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The Wolfgang Press / Shut that Door (1988) / YouTube

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood (2005) / Bandcamp

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Radio Berlin / Twelve Fingers (2001) / Bandcamp

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Swell / Make Up Your Mind (1998) / YouTube

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REM / You (1994) / YouTube

#100!

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Stone Roses / Made of Stone (1989) / YouTube

Since I'm working on a buffer of pages, this is old news: when I was coloring this page (in late November 2025) the news came through that Mani from the Stone Roses died so of course I had to throw in something with him... What's the buffer, you ask? I'm trying to stay at least 30 pages ahead of what's posting. I wasn't able to maintain anything near this the first time around, but so far so good this time (it helps that I'm not writing as I'm going now!).

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The Armoury Show / Waiting for the Floods (1985) / YouTube

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Architecture in Helsinki / Maybe You Can Owe Me (2005) / YouTube

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Golden Boy with Miss Kittin / Rippin Kittin (2002) / YouTube

There was a good long time where it was near-impossible to get a taxi to drive to an outer borough, especially far into one. You were far less likely to be rejected if you'd managed to get in the car and have the driver start in the right direction before "updating" the destination to something farther away. It wasn't an aversion to the long drive; the driver was not going to have someone hail a return trip from a residential neighborhood in the middle of the night so they'd just have to go back to Manhattan.

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Gossip / Standing in the Way of Control (2005) / Bandcamp

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My Favorite / The Happiest Days of My Life (2003) / Bandcamp

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Pylon / Crazy (1983) / Bandcamp

I did Hourly Comics Day; you can see my rather uneventful day here. In all seriousness though, it's nice to have a quiet day once in a while and not have to do a ton of stuff when it's super cold out.

Playlist:
Bright Eyes / Lover I Don't Have to Love (2002) / Bandcamp

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Franz Ferdinand / You Could Have it So Much Better (2005) / YouTube

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Black Box Recorder / Start As You Mean To Go On (2001) / YouTube

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Cranes / Jewel (1993) / YouTube

Andrew's extremely into 80s and 90s 4AD and Creation Records, which we really only learn from his shirts.

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Sleater-Kinney / Entertain (2005) / Bandcamp

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Wolf Parade / Shine a Light (2005) / YouTube

Another track from this band on this album is currently everywhere due to a certain sports-romance show (and for the record I think the music choices in that are fantastic), but this is the one I can put on repeat (almost) forever.

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The Feelies / Loveless Love (1980) / Bandcamp

I like making these 12-panel, no text pages (there are a couple others). They take forever to color* though.

*yes yes, it's black and white. 

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Matt Pond PA / Several Arrows Later (2005) / Bandcamp

The birds are Chimney Swifts, aka "flying cigars." Most would have headed south by this time of year but with Sara's proximity to the cemetery I figured this wasn't too weird (eBird even has a couple November Chimney Swift sightings in Green-Wood).

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Vaselines / Son of a Gun (1992) / YouTube

Son of a Gun was famously covered by Nirvana (who covered several Vaselines songs). Less famously, the Vaselines covered Divine's You Think You're a Man in 1987 and if you've never encountered it you should definitely check out Divine's 1984 original.