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Cultural Stimuli in LA
Issue 123: mnemonic flavor
It's time to roll back your convertible top for a joyride down memory lane as the new traditionalists surge out of their dungen to reclaim the spotlight from indie advocates and gadget geeks. Sway to strains from your favorite old-skool video games, relive the era of leather noir with Judas Priest, and re-appreciate the glorious hairstyles of mods and rockers. Research strange ancient arts in the Feral House Archives, recapture the dog-eat-dog spirit of recess with a game of murderball, or remember those less fortunate at the justice ball. But most importantly, don't forget to enter our newly launched Flavorpack Contest to win a massive box of goodies — and spread it!
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flavorpill is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art, and cultural events — delivered each Tuesday afternoon.
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The Nokia 7280 — Subtle and sleek NaviSpin to access features in a unique way. Slide it open or revel in the beauty of the mirror finish. Cunningly hidden integrated VGA camera for a touch of mystery. Voice-activated user interface and internal handsfree speaker to communicate in a whole new way. Yeah, it's the Ultimate Phone to be Seen With. And it's finally available for purchase! |
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| MUSIC: Punk Rock |
Smelvis Records Warped Tour Afterparty
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With a nearly empty wallet and a head full of songs, new-school punker Elvis put together a DIY demo of his band Left Alone by simply tapping into the board at their first show at the Roxy. On that day in 1997, Smelvis Records was born. Left Alone headline tonight's afterparty (or pre-party, depending on which of the six SoCal Warped Tours you attend) alongside Spanish-speaking ska bands Matamoska and Viernes 13 as well as psychobillies Blackrome Phantoms. For ten bones, it's a cheap way for punk fans to get their fix between festivals. (JCF)
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READING
James Frey: My Friend Leonard
Tue 7.5 (7pm) Vroman's Bookstore (695 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, 626.449.5320) map FREE
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James Frey's My Friend Leonard is the touching and hair-raising story of a writer's rocky friendship with a fatherly but coke-headed mobster. The author of the drug addiction memoir A Million Little Pieces, Frey is no stranger to vice. In a possible display of solidarity, Lindsay Lohan showed up at his standing-room-only New York reading — so it's anyone's guess which celebs come out of the woodwork here. (TW)
 
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| MUSIC: 8-Bit Symphony |
Video Games Live
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Now's the time to prove to your girlfriend that you spent your preadolescent years wisely, or at least in a way that was culturally relevant, with a night that celebrates the emblematic tunes of your youth: your favorite video game soundtracks. Each platform from 8bit to Xbox is represented with tunes as classic as the blurps and beeps from Pong to the contemporary symphonic overtures of Halo. While you attempt to stifle your geeky cheer, here are two words to put you over the edge: laser show. Add that to a live singing Donkey Kong, and you're in nerd nirvana. (JCF)
 What was your favorite childhood video game and why? The five answers that push our buttons each win a pair of tickets to show performance.
