Sorry for the lack of emails lately.  Been kind of busy with work and sick for a few days as well.  Yesterday while I sat in my bathroom trying to get motivated for work my mind wondered and I thought about this video that someone had sent me a few years ago.  The video was this kid at a spelling bee, he was asked to spell ‘talon’.  He looked into the camera and said “do the chickens have large talons?”  At the time I didn’t know why my friend sent it to me, I thought maybe because I have a strange obsession with chickens.  About two weeks later I realized that it was a Napoleon Dynamite reference.  I started thinking about why I didn’t catch the reference the first time I saw it.  Then I started thinking about how strange the word talon is.  Just sounds weird, right?  I’m thinking about this the whole time I’m getting ready for work, and as I’m walking to the subway station I pass our neighborhood butcher.  Usually you can see them hauling in skinned goats in the morning, def. not my favorite part of the day.  I usually try to keep my focus on the ground and walk past as quickly as I can.  I’m walking past it, eyes fixed to the ground, and I walk right over a severed chicken talon, and it was quite large.

Ted Leo has LARGE feet, so you know what that means.  Ok, I worked pretty hard on putting these tracks together for you guys.  See, we got the promo today and when I put it in my computer to rip it I found they had sliced the audio up into 90 individual audio files instead 1 for each song.  So I had to find the song start and stop points and re-cut the mp3s.  I apologize for the milli-second drop outs between cuts, you’re gonna have to deal with it, or wait for the record to come out.  Anyway, I was pretty excited to get these tracks and I hope you guys will as well.

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/track3.MP3

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/track4.MP3

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/track10.MP3

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/track7.MP3

BTW, gonna be in DC the weekend of the 16th.  DC kids hit me up.

-mark

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