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Album: Love & Distortion
Year: 2003

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I know I’ve probably mentioned this before — with over 2500 of these suckers, I’ve probably mentioned everything before — but in the early 2000s, one of my main ways of getting new music was passing a hard drive around between Tim, Kirk & I. Because we all had different methods of finding music, one of us would always discover something the other two hadn’t.

And thus, the hard drive, the totally offline way we would share music with each other. And so, I’m pretty sure it was Tim who turned me on to The Stratford 3, the shoegazey band from San Francisco, and their two albums, 2002’s The Revolt Against Tired Noises and 2003’s Love & Distortion.

Today is another election day here in California. By my (admittedly unofficial) count, it is the 6,586th election we have had in California since the turn of the century.

For whatever reason, out here on the Left Coast, we have pretty much perfected the perpetual election cycle, which, as you know spawns a flurry of campaign ads, which this year seem to have been dominated by our Democratic Gubernatorial¹ candidates flinging huge bags of shit at each other. On camera. Like monkeys. Dumb monkeys. Meanwhile, Arnold just sits back somewhere smoking a huge stogie and laughing.

While the commercials — most of which I make blipvert by at tivo speed — are as annoying as ever, they are nothing compared to the insidious monster that has infiltrated my phone in ever growing numbers: the robo-call.

For the lucky lucky few who have no idea what I’m talking about, these are pre-recorded phone calls that are robotically automated so that the only humans involved are the ones actually receiving the calls.

We need to stop these, and I have a plan.

telephone

Certain Songs #2522: The Stratford 4 – “Telephone”

Stop With The Fracking Robo-Calls Already!!!