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| MUSIC: Indie Rock |
Eels
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Thur 7.7 (8pm) |
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Avalon Hollywood (1735 N Vine St, 323.462.8900) map |
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Having graduated from the thickly bearded, unabomber-esque days of the Souljacker album, Eels frontman Mark Everett currently dons a suit and tie to stand before his audience as if it were a first date. With guitar in hand, and orchestra in his back pocket, he'll be appearing tonight on the Avalon's doorstep. This tour, entitled "The Eels with Strings," supports their pensive and spiritual latest album, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations. The intimacy of the record carries all the promises of a great live show. And, who knows, the Eels might even let you get to second base. (DR)
What career path did Mark Everett's father pursue? The first and ninth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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| MUSIC: Dub Rock |
Tussle w/ Eats Tapes
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Though Tussle's debut album, Kling-Klang, is a reference to the studio where German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk taught computers how to love, the band's influences range far beyond the Autobahn. The San Francisco group passes the usual post-punk and no-wave touchstones, weaving together a fresh, fluid combination of dub echoes, droney Krautrock rhythms, and funk shuffles. Tigerbeat6's Eats Tapes get the people dancing (or swaying, at least) with their lo-fi, acidic robo-house, complete with gleeful noise flourishes. (PCS/JL)
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| ART: Opening |
Adam Parfrey: The Feral House Archives
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Fri 7.8 (7-11pm) |
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Ghetto Gloss (2380 Glendale Blvd, Silverlake, 323.912.0008) map |
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Event Info | Feral House |
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Feral House is an independent publisher founded by Adam Parfrey in 1989 to chronicle social and cultural taboos and the vibrant subcultures that spring up around them. Topics researched and published by the press have ranged from men's adventure magazines and Weimar pornography to Muslim fundamentalist propaganda and Soviet pop art. During the press' 16 years, Parfrey himself has amassed a truly astonishing personal collection of antiques and occult artifacts. Known as The Feral House Archives, these oddities are hereby open to the viewing and buying public for the first time. (SND)
Note: Exhibit continues through Sun 8.7 (Mon-Fri: 9-6pm).
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| MUSIC: Hip-Hop |
Lyrics Born
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The Tokyo-born, UC Davis-schooled MC once known as Asia Born used to go to great lengths to assert his individuality. These days it's pretty clear, from his involvement with DJ Shadow's Quannum collective to his recent abstract soul-hop remix album Same !@#$ Different Day, that Lyrics Born's work sets him far apart from the pack. Putting to use a host of obscure '70s bargain-bin finds, Lyrics Born's beats fasten his hyper-aware West Coast sensibility to richly colored tunefulness. More importantly though, those backing tracks — fancifully assembled by himself and friends including Dan the Automator and Dilated Peoples — provide a smooth ride for his overtly conscious lyrical ideas. (KT)
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Sundance Summer Shorts: Short Films-Big Winners
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Fri 7.8 (8pm) |
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UCLA Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000) map |
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If you missed Sundance the last few years, the Hammer is ready to bring you up to speed with four consecutive Fridays of outdoor courtyard screenings. The first night in the series features the past winners, and delves into all aspects of reckoning, from the 2003 winner Wasp, about a neglectful single mom in Britain, to Kris Isacsson's Man About Town, which follows a reformed party boy on his last night out to play. Bring a picnic and some cash for the bar, because the Hammer is making entertainment easy for you this summer. (KH)
Note: The series continues for three more Fridays: 7.15, 7.22 & 7.29.
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| MUSIC: Electrodubicalia |
Brazilian Girls
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Brazilian Girls' globe-trotting blend of dub, tropicalia, lounge, and electro-pop offers strong testament to the transportive power of music. But where the New York-based four piece intends to send listeners is left alluringly undefined. It could be Serge Gainsbourg's Paris; it could be Gotan Project's Buenos Aires; or it could be simply — as multilingual vocalist Sabina Sciubba suggests in her languid alto on the Girls' self-titled debut LP — "to the park to get some ice cream." The band's live show, all swaying hips and liberally flowing sweat, puts the audience at the confluence of a million sonic flight patterns. Get ready to feel sexy, and pack your passport. (JS)
