sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Feb 2, 2012, 5:29 pm
Circle of Fits in its shape and substance has been levitating on the bland side of a plateau for a while now. Our sweaty night visions of a makeover have been manifesting for some time, so over the next few weeks(months?) we will shed our skin template and run naked with dick swinging through the fi...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jan 31, 2012, 7:53 pm
I'm going to keep beating it into your heads until you believe me. Mark Lanegan will change your life. Fortunately for you, his new album, Blues Funeral comes out next week. The only voice I've heard more in the last few days is the one or two in my noggin, reminding me to eat and bathe and pick up ...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jan 27, 2012, 7:05 am
Wilco bring Popeye back from the animation graveyard, with their new video for "Dawned on Me". If you haven't gotten their latest album The Whole Love yet, then you must feel like you haven't eaten your spinach...all of the time. It was in Circle of Fits Top 5 Albums of 2011. Bluto ain't got nuthin'...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jan 23, 2012, 3:14 pm
There seems to be a ridiculous amount of armchair fuss and disgust over Steven Tyler's performance of The Star Spangled Banner before yesterdays AFC Championship game. From the internets, tweets and newsrooms I've been privy to words like "TRAVESTY", "disgrace", "butchered", atroc...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jan 19, 2012, 4:41 pm
The Darkness Returns! No, not a common go to theme of dread and depression that runs rampant on this blog, but the UK BAND- The Darkness.  Remember them? Need help? Just think of the last time you heard Thin Lizzy glam- dipped guitars and outrageous falsetto on rock radio. In 2003, not...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jan 10, 2012, 1:05 pm
Well. The world has its new Van Halen Song called Tattoo.. which was spliced together from a Diver Down outtake and the yuk- yuk yuckiest  part of a deep cut off of Eat Em and Smile.  Complete with the best of wordy uber- cornball Hot For Teacher/Just a Gigolo aftermarket inspired lyrics from Cond...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jan 8, 2012, 8:42 am
For the last three months or so, I've struggled with a nasty concoction of recurring bronchitis, two asthma attacks, super resistant ear infections and cracked ribs from a machine gun body mantra of coughing fits. I have improved for the most part. Except for my ears. As of right this minute, ...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jan 7, 2012, 9:40 am
I came across this super article by Alexis Petridis from The Guardian, in celebration of Bowie's proper retirement birthday upon turning 65, this Sunday. ...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jan 4, 2012, 4:20 pm
From the New York Times :Peter Frampton Reunited With ‘Best Guitar’ After 31 Years By James C. MCKinley Jr.  Peter Frampton has been reunited with the Gibson electric guitar he played on “Frampton Comes Alive,” three decades after it was presumed destroyed ...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Dec 31, 2011, 11:27 am
 From 2011, I'd like to say goodbye to : Anger without progress  Burning Bridges without building them.  Phantoms of Fear Fluoxetine  Mediocre Radiohead albums. Blip is Dead. Super hyped elaborate, expansive metal albums with unlistenable cookie monster voca...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Dec 17, 2011, 3:41 pm
‎2 hospital stays, 3 antibiotics(body resisted them) steroids, inhalers...and ribs are in excruciating pain from coughing(i hope) ears and sinuses completely full, bronchitis has returned, mucus varies from green to brown. Blood sometimes. xrays ruled out cancer and pneumon...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Dec 15, 2011, 3:50 pm
Sky Blue Sky Visit the actual Circle of Fits website at www.seanoandjefe.blogspot.com
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Dec 6, 2011, 2:47 pm
The end is near. The end of the innocents. The end of compromise. The end of occupation. The end of the season for the Eagles and Bills. The end of my transmission. The end of total lung capacity. The end of my 60th month in this undiscovered underachieving city. The end of the year. I was off...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Nov 21, 2011, 3:48 pm
Two days ago I had my first asthma attack in over 20 years. It was a bronchial shutdown of epic proportions brought on by a perfect storm of bronchitis, and two very resistant and painful ear infections and it landed me in the hospital, after the treatment in the ER did nada. My admittance to ...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Nov 13, 2011, 8:16 am
Just Phenomenal. Jimmy channels Jim doing a smattering of Bedtime Stories......Visit the actual Circle of Fits website at www.seanoandjefe.blogspot.com
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Nov 2, 2011, 1:08 pm
Well, The Black Keys are just about to enter another mammoth album cycle, with the upcoming release "El Camino" on Dec. 6. Hoo! Fucking!  Rayy!   Frankly, I can't think of a band that's had a more stellar run in recent years, and if this album( even with its "highly anticipated" tag attached...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Oct 27, 2011, 9:28 am
Its that time of year again. Helloween. The smell of Autumn,  steamy cider, wet leaves on boots, molding pumpkins, older kids jacking younger kids candy.... angry 1 %-ers washing dried shaving cream off of their Bentleys.  Always makes me think dark. Dream darker. In astonishingly realistic horrif...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Oct 20, 2011, 8:17 am
Got this from Buzzfeed 12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music 1. Creed has sold more records in the US than Jimi Hendrix 2. ...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Sep 28, 2011, 6:13 pm
... invite, tell him the show tapes at 4, so when he ... fantastic band. Just listen to the drums on Barracuda, that shit ... there's no "Blackhearts" without the all female, completely groundbreaking Runaways ... Marriott. ....errr, and Rod Stewart. The Faces are responsible for everybody ......
