My post to the Sloan message board

- If It Feels Good, Do It (After Consulting Your Physician)
- (Arthritis) I Can Feel It
- Can't Face Up (Someone Get The Nurse)
- A Long Time Coming (Talkin' Little Blue Pill Blues)*
- Stand By Me, Yeah (So I Don't Fall In The Tub)
http://yupislyr.com/sloan/index.php?showforum=5

So on to a 38 year old's teenybopper night with her best friend from college. Back in the days of our youth, my best pal Nina and I played groupie to many a Canadina band including our first tour bus with Eight Seconds, A drive through the most horrendous storm to get to hang out with Glass Tiger, a memorable evening hanging out with Eye Eye in Windsor, all I can say is it's a shame we never got to Haywire... Well anyway, I stayed in the music business, she went on to life with kids etc.. I decided to take her to see Sloan figuring we could relive our glory days...
Once we finally got up to the stage area during the OJays, we wandered around looking for refugee from the crowd and walked right back to the backstage area and saw Grinder walking right by us. I asked Nina if the elevator Grinder came up was the only place the band could have come up from... She and I went to broadcasting school together and I swear she put on her investigative reporting shoes and went walking around the entire backstage area. She even pretended to be talking on her cell to look like she belonged back there. Brilliant. She reports back that indeed this appears to be the only place a band can enter. We decide to sit on this grassy area near there. I decide to be a compete geek and make signs (Actually I had Nina's daughter color them for me) I have never held a sign at a concert in my life but something on this message board made me think it would be fun. I wasn't sure I would actually have the nerve to hold them up. So as we sat chatting, I had the signs leaning on my knee. I am in the midst of telling Nina about a cruise my husband and I are going to take that features a bunch of Tempe bands and I see someone looking at the signs out of the corner of my eye. Oh boy...It's Andrew and not only is it Andrew..It's all four of them...I will never get that vision out of my head...just the four of them walking tightly together as if in sync... There was just something that screamed rock stars. I couldn't finish my sentence and Nina kept asking which bands are playing on the cruise... Chris was smiling, Patrick looked a bit distressed, Jay did too and Andrew just kept looking at my 500 Up sign.. We watched them walk in the venue and I just yelped because it was so hilarious... Not two minutes later Andrew comes out to smoke a cig amd Patrick is back out on his phone. Jay was out later to meet some fans, he was the only one who spoke to any fans before the show. We stayed back there until they were about to go on, we just kept chatting with each other so as not to disturb any pre-show rituals...it was fun observing though! I also have to tell you I have one friend texting me to tell Patrick about the fact that Sloan inspired me to write a novel and I have my sister in law texting me to talk to them as I was chickening out as the night went along...
OK, sorry this is getting so long... So on the stage they come...if it was a bad show I didn't notice. I think the sound was messed up but it didn't matter. We didn't know how to get into that area Anne mentioned but I was fine behind the fence. Nina started screaming before they started and I felt ok to dance and sing the whole show...I decided to hold up the signs but got neither of my requests played (Hollow Head and 500 Up) I had written "Patrick don't stop writing rock songs" on one of them. The first time I held it up he walked forward, squinted to see it and waved to us. Now I'm just pre-teen mush... Nina is waving away and I'm hiding behind the sign. I had so much more nerve 20 years ago... btw Patrick said they would have done one of my songs had they known I came all the way from AZ. Next time...I will pack my signs for next time...
Show's over, we head back to our grassy spot to watch everyone talking to Chris and Patrick. This is when I met SHP, yours kids are great! I am pretty sure Chris was teaching them guitar while we were having our marathon discusson with Patrick. I told Nina we would wait out the crowd a bit. I was definately losing my nerve to talk to them but finally I said we better do this now... So we approach Patrick, listen to some guys go on to him incessantly about ipods...By the way, I heard Patrick make a mention to the guys about messages boards and how the fans don't understand they need to do things to make money so they can keep doing this for a long time....finally I interupt and ask Patrick if I can have my photo taken with him... (no, I look too much like the dork I am to post it) Yeah! I tell him I'm there from Phoenix...and he asks me if they have played Phoenix lately... Um yeah...last year on the Jet tour without Jet...that was my first time I met them and was charmed enough to inspire me to write a novel about "girls and bands.."
Patrick proceeds to tell us a tale of some trouble he encountered in my hometown back in 1993...Nina and I agreed it was like meeting a new friend and having a great first conversation. She said I kept apologizing for Phoenix. Well I got the courage to tell him that their show last summer flipped a switch in me to write a novel about all the things I have seen bands go through in my career in radio, although I certainly stumbled trying to explain why Sloan spurred this. We went on to talk about all sorts of nice things like his son and dealing with being away from him. I end up telling him he should write more, like I'm some expert or something... I can only conclude by saying the night was inspiring on many levels and a great chance to meet someone Nina and I will remember as a super sweet guy who gave some old college pals a chance to be pre-teens again, except now we have conversations with band members about our kids and lives. Much nicer than Alan Frew..hahaha!

