty much says it all. as far as i know, this is the only disc in music history to have both richard marx and danzing. damn we're lucky.

click the link below to download dave bekerman's death songs compilation.

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what you can expect from me

2009-03-23T19:52:00.001-07:00

our host shows off his range over twenty-eight tracks ranging from unknown singaporean garage girls to something called the "boymilk waltz". hmmm?

click the link below to download brian studler's what you can expect from me compilation.

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This is awesome Todd!

2009-03-23T10:04:00.000-07:00

You're the NEW Mr. Awesome Todd. That's all I have to say.

neighbourhoods in paris

2009-03-23T03:35:00.000-07:00

fifteen tracks of indie eclecticism from the man many call sauce. belie' dat.

click the link below to download christopher sauchak's neighbourhoods in paris compilation.

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two thirty-four

2009-03-23T03:27:00.000-07:00

a theme of three particular numbers in sequence highlights this compilation. each of the thirty tracks contained is exactly two minutes and thirty-four seconds in length.

click the link below to download debbie falb's two thirty-four compilation.

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va - cd club favourites compiled by pierluigi cothran

2009-03-23T02:52:00.000-07:00

twenty-one tracks from the likes of pulp, arthur russell, solomon burke, reigning sound, and others fill up this compilation of current favourites from pierluigi.

click the link below to download pierluigi cocthran's cd club favourites compilation.

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embracing technology

2009-03-23T01:43:00.000-07:00

after briefly discussing this idea at saturday's meeting, i decided to knock it out. all details are explained in the email that most likely lead you here. at such a rapid rate of online growth, our website will surely be worth millions of theoretical internet dollars in merely a matter of weeks.