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The Devil You Know

Stream o’ consciousness for November 12th

In me, Me, ME! on November 12, 2009

	Posted Favoriting contest: Robert Dubac’s Male Intellect: The 2nd Coming!: Square Pegs.
	RT @Pegnewsdeals: Win free tickets to Robert Dubac’s Male Intellect: The 2nd Coming #dfw #shopping http://bit.ly/1OVB49 [mikeorren]
	Listened to 55 songs. Alejandro Escovedo – Nuns Song (Acoustic) Basia Bulat – The Pilgriming Vine Beastie Boys – Rock Hard (Beastie Boys) Ben Folds – Fred Jones Part 2 Bettye LaVette – I Guess We Shouldn’t Talk About That Now Billy Joe Shaver – Black Rose Billy Joe Shaver – You Can’t Beat Jesus Christ Black Sabbath – Paranoid Cher & Gregg Allman – I Found You Love Cracker – Fluffy Lucy Dinah Washington – Mad About The Boy Don McLean – American Pie Doug Sahm – Invitation To The Blues Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Big Tears Golden Smog – Please Tell My Brother Grinderman – Honey Bee (Let’s Fly To Mars) Huey Lewis & The News – The Heart Of Rock & Roll Iris DeMent – The Old Gosple Ship Jerry Lee Lewis – Couple More Years Jimmy Buffett – In The Shelter Johnny Kidd – 21 – Shakin’ All Over Josh Ritter – Mind’s Eye Link Wray – Street Fighter Los Amigos Invisibles – Vivire para ti Marty Robbins – It`s Driving Me Crazy Neil Young – After the Gold Rush Neil Young – World on a String Old 97’s – Weightless Ozomatli – La Gallina Pale Shelter – Tears for Fears Patty Loveless and John Randall – Are You Teasing Me Pearl Jam – Last Kiss Primus – The Devil Went Down to Georgia R.E.M. – What’s the Frequency Kenneth Ray Charles – (Night Time Is) The Right Time Ray Wylie Hubbard – Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother Red Hot Chili Peppers – Storm in a Teacup Runaway Planet – Burn the Clutch Out Ryan Adams – Shakedown on 9th Street Scott McCurry – Make Me Happy Soda Popinski – Count Bassy The Band – Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever The Beatles – 02 [1] – 02 – Please Please Me The Beatles – 07 07 – Maggie Mae The Chemical Brothers – The Golden Path The Isley Brothers – I Guess I’ll Always Love You The Killers – Uncle Jonny The Rolling Stones – Infamy The Smashing Pumpkins – Bring the Light The Waco Brothers – If You Don’t Change Your Mind Tom Petty – California Tom Petty – Wildflowers Tyler Hilton – How Love Should Be U2 – Desire Van Morrison – This Has Got To Stop
	How is it I only now have seen Putney Swope? http://is.gd/4T4ya #fb [mikeorren]
	Pegasus News week in view: The good, the glad, and the unlucky edition – http://eepurl.com/eXop [mikeorren]
	@therefore has been intermittent fir me for a while. Seems to work more reliably on wifi. [mikeorren]
	@therefore No. Is he looking for beta testers? (about to buy cameras) [mikeorren]
	70% of commute in eyeshot of office. #lesigh #fb [mikeorren]
	In restaurant playing White Christmas already?!?!? [mikeorren]
	Listened to 18 songs. Ben Folds – Ben Folds – No Title Ben Harper – Happy Everafter In Your Eyes Big Star – For You (original mix) Carla Thomas – B-A-B-Y Clem Snide – God Answers Back Cowboy Junkies – Shining Moon Dwight Yoakam – I Wouldn’t Put It Past Me Ella Fitzgerald – Love Is Here To Stay Gorillaz – Re-Hash Joe Tex – Show Me John Fogerty – Blue Ridge Mountain Blues Lenny Kravitz – Believe Ray Benson – Intro Ray Charles – Can’t You See Darling? Son Volt – No More Parades The Recliners – Deeper and Deeper The Who – Mike Post Theme Tom Jones – Thunderball

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  - Listened to 2 songs.
    
