The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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Wanted: New (All Music Guide) iTunes reviewer.

You must

  • Be endlessly, effusively happy about all the music you listen to with nary a negative word to say until the last sentence;
  • Have an encyclopedic knowledge of obscure artists and be able to fill in the template “So-and-so song sounds like a insert obscure artist but with a insert twist” so that nobody can ever confirm your esoteric allusion;
  • Must enjoy making fonts bold, putting spaces around dashes a plus;
  • Compliment every song on an album by saying that that’s the one that stands out the most; and
  • Not commit suicide like the last reviewer.
[(2008 July 16) • .]

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