Big City Life

“Writing fiction is the most deeply and intimately fulfilling work of my life. And it is very private,” she says. (Melissa Pritchard an ASU Professor of Creative Writing)

Neil on CFOX is playing Sloan right now (12:37)...Patty song of course.... ;) OK now He made reference to Sloan getting beer thrown at them in PEI, one guess who told him that... I just told my Blaze staffers I am running away to Vancouver, I swear to god I should have been a DJ in Canada...I guess that is one dream in my life I will never quite fulfil...so I vicariously live through talking to jocks there...I hope they know how lucky they are. I say a little thank god for streaming radio...
Hello Monday morning! Had kinda a weird weekend, just plain exhausted I guess. I had stayed up til 2am on Thursday then late again on friday to watch INXS and Tom Everett Scott on some late talk show. Sat morning we went to garage sale at 7am and I was toast by 3pm...Saturday night I was too tired to write. I hate admitting when my age gets to me but I just killed my weekend by doing that. I slept most of Sunday, kinda wasted good project time snoozing. I finished writing by 11 pm last night to try to get back on a regular schedule.
I went digging in my closet looking for some pictures and ran into something I go the biggest kick out of. It was a long piece of papers attactched that was titled "Leah's brief history with the Gin Blossoms" It had a daily run down of what happened in my life with the Blossoms each day from for several months. I laughed out loud at some many things I had forgotten. It left me in a Blossoms mode for the entire weekend. It always happens that my ipod shuffling reflects my mood in bands. I couldn't quite remember what every reference was, some of the code style writing doesn't translate 16 years later in my memory. I did laugh at one sentance that said "Robin was doing his best Tim Farriss impression in a bat cap" OK, I guess I don't quite remember Tim Farriss being a batman fan but I had to laugh hard at the sentence. You have to remember we went from all the INXS following to the Gin Blossoms so that was the transition that was happening. I also had forgotten the day I walked into Rockaway and found Robin working there, I had didn't remember it was his first day there! Actually reading it made me wonder if there was a little something more than I ever caught on to... I need to read the journals someday again but it will be a while yet. Not ready yet.
OK I'll be back....

Deer in the headlights so gun it, gun it, gun it....

I am listening to the new Matt Good track as I type this. The chorus caught my attention on his website but it doesn't sound the same as I listen, I wonder if that was a different song on the website. Andrew and I went to lunch yesterday as he was in Vancouver Tuesday to get it. Matt mentions him in the video commentary as Andrew is in the video for Anti-pop. Andrew is way too humble about it! I think if you are a huge fan, it is a big deal to get a mention. I equate it to having one of my photos used in the Posies boxset, it's a huge honor to be acknowledged by your favorite artist in someway.. Anyway, I am slowly going through the Matt Good video commentary,I am just glad to finally own all the videos. Lyrics above are from a MG favorite I forgot in my Top MG songs- "21st Century Living" I am getting ready to compile my fave Sloan songs for a blog soon. Promises, promises, eh?
OK here's some random thoughts and news:
I made the team for the E.T. Finals!!! Kinda guessed after Lonnie called but my phone call came like 10 minutes before the INXS final. I had to rush off the phone. They had already sent the list in at 5pm but waited to call me at 8:45pm, hello....nothing like leaving me hanging.. I asked if I was like the last person they called... So 4 days of racing in 2 weeks against all the bad boys from CALI, can't wait!!! Now I gotta get organized before hand, have all our race stuff together, get Dan to fix that bad boy, get the RV ready...lot of work but worth it! Yeah!!!
So JD won, no shock near the end as it was getting really obvious when he debutted "Pretty Vegas" I hope Mig records a record, I'd buy it. I will go see INXS when they come, plus Dan likes JD so at least he will go with me now too. As I said, glad the commitment to a TV show is over, ugh I am so not into watching TV anymore. I am finding it amusing that a Canadian, particularly from Nova Scotia won...
Didn't get to wrote for the last two nights, good and bad, I am eager to write the next scene but I need to cool it because I think the Pisces in me makes me a little obsessive about things (Ya think???) I need to spend time doing things like hanging out wiht my husband ar maybe cleaning my house....
Nina has email now, it is nice we have been emailing everyday now....planning that trip to N.S. She is helping me with Canadian 80's history for the novel. Still not sure how I will ever find out DUI laws in Nova Scotia in 1987 but hey, writing is about research too right?
Oddly not thinking of all the things I wanted to blog about. All is fine with The Blaze and the Village kids, I have some work I am behind on but I will get caught up soon. No big weekend plans... hmmm.. well until we meet again..."I'm ready to go off!"

