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		<title>Mad in the mud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pain makes for stronger memories, and last night&#8217;s performance of Hamlet for this year&#8217;s Shakespeare in the Park series will haunt me accordingly. It is hard to pin down precisely why migraines are so traumatic, compared to more serious ailments that threaten actual body integrity or, indeed, more intense pain from traumatic injury. Is it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Night at the Genre Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, how do you get out of your head? Isn&#8217;t that what we all desperately need as respite, a way to escape the incessant weight of being under your own ceaseless observation? Perhaps, as the Handsome Family put it:
&#8220;This is why people OD on pills/and jump from the/Golden Gate Bridge
Anything to feel weightless again&#8221;
Let&#8217;s go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stormlight.org/gray/matter/2010/06/08/a-night-at-the-genre-event/</link>
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		<title>Review: Watchmen, how watchable is the unfilmable movie?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[spoiler alert: full plot details of both film and comic versions are discussed]
Any film adaptation is automatically a mixed blessing: the chance to see some beloved story translated from a book/comic/radio show/TV show/videogame to the big screen, counterbalanced by the risk that it will get fundamentally ruined in the process. Of these, the trials of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stormlight.org/gray/matter/2009/03/13/review-watchmen-how-watchable-is-the-unfilmable-movie/</link>
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		<title>eMusic Picks &#8211; February</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Albums added in February: 17,821
Featured Selections
Apoptygma Berzerk, You and Me Against the World (14)
Apoptygma&#8217;s Stephan Groth met stiff scene resistance in shifting from earlier, harsh attack EBM to the kind of epic synth rock exhibited here to great effect. Naturally, cries of &#8217;sellout&#8217; and fan rebellion were followed by the album achieving runaway success, particularly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stormlight.org/gray/matter/2009/03/01/emusic-picks-february/</link>
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		<title>Black Cab Sessions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Craft has been said to be the art of doing more with less. Part of the appeal of famous adaptationalists like MacGyver and The Swiss Family Robinson is how they take everyday objects and minimal materials and create sophisticated solutions through inventiveness and a deep command of basic principles. So it should perhaps not be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stormlight.org/gray/matter/2009/02/12/black-cab-sessions/</link>
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		<title>Mathematica Affordable Edition?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I confess to being strictly an enthusiastic non-user of the technical application Mathematica, dating from when I managed a college computer lab, I still enjoy seeing it evolve over time and take on new roles. For example, Wolfram (the company behind it) uses it in a &#8220;Math Behind Numb3rs&#8221; feature that lets you see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stormlight.org/gray/matter/2009/02/10/mathematica-affordable-edition/</link>
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		<title>Back to Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t make any promises, but I am going to see if I can&#8217;t restore some life to this place. Be aware that I may end up posting in both directions, chronologically speaking, as I have a lot of material stored to write about that makes more sense to me when put in the correct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stormlight.org/gray/matter/2009/02/10/back-to-life/</link>
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		<title>eMusic Picks &#8211; January</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Albums added in January: 14,007
eMusic Feature
Saddle Creek Essentials
Featured Selections
 Andrew Bird, Noble Beast (12)
Andrew Bird continues to veer further away from his swing jazz roots with the Bowl of Fire while continuing to produce consistently pleasing pop/folk concoctions, with trademark violin, whistling, and lyrical flourishes to challenge The Decemberists&#8217; Colin Meloy.

 Client, Heartland (12)
-, Untitled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stormlight.org/gray/matter/2009/02/01/emusic-picks-january/</link>
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		<title>eMusic Picks &#8211; December</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Albums added in December: 16,452
Major additions this month from the Metropolis Records back catalog, featuring Darkwave/EBM/Industrial acts like Clan of Xymox, Combichrist, Covenant, Haujobb, KMFDM, Suicide Commando, Velvet Acid Christ, VNV Nation, and Wumpscut.
Featured Selections
 Cranes, Cranes (11)
Cranes choose their eighth album to go eponymous, four years after Particles and Waves. Alison Shaw&#8217;s child plaint [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stormlight.org/gray/matter/2009/01/01/emusic-picks-december/</link>
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		<title>eMusic Picks &#8211; November</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[No album count this month; I didn't check in time.]
Featured Selections
 Au Revoir Simone, Reverse Migration (13)
Remix collection of the entirety of 2007&#8217;s The Bird of Music, with &#8220;Sad Song&#8221; and &#8220;The Lucky One&#8221; both earning double dips. Some tracks are actually more stripped down rather than built up, such as the spare Slow Club [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stormlight.org/gray/matter/2008/12/01/emusic-picks-november/</link>
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