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I love this song, it's one of my new favorites...

2012-01-25T18:13:07.282-08:00

I love this song, it's one of my new favorites, and I'm actually trying to figure out how to play it at the moment. Very cool story!

Josh, Edward says hi. I'm his web person. He s...

2011-03-12T16:28:34.565-08:00

Josh, Edward says hi. I'm his web person. He says "I just looked & that is the woman I photographed for the cover so I guess that is my photograph if Josh says it is.
That is a different cover than was on the Blue Moods CD"

we all love the album wow
GREAT timeless record and
timeless music is generally my favorite

Album cover photograph by Edward Colver http://ed...

2011-03-12T16:04:36.709-08:00

Album cover photograph by Edward Colver http://edwardcolver.com

Awesome job! Thanks for the results, and thanks fo...

2011-03-10T16:27:25.388-08:00

Awesome job! Thanks for the results, and thanks for bringing Spain back. Now come to DFW Texas please!

Hi Josh. Around 1988(?) or so, KNON 89.3fm in Dall...

2010-10-11T06:55:27.663-07:00

Hi Josh. Around 1988(?) or so, KNON 89.3fm in Dallas played a Treacherous Jaywalkers tune, Can You Afford the Pleasure?. Back then, I taped a few of KNON's rock shows and listened to them years later. Sadly, my cassettes are long-lost; and sadly, that radio station no longer features the genre.

Hi Pedro, Glad you like the new songs. Most of th...

2010-09-20T11:20:05.636-07:00

Hi Pedro,

Glad you like the new songs. Most of those were demos of songs we re-recorded for our new album to be released soon. The lp version of "I'm Still Free" is already available as a CD single from Spain's website (http://www.spaintheband.com) and digitally from iTunes, Bandcamp, etc... and also 7" vinyl soon. Sign-up for our mailing list @ the Spain website or my website (http://www.joshhaden.com) and I'll keep you updated. On the both sites you can also subscribe to newsfeeds and I keep Spain's facebook page pretty current as well. Thanks.

Hey Josh. Greetings from Portugal. Thanks for your...

2010-09-19T08:41:16.389-07:00

Hey Josh. Greetings from Portugal. Thanks for your songs.
I've been a huge fan, for many years now.
Whatever happened to songs like "Walked On The Water" and other you had on Spain's myspace page?

I like Damon Albarn, but I never got into Gorillaz...

2010-09-16T11:05:46.144-07:00

I like Damon Albarn, but I never got into Gorillaz' animated characters and the whole anime storyline. Plus I remember they had some guy with a voice changer doing their interviews.

I'm happy to see they're doing live gigs where the band is actually front and center now without a heavy focus on the animation.

I suggested Pappy and Harriet's in Pioneertown...

2010-09-16T11:02:50.961-07:00

I suggested Pappy and Harriet's in Pioneertown, CA.

Thanks...duly noted.

2010-08-16T23:40:36.088-07:00

Thanks...duly noted.

Josh---please bring Spain to Hoboken...Maxwell'...

2010-08-16T21:30:34.916-07:00

Josh---please bring Spain to Hoboken...Maxwell's would be perfect! And congrats on winning the World Cup, too.

PS- I haven't stopped listening to the song "She Haunts All My Dreams" since I first heard in almost 10 years ago.

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2010-06-01T15:09:56.318-07:00

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I'm wondering how much cab fare would be from ...

2010-05-06T13:59:14.178-07:00

I'm wondering how much cab fare would be from northern Europe.

In my work as a job search specialist I have seen ...

2010-03-01T16:50:20.106-08:00

In my work as a job search specialist I have seen what entitlements do to better than half the recipients... they wait until welfare benefits are about to expire before they even start to look for work. An extension just makes things worse. You will see an immediate reduction in unemployment when these benefits run out. It is the same as the welfare mentality. If the government is willing to give me enough money to live on, why should I have to work? It's going to be tough for some, but in the long run it will help eliminate this entitlement mentality, just as it did with welfare. The government could also require recipients to work on government jobs while getting payments - at least they would not be idle just collecting my grandchildren's future tax contributions to help pay off this ever increasing deficit.

hi josh , i know your work very well since the alb...

2010-02-26T15:59:49.495-08:00

hi josh , i know your work very well since the album the blue moods of spain.
please consider coming up to Portugal one of this days ok?
Keep up the good work
greetings from Lisbon ;)

Josh, I don't know if you'll find this co...

2010-01-21T08:20:24.487-08:00

Josh,

I don't know if you'll find this comment on this year-old post, but I'm wondering if you have kept this up. I started driving the speed limit a few months ago, and I am not finding it relaxing or easy to do. I've been blogging about it at http://icandrive55.blogspot.com/

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2010-01-11T00:52:48.290-08:00

As a long-time KEXP DJ it is quite neat to know th...

2010-01-06T14:05:27.842-08:00

As a long-time KEXP DJ it is quite neat to know that an artist you admire and appreciate (and have been playing for years) digs the station. Looking forward to playing the new album and hearing it on the air! Thanks for making such great music.

Dude: 1. You obviously knew you had a deadline be...

2009-12-15T10:50:21.536-08:00

Dude:

1. You obviously knew you had a deadline beforehand, and decided to stay with the label's offer anyway, which included said deadline. If you missed the deadline, that is your breach of contract, not theirs.

