If that's not one of the most romantic lines ever committed to music, I don't know what is, and it comes from Josh Ritter's "Kathleen" off his 2003 album "Hello Starling." 

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After purchasing the Jim Henson Fantasy Film Collection a few months ago, I finally sat down to watch Mirrormask. I had my doubts initially (if you're sandwiching a movie between Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, chances are it's not strong enough to sell on its own), but all those doubts disappeared as soon as I pressed play.  

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One of my favorite German power metal bands is finally playing New Hampshire! Edguy will be performing Sept. 14th at 6 p.m. at Mark's Place in Bedford, along with Canadian metalheads Into Eternity. Whee! Sorry.
 

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Now that the third season of the funniest show currently on TV has come to a close -- Jan's boob job? Ryan's promotion? A JAM date, finally??? -- what can we possibly talk about this summer? 

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This week, a new voice took over Weekend Word on the Encore site. Our intrepid reporting intern, Steve Bodnar, filled in as his swan song here.

Bands featured are Dance Gavin Dance, Doro Pesch, Storyhill and The Gray Davies.

 

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Do all those Japanese signs at Fenway really say what the English speakers who commissioned them think they say? Check it out over at The Boston Phoenix.
 

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Largeheartedboy today points out that Hillary Clinton needs a campaign song and is conducting an online poll to choose.

The official nominees are:

"Suddenly I See" by KT Tunstall
"I'm a Believer" by Smash Mouth
"Get Ready" by the Temptations
"Ready to Run" by the Dixie Chicks
"Rock Ths Country!" by Shania Twain
"Beautiful Day" by U2
"Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus Jones
"I'll Take You There: by the Staple Singers

 

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Sandwiched between the "pleaz place my buldogg add" spam and the electronic pleas from senior citizen activist groups out in D.C., I found this little gem of an e-mail petition. For some people, 45 days without Paris isn't enough. They're pushing for 45 years. 

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Chocolate maker Masterfoods says it adds an ingredient containing cow's stomach to its candy bars.

Life without bacon is bleak enough. But life without chocolate, too? I couldn't do it, man.

Leave it to Cracked.com to come up with what is perhaps the most unusual playlist of the year: the 15 best songs entirely about masturbation.  

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Last month, I started recording the Weekend Word podcast in a music format to highlight bands coming to play in New Hampshire or who are from here, making music.

It's been a bit rocky. At first, it felt a bit like I was chasing people down to give me Mp3s to play. Plus, I worry my voice is too small, too blah, too tinny to "host" an audio program.  

 

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This weekend, Nashua's own Yellow Taxi Productions opened "Six Nights in the Black Belt," an original play by Gate City resident Lowell Williams that tells the story of New Hampshire civil rights martyr Jonathan Daniels.  

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At least, that's the promise of Joost, a new way to watch TV on the Internet, which has already launched its Beta version for a select group of users, and yesterday enabled those users to "invite" friends to try it out. 

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