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Andrew Sweat

February 24, 2006

Distinctive Style Being Destroyed By Pop Culture

By Andrew Sweat

Are we just sitting around numbingly sucking everything into our souls that is being displayed by TV, magazines and celebrities? What happened to personal style truly meaning an original, personal style?

February 2, 2006

Paging Dr. Moog

By Andrew Sweat

Noise, sound, car scratch, nails on a chalkboard, the sound of the morning paper thumping against the door at some odd hour in the morning; somewhere amongst that comes a man that championed himself on this palpable eeri...

February 2, 2006

Kelley Stoltz | Below The Branches | Sub Pop

By Andrew Sweat

There will always be those musicians that take over mainstream radio with an arsenal of simple pop songs in a strict, formulaic fashion. Then again, there are also those musicians who are truly multi-talented, who seem t...

January 31, 2006

Using Viagra Heightens Most of Life’s Pleasures, Period

By Andrew Sweat

So I am on my computer, typing about my absolutely pathetic life -followed with the word "jkajahgsjdlfhdghfdjkflfhjfhf I rock" - and I look to the right. I see a blue pill - not some bullshit, who-gives-a-fuck Matrix shi...

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