Confessions of a Fanboy

All right, kids, gather ’round. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Geez, Mr. Hathaway, you’re pretty cool for an obnoxious blob but aren’t you a little too old to know what’s cool? I mean, we called you ‘Mr. Hathaway.’”
Choosing to ignore the insolent little bastards, I continue. You’re sitting there [...]

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You know, I’ve got to hand it to him. 11 is a Man of Vision and a Man of Ideas. I am a Man of… I’m a guy. That’s about it.
11 flashed another of his brilliant ideas yesterday and we’re set for another whirlwind tour in pursuit of rock and roll [...]

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I’ve been on about it all week and then when it was over it was better than I could have hoped for. Glen Phillips did in fact make his appearance on the B-Sides Concept Album program and he was a really great guest. He was really generous with his time and patient with [...]

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It’s here! It’s finally here. Glen Phillips will be my guest tonight on the B-Sides Concept Album program. You can tune in and hear it live, tonight at 10 PM Eastern!
I have never been excited before.

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I was pretty distracted yesterday, but I did manage to listen to a couple of Glen/Toad CDs in preparation for tomorrow’s interview with him on the BSCA. Man, I’m getting really excited about this.
I also spent some time chronicling a few of the memories associated with Glen/Toad music. It’s like pulling on that [...]

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Nothing has clicked for me today. I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve listened to today, but none of it has really registered with my mood or state of mind. I hadn’t listened to Toad The Wet Sprocket’s Fear from beginning to end in far too long. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed revisiting Glen [...]

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I spent some time this afternoon writing about Vertical Horizon being one of the first “us” bands for TheGirlfriendI’veNowMarried and I (I’ve really got to stop with that longwinded way of referring to her), and it’s true. Vertical Horizon was one of the first. Toad the Wet Sprocket was the first.
Picture it: [...]

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All right, we rebound from our brief nostalgia trip and get back to what I’d intended to talk about earlier this morning.
I started today talking about Nine Inch Nails’ instrumental release Ghosts I-IV. Ghosts is the first NIN I ever bought and I bought it because A) it was instrumental and B) I [...]

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Among the odd jobs I held in college was working for an answering service, 3rd shift, weekends. I used to wake tow truck drivers up in the dead of night to get them to go rescue stranded motorists or — and this actually happened more often — impound vehicles of suspected drunk drivers. [...]

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Magic Junk mad scientist Mark Sahm might be on to something here! A few weeks ago, Mark re-considered and re-compiled Nine Inch Nails’ instrumental record Ghosts I-IV into two separate soundtracks to an imaginary movie (best you let him explain it to you). What he did — and it’s brilliant — is spend [...]

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