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Sep 22, 2011, 5:36 pm
At a loss for words again...music will get me through...always does.......The new Mastodon album "The Hunter" comes out next week. ..If you want to start a militia or headbutt a blonde, this is the album for you. Gonna make my top ten for sure. Here is their video for "Curl of the Burl"....
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Sep 9, 2011, 6:49 pm
I just got my new Rolling Stone with George Harrison on the cover. Was digging around on the internetin super fanboy mode and found this. I had never heard George sing this nor did I know he wrote it. Wow. Visit the actual Circle of Fits website at www.seanoandjefe.blogspot.com
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Sep 9, 2011, 10:09 am
I plow the muddy run of a ten year retrospective of life packaged in a box set. Covered in ash, pungent and flailing. Coughing through headphones Battling ridiculous drums and bass in a coffee shop in this wretched city. Not the city of my amorous arrows, not the daily thrill of th...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Sep 9, 2011, 8:49 am
Quite simply: Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, one of the great lyricists/songwriters of our time, jams on one of the worst songs of all time. I wasn't around long enough at this literary poetry jam, but I heard Dylan stopped by after getting a moustache wax to d...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Aug 24, 2011, 9:56 am
Yeah, well he really is inside AN ACTUAL guitar center, this noodling nerd. What a champion! I mean, what's the fucking point.? I'll bet there is a row of skate rats butchering "Over the Hills and Far Away" in acoustic off key unison, right behind him. You wont make it past the t...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Aug 21, 2011, 9:42 pm
It had come to my attention while digging at a fungus on my heel, that I had not actively done anything musical in over a year. Live, in a studio...nada. After 25 years of being in original bands as a lead singer, songwriter and sometimes drummer, and cover bands as a singer, you would think it was ...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Aug 20, 2011, 5:35 pm
I've been coasting horizontally on a long drawn out fix of the devouring of  hours of TV via my laptop. With nobody left to run with and barely any social activity to my name, other than the occasional playdate/smalltalk combo, and being crippled half assingly by a writers block brought on by or co...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Aug 11, 2011, 7:59 am
Album Review: Jay-Z and Kanye West, ‘Watch the Throne’ (Def Jam) This is why everyone should read Jim DeRogatis. The man tells it like it is. The only thing I thought was MOST ANTICIPATORY about this bloated beast of an album, was Jim's impending eviscerating review. Jay- Z and Kan...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Aug 8, 2011, 2:02 pm
If you happened to notice the comments section from my last whiny post, Mr. or Mrs. "Anonymous" left a great one basically calling my musings here basically pointless, pretentious and self indulgent.   Well, here's the quote, actually..  "Whenever I'm feeling like my writing has hit bottom in ter...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Aug 4, 2011, 8:22 am
Rant: disclaimer: not for the weak, gossamer winged busy consumers ingesting everything and processing nothing. not an attack, merely an observation. And not a cry for fucking help either. I'd like to thank you Glenn for your submission to be a writer on Circle of Fits. You...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jul 30, 2011, 5:37 pm
See This. Pearl Jam Twenty from Pearl Jam on Vimeo. Visit the actual Circle of Fits website at www.seanoandjefe.blogspot.com
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jul 30, 2011, 4:10 pm
Circle of Fits continues to look for new writers, music based pundits and purveyors.  Our first submission actually comes from a friend I've had for many years, Mr. Glenn Hawley. Glenn has been ahead of the curve since the mid 80s. I remember multiple suburban bedroom walls of LPs and several long ...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jul 29, 2011, 10:44 am
"Cans" is music speak for headphones. Clouds is music speak for a coming disaster. I am trapped in a headphone galaxy fallacy and have been for almost a decade. So are you. Well, most of you. A storm is coming, and the Clouds are ugly. The entire music listening experience has been evolving in tande...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jul 28, 2011, 7:40 am
Circle of Fits is at a point where we (me) would like to take on a new writer or two.  Here's the deal. Before you email circleoffits@gmail.com with a few of your writing samples, consider this. This is mostly a music related site. Yet this is not a music NEWS site. There are gadzillions of t...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jul 25, 2011, 6:18 pm
Well. I made it through 15 years, 3 Chris Cornell solo albums, his rebound through rehab called Audioslave and only a few haircuts since my last Soundgarden show on the ill- fated Lollapalooza tour in 1996. Not last year's one shot headliner in Chicago, no this was in Syracuse, New York at the State...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jul 18, 2011, 7:52 am
