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Throw Beck Thursday: That Time I Sucked At Math But Wrote Okay
It was tough facing my seventh grade classmates following Chuck’s and David’s party. That evening Chuck flatly declared that no one wanted me there, that I had invited myself. He’d held up a mirror and reflected back wasn’t my sister’s cool boyfriend but The New Jan Brady in her afro wig. I had no Mike…
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Deep Cuts: Songs About Nashville
Nashville is a great town, even if my introduction to it was a little cruddy.
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30 Years Ago: Love and Rockets Evolve From Bauhaus With ‘Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven’
I remember where I was the first time I saw this album cover.
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On Diffuser: Placebo Fuse Glam and Punk Into ‘Without You I’m Nothing’
Any chance to evoke Velvet Goldmine, right?
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235. James Scared Stupid
Nashville, my first location gig. The movie was nothing to brag about — Ernest Scared Stupid — but three months away from my shitty Hollywood apartment sounded good. I needed a break from the ghost of Jody.
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From the Stacks: Jonny Destry & Destiny, ‘Girls, Rock ‘N Roll, & Cars’
Now here’s a story that needs telling.
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On Diffuser: Cover Stories – The White Stripes, ‘Elephant’
There’s an elephant in Elephant’s room, and it’s closer than you think.
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James on the Radio
Okay, so maybe not on the radio, but on the radio station’s blog. So there’s that.
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Choose and Defend: Conversation or Argument?
I am one non-confrontational bunny rabbit, but not everyone is.
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Throw Beck Thursday: That Time I Met the Fake Peter Criss
KISS released Unmasked shortly after my thirteenth birthday. I begged my sister to drive me to the record store the day it was released. Brand new KISS! I couldn’t wait to get it on the turntable. What an absolutely unlistenable piece of dreck. Hearing “Shandi” was my “say it ain’t so, Champ” moment. “I Was…
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