Confessions of a Fanboy

I’m self-effacing and realistic enough to know none of you are particularly interested in the mundane details of my; my mundane tasks probably not all that different than your own. Rather than bore you with that, I offer my reading public a running tab on what I’ve listened to so far today:

Mark Knopfler & […]

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Fanboy Post #300, a major milestone. Pretty cool, huh?
As I was driving in to work this morning, I realized I had forgotten to reset my Let’s Talk About My iPod playlist on my iPod. I realized this right about the time I put Guster’s Lost and Gone Forever in my CD player to […]

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Rather than doing what needed to be done, I spent a good portion of the weekend watching House on DVD with my wife. Many have written on the outstanding use of music by David Chase in The Sopranos, and it is a tool other shows have tried to make use of. House is […]

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Welcome to Camp Fanboy, boys and girls. Today is a good day.
I don’t know exactly why I woke up with my Good Mood Personality at the helm this morning, but I am pleased today. I am choosing to attribute all or most of this good mood to the tremendous amount of fabulous […]

Filed under: Barrett Martin, Bruce Springsteen, Muddy Waters, Musical Musings and Random Ramblings, Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, Rolling Stones, Ryan Adams, Tom Petty, Tuatara | 4 Comments »

We leave The Gorge long enough to visit Sir Ryan of Adams and his first new release since 2005. The fact that Easy Tiger is his first album since 2005 is significant and means nothing at all simultaneously. Adams released three albums in ‘05!
I’ve listened all the way through the record twice now. […]

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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 have created a playlist in honor of the 124th birthday of the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge. Why? Because it’s easy. It’s easy because there are so many New York-themed songs and bridges are the literary crutch of thousands of songwriters. The connection is easy, everyone has heard of it, […]

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