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So I know putitupto11 has been our resident ‘Hot Shit Download’ purveyor of late with his epic lists and crafty soundcloud embeds (nice work, btw), but I have a fire track of my own to share from former New Jersey (now Brooklyn, of course) psychedelic pop quintet Real Estate (although I’m sure he already talked about them the “best albums of 2010” pieces he wrote).

Even though it was about 8 degrees the morning I burned this CD to listen to on my awful commute (yes, I still burn CDs…), you can practically taste summer.

p.s. watch in HQ

i think i’m maybe reading too much hipster runoff and listening to too much ‘washed out’ or something cause i’ve been in quite the introspective mood of late, to the point where i don’t feel like doing anything much more cracking open a craft beer, kicking my toms up on the coffee table, putting on the record player and questioning EVERYTHING.

why do we blog?
is it for selfish purposes?
is it to convince people we’re funny or relevant?
do we have something to say?
does what we say even matter?
are we mean-spirited?
do we cash in on other people’s misfortunes?
do we want to be famous?
do we want to be considered ‘tastemakers’ among our peers?
is it because the internet gives us a voice?
does the internet give us a voice?
do we just do this to embed album covers like the one above?

so many questions.

anyway, my next task is to move this site to a platform so we can make a moneygrab and try to get ads on the site (and also allow for a bunch of new customizations). so expect great things from TMF soon. Well, once i finally justify our existence and maybe then acknowledge the $ contributors have thrown in to the effort.

lastly, in a typically belated fashion, i’d like to apologize for tardiness on this matter and on not offering a quicker apology regarding yippiekaijay‘s Penn State joke, which apparently takes far longer to reach West Texas than I expected.