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Two Days In Autumn, Fernwood, Big Sur 2006: If you like camping in the forest and intimate music gatherings, consider visiting a Fernwood festival in Big Sur. 1. You May Be Blue – Vetiver 2. Awful Shade Of Blue, An / Wait – Tarnation 3. We Were All Uptown Rulers – The Court & Spark 4. Born Tp – Women & Children 5. Winding Tree – Nick Castro & The Young Elders 6. Canyon Girl – Fruit Bats 7. The Goodbye Girl – Eric Shea and Bart Davenport 8. It Is Wonderful – Birds Of America 9. Anji – Matt Baldwin 10. Lady Memphis – Johnathan Rice 11. Been So Long – Vetiver 12. Always On My Mind – Paula Frazer 13. Capaldi – The Court & Spark 14. Oranges – Women & Children 15. Sun Song – Nick Castro 16. Born In The 70’s – Fruit Bats 17. Jet Fighter – Bart Davenport 18. I Wish I Was Born An Animal – Birds Of America 19. Split, Part 2 – Matt Baldwin 20. Hickory Wind (Outro) – Johnathan Rice

Dig This Winners (November 2006): In this recurring feature, we present you with tracks by some of our favorite rising acts. 1. Ida, My – Annuals 2. Hang Me Up To Dry (Album) – Cold War Kids 3. The Day I Turned To Glass – Honeycut 4. The Zookeeper’s Boy – Mew 5. Sewn – The Feeling 6. Brother – Annuals 7. Saint John (Album) – Cold War Kids 8. Shadows – Honeycut 9. Special – Mew 10. Helicopter – The Feeling

Rainy Day Blues: The forecast may call for rain, but this playlist of stormy weather songs won’t even get your shoes wet. 1. Rain, Rain – Louis Armstrong 2. Stormy Weather – The Pixies 3. Stormy Weather – Frank Sinatra 4. Thunderstorms And Neon Signs – Wayne Hancock 5. Rambunctious Cloud – Vic Chesnutt 6. Lord Let It Rain On Me – Spiritualized 7. Rain Dance – The Guess Who 8. Bad Weather – Diana Ross and the Supremes 9. Thunder – Prince 10. Ill Wind – Billie Holiday 11. Make It Rain – Tom Waits 12. It’s Gonna Rain – Bobby Womack 13. Storm – Gregory Isaacs 14. Another Song About The Rain – Cracker 15. Rainy Day – Brownie Mcghee 16. Stormy Weather – Pere Ubu 17. Strange Weather – Marianne Faithfull 18. Rainy Days And Mondays – The Carpenters 19. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain – Willie Nelson 20. The Rain Came Down – Steve Earle 21. Rain On The Roof – The Lovin’ Spoonful 22. Spring Rain – The Go-Betweens 23. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall – Ella Fitzgerald 24. When The Sun Comes Out – Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Q Brings the Funk: 1. Hikky Burr – Quincy Jones 2. Oh, Happy Day – Quincy Jones 3. Walking In Space – Quincy Jones 4. Mohair Sam – Quincy Jones 5. Love And Peace – Quincy Jones 6. Fever – Quincy Jones 7. I Never Told You – Quincy Jones 8. Dead End – Quincy Jones 9. Cast Your Fate To The Wind – Quincy Jones 10. Gula Matari – Quincy Jones 11. What’s Goin’ On – Quincy Jones 12. Theme From ‘The Anderson Tapes’ – Quincy Jones 13. Along Came Betty – Quincy Jones 14. Superstition – (featuring Stevie Wonder/Bill Withers/Billy Preston) – Quincy Jones 15. Boogie Joe, The Grinder – Quincy Jones 16. Mellow Madness – (featuring Paulette McWilliams) – Quincy Jones 17. Sanford And Son Theme – Quincy Jones 18. Velas – Quincy Jones

Vittorio’s Celebrity Playlist: No one can accuse this golden-voiced tenor of having narrow musical taste: the guy likes Louis Armstrong and Aerosmith. 1. All I Ask Of You – Barbra Streisand 2. Blue Suede Shoes – Elvis Presley 3. We Are The Champions – Queen 4. I Got A Woman – Ray Charles 5. Rock DJ – Robbie Williams 6. Sing For The Moment (Album Version (Edited)) – Eminem 7. Someone To Watch Over Me – Frank Sinatra 8. What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong 9. I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing (Live Version) – Aerosmith 10. The Reason – Hoobastank 11. Hero – Mariah Carey 12. Fallin’ – Alicia Keys 13. In Da Club – 50 Cent 14. ‘Vesti la giubba’ from ‘I pagliacci’ – Maria Del Monaco 15. Intermezzo sinfonico – Pietro Mascagni 16. 1. Allegro con brio – Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 – 1. Allegro con brio – Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela 17. Lakmé – Viens, Mallika, … Dôme épais (Flower Duet) – Dame Joan Sutherland 18. Somewhere (Ballet) – Larry Kert/reri Grist/carol Lawrence – Leonard Bernstein 19. Deep Lotus – Naked Rhythm 20. Jamming – Bob Marley & The Wailers 21. (Everything I Do) I Do For You – Bryan Adams 22. Born In The U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen 23. Gangsta’s Paradise (Amended LP Version) – Coolio feat. L.V. 24. Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers

