As you may know by now, I have been offering a playlist of the day. Ten songs, usually with some sort of theme. You can find the links and posts about the daily playlist, which is published at varying times throughout the day, on my twitter feed and Facebook status. Today, it just got serious. Ten songs from 90s movies, left up to the Twitterverse to decipher. Be first to guess all 10 movies correctly, become the recipient of a …

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Some people say that your sense of smell is the sense closest connected to your memory.  Some scientists would agree.  To me, one of the strongest memory triggers is the flash of a few notes of a great song.  Music, for me, does more than just heal my sometimes broken soul when it needs soothing the most.  It’s a time machine that transports me back to places that I had long forgotten I ever visited. It’s unexpected reminders of good …

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Just wanted to highlight the love given to Gainesville’s own punk-powerhouse band Against Me! from Rolling Stone:
Best of Rock 2008’s Best Punk Band: Against Me!
In case there’s any doubt that Against Me! are the definitive punk band of the Bush-Cheney era, consider this: The Gainesville, Florida, band’s furious anthems are so closely tied to the outrages of the past eight years — “Condoleezza, do you get the fucking joke?” bandleader Tom Gabel howls on 2005’s “From Her Lips to God’s …

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