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    Magical/ethereal singers

    definitely them! And Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins edited to add:
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    Desi/Bhangra - Potential Hardcore Continuum Mutation?

    he's not Turkish, but try Malorix - http://malorix.nl "belsalama" is my favorite. and the crazy Turkish sampling sound I know of is Serhat Koksai & co, otherwise known as 2/5 BZ and a lot of other pseudonyms: http://www.myspace.com/2serhat5bz
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    Pointless But It Does My Head In

    not a huge fan of bra straps + spaghetti strap tanks. But I find strapless bras and that little band of rubber that's supposed to keep them up incredibly uncomfortable. I can't suggest them as a solution. BUt probably for the same reason I find strapless bras uncomfortable I don't wearmany...
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    messages from the runout groove

    In the late 1980s I bought a lot of random punk 7"s from the record stores in Cambridge, Massachusetts I used to frequent.. including one goofball california punky one called "Bedtime for Isocracy." There was a california phone number etched into the vinyl. I called it one day, when I was...
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    Abortion

    first, you persist in discussing "convenience." please stop ignoring the fact that it childbearing is actually life-threatening, first of all. And beyond that 9 months of incredibly intimate and constant servitude (in which your body is 24hour at the service of another in what is often painful...
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    Pointless But It Does My Head In

    flip-flops on the beach, ok. in the city.. no. And I (totally irrationally I know) dislike the look of men in flip-flops, particularly. especially since my Yankee self moved to california. God, what a bunch of slobs out here. maybe I also hate them because I can't wear them. they hurt hurt hurt.
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    Pointless But It Does My Head In

    god yes. and sparkly high heeled flip-flops need to combust, now.
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    Mixer Reviews

    rotary v. linear depends also on the style of mixing you do. I find it much easier to gauge distance on a linear fader than on a rotary. So if I'm doing a lot of cutting or something where I'm not looking at my hands I prefer linear faders. my impression is that hip-hop style gravitates...
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    Abortion

    it's not that women HAVE to, it's that society is organized in a way to force women to bear the brunt. If abortion is a choice woman can make, i.e. is society is organized differently, then they clearly don't have to bear quite so much. of course, if life was overall organized so that it was...
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    Abortion

    Two points 1. discussing adoption as an alternate to abortion is inappropriate. Carrying a child to term inside one's body for 9 months and going though the process of giving birth is a life-threatening, as well as seriously costly experience, and most of the cost can only be borne by the body...
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    Your most tenuous or absurd claims to fame

    I still love him. "Classy" is not a word I would apply to John Waters..
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    Suggest a Book for the dissensus book club!

    yeah I get the feeling people are responding to the movies, which have very little to do with the books. three of the books I listed except for Camara Laye are ladies Pat Barker is totally fucking incredible, especially her trilogy about world war I (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The...
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    NYTimes: Why do men lie about sex?

    man, ripley doesn't lie. Remember Alien 3 when she hooks up with Clemens? "..It's been a long time..."
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    Suggest a Book for the dissensus book club!

    Not to derail the thread, but I think this is a ridiculous reading of Austen. She is a cynical social satirist. Her sarcasm and near-nihilist critique of the position of women in her society is well-understood by many critics (and readers). Overwraught- are we even talking about the same author...
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    Your most tenuous or absurd claims to fame

    well it was wellfleet.. still closer to p-town i guess
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    Your most tenuous or absurd claims to fame

    I just found out my mother was at a party last week at the home of an english baroness (which is mildly interesting since we don't have that kind of thing here) and JOHN WATERS. EEEEEEEEEEEE! this is the shit that happens on Cape Cod, MA. (as far as Iknow no kennedys were there but I can't be sure)
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    Political Activism?

    but there's something else, something that goes beyond the binary laid out here. Some interventions/ interactions are transformative of the people involved, and therefore, eventually or immediately, of social relations. Perhaps it is the difference between charity and solidarity?
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    NYTimes: Why do men lie about sex?

    cheers. or did you think I wouldn't participate?
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    Suggest a Book for the dissensus book club!

    this is a cool idea! what about Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood Regeneration - Pat Barker The Ventriloquists' Tale - Pauline Melville The Radiance of the King -Camara Laye (with added controversy over authorship, worth discussing) and not to be a jerk, but I love Moby Dick and would love to...
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