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The number of times that the XM Radio 90's Station has played the Nelson song "(I Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection" in the past two days:

3

The number of times that the Nelson song "(I Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection" has been played elsewhere in the past 48 hours on other outlets, including major radio stations, music networks, personal computers, iPods, and any piece of audio hardware belonging to Matthew or Gunnar Nelson:

Probably less than 3

What's up with that, people?

Okay, I'm hoping to upload last night's episode of The Big Takeover soon! Thanks to Joe of the excellent NJ punkers The Ergs!, old TDC head Ian Stewart, "Edmund" and Jake Young for calling in. Herbie, Anupama, and I had a great time. Ideally, you'll be having a great time listening to it via the Podcast soon. Stay tuned.

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Alright! News!

Radio show tonight! Listen in, we've got some great call-ins from surprise musical guests and high-octane new music.
THE BIG TAKEOVER
TONIGHT (TUESDAY) 10PM ET - MIDNIGHT
WGTB WWW.GEORGETOWNRADIO.COM
STREAM IT HERE (iTunes and/or Winamp and/or Realplayer, I think).
YOU'RE WELCOME.

Okay, in other, even more exciting news, Ra Ra Riot, a pretty solid band formed by some old college chums is dropping a highly anticipated album today. It's called "The Rhumb Line" and you heavily consider buying it. Here's a video of them performing their biggest single yet, "Dying is Fine," in some attic in Syracuse. Directed by another SU alum, Taryn Gould. Checkit.

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Ideally it'll be up and on the 'cast very soon, but I'm very, very happy with how things went last night on "The Big Takeover." Thanks to all who tuned in and heard our exponentially growing brand of insanity. And John Fogarty was somewhere in there.

In political news, in the light of Barack Obama's DNC-ization (that is, compromising and watering down everything that made him interesting to appeal to Walmerica and satisfy his backers) and John McCain's being John McCain, I'm happy to announce there's finally a new candidate out there I can truly get behind! Hope you guys like his message as much as I did.

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I've been busy, between a recent trip to the midwest and a large freelance project that I'm wrapping up now. A couple of exciting things coming up, though, outside of the awesome shows I just posted off here to the right.

BILLY KARATE

A varied group of us shot, over the course of a couple of weeks back in June, footage for some new commercials that will take the public access karate world by storm. I've been held up for the aforementioned reasons, but will hopefully get to work on these soon! If you go ahead and listen to our episode of The Big Takeover from June 3, 2008 (up on the podcast stream now) where Billy Karate calls in, you'll get the full breadth of his enthusiasm for the project.

OPPENHEIMER

I've written about these guy on my site before, but they've got a new album out called "Take the Midrange and Boost It." I'm going to be contributing some video for their live shows, possibly for their song off their great first album, "Saturday Looks Bad to Me" or the newer song "Major Television Events." I'll post it when I'm finished with it. Hopefully it fits into their live set, depending on what song they want a good backdrop for.

In the meantime, if you're in DC, go see them at DC9 on September 16. Here's the video for their new song "Look Up." It involves a ton of water balloons and needless to say, it's wonderful.

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Have I mentioned the podcast for The Big Takeover? I have? Well, it's on iTunes. Subscribe to it. Love it.

I've got plenty of ideas for lists and rants and stuff, but here's something awesome to tide you guys over.