INXS is now Canadian Content? Nova Scotian at that!

Gotta go teach, for now here is the press release from FMQB about the show last night
And The News INXS Frontman Is...

Septmeber 21, 2005

The television show Rock Star: INXS came to an end last night as the band chose Canadian singer J.D. Fortune as their new lead singer. Fortune beat out two other hopefuls, Mig Ayesa and Marty Casey. Wasting no time, INXS will immediately head into the studio with producer Guy Chambers (Robbie Williams) to begin work on their new album, Switch, due from Epic Records on November 29. The first single will be "Pretty Vegas," a song that Fortune co-wrote with INXS guitarist Andrew Farriss that was already featured on the TV show.

"It's an understatement to say that this is a dream come true," says Fortune. "Growing up, INXS albums like Shabooh Shoobah, Listen Like Thieves and Kick were a huge musical influence on me. I'd listen to their songs and wonder what it would be like to be in this band. That they've chosen me to be their new lead singer is just mind-blowing."

INXS guitarist Tim Farriss mused, "J.D. has a slightly dangerous edge and will bring a sense of spontaneity to our live show. In addition, he has both the star quality we were looking for and is an inspired lyricist. I think he'll grow with us on all levels. We're a complete band once again."

The new INXS will make its national television debut on Friday, September 23 on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Also, "Pretty Vegas" will be available through iTunes for two weeks beginning on October 4. Then, on October 17, fans in Los Angeles will get to preview the band's live show when they perform at the new Virgin Megastore. INXS will embark on their first world tour in eight years in early 2006.

CFOX misses one on their 90's at noon birthday list

My buddy Neil on CFOX asked me why I didn't tell him sooner it's was Patrick's birthday. See, I should be doing Canadian radio, I wouldn't have missed it on my specialty show, although I would be doing the 80's nooner right?
Review of Sloan show not going to happen right now, getting ready to head home. I am not sure I can convey that night properly, it was a lightning strike from God that writing this story is the right thing to be doing. How does one go with the other? Irony can be a huge sign.
No phone call from Team Firebird yet, I am sure I am on the bubble but Lonnie called last night to say he asked if I made it and they said yes. My friends are going bug the team captains into letting me go-hehe. Lonnie thought I would get a call last night like he did but nope.... I do really want to race the finals again, it's been since before Dan and I were even married! Nice thing is Dan seems excited about it even though he is not racing this year. The finals are like spirit week in high school, you get to route for your fellow team mates in the stands, there is a huge bbq, you get to dress silly one night (hillbilly is the theme) and you get to compete against racers from California, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii. Some of my favorute memories of racing where how much fun my parents and I had the fials in Palmdale, CA. That was 1998, 97 was very fun at Firebird too! Lonnie won the race of Champions at Palmdale which got all our mugs in National Dragster in the winners circle. Crazy fun memories, I think I even won a few rounds that race, yeah I won money, maybe 4 rounds? Nice wonderful memories... It would be fun to go this year, not sure if we would take the RV or just go back and forth home(Speedworld is about 50 miles from home)
I have to say as I am thinking about it, I really am enjoying the kids in Cronkite Village. They are so motivated and active. I can't believe that it is almost time for me to have to go through it all again to pick the next group already.
I wrote over 5000 words last night on a scene I was dreading. I ended up really pleased with it. Elise has her boyfriend and family over to have dinner with her family...I liked how it turned out, it was definately a case of leading me. I wasn't as certain which way I wanted to go so it took a little longer. It kept me up until 2am and I am feeling it now. MUch as I want to keep at it, I will probably need to crash tonight. INXS is on at 9pm, then I better hit it... My eyes have hurt all day.
Also big today, the deluxe version of Matt Good's hit package "In a Coma" is out today. Andrew is in Vancouver to pick it up today. I should get it this Thursday. It's a great day for my two favorite Canadian guys!! ;)

