| tadah of urbansmarts.com |
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best albums |
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2mex "2mex" |
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Fat Hed "Night Train To Babble On" |
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Gift Of Gab "Fourth Dimensional Space Ship Going Up" |
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Ill Poetic "Illumination" (unreleased) |
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Insight "The Blast Radius" |
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J-Zone "A Job Ain't Nothin' But Work" |
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Lateef The Truth Speaker "Truth Spoken Mixtape Vol. 1" |
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Qwel & Maker "The Harvest" |
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Sektion Kuchikäschtli "Nur So Am Rand" |
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Thaione Davis "Situation Renaissance" |
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The Foreign Exchange "Connected" |
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Time Machine "Slow Your Roll" |
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Wagon Christ "Sorry If I Make You Lush" |
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albums I listened to |
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Alpha "Stargazing - Special Edition" |
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Billy Woods "The Chalice" |
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capital D "Insomnia" |
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Depeche Mode "Remixes 81-04 (Limited Edition)" |
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DJ Ayres & Cosmo Baker "Hip House" |
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Front 242 "Tyranny For You" |
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Godspeed You Black Emperor "Yanqui U.X.O." |
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Gunshot "Patriot Games" |
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Lamb "What Sound" |
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Maylay Sparks "Graymatter" |
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Placebo "Without You I'm Nothing" |
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Red Hot Chili Peppers "By The Way" |
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Spiritualized "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" |
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The Beatles "1967 - 1970 (Blue Album)" |
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The Innocence Mission "Befriended" |
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The Mole "Whirlwindworld" |
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Tom Waits "Closing Time" |
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Ulrich Schnauss "A Strangely Isolated Place" |
| and dozens of 'Best Of' albums from The Animals, Santana, Manfred Man, Jefferson Airplane, Cheap Trick, Earth Wind & Fire, and many, many, many more. |
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best song |
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2mex "Ghost Memo" |
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Apoc "Bottoms Up" (although I hear that ish is two years old) |
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Ghostface feat. Jadakiss "Run" |
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Haysoos "Moving To Fast" |
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Kenn Starr, Asheru & Talib Kweli "If" |
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Lexicon feat. Ryu, Celph Titled, J-Zone, louis logic "Rock (Remix)" |
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Masked Avengers & Maylay Sparks "Soopa Freak" |
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MF Grimm & MF Doom "1000 Degrees" |
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Noah23 "Lizard Lion Eagle" |
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Promoe "These Walls Don't Lie" |
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Psyche Origami "Dead Right" |
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Qwel & Maker "The End" |
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Sektion Kuchikäschtli "I Han" |
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Thaione Davis "The Connection" |
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The Foreign Exchange "Sincere" |
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TTC feat. Busdriver, Radioinactive "Latest Dance Craze" |
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Twista "Get Me" |
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Visionaries "If You Can't Say Love" |
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Wagon Christ "Nighty Night" |
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best beat |
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the beats on them songs up there |
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Twista "Get Me" |
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Ill Poetic "Yellow" (unreleased) |
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Muph & Plutonic "Beer Goggles" by Plutonic Lab |
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I hate to say it, but the beat of Fabolous' "Breathe" is hot |
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all the unreleased stuff I heard by ArcSin |
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the stuff on DJ Claud's beat CD |
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best producers |
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Alias |
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ArcSin |
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DJ Claud of Sektion Kuchikäschtli |
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Omid |
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Timbaland |
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Vitamin D |
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best emcee / lyrics |
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Aceyalone |
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Eminem |
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Gift Of Gab |
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Lateef The Truth Speaker |
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Mikah 9 |
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Nas |
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Posdonous |
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Rennie of Sektion Kuchikäschtli |
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favorite artwork |
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everything Lex Records does |
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everything Matarroa Records does |
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Lateef & The Chef are Maroons "Ambush" |
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not to be conceited, but I do like the MF Grimm / MF Doom "Special Herbs & Spices Vol. 1" artwork (note: the bag on the cover is not a bag of weed) |
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favorite labels |
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Ninja Tune |
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Morr |
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Lex |
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biggest surprise |
| that I didn't like NYC as much as I thought I would |
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biggest disappointment |
| that...ah shit, I shouldn't even say... |
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books I read |
| I read a lot this year, here are some of the more notable books I read; for good and bad reasons: |
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Al Franken "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" |
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Bill Bryson "A Short History Of Nearly Everything" |
