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    <description><![CDATA[A faulty chromosome is what I named my music on account of people asking me "what are you, retarded or something?" all the time. I do things quite differently than most, I suppose, but I don't think I'm retarded. I don't think anyone is retarded, it's just that people have been tricked by the media into believing that there actually is such a thing as "normal" to be achieved that -- when something "abnormal" is presented to them -- they don't quite know how to process it, and make fun of it, or give it abstract labels like "weird" or "quirky" without really thinking about what that implies...

The music is a slopbucket of sing-sung-alongable-songs full of fuzz and tremolo, sock-hop hand-claps, 8-bit blips, water-damaged photographs of your 8th birthday, mashed casio chords, collapsing guitars, and drum machine'd beats all bundled up in a warmish childhood memory of hiding underneath your grandma's kitchen table in 1989 watching an episode of Mister Rogers with her overweight cocker spaniel (what was his name? keebo? keeno?).

People have called it "loser-pop" or "hip-plop" or "jangle-slop" or "lo-fi-college-rock" or "shoegaze-bop." I think those are all very cute names, but I don't know, I just try to make happy and hopeful songs that sound good to me? I guess the point is that -- because there are so many different influences mooshed together in each song (pavement + xtc + freestyle fellowship + buddy holly + nirvana + new kids on the block + new order + sun ra = one song) -- it doesn't fit very nicely in any genre...

We have snuck our way onto bills with acts like: Dan Deacon, Atlas Sound, The Radio Dept, the Vivian Girls, HEALTH, Rose Melberg, Ariel Pink, Half Japanese, and other such-sounding indie heartthrobs (I'm not trying to impress you or anything, because I'm sure none of those bands even took the time to watch us play, but just so you have some sort of frame of reference).]]></description>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - what we're made of</title>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome is currently going door-to-door trying to sell you our...</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[a faulty chromosome is currently going door-to-door trying to sell you our girlscout cookies.  Buy one @ kickstarter.com/projects/afaultychromosome]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:10:18 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Help a faulty chromosome release their new album via Kickstarter.com</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:07:17 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - scoffers vs. beasts</title>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - dancing on the ceiling, flailing on the floor</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Oh Lionel Ritchie, you mustachioed goob.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome -  (you groanups say you love us...)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>an edited speech by a 12-year old girl to some sort of stuffy group of business suit&#039;d summit in 1992 (oh, if only they listened...).</p>]]></description>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - (stoopid, wyld, crazee, ruh-TAR-dead)</title>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - picking on us like we're picayune</title>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - incubate'r</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Instructions on how to gently help a chicken out of their shell.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - little miracles</title>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - warmish piles</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>We are not taught how to love, and all that is presented in front of us is misleading, unhelpful, and ridiculous.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:30:19 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - exorcise (no, i am not an anhedonic wreck)!</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:21:53 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - groaning like a grown-up</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>I had a sense that most adults were miserable when I was a child.  Now I&#039;m old and my hunch has been confirmed.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:12:29 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - our poor boorish head</title>
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      <title>a faulty chromosome - tippy-toes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>a song about trying not to go crazy in a society hellbent on make you feel like you are.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:54:31 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>(thisisfarfroma) belleepoque </title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:23:33 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>bad thing  </title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:21:24 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>a frozen lake </title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:19:27 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>jackie o </title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:16:35 -0700</pubDate>
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