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MIX 17 – WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T GET BACK IN THE TANK! – Cough Park Compact Discs

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UPDATE WINTER 2026 - MIX 17 and Special Ambient MIX MIX17 - WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T GET BACK IN THE TANK! by coughpark See the bandcamp for the track listing. If you didn’t get what you wanted for the holidays or have to return your lame presents because they didn’t fit or were just [...]

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Barajada and The Earth’s Bare Stage – by X.F. Pine

TOP PEG – Underground Cable Show

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TOP PEG was an underground cable access show that aired on the New York City’s Manhattan Neighborhood Network in the mid 90s. The subject matter of the shows varied from comedies and surreal experiments, to documentaries and music. The show was written and produced by Bob Turner, Melissa Edmond, Brian Dentz and John Culhane who

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Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Paulinus

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This rough assembly of the Feast and the "La Festa dei Gigli" (the Feast of the Lilies) is from the early 1990s. The yearly ritual is performed in Willamsburg Brooklyn and has been observed by devotees in the area since 1903. The tower featured in the Dance of the Giglio is about 4 tons and

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July 4th in Brooklyn with WHOT

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This is always worth watching at least once a year. This is back when Brooklyn was more exciting and lawless. It’s a live broadcast of WHOT blowing up their own microphones with quarter sticks of dynamite. -X.F. Pine

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