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Carles Bukowski "Pulp" |
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Colson Whitehead "John Henry Days" |
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Dan Brown "Angels & Demons" |
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Dan Brown "The Da Vinci Code" |
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David Quammen "The Flight Of The Iguana - A Sidelong View Of Science And Nature" |
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Gore Vidal "Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace" |
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Gore Vidal "The Decline and Fall of the American Empire" |
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Hunter S. Thompson "Hell's Angels" |
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Hunter S. Thompson "Kingdom Of Fear" |
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J.H. Hatfield "Fortunate Son" |
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Jeffrey Eugenides "The Virgin Suicides" |
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Noam Chomsky "Acts Of Aggression - Policing 'Rogue' States" |
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Noam Chomsky "The Prosperous Few And The Restless Many" |
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Paul Beatty "Tuff" |
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Philip K. Dick "Minority Report and other short stories" |
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Richard A. Clarke "Against All Enemies" |
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Richard Powers "The Time Of Our Singing" |
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Ron Suskind "The Price Of Loyalty" |
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movies I saw |
| knowing that I'll have to do this list, I tried to write down every movie I watched this year. some of the best I've seen are: |
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21 Grams |
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Adaptation |
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American Psycho |
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Anger Management |
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Before Sunrise |
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Casino |
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Chain Of Fools |
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Cold Mountain |
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Don's Plum |
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Fahrenheit 9/11 |
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Happiness |
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High Fidelity |
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In The Cut |
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Monster |
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Monster's Ball |
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Mystic River |
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Outfoxed |
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Requiem For A Dream |
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The Laramie Project |
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The Station Agent |
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The Village |
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The Virgin Suicides |
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websites I visited |
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foods I ate |
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great food at Vegetarian Paradise in NYC |
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great vegetarian food in Harlem, NYC |
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I cook a mean Mexican |
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louis cooks a mean sandwitch |
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the worst McDonalds food ever. Good thing about it, I came to the conclusion that I never want to eat McDonalds again in my life |
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things that made me smile |
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that beer tasting thing and the feedback on it |
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finding a lot of great CDs in second hand stores |
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Duracell B. |
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the hispeed internet connection |
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having my writing published in print magazines |
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listening to the Rhythm Incursions Radio show |
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the Norbert Möslang, Göldin and Bit-Tuner performance (Kugl, 12-17.2004) |
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singing karaoke in NYC with cute designers and my good friend |
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travelling the USA (I owe a lot of thanks to Fisher, louis and Mike) |
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things that made me go hmm |
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being asked to write liner notes for a compilation |
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sitting through Hurricane Charley |
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watching how fast things download with a highspeed connection |
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why does tea always smell better than it tastes? |
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things that made me cringe |
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seeing the aftermath of Hurricane Charley |
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people saying "nah mean" |
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America reelecting Bush |
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the USA turning into a dictatorship |
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organized Religion |
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still Japan only releases |
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still re-releases with bonus tracks. In two years I will have 100 albums twice because I had to rebuy 'em for all that extra stuff |
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soy products are made from genetically engineered soy |
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interviews with Kanye West |
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best moment(s) of 2004 |
| getting a box with about 70 CDs - of all genres - for me to listen to |
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worst moment(s) of 2004 |
| the night behind a Taco Bell in Orlando and the phonecall after that |
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what I'd like to see in 2005 |
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Duracell. B. to get well; we'll celebrate with a Chouffe |
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me winning that bet |
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Bush impeached and all his 'legacies' reversed |
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more good music in my CD player and on my 1210 |
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Eminem "Encore" remix albums |
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more (reliable and dedicated) contributors to urbansmarts.com (apply here) |
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what I don't want to see in 2005 |
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bad music in my CD player and on my 1210 |
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the same four walls for all of 2005 |
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hip hop in 2005 will be... |
| just like 2004: horrible and incredible |
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my new years resolutions |
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