Wow. This is the longest stretch of days without an entry on this blog that I can remember. I will be catching myself up with a focus on story telling over the next few days. So many stories. I toured my cherished, almost legendary house that I grew up in.  I went to my high school reunion. I went ...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jun 23, 2011, 8:31 am
A tone is not a solo. A tone is the sound that accompanies it.  Sometimes the combo is godlike, one of a fucking kind . Tones are a guitarist's signature or an experiment gone wonderfully wrong. This, when executed with love and mad scientist precision will transport you man. You will glide on your...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jun 19, 2011, 8:45 am
List of Tones rhymes with Game of Thrones and Roll the Bones, only one of which I am currently obsessed with, but it's a catchy title to another Circle of Fits list. In the thick of my recent headphone research, I've been noticing the magnificent one of a kind guitar tones that do a cerebral s...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jun 10, 2011, 8:02 am
My son Hudson is five years old today. I'm overwhelmed with pride and joy every time I see him. It isn't every day any more, which truly breaks my heart. But I know he will be OK. I know he will excel in a world of wonder, creativity and self discovery.  Happy Birthday my sweet boy...my littl...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jun 7, 2011, 7:18 am
Heavy Metal Under the Sea: Sharks Act Calmer When Listening to AC/DC I failed to put the second part of the article in because it seemed so tragic to me. Those same sharks flipped the boat over for some deep sea hors d' oeuvres , then ate through the steel shark cage bars and made bloody Vegemite ou...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - Jun 2, 2011, 9:05 am
Ukelele Songs-Eddie Vedder- I love Eddie. But Ukelele Songs is like reggae to me. 3 songs in and I realize I'm not really high sitting around some beach campfire letting the tide or lack thereof control my emotions.  I'm sleepy, I smell like firewood and I just want a sandwich. Circuital-My Morning...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - May 27, 2011, 7:59 am
AHEM......I'm distracted by the appearance of a bizarrely small Asian man with very shiny pants and a bluetooth in this Starbucks....sorry. What I really wanted to say is Thank You?  Yes. Thank you. Sometime over the weekend while most of us will be welcoming summer in with wine coolers, smug...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - May 26, 2011, 9:22 am
This is rolling out of where you lie, bloodshot and bleary, giving the finger to the sun poking through the blinds, letting the hungry dog lick the milk from the cereal bowl next to the couch music. This is rock and roll in boulder form rolling down a mountain, laying out old growth tree...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - May 24, 2011, 8:06 am
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - May 23, 2011, 8:11 pm
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - May 23, 2011, 8:09 pm
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - May 20, 2011, 9:16 am
Well, here we are at the end of days. Darn, I had a few things planned for the weekend. Yoga Class followed by anger management class, volunteering at the animal shelter followed by a big game hunting expedition just north of a suburban neighborhood. I'm bummed about having to cancel my balloon art ...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - May 19, 2011, 11:02 am
Yeah, this is brilliant. And dead on. I can't decide who to fear more...every living teenager or anyone from the 11211. Aren't the end times coming or something? Visit the actual Circle of Fits website at www.seanoandjefe.blogspot.com
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - May 8, 2011, 10:33 am
If you are all gooshy, gooey and sap-fucking-tastic about Mother's Day, then PLEASE DON'T read this. This post is all boot- crushed bouquets and fire- bombed brunches, so you've been warned. A short playlist of mother related  songs at top fucking volume in my cans today. Mother by John...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - May 6, 2011, 11:21 am
This is happening in every city,town, country, chat room, juvenile jail cell, sleep over, play date, chaperoned mall trip and during texting marathons when kids should be babysitting, and in study halls....basement bars....backs of cars.....etc. Only you can stop this madness. Ple...
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sean barry posted an article on Circle Of Fits - May 3, 2011, 7:59 am
It was three days of burst and spilled emotions as I traveled home with my son in tow for the 4th annual Meaghan's Run 5k this past weekend.  Meaghan wasn't there. She really wasn't there. I tried to catch her in the wind against my face as I stepped half lively for 3.1 miles with forty pounds of l...
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