Confessions of a Fanboy

Today’s working vacation is off to a good start.  I wrote and published my review of AC/DC’s No Bull DVD for BC Magazine and I’m getting ready to start writing my review David Gilmour Live in Gdansk.  A quick word on the AC/DC before we move on.  Even though the No Bull set didn’t light [...]

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So I’m having a birthday this week then, and that makes it a good time to remember I’m going to die.  At least that’s what my employer thinks.  Every year, they “encourage” us to take these health assessment tests.  By “encourage” I don’t mean coerce.  I mean bribe.
If we take the test, we get a [...]

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I finally finished my review of The Bittersweets’ Goodnight, San Francisco.  I don’t know what the fuck took so long, but I finally had to declare I wasn’t going to bed until I finished.  I was not going to go through another day of having this hang over my head.  

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It hasn’t been easy, but I’m finally making headway on my review of the Bittersweets’ Goodnight, San Francisco.  I don’t know why it’s taken me so long or why I’ve struggled so much with it.  I just haven’t been able to focus myself on it past the point of listening to it a lot for [...]

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I’m calling on you for help, dear readers. I have only come here seeking knowledge, things they would not teach me of in college. I spoke yesterday of Noel Gallagher’s Top 10 Bands of All Time list.  I love those lists, even when they’re absolutely horrible.  My list, were I to make one, would look [...]

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I just finished writing something for BC Magazine about the upcoming Roy Orbison box set, which caused me to set aside Pulp and Poe and sent me scurrying for my Traveling Wilburys CDs.  I don’t own any Orbison and I am going to hvae to do something about that!
There are a lot of great voices [...]

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Your Mama is so fat she fell in love and broke it! Oh, yeah?  You’re so dumb you could fuck up a free gift! That second one doesn’t have the same zing as the first, in part because I am dumb enough to find a way to fuck up a free gift. Trent [...]

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I can read books more than once and I can damn sure watch a movie or a TV show more than once, but it is rare I’ll read or watch something a first time if I already know how it ends. The thrill of the initial discovery, the discovery of territory not yet discovered, [...]

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Community. It has its good points then, doesn’t it? I’ve received e-mails from a few of my loyal cadre of readers wondering about last night’s Knopfler show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and it got me to thinking about a lot of what was mostly good from last night. Did you [...]

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It’s been so long I don’t remember when 11 and I ordered tickets to go see Mark Knopfler. That’s the only excuse I can come up with for how this show seems to have snuck up on me like this.
At 7:30 tonight, the former Dire Straits frontman will take the stage at historic Ryman [...]

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