Favoriting Strength Through Failure with Fabio: Playlist from October 24, 2013 Favoriting

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The Failure of Noise
The Failure of Sound
The Failure of Rock
The Failure of the Avant Garde
The Failure of the Space Age
The Failure of Jazz
The Failure of Psychedelia
The Failure of Krautrock
The Failure of Electronic
The Failure of Pop
The Failure of Free-form
The Failure of the 20th Century

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Favoriting October 24, 2013: The Measure of Failure is roughly 7 inches

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Koivistolaiset  Jättiläinen (Mr. Giant Man)   Favoriting 0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Milpath  Electronic in Medicine   Favoriting 0:11:19 (Pop-up)
Vince Taylor  Rock 'n Roll Station   Favoriting 0:12:27 (Pop-up)
Polly Shang Kuan Band  Untitled   Favoriting 0:14:58 (Pop-up)
Lovers Anonymous  Female Steps   Favoriting 0:23:55 (Pop-up)
Cursory  La Sorciere   Favoriting 0:25:09 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra  I am an Instrument   Favoriting 0:25:50 (Pop-up)
 
Our Love Will Destroy the World  Galatic Masada   Favoriting 0:33:54 (Pop-up)
F/i  Five Crowns of the Saxon King   Favoriting 0:38:06 (Pop-up)
Chrome  Shadows of a Thousand Years   Favoriting 0:39:53 (Pop-up)
Goblin  Suspiria   Favoriting 0:45:09 (Pop-up)
Michael Rother  Flammende Herzen   Favoriting 0:51:02 (Pop-up)
Goblin  Death Dies (film version, pt. 1)   Favoriting 0:54:59 (Pop-up)
 
Schizo  Le Voyageur   Favoriting 1:04:32 (Pop-up)
Bill Orcutt  When You Wish Upon A Star   Favoriting 1:10:29 (Pop-up)
John Fahey  The Mill Pond DrownsHope   Favoriting 1:11:34 (Pop-up)
Fennesz  Transition   Favoriting 1:13:16 (Pop-up)
Colin Stetson  The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man   Favoriting 1:20:35 (Pop-up)
My Cat Is An Alien  Two Space-Blues Introducing the Cosmic Light - pt. 1   Favoriting 1:23:14 (Pop-up)
Geoff Dugan  Technical Comfort formalistic Style Features - pt. 2   Favoriting 1:25:45 (Pop-up)
 
Greg Turkington and the Golding Institute  Sounds of the American Fast Food Restaurants   Favoriting 1:44:47 (Pop-up)
pgr  Euphoria   Favoriting 1:46:17 (Pop-up)
Electrostatic Cat  Forebrain 233   Favoriting 1:49:38 (Pop-up)
William Burroughs  Curse Go Back   Favoriting 1:54:18 (Pop-up)
Stu Phillips & Orchestra  Tropical Summer   Favoriting 1:56:51 (Pop-up)
Rein Clabbers & Tool  The Bloodstream is a Joint Venture   Favoriting 1:59:33 (Pop-up)
  The Sights and Sounds of Fairfield Bay   2:02:35 (Pop-up)
Unknown artist  diskono 016   Favoriting 2:08:47 (Pop-up)
Tashi Wada  Gradient part 2   Favoriting 2:14:08 (Pop-up)
 
Circle X  Heartbreaker   Favoriting 2:26:39 (Pop-up)
Krankhafte Phantasten  Don't Follow   Favoriting 2:27:51 (Pop-up)
Einsturzende Neubauten  Fuer den Untergang   Favoriting 2:36:01 (Pop-up)
Esplendor Geométrico  Necrosis En la Poya   Favoriting 2:42:23 (Pop-up)
Alesia Cosmos  Love Attack   Favoriting 2:43:06 (Pop-up)
The Normal  Warm Leatherette   Favoriting 2:43:27 (Pop-up)
 
Al Steweart  Turn into Earth   Favoriting 2:50:25 (Pop-up)
Little Eva  Makin' with the Magilla   Favoriting 2:59:26 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
common:

i love that version of mr. giant man.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Curt:

Nice cover of Mr Giant Man! Good surprise!
Avatar 3:09pm
Green Mountain Man Mark:

My ears picked up in the first 2 seconds that it was a different version of Giant Man.
Avatar 3:09pm
Chris from DC:

Always good to hear Jattilainen.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
DCE:

hi
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Tome:

Hyvää Joulua !!
  3:11pm
Robert:

For a while back there, Fabio was playing that version about every 4th time.