How many languages does frontwoman Sciubba sing in? The 14th and 20th answers each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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Murderball
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Opens Fri 7.8 |
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Laemmle's Monica (1332 2nd St, Santa Monica, 310.394.9741) map |
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About Olympic-level quadriplegic rugby players, Murderball is at once a backstage story, a reconciliation saga, a rehab drama, a classic sports documentary, and a crash course in how to convey a potentially maudlin topic with grace and humor. For the US team members, it's not as if just playing is winning, Special Olympics style. In their armored chairs, they are cyborg gladiators: part men, part machine, and completely out for blood. Each of them has already conquered so much internal strife in order to come to terms with his physical limitations that they radiate a Buddha-like equanimity right below the surface of their boys-will-be-boys bluster. (LR)
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ART: Opening
Josh Schweitzer: Smooth Box
Fri 7.8 (7-10pm) glü (7424 Beverly Blvd, 323.857.0510) map FREE
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Glü Gallery presents the conceptual sculpture/installation of renowned architect and designer Josh Schweitzer. The show explores the box as both an abstract concept and a functional building block. The edgy, high-minded beats at the opening are provided by KXLU DJs. (SND)
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MUSIC: Leather Memories
Judas Priest w/ Queensrÿche
Fri 7.8 (7:30pm) Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (8808 Irvine Center Dr, Irvine, 949.855.8095) map $20-58
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Forget Metallica. Iron Maiden? Not happening. Judas Priest remains the sexiest metal band ever. Everyone at a JP concert — from the Heavy Metal Parking Lot to the front row seats — is having a blast and knows they're gonna get laid, even if the band forgets to play "Living After Midnight." (DRC)
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| ART: Opening |
Maura Bendett and Sydney Chastain-Chapman
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The mixed media works of LA artist Maura Bendett are frozen moments of visual and physical chaos. Her hanging sculptures are like exploding chandeliers made of bright plastic, or static models of confetti showers. Their unlikely beauty and quirky, obsessive construction peg them as both funhouse fare and serious explorations of form and structure. In the project room are the paintings and works on paper from New Yorker Sydney Chastain-Chapman, whose chronicles of adventures of characters real and imagined serve as a kind of society page for her private, brightly lit fantasy world.
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| PHOTOGRAPHY: Opening |
New Traditionalists
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Sat 7.9 (7-11pm) |
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Subliminal Projects Gallery (3780 Wilshire Blvd, 210, 213.383.9299) map |
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With Swindle magazine, OBEY magnate Shepard Fairey made his bid for the center stage of LA's art scene. Now another division of his posse swings into action, as the Subliminal Projects Gallery presents New Traditionalists, photographs and art from contributors to Swindle's third issue. The show includes Space Invader's street art video game mosaics, Piper Furgeson's portraits of bands replicating their favorite album covers, and much more. Don't miss your chance to say that you were there. (KH)
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| MUSIC: Psych-Rock |
Dungen w/ Mia Doi Todd
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Sat 7.9 (8pm) |
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The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd, W Hollywood, 310.276.6168) map |
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Event Info | Dungen |
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When a non-English-speaking band strikes a chord in the states — and it's not Sigur Rós — you best take note. Scandinavian psych-rockers Dungen swallow whole the vibe of the Zombies, the Hollies, the Creation, and anything Eric Burdon could dish up, only to flip the folk back fresher than ever. They plunge headlong into mind-expanding jamming only to emerge moments later with melodies so catchy, you'll think you momentarily learned Swedish. They left all New York's downtown hipsters panting for more last year, so don't miss the boat. (JCF)
Note: Local songbird Mia Doi Todd opens the show, along with Lords of Altamony, and Becky Stark and the Lavender Diamond.
