Greg Bueno

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Thank you, Holidailies : Wow. So I made it to the last day of Holidailies. Of course, it helps to cheat. (posted Jan 6, 8:57am)

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In lieu of a linklog, part the second, or Facebook is my Tum : I mentioned before that I'm not much of a link collector. That has turned out to be untrue. (posted Jan 5, 7:18am)

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Duran Duran: Rio (2009 Collector's Edition) : Today, I'm old enough to be a sucker for the reissue market, and yet again, I repurchased "Rio", this time with the remixes I know and love. (posted Jan 4, 6:40am)

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Getting listening done : GTD has finally gotten me listening to stuff I've had on a back-burner for too long a time. (posted Jan 3, 7:54am)

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Year-end meme : But now we must pick up every piece / Of the life we used to love / Just to keep ourselves / At least enough to carry on (posted Jan 2, 11:26am)

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Van Tomiko: Van. : Sometimes you can't help but be who you are. (posted Jan 1, 8:00am)

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LEO Imai: LASER RAIN : The opening single, "Synchronize" gets excessive with the Autotune, but with the spare disco bass and the space age effects, he's more Sam Sparro than Duran Duran. (posted Dec 31, 8:39am)

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Tomosaka Rie: Toridori. : "Toridori." is still very much a pop album, but like the "Shoujo Robot" single, it's a meatier kind of pop. (posted Dec 30, 7:14am)

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Utada Hikaru: This Is the One : As much as I'd like to see Utada achieve success in the States, she hasn't yet found the right collaborators to localize her music for America. (posted Dec 29, 2:25pm)

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Daniel J. Levitin: This Is Your Brain on Music : I wish "This Is Your Brain on Music" could have delivered more than it did. (posted Dec 28, 7:23am)

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Steve Knopper: Appetite for Self-Destruction : As familiar as the major labels' downfall may be to any music fan in the last eight years, the build-up to that downfall is a story seldom told. (posted Dec 27, 9:17am)

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日本に旅行した、其の五：京都、伏見 : When we left Japan, it was Tuesday night. When we arrived in Honolulu, it was Tuesday morning. The wonders of the International Date Line. (posted Dec 26, 7:06am)

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日本に旅行した、其の四：京都 : It wasn't until I realized I hadn't set aside a budget for admission prices that I concluded Kyoto is a tourist trap -- a very beautiful and appealing tourist trap. (posted Dec 25, 8:04am)

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日本に旅行した、其の三：大阪 : My brother had asked me repeatedly what I wanted to see in Osaka, and I had no clue aside from the Dotonbori. By the time we got back to Hiroshima, I was too tired to add anything else to the Osaka excursion, except for the Umeda Sky Building. (posted Dec 24, 7:39am)

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日本に旅行した、其の二：広島 : I knew of only two things about Hiroshima: the atomic bomb was detonated there, and a Los Angeles jazz group named itself after the city. I had no idea what else the city -- and prefecture -- had to offer. (posted Dec 23, 7:06am)

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日本に旅行した、其の一：京都、東京 : Damn that Shinkansen is fast. (posted Dec 22, 7:13am)

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日本に旅行した、其のゼロ : The trip that has caused so much ambivalence has been completed. I can now say I've been to Japan. And yes, I would like to return. (posted Dec 21, 8:37am)

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The Holidailies Audio Guide to Musicwhore.org : It's probably best to hear music than to read about it. The 10 regular readers who stop by already know this stuff. You, Holidailies reader, have not. Unless, of course, you've got JPOPSUKI in your RSS reader. (posted Dec 20, 8:31am)

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John Adams: Hallelujah Junction : Adams can't help but come across as the smart guy he is, and when he's relating stories about the creation of his biggest works, he's entirely engaging. (posted Dec 19, 7:56am)

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Favorite edition decade: 2000-2009, Nos. 10-1 : If the Japanese music market weren't so insular, this album could be incredibly significant worldwide. Hyperbole? Perhaps. (posted Dec 18, 7:16am)

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Favorite edition decade: 2000-2009, Nos. 20-11 : The Arcade Fire was better when it was called Neutral Milk Hotel, and David Byrne should not have changed his name to Win Butler. (posted Dec 17, 8:01am)

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Favorite edition decade: 2000-2009, Nos. 30-21 : I didn't realize ACO had essentially turned herself into a one-woman Sigur Rós. (posted Dec 16, 12:10am)

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Favorite edition decade: 2000-2009, Nos. 40-31 : Yes, Mr. Merritt, you have indeed created an album that is more Jesus and Mary Chain than the Jesus and Mary Chain. (posted Dec 15, 6:25am)

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Favorite edition decade: 2000-2009, Nos. 50-41 : All the fashionable online pundits are throwing together decade retrospectives, and there's no reason my little dog and pony show shouldn't get in on some of that action. (posted Dec 14, 8:11am)

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The Slush Pile, or gone before you knew they were here : In a word, boring. (posted Dec 13, 10:50am)

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Looking ahead: January-March 2010 : I would really love to see the original Duran Duran video album released on DVD. (posted Dec 12, 1:54pm)

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Shiina Ringo: Sanmon Gossip : "Sanmon Gossip" is the album I wished Tokyo Jihen would have recorded. (posted Dec 11, 7:34am)

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Favorite edition 2009: Quarter final : 2009 is getting the short shrift. Perhaps later I can revise history, should the new releases of this year become catalog discoveries of coming years. I doubt it. (posted Dec 10, 8:08am)

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Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea : The structure of "In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea" gives the same kind of kick I would get out of listening to, say, the later quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich. (posted Dec 9, 7:20am)

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On the playlist, or Japan booty (as in treasure, not call) : I wanted to make sure if I were going to live with an album during my daily commutes, it would be something worth 3,000 or so yen. (posted Dec 8, 6:30am)

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Welcome, Holidailies readers : Given the dearth of content on this site in the last six months, I figure I may as well try to put myself in a position to produce. I'm skeptical. (posted Dec 7, 7:54am)