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As an aside, once, whilst drinking with a psycholinguist (say that after a few pints) I was taught a useful way of quickly working out the stressed syllable in any English word - something which is apparently called the 'fuck test'. Simply insert the word 'fucking' into the word, as if you were using the swear word for emphasis, and the syllable that follows the 'fucking' is the stressed syllable. For example, absolutely -> abso-fucking-lutely. The stressed syllable is the third: i.e. absolutely. It works for every multi-syllable word I've found so far.Link via.

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Lucky wird das neue Nada Surf-Album heißen, das Anfang 2008 herauskommt. Eine Art uramerikanischem Indie-Universalismus folgend kann ich mich dem nicht ganz entziehen, schließlich war der Vorgänger The Weight is a Gift erm... die beste Platte ihrer Karriere? Und warum eigentlich so uramerikanisch? Schließlich hat das Ganze so wenig mit Neil Young, Built to Spill oder Christopher Walken zu tun. Und dennoch.

mp3 | Nada Surf - See These Bones
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Windmill? Windmill!

hype | Windmill - Tokyo Moon (siehe auch)
mp3 | Windmill - Plastic Pre-Flight Seats

Und bitte:

30.Nov.2007, Blue Bird Festival (porgy&bess), vienna (um Mittag?!)
02.Dez.2007, Gebaude 9 (Supporting St. Vincent), Cologne
03.Dez.2007, Mudd Club (Suporting St. Vincent), Berlin
04.Dez.2007, Molotow (Supporting St. Vincent), Hamburg

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I decided to do a little social experiment this morning. I walked around my campus green for about a half hour, stopping everyone with headphones to ask what they were listening to. Out of the 27 people I stopped, 14 were rocking out to In Rainbows. Also of note, walking back to my dorm I heard the album playing from at least 6 different dorm rooms. That's pretty fucking cool if you ask me.

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Nach Radiohead, nun auch NIN?Hello everyone. I've waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate. Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008. Exciting times, indeed.(via)

Edit: Und Madonna?!

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You know you want it.

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