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Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler perform "The Night You Can't Remember" from 69 Love Songs at the "People Talking & Singing" 826 Seattle Benefit on Sept 1st, 2006. Shoddy video (it was taken with a digital camera) but the audio isn't bad. http://www.826seattl e.org , http://www.bookeater s.org/ , http://www.bumbersho ot.org/826/ , http://www.houseofto morrow.com/
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Liam and Shaggy close the show with another puppet music video world premiere. Tonight it's Stephin Merritt and Edgar performing "Walking My Gargoyle" from "The Tragic Treasury" by The Gothic Archies.
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Stephen Merritt is the first to get the depeche from NPRs Project Song and has created the beautiful 'Man of a million faces' in just two days. See more at: http://www.npr.org/t emplates/story/story .php?storyId=1585935 1
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Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields plays an acoustic version of "The nun's litany". He talks to the interviewer about how bad he is at remembering his own lyrics and how the album Distortion was produced.
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Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler perform "Scream and Run Away" from the Lemony Snicket audiobooks at the "People Talking & Singing" 826 Seattle Benefit on Sept 1st, 2006. Shoddy video (taken with a digital camera) but the audio isn't bad. http://www.826seattl e.org , http://www.bookeater s.org/ , http://www.bumbersho ot.org/826/ , http://www.houseofto morrow.com/
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Liam and Shaggy close the show with the world premiere puppet music video of Stephin Merritt and Edgar performing The Magnetic Fields' song "The Book of Love".
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Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler perform "Smile" from the Lemony Snicket audiobooks at the "People Talking & Singing" 826 Seattle Benefit on Sept 1st, 2006. Shoddy video (it was taken with a digital camera) but the audio isn't bad. http://www.826seattl e.org , http://www.bookeater s.org/ , http://www.bumbersho ot.org/826/ , http://www.houseofto morrow.com/
From a group of six photos and six words, Magnetic Fields guru Stephin Merritt picked "1974" and an image of a man wearing a suit covered with baby dolls. Two days later, the song they inspired was finished.
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