2. Same goes with you posting the pending songs online anywhere. Think about it - if you were a label owner who agreed to release a band's new song, I'm sure you would also be disheartened to hear that you, in fact, are releasing a song the band is also making available by posting all over the Internet for free. Eh compadre? If that is your philosophy, you should have told the label that beforehand, in which case the deal would probably have been off or very different. If you enter into music BUSINESS, do not treat it like a farmer's market drum circle.

ALBUM! ALBUM!

2009-12-15T02:55:30.273-08:00

ALBUM! ALBUM!

(cont.) keeping this context in mind, which, wit...

2009-11-26T01:22:33.125-08:00

(cont.)

keeping this context in mind, which, with all due respect, you may have missed, and if i steered you in the wrong direction on this i apologize, but, keeping this context in mind, i'm not sure if your answer would be the same as it is here presently. i hope i've made it clear that i didn't mean for the question to labeled as "open" in the sense that it makes no preordained assumptions, which it most certainly does. the belief that man has a nature is, in all respects, a closed belief, as it by its very definition precludes any other possiblity, for example, the possiblity that man has no nature, or perhaps, there is some alternative explanation for man's behavior and beliefs.

you stated in your response, in your opinion man's nature is not essentially good or bad. but you do believe man has a nature. in your opinion, man's nature is diversity, complexity, variableness, and impressionism. without questioning the meanings of these concepts, and the relationships between them, you are quite clearly positing the fact, as you see it, that man does have a specific nature, and this positing, just as the positing that man has a nature that is good, or man has a nature that is bad, needs, as you pointed out yourself, to be based on facts, which you, for better or worse, don't provide here.

leaving this, you write that you are answering my question. i beg to differ with you. if you were to answer my question, namely, if man's nature is essentially good, then why does he need to be governed, you would, firstly, have to agree with the statement, man's nature is essentially good, and then you would tell me why, in your opinion, he needs to be governed, or that, in contrast, why, in your opinion, man doesn't need to be governed. But your answer, which i may suggest, is more of a response or opinion, is that man's nature is not essentially good, or essentially bad, for that matter. however, you go on, later in your paragraph, to say that, in actuallity, you do believe that man's nature is, after all, good, albeit in varying degrees, and bad, albeit in varying degrees. This is contradictory at best, forgive me for saying so.

also, your explanation that those whose nature is more "good" than "bad" need to be governed only to avoid some kind of jealousy on the part of those whose natures are more "bad" than "good" is spurious to me. if i were to take you seriously, then "governance", to the "more good" would be like some kind of mass illusion or inside joke that is kept from the ignorant "more bad" to keep them from the truth that, in actuallity, governance is just a big comedic gesture, and if only the "more bad" could become "more good" the need for governance in general would simply disappear!

the other thing i would like to add is that this "open question for liberals: if man's nature is essentially good, then why does he need to be governed", was meant to be read in tandem with my previous post, an "open question for conservatives: if man's nature is essentially evil, then why is it important that he have freedom?" it can be found on the page immediately preceeding the first page of my blog by clicking on "older posts" (for some reason blogger isn't letting me put the link here). perhaps this is something you weren't aware of. hopefully this information might make the intent of the present post in question more clear.

anyways, thanks again for your comment! it is much appreciated!

thanks for the comment, anonymous! out of curious...

2009-11-26T01:21:57.040-08:00

thanks for the comment, anonymous!

out of curiousity, do you identify yourself as a liberal, or a conservative, or perhaps a mixture of the two, or neither at all?

the reason i ask is that the question, "if man's nature is essentially good, then why does he need to be governed?", was specifically put towards those who identify themselves as "liberals" (full disclosure: i proudly identify myself as such).

the reason being, if i were to take out my long list of registered liberals and their phone numbers, and called 1,000 of them, and asked them, "is man's nature essentially good?", i'm making a sweeping generalization here, but i would deign to posit that the overwhelming majority of them would say "yes".

by "open", i meant that the question itself was being posed to liberals in general, and that all liberals who may read it should feel free to chime in on an answer. i meant "open" in the sense of, my comments section is open for all liberals to write an answer. And also, "open" in an ironic or even sarcastic sense, perhaps, even in a slighting way, taking liberals who may feel that man's nature is essentially good, to task, to challenge them, if i may, to back up the claim, underneath the contradictory evidence, that is, namely, if they are correct in their assumption that man's nature is essentially good, then why is it that man needs to be governed?

Hello Josh: I can wait until january, but some pe...

2009-11-25T07:12:24.739-08:00

Hello Josh:

I can wait until january, but some people don't :-)

Even when you can "illegally" download a song from MySpace, that would be a silly thing to do, quality?, forget it, ultra compressed mp3...

Best wishes, as always,

Federico (aka euskir)

Josh, please consider that there are many ways to ...

2009-11-24T23:19:34.672-08:00

Josh, please consider that there are many ways to download any song from MySpace, even if it's « locked ».

That's not an open question, but a guided ques...

2009-11-24T18:10:31.237-08:00

That's not an open question, but a guided question, for its starts with the assumption that 'man's nature is essentially good.' And how do you know this? It's a trite phrase, based on a positive humanist perspective, that cannot so clearly be backed by facts. Man's nature is quite diverse, not essentially good or bad, but complex, variable, and impressionable. So, to answer your question, some, who's 'natures' are more 'bad' need to be governed so that they don't screw life up for everyoen else. Thus, the ones who are more 'good' need to be governed only so that they are not perceived by those who must be governed as receiving a special entitlement of not be governed. Comprende, amigo? LOL