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Weird show. I was in a really obnoxious mood all night and somehow reverted to my 16 year old self, which is a slightly smaller version of what I am now, only with long hair and braces and a fierce determination to piss off my mother. Incidentally, I did see my mother today and I assure you that I was very sweet to her even though she made me totally angry when she told me the following story: Nearly everyone can relate to a parent talking about how they bumped into one of your high school friends' mothers in the supermarket, how they got to talking, and how they exchanged stories about what their children are doing nowadays. Well, my mom recently bumped into the mother of a random girl I went to school with ("Helen," let's call her) who is now, according to her own mother, a "big-time" television producer in New York City. Helen's mom proudly rattled off her daughter's list of accolades; how she went to a great college, met a nice young man from a good family, got married, has a great job in the media field, worked herself all the way to the top, has a lovely apartment in Brooklyn, two beautiful children, and how she single-handedly found a cure for cancer, how she saves baby seals in her spare time, and also how she donates half her salary to a foundation to find homes for little puppies and kitties. Which is all 100% hooey because I clearly remember Helen to have been nothing less than a pure and natural bitch-on-wheels who wouldn't have stepped out of her way to the top without trampling on my mangled body in the gutter after it had been run over by a fleet of buses. But I understand and accept that parents like to gloat and one-up eachother during these chance encounters in the aisles of suburban supermarkets, so I can certainly forgive Helen's mom for perhaps stretching the boundaries of what you and I would safely call "The Truth." What I CAN'T forgive, however, is MY OWN MOTHER'S response when MY whereabouts where inquired about by Helen's mom. I mean, *I'M* actually proud of what I do for a living -- I certainly don't go gloating about it in the produce section of the local Stop n' Shop, but I would rather enjoy watching my mom deflate the ego of Helen's mother by saying something like "Michael is the Special Events Director for a non-profit arts organization in Jersey City and he's also a DJ on an independent, listener supported FM station in the largest and most important radio market in the world." Instead, this is what she said: "Michael is into music."
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Yes, my mom calls me "Michael."
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Kim Salmon & the Surrealists
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I Fell
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Sin Factory
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3rd Bass
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The Gas Face
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Def Jam 10th Anniversary 2xLP
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Sa Smash
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Last Night
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12"
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Heroine Shieks
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Is that OK.K.K?
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Rape on the Installment Plan
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ex-members of the Cows
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Nitzinger
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Witness to the Truth
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Nitzinger
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Sacred Reich
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Death Squad
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Best of Metal Blade vol. 3 2xLP
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Spectre (w/ Sensational & Guess)
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Skrippin'
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Parts Unknown
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S*M*A*S*H
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Barabus (Piloted)
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7"
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Flipper
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Get Away
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Sex Bomb Baby!
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Lipstick Killers
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Hindu Gods of Love
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Do the Pop! 2xCD
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Kingface
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I don't want to be Anything
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Kingface
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Serengeti
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Chuck Norris
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Dirty Flamingo
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Outhud
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Dad, there's a Little thing Called Too Much Information
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S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D.
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Space Streakings
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Sexual Aesthetic Salon After School
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7"
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This song strangely conjures up the sensation of having a malfunctioning Atari 2600 hooked up to your brain and being tossed onto the assembly line of a tuna canning factory.
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Metallica
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Jump in the Fire
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Kill 'em All
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This song strangely conjures up the sensation of standing in a McDonald's parking lot at 4 A.M. and throwing up on my friend Nikki's leg.
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Wire
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Being Watched
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Send
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Lootpack
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Take a Hit
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12" w/ Smut Peddlers & the High and Mighty
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Monster Magnet
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Murder
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7"
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Bert Switzer (the Destroyed)
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Animal Disease
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1977-2002
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Omid
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At-One-Ment
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Omid
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Oddjobs
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Burden Streak
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The Shopkeeper's Wife EP
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Trenchmouth
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Interference
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The Broadcasting System
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Sole
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In Defense of Culture
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Man's Best Friend Pt. 2
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Thanks Lou!
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Latyrx
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Lady Don't Tek No
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Solesides Greatest Bumps
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The Humpers
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Hey Shadow
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The Savage Young Humpers EP
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Bellrays
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Pinball City
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Raw Collection
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MOTO
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The Chicks can Tell
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Floosh!
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Scratch Acid
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Damned for All Time
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Just Keep Eating
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Antischism
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Elemental Peace
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Antischism
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Phantasm
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Blown to Oblivion
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Wreck-Age
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Neurosis
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Pain of Mind
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Pain of Mind
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Thee Hydrogen Terrors
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Radio to Saturn
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Terror, Diplomacy, and Public Relations
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Naked Raygun
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Home of the Brave
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All Rise
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The Cuts
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How Can I get Through?
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2 over 10
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De la Soul (w/ Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, and Monie Love)
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Buddy
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King Honey
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Trinity (Bonechip mix by DJ Rupture)
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12"
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Lee Ranaldo
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The Bridge
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East Jesus
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Lydia Lunch & Anubian Knights
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Smoke in the Shadows
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Smoke in the Shadows
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Nu Shooz
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I Can't Wait (stretched out version)
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MP3
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Michael Mayer
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17 & 4
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Kompakt Extra
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The Hotwire Mandate with Mike Lupica:
Playlist
from April 20, 2003
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