    — 7m ago via Last.fm
    - Ben Kweller – Nothing Happening
    - Pete "Guitar" Lewis – Chocolate Pork Chop Man
  - @wpollak ... But then I've never lamented having too much disk space. [mikeorren]
    
    — 58m ago via Twitter
  - @wpollak All depends on how much music / movies you want immediate access to. Unless a lot, 32 should be fine. [mikeorren]
    
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    — 9h ago via Last.fm
  - RT @christrew: Attention #Sxsw peeps, they looking for jaywalkers for serious! http://yfrog.com/5y8fcj [mikeorren]
    
    — 10h ago via Twitter
  - Join #teammanmeltoe. [mikeorren]
    
    — 10h ago via Twitter
  - RT @Machkovech: Will Wright (Sims) presenting award to John Carmack (DOOM, Quake). 167 geeks are unable to handle it, mess their pants. ... [mikeorren]
    
    — 11h ago via Twitter
  - RT @IgniteDallas: I uploaded a YouTube video -- IgniteDallas - Brett Duncan - Move the Box http://youtu.be/ZFmn-rfb-WE?a [mikeorren]
    
    — 11h ago via Twitter
  - @dmburrows I don't need no steenking boxers. #livewiththattmibwahahahaha [mikeorren]
    
    — 11h ago via Twitter
  - @johnderosa Last.fm is much better. More so if you hook to your mp3 listening. [mikeorren]
    
    — 11h ago via Twitter
  - And, yes, although I have no idea of its purpose or import, I now own the domain "manmeltoe.com" [mikeorren]
    
    — 11h ago via Twitter
  - Minus the manmeltoe and the botched improv, am pretty proud of: http://bit.ly/dkXzgV Hope I did @dallascomedy, um, not totally ashamed... [mikeorren]
    
    — 11h ago via Twitter
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  - RT @IgniteDallas: I uploaded a YouTube video -- IgniteDallas - Mike Orren - Stop Thinking and say, Yes, and. http://youtu.be/A_w_5KQW6U4?a [mikeorren]
    
    — 12h ago via Twitter
  - Just got spam re: oxymoronically-named Final Fantasy XIII. Irony is dead. Meantime, I highly suggest following penultimate gamer @Machkovech [mikeorren]
    
    — 12h ago via Twitter
  - RT @dansinker: @wmhartnett is it too late to do my presentation on the Oral History of the Biloxi Shrimping Industry for #wxwtf? It kill ... [mikeorren]
    
    — 12h ago via Twitter
  - Today, Twitter was failwhaled by volume of people bitching about being sick of SXSW tweets. Gonna be a long week on the InterWebs. [mikeorren]
    
    — 13h ago via Twitter
  - Watching Jay Leno on Top Gear reminds me why I find Jay Leno banal and useless. [mikeorren]
    
    — 13h ago via Twitter
  - RT @cyberjournalist: This is too funny: People search for "Bing" on Google.com and now Google Is Bing’s 4th Largest Referring Source htt ... [mikeorren]
    
    — 13h ago via Twitter
  - @jdtatum Here ya go: #nowplaying Lou Reed - Heroin http://qtmusic.qlnk.net/Lou%20Reed___Heroin [mikeorren]
    
    — 15h ago via Twitter
  - Anna Nicole's life being turned into an opera by the Royal Opera House in Britain. /via @hughhefner Coupla horsemen o'pocalypse just loosed [mikeorren]
    
    — 15h ago via Twitter
  - Aaah. The soundtrack to the pathos that was my life in the Early 90's #nowplaying Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days http://qtwt.us/1i7 [mikeorren]
    
    — 15h ago via Twitter
  - Go team InterWebs! re: SNL RT @sethmeyers21: Betty White officially hosting on May 8th. We're all very excited over here. [mikeorren]
    
    — 16h ago via Twitter
  - Fascinating Facebook ad from my pals @TexasTribune: http://twitpic.com/17zay8 [mikeorren]
    
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