Confessions of a Fanboy

It’s finally going to happen. I can cross one more thing off my “Things to Do Before I Die.” I’m going to see Bruce Springsteen in Atlanta in April.
I didn’t dare to undertake this mission on my own. I have what is commonly known as bad luck. This is too important [...]

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There just aren’t enough of the quiet moments. You don’t realize just how much you miss them until you experience one and realize how long it’s been since the last one.
I’m sitting in my living room with my three cats, my laptop, and Gillian Welch’s Revival. Rather than listening to these songs on [...]

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I can be a slow learner. For example: why do I continue to give Best Buy a chance to disappoint me? That’s just fuckin’ dumb. I have to tell you, though. After all these disappointments, it’s kind of impressive that I can be disappointed by them. It’s pretty amazing [...]

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It’s a sunny, cool, crisp fall day in Alabama, the morning after our first freeze of the season. Where our friends in the northeast have been peeping at leaves afire with the colors of fall for months, it’s only now beginning to look like fall where I live.
I’ve been dabbling with Radiohead’s In Rainbows [...]

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Maybe this will shut them up! BruceFan seems to have an unnatural fetish for “The E-Street Shuffle” and “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).” I’ll admit… I don’t get this. I don’t hate or even dislike these songs, but neither ranks up there as my favorite Springsteen songs. I wouldn’t have [...]

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I would have burned Pittsburgh to the ground. Burned, burned, burned, I tell you. I don’t know if I’ve had the opportunity to tell you about my evolution on Springsteen’s The Ghost of Tom Joad, but there has been one and it’s been significant and a real treat for me. I now [...]

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It’s time for the big look ahead to a bevy of must have new releases slated for next week. It’s no coincidence the best Tuesday for new releases in some weeks comes as we begin our annual Christmas Greed Fest. Rather than waiting for someone to buy me these beautiful gifts, here are [...]

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After another marathon conversation with 11, I’ve decided to begin my morning revisiting Bruce Springsteen’s Devils & Dust. We were discussing some discussion threads he’d viewed and participated in on Backstreets and paused.
“Do they really hate Magic that much?” I asked as I exhaled a stream of smoke from the artifact of my disgusting, [...]

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It’s not so much that I’m starting my Best of 2007 list as much as it is I’m preparing for it. A lot of unbelievable music was released this year and and I need to refresh myself on some of it before I can attempt to create any kind of ordered list. I [...]

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Someone must have told Bruce the Republicans come out on night two. For the first time this tour there were no tour debuts on the second night of a two-night stand. I wonder after listening to Magic if Bruce wasn’t punishing the capital. OK, so I don’t really wonder that but it’s [...]

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