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	<title>Martin Spitznagel</title>
	<link>http://spitzfire.com</link>
	<description>Pianist. Composer. Writer. Filmmaker.</description>
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		<title>Hoarders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I detest reality television.
And yet, I am addicted to watching &#8220;Hoarders&#8221; on A&#38;E.
I suppose it&#8217;s a kind of psychological porn for me (&#8220;Oooh yeah&#8230; don&#8217;t you dare throw away that cockroach infested teddy bear!&#8221;), taking to the extreme something we all do a little. And it&#8217;s very satisfying to look at the television and go, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spitzfire.com/?p=567</link>
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		<title>Artist in Residence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I have some amazing news.
Every year, the Scott Joplin Foundation invites one musician to be their Artist in Residence for the year. This person is in Sedalia, MO for a week doing a Scott Joplin/Sedalia history outreach to local schools. The list of people who have done this reads like a who&#8217;s who in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spitzfire.com/?p=562</link>
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		<title>Heavy Is the Head (That Sells the Kanmuri)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Toyota Camry is nearing the end of its useful life, and I&#8217;m kind of freaking out about it.
It&#8217;s not my first car. That honor goes to a 1995 Ford Thunderbird that my dad and I bought in Winter Park, FL in 2000. It&#8217;s not even my second car, a 1998 Honda Accord I bought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spitzfire.com/?p=552</link>
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		<title>The Droid You&#8217;re Looking For</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have the Internet in my pocket. And yes, it&#8217;s excited to see you.
This is not &#8220;neat,&#8221; &#8220;nifty,&#8221; or &#8220;nice.&#8221; This is huge. This is the sectumsempra of tech wizardry. The technological past is bleeding in a watery pile on the ground, as I just booked a ZipCar from my phone. In the middle of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spitzfire.com/?p=544</link>
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		<title>The Masters at Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the dusty corner of the musical world that is ragtime has rock stars, they would be Brian Holland and Jeff Barnhart.
I was 15 years old when I first heard them play together. They were then the age I am now, and had just discovered the kind of magic musical synergy — Brian, with his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spitzfire.com/?p=532</link>
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		<title>Reviews Are Weird</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay. So:
Martin Spitznagel, a 27-year-old with growing technical prowess, moved next into novelty pieces. He played Joseph Lamb&#8217;s &#8220;Hot Cinders,&#8221; a simple piece built on a two-note pattern, followed by Billy Mayerl&#8217;s 1927 hit &#8220;Marigold,&#8221; a leisurely paced excursion of surges and softness that faded away on high light notes. Spitznagel then played one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spitzfire.com/?p=524</link>
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		<title>Anderson &amp; Whoa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe YouTube is just five years old. Like cellphones, the web, and barcodes, it&#8217;s hard to remember the world before it, even for those of us, like moi, who were around.
One of the best parts of YouTube, besides of course the abundance of piano playing cats, is finding other human pianists and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spitzfire.com/?p=494</link>
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		<title>Whiplash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could seriously change my last name to “McFly” with all the time-traveling I’ve been doing. So far this week I’ve been in the present, nine years in the past, ten years in the past, forty years in the future, and three days from today.
As Marty would say, “This is heavy.&#8221;
Jess and I left DC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spitzfire.com/?p=480</link>
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		<title>The Train Town Secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shh. I&#8217;m not even supposed to be typing about this. But I had to tell someone, and who better to confide in than the Internet?
I&#8217;ve finished a new piece. Only I can&#8217;t play it for you. I can&#8217;t post a video. Hell, I can&#8217;t even post a screenshot. The rules are clear: &#8220;Rags which have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spitzfire.com/?p=473</link>
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		<title>Lame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to print this out and show it to the next street person who asks me for money.
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		<link>http://spitzfire.com/?p=469</link>
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