Confessions of a Fanboy

I guess I never got the memo. It must be Depressing Boston Music Day today because the only songs that seem to make sense to me at the moment are The Lemonheads and Pernice Brothers. I wonder why that is.
Maybe it’s because I’m at work on a sunny Sunday morning. Maybe it’s […]

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I worked some overtime this weekend at the day job. It’s strange to be at the day job with no one else around. My boss asked me today if I’m more productive on the weekends than I am at work. I don’t think he was taking the piss out of […]

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It was a random day all around. Many weird songs, songs I wouldn’t have otherwise sought out to listen to but iPod served them up for me. If only I could get my iPod to bring me a cold Vanilla Coke…

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I can now put myself to bed secure in the knowledge that I succeeded in my efforts to make tonight a working night. Translation: I got a lot of work done.
I wrote a preview of the upcoming Stones’ DVD set. I also finished the rough draft of my review of Muddy Waters’ […]

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I’m listening to “Crestfallen” by The Pernice Brothers from their Overcome By Happiness album; an album title drenched-in-irony. What a gorgeous string arrangement!
It’s a perfect song because I’ve dedicated tonight a “working” night and I need to get some done. It’s great getting all these advances and the like, but then it comes […]

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Boston Red Sox OF and resident alien Manny Ramirez turns 35 today.
It is a good time to be a Red Sox fan these days. The Sox played incredible baseball for the first two months of the season and the New York Yankees have been awful!
Hey, religious types… you want to know what the mark […]

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If nothing else, I put my iPod to work today. That was probably the only reason to get out of bed, when you come right down to it. I woke up to listen to music.
Missing from the list you’re about to witness are the songs from A Bigger Bang that I […]

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Misery loves company, but what do you do when the reason you’re miserable is because you’re alone? In my case, I turned to my CD collection.
These days, I’m happily married but still occasionally miserable. Now I commiserate with my iPod. We all have those days where we want to wallow […]

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One of the real highlights of the self-titled release from Chappaquiddick Skyline is the cover of New Order’s “Leave Me Alone.”
It is an amazing thing to take a song, change very little from the original version, and still have it somehow sound perfectly at home among a collection of original tunes. I […]

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