CMT Awards Nominees 2006: This Nashville gala favors fans over music industry bigwigs, as nominees (and winners) are chosen by voting viewers. 1. Alcohol – Brad Paisley 2. All Jacked Up – Gretchen Wilson 3. As Good As I Once Was – Toby Keith 4. Believe – Brooks & Dunn 5. Better Life – Keith Urban 6. Honky Tonk Badonkadonk – Trace Adkins 7. Like We Never Loved At All – Faith Hill 8. Who You’d Be Today – Kenny Chesney 9. A Real Fine Place To Start – Sara Evans 10. Georgia Rain – Trisha Yearwood 11. Jesus, Take The Wheel – Carrie Underwood 12. Kerosene – Miranda Lambert 13. Mississippi Girl – Faith Hill 14. Twenty Years And Two Husbands Ago – Lee Ann Womack 15. Big Time – Big & Rich 16. Boondocks – Little Big Town 17. Help Somebody – Van Zant 18. Just Might (Make Me Believe) – Sugarland 19. Skin – Rascal Flatts 20. Something To Be Proud Of – Montgomery Gentry 21. 4th of July – Shooter Jennings 22. Hicktown (Radio Edit) – Jason Aldean 23. I Play Chicken With The Train – Cowboy Troy 24. Pickin’ Wildflowers – Keith Anderson 25. Something More – Sugarland 26. I’m A Worried Man – Willie Nelson 27. Like We Never Loved At All – Faith Hill 28. Live Forever – Billy Joe Shaver 29. The Blues Man – George Jones 30. When I Get Where I’m Going – Brad Paisley 31. Who Says You Can’t Go Home (Duet with… – Bon Jovi 32. Come A Little Closer – Dierks Bentley 33. Making Memories Of Us – Keith Urban 34. Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right – Billy Currington 35. Somebody’s Hero – Jamie O’Neal 36. You’re Gonna Be – Reba McEntire 37. Best I Ever Had – Gary Allan

After a long absence, Sufjan Stevens’ albums are now on Rhapsody. Come on! Feel the Illinoise!

Aaron Swartz can’t get any work done in the Wired offices. My advice: get some earplugs or ER-6s and tell people to leave you alone for a while.

Nas’ Greatest Hits: Jones has had one of the longest lasting and interesting careers in all of hip-hop. Here are his best. 1. Made You Look – Nas 2. Hate Me Now – NAS 3. Nas Is Like – NAS 4. If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) – Nas 5. I Can – Nas 6. N.Y. State Of Mind – Nas 7. N.Y. State Of Mind (Part II) – NAS 8. Get Down – Nas 9. The Message – NAS 10. Got Ur Self A… – Nas 11. Thief’s Theme – Nas 12. Live Nigga Rap – NAS 13. You Know My Style – Nas 14. Affirmative Action – NAS 15. Street Dreams – NAS 16. Life’s A Bitch – Nas 17. Nothing Lasts Forever – Nas 18. Project Windows – NAS 19. Just A Moment – Nas (Featuring Quan) 20. Nazareth Savage – Nas 21. Ether – Nas 22. Street’s Disciple – Nas 23. Virgo – Nas 24. War – Nas 25. 2nd Childhood – Nas 26. Book Of Rhymes – Nas 27. Heaven – Nas 28. The World Is Yours – Nas 29. One Love – Nas

Tim Bray has the scoop on open source Java. It’s GPL! The official announcement goes out at 9:30 PST.

Robert Reich’s assessment of what the new Democratic Congress will try to accomplish is pretty bleak. The only thing I can’t believe here is that Democrats won’t do anything about Iraq. American’s voted the dems in because they are anxious about Iraq and if they haven’t done anything about in two years they will be right back out.

Aaron Swartz spends a night sleeping in front of the Coop in Harvard Square.

I made meticulous preparations. I took the bag and rolled it around in the dirt to scuff it up a big, so it didn’t stand out so much (this really didn’t do a whole lot, to be honest). Then I changed into sweatpants and a non-descript T-shirt. I left my shoes but put on a couple layers of socks, two subway fares and my keys. I buried the keys in a park by my house, spent one fare getting to Harvard Square, buried the other one inside Harvard, and then took my sleeping bag to a spot outside the Coop. The digital clock hovering over us read exactly 10:00.

CRN says Sun will license Java under the GPL. All of the noises Sun has been making about wanting to prevent Java forks made me think they would use another not-really-free license so, if true, this is very good news.

It seems like the political story of the day is automated voter-supression calls that Republicans are making to Democratic voters in states with close Congressional elections. The calls initially sound like they are on behalf of Democratic candidates and some people are called back 5-7 more times after they hang up. The mainstream media seems to be largely ignoring the story although it is a big story in the blogosphere and on social media sites.

This Might Be A Wiki is a wiki about They Might Be Giants. There’s a comprehensive album and track guide as well as an exclusive MP3 collection with rarities and songs from advertisements.