In "Curious, George: UNLURK!"

I'm petebestess. Please touch my petebreast. Or maybe you shouldn't go anywhere near my petebust. This is a petetest, do not adjust your monitor. Surely you petejest. This comment is a petemesst.

Hello. I'm a lurker. I've posted 4 comments since November of 2003. That was a long time ago and much has happened since then. But what I really want to know is, are there any female petebests out there? Would they be called petebestess? And if they were the best petebestess ever, could they be described as petebestessiest? Bestpetebestess? Can I have my cookie and coffee mug now?

In "A love note to the 'premiere' actor of a generation."

I like his movies but I don't like him. I think that vacuous is a perfect term for him and his brand of acting. So there. Oh, and if you kids don't start behaving this minute, you can walk home!

In "Curious George: Musically lost."

I also grew up listening to the old greats that quonset mentions. I miss that indescribable moment when I hear a special guitar lick, drum solo, lyric or all of it in toto and for a few minutes my heart is bursting with joy and I'm in heaven. When it's all been done before and there's nothing new under the sun but rehashed sounds and styles, the excitement simply disappears. Anyway, as well as the above-mentioned ideas, I also troll the record labels themselves, who often have free mp3 downloads of their new material. See Matador, for one, and Rainbow Quartz for another. Pitchfork, love 'em or hate 'em, has a decent selection of good stuff that includes a link to the band's label. Insound has a vast selection of mp3's for the taking. Both Pitchfork and Insound offer reviews, as does Epitonic, which I have found fairly accurate and most helpful. Lastly, may I introduce you to a group that rescued me from the despair brought on by the fear of never feeling that special wow-this-is-fantastic-I'm-happy-again-feeling that I used to have when I was young? Carbon Leaf has free downloads that I feel you should take advantage of. Thanks guys for the links to mp3 blogs. I've never really explored that area but I think I should start.

In "I wasn't doing so good, but now that I'm dead..."

Metafilter never fucking works for me, anyway. I think it hates Europeans Doesn't everybody hate Europeans? :) Good tunes, thanks for the link.

In "The Amazing EC Brown MP3 Link Collection"

Thanks for the link, forks! That page will be months of perusal. And Dr.Moxie, thanks for pointing out the Deep House Archives. There's some beautfiful gold in there.

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