What does the title of Dungen's latest record, Ta Det Lungt mean? The 15th and 18th correct answers each win a pair of tickets to the show.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: Opening
Gary Lee Boas: New York Sex 1979-1985
Sat 7.9 (6-8pm) Karyn Lovegrove Gallery (6150 Wilshire Blvd, 323.525.1755) map FREE
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Gary Lee Boas went from unknown fan to international art star after the publication of his first book Starstruck: Photographs From a Fan, featuring his candid snapshots of famous people from 1965-1980. His latest book and exhibition chronicle how Gary spent his "off" time: in strip joints, bath houses, and sex clubs in (pre-Giuliani) Times Square and downtown Manhattan. (SN)
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MUSIC: Cabaret Singer/Songwriter
Sylvie Lewis
Sat 7.9 (9pm) The Hotel Cafe (1623 1/2 N Cahuenga Blvd, 323.461.2040) map $7
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Veering between youthful ingénue and jaded, faded chanteuse (how old is she, really?), Sylvie Lewis captivates with clever situational lyrics and barroom musical sensibilities. Her compelling tunes turn seemingly personal explorations into universal truths. (AD/PDS)
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Greyboy
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Sun 7.10 (TBD) |
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Cohiba (110 E Broadway Ave, Long Beach, 562.491.5220) map |
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Andreas Stevens (aka Greyboy) may not have invented acid jazz, but he was definitely one of its first poster boys. After cutting his teeth as a hip-hop DJ in the mid-'90s, Stevens found his footing through a partnership with sax luminary Karl Denson, laying the groundwork for the fusion of groove-heavy beats and live jazz that would become his trademark. Ten years after his groundbreaking underground hit Freestylin', the West Coast DJ is still running strong, lately venturing back to his more breakbeat-driven beginnings, as well as toward the roots of hip-hop: funk and soul. (JCF)
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| READING |
Elijah Wald: The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir (co-authored with Dave Van Ronk)
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Mon 7.11 (7pm) |
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Book Soup (8818 Sunset Blvd, W Hollywood, 310.659.3110) map |
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If you're unfamiliar with the folk revival of the '60s, then there are a lot of good books out there about great artists you've likely never heard of. The difference with Dave Van Ronk's tale is that he's one of the reasons those stories happened. As a founder of the New York folk scene, he had a unique perspective on nascent superstars Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, and, perhaps most interestingly, himself. Journalist Elijah Wald wrote the fascinating Narcocorrido on his own, and pays fitting tribute to his friend as the co-author of The Mayor of MacDougal Street, Van Ronk's autobiography. (DRC)
Which folk icon spent almost a year sleeping on Ronk's couch? The second and ninth correct answers each win a copy of The Mayor of MacDougal Street.
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Mods and Rockers '05: The Return of Groovy Movies from the Shagadelic '60s
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Tue 7.5-Sun 7.17 (schedule) |
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Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 323.466.FILM) map |
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Though Jacqueline Susann called Hollywood's adaptation of her novel, Valley of the Dolls, "a piece of shit," there's so much to love about the 1967 celebration of booze and pills. As a tribute to Susann, an exclusive new print of the accidental camp classic is the festival highlight this Saturday, at the annual Mods and Rockers Film Festival. Also on the menu is a cocktail of brilliant and equally ridiculous masterpieces that were, well, beyond their time. Head to the Barbarella party at the Knitting Factory before tonight's screening of the 1968 classic. We strongly suggest you imbibe the sci-fi-themed concoctions. (JH)
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Noir of Robert Siodmak
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Fri 7.8-Fri 7.22 (schedule) |
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (5905 Wilshire Blvd, 323.857.6000) map |
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Though he also had some success in other genres, director Robert Siodmak excelled in the film noir world of suspense and murder. The Spiral Staircase (1946) is about physically handicapped women being stalked by a serial killer in a Gothic mansion. The Dark Mirror (1946) focuses on twin sisters, one of whom is dangerously psychotic. His stories came from the dark end of the noir street: alongside prescient creepshows like Peeping Tom (1960), they foretold the perverse style of David Cronenberg and Dario Argento while holding their own against the comparatively subtle eccentricities of Samuel Fuller and Billy Wilder. (DRC)