I think I may have one of those Milpath giveaway records. Doctors get all sorts of stuff like that, or used to.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
BDR:

Jack Spicer! Tell me about this piece of music please that mentions Jack Spicer!
Avatar 3:16pm
BigLankyGeordie:

ANyone know anything about that Vince Taylor track - awesome!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
BDR:

Jack Spicer! www.poetryfoundation.org...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
BDR:

Jack Spicer! Have another www.poetryfoundation.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
DCE:

cool sonics
Avatar 3:25pm
chocolate monk:

i've ingested many substances with the Polly Shang Kuan band don't you know.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30pm
Curt:

Size matters I guess
Avatar 3:33pm
BigLankyGeordie:

Fabio,you didnt mention the Vince Taylor inspired track, what was that?
Avatar 3:33pm
northguineahills:

@GMMM: Me too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
common:

Yea...I've seen the wolf.
Avatar 3:40pm
Chris from DC:

F/I!
Avatar 3:40pm
Cheri Pi:

what Chris said!
Avatar 👻 3:41pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

...whoa, whut?!??!
[skitters back into room, spills coffee, flattens things that cry upon contact, slams on headphones, backwards]
Avatar 3:41pm
Cheri Pi:

I'm jealous of your Chrome single
Avatar 👻 3:41pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

CHROME + CAPS-LOCK!!!
Avatar 3:42pm
Cheri Pi:

DAMNED SKIPPY CAPS LOCK, EH???!!!
Avatar 3:42pm
Chris from DC:

So very clicky starred.
Avatar 👻 3:42pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

clicky-star-lock!
Avatar 3:45pm
Cheri Pi:

CLICKY STARS FROM MARS!!! NOW WITH 50% MORE EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!
Avatar 3:45pm
Cheri Pi:

that was exhausting.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
common:

Goblin! Yay!
Avatar 👻 3:46pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

witch!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
Michele:

I was at the Goblin show in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago. It was awesome, but so LOUD!
Avatar 3:47pm
Cheri Pi:

So-due to a last minute suprise root canal, I missed Goblin, and my chance to eat the vegan Ghost burger at Kuma's but Mr. CP did bring me back a copy of their tour LP.
Avatar 3:47pm
steve:

Goblin (at Webster Hall) was the best show ive been to in years
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Rich in Washington:

I was stupid and missed Goblin when they were in Portland OR.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I can't say for 100% certain, but this may be the first Goblin song I've heard. It is good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
common:

saw them in philly. so great.
Avatar 3:49pm
Cheri Pi:

This was baby's first Goblin rekkid.
Avatar 👻 3:50pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

I started with the Roller LP ages ago, then graduated to the soundtracks. Much diggy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:51pm
Andrew Waterloo:

Goblin exceeded all expectations
  3:52pm
Slim Pick'ns:

I second the above statement. First time listener & it's sound'n good to me!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Rich in Washington:

Ha! I was killing Chrome tabs trying to get rid of those advertisment sounds!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
Mutant:

I saw Goblin too and it was really, really good. I think they were really surprised how well they were received.
Avatar 3:55pm
chocolate monk:

is this that fud from Dire Straits???
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Mutant:

Wow, even more Goblin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Andrew Waterloo:

Michael Rother is from Neu!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:58pm
Andrew Waterloo:

@Mutant, I was mostly surprised by how much the audience was into it.
Avatar 3:59pm
Cheri Pi:

Good news though, Goblin are still coming to Cincinnati- I heard the chicago show was crammed to the gills and was very hard to see.
  4:00pm
Slim Pick'ns:

I'm laying in my eazy chair & drinkin' too much booze! ♥♥♥ it!
Avatar 4:01pm
steve:

sweet bed music as always
  4:01pm
Bill F.:

Goblin ruled at Music Hall! Best show I've seen all year. Fabio, that last set was golden.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:01pm
DCE:

some days you just gotta, Slim
Avatar 4:01pm
Chris from DC:

Ok, convinced, going to see Goblin here then.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:02pm
tim from champaign:

Hahahaha Chocolate Monk! Can I steal that one?
Avatar 4:05pm
chocolate monk:

@ tim from... sure thing man... and Fab, I am actually sitting in my swivel chair, drinking some Chilean merlot, its is gone 9pm here dont you know.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:05pm
DCE:

whoa...wild slide there, cowboy
  4:05pm
Slim Pick'ns:

Oh this is not just 'some days, DCE. This has is pretty much everyday, some say I have a problem, but I call it a lifestyle, not just anyone can pull off. Don't JUDGE!
Avatar 4:06pm
BigLankyGeordie:

Film that Goblin tracks were taken from was called Suspiria - real glam gothic masterpiece- would be ideal for next Thursday night!!!!
Avatar 4:14pm
Cecile:

I haz this single.
Hey, do you have Jean Michel Jarre and a Hobo?
Avatar 4:14pm
northguineahills:

Love this Fahey double 7", a fave of mine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
tim from champaign:

I'm glad I gave Colin Stetson a chance. I had seen his name associated with Arcade Fire and Bon Iver which caused me to immediately dismiss him initially. WFMU helped set me straight.
Avatar 4:26pm
Carmichael:

All right, all right. We're all here, and this is where we are. Hi Fabio and other abject failures.
Avatar 4:28pm
Cheri Pi:

TfC-that was my entire process about Colin Stetson too! And I gave him the chance and we all lived happily ever after.
Avatar 4:29pm
Cheri Pi:

I even won a Stetson 10" from the station last year.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
tim from champaign:

Speaking of honking saxamaphones, I'm seeing the William Parker Quartet featuring Hamid Drake on drums this evening. I'm stoked. I just might have a couple beersies afterward.
  4:32pm
Slim Pick'ns:


Thanks goodness basic math is my strength, how else would I post on this here board ? ✔
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
common:

Beersies you say, tim?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:34pm
Mike East:

register for a friendship society account, Slim. No math, plus avatars. pledge while your at it. :)
Avatar 4:34pm
Cheri Pi:

BEERSIES? Slim pick'ns, you can avoid the math if you create a user profile
Avatar 4:34pm
Chris from DC:

Beersies and Nagual later with any luck.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
Andrew Waterloo:

@Tim, that'll be good.. I saw him with marianne Trudel and Hamid Drake.
Avatar 4:37pm
Cecile:

how YOU doin'?
Avatar 4:38pm
Cheri Pi:

Oh, fair to middling' I s'ppose
Avatar 4:41pm
Cecile:

good ta hear.
  4:42pm
Slim Pick'ns:

☂ Thanks Cheri, but I'm having a hard time picking an avatar to represent me. It's been a terribly insecure day for me. ✄ it out.
Avatar 4:42pm
chocolate monk:

CLASSIC 7",, god bless greg turkington and all who have rode in him
and GLOB bless Stomach Ache records!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:44pm
tim from champaign:

@Andrew - cool. Tonight the quartet will have Rob Brown (alto sax) and Lewis Barnes (trumpet). I'm not familiar with those guys but I'm sure it will be great.
  4:47pm
Dean:

@tim... Rob Brown is one of the finest reed players around. You're in for a treat. With Barnes, Parker, and Drake...wow!
  4:54pm
nic:

i LOVE this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
Ike:

There is much excellence here today.
Avatar 4:55pm
david_:

Hi Fabio and all. Electrostatic Cat!
Avatar 5:00pm
Carmichael:

Wow, that reminded me of a polynesian restaurant we used to frequent back in the day. Although they played Andre Kostelantz instead.
  5:00pm
nic:

burroughs 2
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kat330:

Yeah, that Electrostatic Cat gave me a bit of a shock.
Avatar 5:07pm
david_:

a precursor to static electricity season here in the NE. I've laid down some scuffworthy carpet in anticipation.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:07pm
rsj:

Fab, you lost me man
Avatar 5:09pm
Loren:

How old is too old when it comes to sitting coffee?
Avatar 5:09pm
kat330:

Anywhere the furnace is on is 'lectrostatic shock territory. Our furnace is on, so the slippers are off when crossing the carpet.
  5:09pm
MJB:

Coffee? three days.
  5:10pm
Aaaaah:

damn vinyl!!!11!
Avatar 5:10pm
kat330:

@Loren: Depends on your room temp. We keep a 65-degree home, so leaving until the next morning is fine here (with a MW reheat).
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Cecile:

24 hours is my limit, Loren.
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Loren:

let's say it has sat for four, in a relatively mild temp kitchen... possibly five days... there are a few cups, and I'mn ot sure which one has the freshest pour.
  5:11pm
Aaaaah:

That's how you treat your mint 180gr repressings to sound vintage.
Avatar 5:11pm
steve:

reminds me of the Nautical Almanac 45 cut onto an existing 45
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:11pm
Mike East:

brew another pot, Loren.
Avatar 5:11pm
Loren:

I'm out of coffee... I feel like it is necessary...
Avatar 👻 5:12pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

Caffeine is a stable molecule, I believe. It'll work. It may have hallucinatory spores by that point which of course, is a bonus.
Avatar 5:12pm
Cecile:

Dump it out.
It starts to get moldy soon after that, you don't want to drink spores if you don't have to.
Avatar 5:12pm
Cecile:

you would think it wouldn't get moldy, but it does. Sad personal experience.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:13pm
Mike East:

yeah, I've grown some pretty funky mold in coffee cups. If your gonna try it, I'd say boil it down for a while.
Avatar 5:13pm
Loren:

Spores!?
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kat330:

Loren, I used to work at a place where the owners would dare -- backed by money -- one another to drink from a coffee mug where mold was visible. They'd do that. None of them died (during my tenure IAE).
Avatar 5:13pm
david_:

yeah, it starts to taste like an old thermos.
  5:13pm
dorfus:

This sounds just great in traffic
  5:14pm
dorfus:

Thanks now I have to do is climb the Texas tower
Avatar 5:14pm
Loren:

Any value-added drinking the four day old coffee? Any at all? Like a cheap high?
Avatar 5:15pm
Cecile:

no, just sad taste buds.
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Chris from DC:

How much money?
Avatar 5:15pm
Loren:

oh...
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northguineahills:

A good scrubbing w/ hot water and soap does the trick for me....
  5:16pm
dorfus:

Look the light is red what do you want
Avatar 5:16pm
steve:

Loren i would think at this point your safest bet is a contact high by standing nearby as you boil it
Avatar 5:17pm
Cecile:

at least reheat it well like kat said
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chocolate monk:

loren you could just have a wee toot from that crack pipe in your back pocket and forget about the Joe.
Avatar 5:18pm
kat330:

@Chris: $20. Think they figured it was a bargain for getting a penicillin boost as well.
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Loren:

I already drank it... this morning... I just ate a big bowl of lentils... talk about "wee toot."
Avatar 5:19pm
kat330:

@Loren: WHAT?! You dawg. Well, consider it YOUR penicillin booster shot.
Avatar 5:20pm
david_:

melanin-averse
  5:21pm
Fredericks:

Francisco López maybe the Diskono 016 artist.
Avatar 5:21pm
Loren:

I'm surprised there is not a quartet called: Anglo Saxin'
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Cecile:

you should be OK.

What I found out is that coffee beans NATURALLY carry mold spores. Not going to stop me from drinking it, but I am going to drink ti a lot faster.
Avatar 5:21pm
Green Mountain Man Mark:

what about orange people?
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Loren:

Feel good... teeth a bit furry... but that could be the Halloween cookies and smokes. Sounds like I should not drink four day old coffee.
Avatar 5:23pm
Cecile:

We need hobo music. C'mon Fab! *clay voice*
Avatar 5:24pm
kat330:

Not without a money-backed dare anyway.
  5:25pm
Diamanda:

Got nothing on me, brother
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Carmichael:

Loren, it's Thursday. Get ye to a pub. Wink wink, nudge nudge ...
Avatar 5:26pm
Carmichael:

Fab, at least play some filthy hippie music. Ultimate Spinach or something.
Avatar 5:28pm
kat330:

Was that a pluck that sounded like a f*ck at the end?
Avatar 5:28pm
chocolate monk:

even Circle X struggle to make the fucking Stones sound good, case closed, Fab!
Avatar 5:29pm
Cecile:

hobos!
  5:30pm
nic:

super
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Loren:

Carm, one of these days I will locate you and we will talk about the comments board while enjoying a frothy brew...I think I'm going to smuggle some 22's into a children's movie this evening...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:30pm
tim from champaign:

Speaking of Anglo Saxin' charm, a few weeks ago I processed some old yearbooks for the large midwestern university I work for. While perusing the yearbooks I discovered that during the 1910s and 20s there was a certain campus fraternity that had 3 "k"s for it's initials.
Avatar 5:31pm
Loren:

