Confessions of a Fanboy

Wow, so I pulled on a thread and now it all just wants to spill out of me. I started listening to Guster, which led me to their classic - yes, I fucking said classic - record Ganging Up On The Sun. For more than a year, the ringtone on my phone for [...]

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In failing to explain what it is about R.E.M.’s “Laughing” I like so much, I mentioned some of the things I do like when I hear them in other songs. A couple of the things I mentioned were great melodies and great harmonies. Another word for that would be Guster.

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It’s a good thing I got so much writing done yesterday because I’ve gotten fuck all done today.
The phrase of the day comes from one Michael Stipe:  “Death is pretty final, I’m collecting vinyl.”
After all the cajoling, nagging, and prodding from one Mr. Mark Saleski, I’ve finally taken the plunge and ordered a turntable.  That’s [...]

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I should be gearing up for the R.E.M. show tomorrow and I can’t begin to tell you what the anticipation is doing to my insides, but life sometimes asks us to take detours and it’s best not to fight them.
I had an urge to listen to a couple songs from Guster this afternoon as my [...]

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If I had called it a loose end, I’d have to start singing Springsteen and that’s not what I want to talk about right now.
Last week I went and saw Nick Moss & The Flip Tops here in Huntsville. I talked a little bit about that last week, but the BIGBOY writeup was published [...]

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It didn’t take long for my #1 Album of 2007 to get dusted off in 2008!
I bought a lot of music at the end of ‘07 and wondered if that combined with a serious Beatles obsession would cause Shadows and Cracks to get sent to the bench. I have my answer.
After spending the morning [...]

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My good friends the mighty Guster won an award from MTV. What fuckin’ cosmic bunnyhole have I slipped into?
Technically, the award was from MTVu, not MTV the mothership its ownself.
Never heard of MTVu? Me neither – until now – but there it is and my heroes have won an award. [...]

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Guster and Kanye West on the same bill… at Vanderbilt? If ever there was an unholy trifecta, that would be it. What the fuck happened to this world?
I was desperate to see Guster one last time on the Ganging Up on the Sun tour and the only city close enough to be realistic [...]

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Things are not supposed to go this wrong on Fridays. Fridays are supposed to be the antidote to Mondays. What the hell good is any of it if you can’t tell one from the other? This morning was a clusterfuck filled with all manner of hassle and aggravation, only some of which [...]

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It’s a special edition of Let’s Talk About My iPod because we’re talking about a brand new iPod. I’ve moved out of the overcrowded slum that was the 80GB model and have moved the palatial digs of a 160GB mansion on the hill. Life is good.
What would possess a person to get a [...]

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