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		<title>THE new music blog</title>
		<link>http://thenewstandard.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/the-new-music-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re wondering where all the wonderful commentary from this blog has moved to, here&#8217;s a hint: I&#8217;m now writing another blog, focusing on music. It&#8217;s called Traveler Blues. Read it. Devour it. Memorize it&#8217;s teachings.
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		<title>More glorious &#8220;Lost&#8221; fan-baiting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we talked about the series of Lost &#8220;Missing Pieces&#8221; web episodes. Today, I want to bring your attention to another manner in which Lost&#8217;s producers have been baiting (placating?) fans in the recent weeks leading up to the premiere of season four (which, in case you live in complete, desolate seclusion, is TOMORROW!!). I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewstandard.wordpress.com&blog=1563531&post=39&subd=thenewstandard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dave&#8217;s Film Festival: catching up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may recall, dear reader, some weeks back I began viewing selections for Dave&#8217;s Film Festival, a new event on the industry circuit that consists of me borrowing films from the local library, watching them, and giving you my thoughts on each. Unfortunately, while I&#8217;ve been keeping up with the viewings, I&#8217;ve been derelict [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewstandard.wordpress.com&blog=1563531&post=38&subd=thenewstandard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost: Missing Pieces &#8212; baiting the fans and making them like it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If, dear reader, you feel you may not know me as well as you desire, there is really only one thing you need to know right now: I love Lost. The television show, that is, in which a group of plane crash survivors try to come to terms with the mysterious happenings taking place on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewstandard.wordpress.com&blog=1563531&post=37&subd=thenewstandard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unique Profiles: Hunter S. Thompson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another brief post for the people. This second installment in our &#8220;Unique Profiles&#8221; series focuses on Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, largely accepted as the original practitioner of the &#8220;gonzo&#8221; style of journalism. Several books looking back at Thompson&#8217;s life have been released in the past year, including this one by some of his former colleagues [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewstandard.wordpress.com&blog=1563531&post=36&subd=thenewstandard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dave&#8217;s thinking about getting a MacBook Pro&#8230;but E.J. is encouraging him to wait</title>
		<link>http://thenewstandard.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/daves-thinking-about-getting-a-macbook-probut-ej-is-encouraging-him-to-wait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I haven&#8217;t made a post in a few moons, now, so I thought I&#8217;d share with you one of the reasons why: My ongoing deliberation over whether or not to purchase a new MacBook Pro laptop computer. (In case you don&#8217;t know what one is, you can find out here.) However, by sending me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewstandard.wordpress.com&blog=1563531&post=35&subd=thenewstandard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The year passes, as do a pair of jazz legends</title>
		<link>http://thenewstandard.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/the-year-passes-as-do-a-pair-of-jazz-legends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks, jazz &#8212; and music in general &#8212; lost a pair of elder statesmen that will be truly missed. Legendary producer Joel Dorn (b. 1942), who spent years at Atlantic Records and is perhaps best known for his collaborations with reed man Rahsaan Roland Kirk, passed away on Dec. 17. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewstandard.wordpress.com&blog=1563531&post=34&subd=thenewstandard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New trailer for upcoming Scorsese film on the Rolling Stones</title>
		<link>http://thenewstandard.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/new-trailer-for-upcoming-scorsese-film-on-the-rolling-stones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barrett has once again alerted me to a very hot tip (and reminded me that this is a blog I should check out more often). He sent me an e-mail this morning directing me to the new trailer for Martin Scorsese&#8217;s upcoming rock documentary on the Rolling Stones, Shine A Light (the title is taken [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewstandard.wordpress.com&blog=1563531&post=33&subd=thenewstandard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Led Zeppelin reunites for London show</title>
		<link>http://thenewstandard.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/led-zeppelin-reunites-for-london-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fans and music writers had speculated about it for over two-and-a-half decades, and now it&#8217;s finally happened. Monday night, the British blues-rock band Led Zeppelin reunited in London for what will surely become a legendary performance.
The show, part of a larger commemoration of the life of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, had been touted as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewstandard.wordpress.com&blog=1563531&post=31&subd=thenewstandard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unique profiles</title>
		<link>http://thenewstandard.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/unique-profiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally in my reading, I stumble across a unique character profile that I wish to share with you, dear reader. It might be about an individual whom I&#8217;ve never even heard of (such is the case this time), but the nature of the person&#8217;s life strikes me in some way that I wouldn&#8217;t feel right [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenewstandard.wordpress.com&blog=1563531&post=32&subd=thenewstandard&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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