I've noticed a marked tendency of late for you to disparage the songs you post. Is there such a dearth of free downloads out there that you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, or do you need a few new music sources?

Two words... David Crosby.

Scroll down a bit. You posted the song "Arkless" from their debut back in August. This is what you wrote:

"On "Arkless," a dark, doom-laden rock song from the debut record by Baltimore quartet Wilderness, the band plays a heavy dirge of a riff over which singer James Johnson hoarsely barks out clipped, repetitive phrases, desperate and incantatory, and sounding something like a seal in mating season."

Cheers =)

The more tabloid headlines she creates, I can't help but sense that Amy Winehouse is taking us all for a colossal ride. Unless she does indeed die in a pool of her own vomit, it'll take some effort to convince me that these headlines: missed shows, drug/alcohol abuse, courtroom drama, love woes, etc. are nothing more than a shrewdly calculated manipulation. Take away the headlines, and judge her simply by her singing voice, and she's one of dozens upon dozens of talented, faceless Norah Jones clones. With the subject matter of her songs and her bad girl image, she's Janis Joplin, Judy Garland, & Billie Holliday all tied up in a bow, and we salivate like Pavlov's dog whenever she makes another headline. She's a good singer, but a genius marketer, and I betcha in 30-40 years she'll be lounging on the patio of her luxury flat on the Riviera sipping herbal tea and counting her money, still chuckling about what a con job she did on us all.

1. +5

2. 338 electoral votes

3. 15 seat pickup in House

4. 7 seat pickup in Senate

5. Murtha

6. Tinklenberg

7. Chambliss

8. Coleman

9. Hagan

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I was in NYC for three years, acted in one play and directed two. Didn't get paid for any of them. Came to DC for graduate school (in acting), lured by the 75 professional theatre companies in and around the area, and I've never stopped working. If you stay non-equity and you're not half-bad, you'll work forever. You'll need a day job, of course, because most companies pay a pittance, but it's not too expensive. Some cream-of-the-crop local actors do go Equity, but the jobs are much more scarce. There's also very little tv/film work, though there are commercials. There's also a pretty lucrative voice-artist market (Library of Congress, books on tape, etc).