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CDs and other stuff from this month

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Hello one, hello one! (I would say "hello all" but that would be disingenuous). Welcome to another episode of "My Life". Since the last CD post i've gotten a few more, so we'll get those out of the way first. Here were the first two CDs that I got after my last CD post, I got both on the 14th. On the left is Exodus by Hikaru Utada. This was their first American release, releasing on Island back in 2004. The copy I have is a copy from the BMG Direct CD club, which was a record club similar to others like the  Columbia House record club.  It's kind of an experimental album, very cool stuff, very cool album, Utada is goated. To the right of Utada is They Might Be Giants' Don't Let's Start, ON MINI CD!!! Not many singles were released on Mini CD here in the US, but they were pretty popular in Japan, being produced as late as the early 00's! They Might Be Giants' first three singles were released on mini CD, the others were "They'...

My First TMBG Show: A Memoir

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  Hey there! Sorry to the one person that gives a shit for the radio silence for much of this month. I just haven't been doing much aside from 1. living in fear because I live in Michigan in July 2026 2. Waiting for Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum to reopen after what feels like a decade To hold you over until something actually interesting happens, here's the story of my first ever TMBG show. I didn't mention it much on here after the fact suprisingly, but here it is finally. Taken directly from my recap on TMBW. "My first ever TMBG show, and what a show it was. I'd been to the venue before (I saw The Aquabats there 6 years prior) so I was sorta familiar with it. This show's theme was LINCOLN!!!! I was hoping it would be either that or Mink Car (which I don't think they're doing this tour). I got so excited when Flans said it was a Lincoln show, I really need to relisten to that album, lol. Before set #1 they played Million Dollar Baby (which ...

A whole buncha CDs + An update on the car

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 Hello! It's been a while since my last post. Here is all that happened + the CDs I got last month and all of this month's so far. So where we last left off, we were sitting in McDonald's waiting for the tow truck to come. I wrote my last blog post to pass the time. Thankfully the tow truck finally came! An Iraqi guy named Sam was our driver. He'd moved here from Texas because he has family here. He took us and our car to an auto shop. My mom called up her friend to pick us up and she took us back home. Home sweet home! Also, WE GOT A NEW CAR!! With that out of the way, here's some CDs for 'ya! They Might Be Giants - S-E-X-X-Y (Elektra - 1996) This was my first CD of June, I got it on the 4th. Getting this marked my domestically released Elektra singles collection complete! Very excited to have this one. Sensurround is one of their best hidden-gem tracks. I prefer the Power Rangers version in all honesty but i'm still glad to have it on CD in any form. Super...