Residents "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" if you want me to fork over bux and stuff...
Avatar 5:36pm
Loren:

My boss is going to "print some shit" and then I gotta go... everyone, wherever you are, enjoy the evening... and Fabio, thanks for the 7-inches of Failure.
Avatar 5:36pm
kat330:

What is the maximum time length of a 7"? [no Viagra jokes folks]
Avatar 5:37pm
northguineahills:

Except for a drop a drop of Gaulish blood, I pretty much have Anglo-Saxon charm. (rumors of of yuper (MI) Menominee blood notwithstanding [my take is that it was suppressed, as I found pics from the late 19th century], as it would explain why I tan easily, and I sometimes get mistaken for being Eurasian.
Avatar 5:37pm
Green Mountain Man Mark:

boobs...titties..knockers..hangers..squeeze puppets...floppers...hey now grabbers...lifters...hey now mommas...lickable flesh bags..etc.
Avatar 5:38pm
kat330:

Stay moldy, in a good way, Loren.
Avatar 👻 5:44pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

YAY LEATHERETTE ALL CAPS CLICKY
  5:44pm
nic:

lovelovelove
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

I still maintain that this Normal 7" and the Red Transistor 7" (not bite) are the greatest singles of all time.
Avatar 5:45pm
Cecile:

clay should do this with hoof and mouth in his fancy accent.
Avatar 👻 5:45pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

Also, belated yay for the E.Geometrico...
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steve:

i recently discovered Grace Jones did a disco/new wave cover of WL
Avatar 5:46pm
Cecile:

steve, she did and it was AWESOME
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:47pm
tim from champaign:

MUTE 001
  5:47pm
Jason in Houston:

Theee Jam... I have to pledge now. Thank you.
Avatar 5:48pm
Cecile:

that's Fabio's JAM
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:48pm
Andrew Waterloo:

I was happy to at least find the reissue of Warm Leatherette on 7"
Avatar 5:50pm
Cecile:

HOBOES
  5:50pm
nic:

i love esplendor geometrico / einsturzende neubauten _super
Avatar 5:51pm
Cecile:

HOBOES! HOBOES! HOBOES!
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Mr. Lowry:

Wow, Loop Guru sampled this in Elderberry Shiftglass.
Avatar 5:53pm
Cecile:

this is a pretty amazing single.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:53pm
Mike East:

speaking of samples...do any of you loopy people here have any preferred devices for sampling/looping?
Avatar 5:54pm
Cecile:

the megillah?
Avatar 5:55pm
steve:

Mike East - i will take my MPC1000 to the grave, though it's much more than a sampler.
Avatar 5:56pm
sFrances from VA:

is this about Megillah the Gorilla?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:57pm
George of Troy:

@Mike East: For live looping, I love my Electrix Repeater. Out of production, but they can be found used pretty easily.
Avatar 5:57pm
Carmichael:

Mike, do you mean for instruments or music snippets? I have a floor unit called "The Boomerang" that's a killer phrase sampler. You can build on it incrementally, too.
Avatar 5:57pm
sFrances from VA:

er, Magilla ....www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:58pm
Matt from Springfield:

Al Steweart? 'S teweird...
Hey Fab and Clay and everyone!
Avatar 5:59pm
kat330:

Yo, Mattster!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59pm
Matt from Springfield:

Sign me up for the Cult of 45s!!!
Avatar 5:59pm
Carmichael:

Typo, Matt. Stewart released it in '66, when he was a wee lad.
Avatar 5:59pm
sFrances from VA:

Hey all! I hope Clay doesn't start in on asking if Fabio has "made" today…my husband is about to drink MoviFlow to prep for his colonoscopy tomorrow…
Avatar 5:59pm
sFrances from VA:

hey Kat! Cecile! Matt et al!
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kat330:

I noticed the Steweart typo, too, but have already done a ton of copy editing corrections today and decided to let this one pass.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
Matt from Springfield:

Yo kat!
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kat330:

HI, Saint Frances! :)
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Cecile:

hey, sfrances!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
Matt from Springfield:

Ah, thanks Carm!
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kat330:

Colbert eagle sound!
  1:33pm
Lucy:

Clay is right, this is your best show EVER!
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