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Brad Elterman: Like It Was Yesterday
Now through Sat 7.9 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm) The Jaxon House (1337 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, 310.401.0080) map FREE
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Photos of celebrities can be dubious when it comes to the realm of fine art, but not so with the work of iconographic rock shooter Brad Elterman. These pictures are haunting, candid, captivating affairs part Nan Goldin, part Diane Arbus, and all human. The show ends with a closing reception on Sat 7.9. (SND)
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Where else can you support a Jewish legal fund that advocates for all people in the LA community, while bobbing your head to Ozomatli's Latin rhythms and socially conscious rhymes? Try the Justice Ball for Bet Tzedek Legal Center, taking place Saturday 7.9 at the Hollywood Palladium. Guided by the sole directive of serving justice in the community, the Bet Tzedek Legal Center offers legal counsel for elderly and destitute clients with no means for representation. While it's quickly becoming the "It Charity," you shouldn't hold that against Bet Tzedek's mission, no matter who insistently repeats, "That's hot." (JCF)
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CD REVIEW: Jamie Lidell, Multiply |
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Warp
Released June 2005
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If not for its subtle, tech-y undertones and Jamie Lidell's decidedly Caucasian face on the cover, you could be forgiven for assuming Multiply is a lost compilation mining Otis, Marvin, and Stevie. A far cry from Lidell's techno-crooner work with Cristian Vogel as Super_Collider and the psychotic avant-garde collage of his 2000 solo debut, Multiply's stirring soul maintains the vintage warmth of its predecessors while emphasizing Lidell's shockingly authentic, virtuosic vocals and deft melodicism. Rhythms are intricately nuanced and, despite occasional studio trickery — such as the DJ Screw-style effects on "A Little Bit More" — the tastefully uncluttered production here perfectly complements the advanced tunesmithing. Not just a glowing tribute to American soul and R&B, Multiply is an earnest move into the future: one hand on a Hammond, the other on a laptop. (JCF)
 Which two instruments did Lidell first learn to play back in the day? The eighth correct answer wins a copy of this CD.
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In addition to ranking among the best labels in Germany (check out WhoMadeWho's new The Loop 12-inch and the 2004 Munk LP Aperitivo for proof), Gomma sports a website containing quite a bit of media for your viewing and listening pleasure. This week, there's the "Kick out the Chairs" video featuring LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy on vocals, as well as a series of brand new DJ mixes. Highlights include a springtime electro-pop Munk set from Berlin's F.U.N. club; a disco, dub, and funk affair from Hiltmeyer Inc.; and a mix from Gomma friend DJ Kaos. (CJN)
Note: To access the downloadable mixes from Gomma's homepage, click on "mixtapes/videos (games)" in the left-hand navigation, then on "dj-mix." The featured MP3 mixes will appear on the right side of your screen — click to download.
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Munk: Total XX (Electro-pop)
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Hiltmeyer Inc.: A Tape for my Girlfriends! (Dub/disco)
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DJ Kaos: A Livemix (Big beat/soul)
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| Word association | J. Byrnes |
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| Number rhymes | Dan R. Chamberlin | | Tattoo | Shana Nys Dambrot | | Nudging wife | Josh C. Forbes | | Memory pills | Jocelyn K. Glei | | Hair of dog | Paul Laster | | Post-its | Doug Levy | | Mental repetition | Jake Lancaster | | Mumbling | Sascha Lewis | | Flash cards | Mark Mangan | | Recopying | Colin J. Nagy | | Dictation | Lauren Ragland | | Secretary | Philip H. Sherburne | | Buzz words | Peter D. Stepek | | Hand notes | Toby Warner |
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| Trivia | Adam Davids | | Anagrams | Menaka Gopinath | | Spoonerisms | Kate Hewitt | | Nicknames | Julian Hooper | | Phonics | Phineas Jackson | | Watch alarm | Lara K. Kelley | | Queen of Diamonds | Eric J. Lawrence | | Nagging mother | Allen S. Moon | | Queen of Hearts | Steve Nalepa | | Therapy | Pete Nicely | | Favorite drink | Piotr Orlov | | Self-hypnosis | Dan Rossiter | | Egg timer | Amy Schmalz | | Write on mirror | Jonathan Schultz | | Cell phone | Lisa Rosman | | Email self | Patrick C. Sisson | | Song lyrics | Yancey Strickler | | Microwave timer | Ken Taylor |
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