Posts Tagged ‘fandom’
FTW–I still love Radiohead
January 5th, 2009 • 2 comments albums and songs, miscellany, music
Tags: album, fandom, kid a, radiohead
I’ve been listening to (nearly) all Radiohead since my four-hour Thom Yorke dream. This band is really, really great. And I realized I’ve never had to articulate my feelings about Radiohead, because Radiohead reviews/interviews are reserved for better critics than me. I’ve never been able to articulate my love of Radiohead outside of my job either. When Kid A came out I was 19 year old, and instead of writing about it or talking about it like a smart person, I spray painted a three-foot Kid A bear on my studio apartment wall:
And then got this on my wrist:
I thought these were appropriate ways of saying you like an album. Not like, writing reviews or books about them or going to see shows. Someday I’ll outgrow these ways of showing I like an album/band, and find something else.
In the liner notes
June 24th, 2008 • 2 comments general, music
Tags: fandom, goal, liner notes, man man
A couple weeks ago I logged into 43Things, a goal-tracking website, for the first time in a year or so. I was happy to see I had achieved some of the goals I wrote down then, happy to see others (try the world’s hottest hot sauce? I’ve tried the 7th hottest, thanks Arizona), and surprised to see this one: “get a credit or thank you on an album’s liner notes.”
I am not sure why this goal was so important to me two years ago. I think then I was still in fan mode, excited to talk to bands, eager to have them acknowledge me. When I wrote for the college paper in Tucson, people I interviewed would invite me to ’say hello’ at the show, and I would. I used to love doing this. The intervening two years have really driven this out of me, because it’s a job now, etc. etc., and having to interview a few people a week really drives the excitement out of it.
Anyway I did ‘achieve’ this ‘goal’ this year, Man Man thanked me (and 100+ other people) on their CD. I’ve talked, at too much length, about how much I like them. And I like their new CD actually better than the last now, so that helps as well.
Next up is world’s hottest hot sauce, which is probably around 6,000,000 Scovilles. That’s the same heat as eating pepper spray. I once convinced a kid to touch a tiny chili from our home garden, then touch his eye when I was in elementary school. His eye turned bright red and he cried. So I’ll probably deserve whatever pain 6,000,000 Scolville units causes.
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