One X One

One more night of this silly little reality show one of my old favorite bands has suckered me into. I am reminded why I hate TV and how much time it wastes in life. But when I do watch something, man I am so sucked in. Between drag races and Rockstar:INXS I don't know which I yell at the TV more over. I still don't think Mig has a chance espcially since he picked to sing Bohemian Rhapsody tomorrow which will do nothing to convince INXS he is ready to move beyond his musical days. I do hope he will get a recording career out of this so I can buy his Kyle Vincent sounding ballad records...;) BTW Kyle is coming back here this Oct. It will be good to see him again.
I raced on Saturday, it was a crazy night. Big Red was in a foul mood and conked out 3 times on the return road. Maybe it was the full moon..ugh. My buddy Ryan won the track championship so I was very happy to be there to celebrate with him. I remember Mom brought champane when Lonnie won so I brought some for Ryan. As for my night, I won a round which may have helped get me to to the finals in 3 weeks but with me missing so many races, my chances are slim. I did feel good racing despite all the mechanical gremlins. No doubt Big Red needs some love, it's nothing serious but it needs work. I had issues again with my new nemesis. I really don't want to be anyone's bad graces but this kid isn't letting his issues with me go. I know we can't be friends with everyone we come across in our lives but I see no reason to hold grudges with people especially in a high powered sport. If we were NASCAR, he'd be bumping me for sure-hahaha!
Last week was crazy at work as I got home at nearly 8pm every night because of meetings, tours, etc... I didn't get to write as much as I would have liked. I am coming up on some difficult desicions to make on which way I am going in the story. I know which way but I am not sure how to make time pass in the story. I know I said it before but I love doing it, so much! I got the details in my mail about the Master's program for Creative Writing at ASU last week. I have to look further into whether I have a shot, I will probably meet with an advisor over there after I check in with my boss to make sure I will not offend if I go for that instead of the Cronkite School's masters program. I love radio still there is no doubt, I will always follow it's path but I seek new knowledge not more in Broadcasting. I lived that long enough. I would only be studying media to please others, studying creative writing would fulfil something I never finished back when I started at Eastern Michigan. I have really poor undergrad grades as things went south when I started working full time back then, I may not have a shot but I can at least check into it. Me back to school, crazy since I consider my last day of college one of my top 5 happiest days of my life.... We'll see...
Still on the Sloan Posies come down. I will write that review still, maybe tomorrow as it is Patrick's birthday. Silly I know that but oh well...it's fun and if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be writing....
Had another fun idea last week! I found out the next Living Learning convention is at Syracuse. It is next year. I had a thought that upstate New York is a heck of a lot closer to Nova Scotia than Phoenix is. I need to look into how much flights would cost etc..I am trying to talk Nina into joining me. I could finally see PEI and do my research on the N.S. for the novel. We'll see, but hey why not? If I did, I could up my amount of Provinces I have been to up to 6! I can dream right?
Time to go home and write...Farewell Typewriter...

Farewell Mig?

Things are not looking good for my favorite Rockstar INXS candidate. Mig is definatly looking like he'll be on the chopping block, they don't appear to think he is beyond being a musicals star. Dan and I are sure that JD is going to win, actually Dan has said that for weeks. So sad I will be when Timmy tells Mig tonight he is not right for their band INXS-sniff!
Sloan review still to come when I have more than 5 minutes to write. Without asking, I was talking to CFOX's Neil yesterday online and he played 500 up for me ;)
Biggest fun of yesterday was Albert telling me that Ken Stringfellow mentioned me on his blog! WOW! I used to be pen pals with Ken in the old days of snail mail! Still reeling from both shows and events.
One other huge event to share- last night I surpassed 100,000 words on "bay window"!!!! I have no idea how long a novel is but that seems like a lot to me and I am not but maybe half way! Thinking about a title change too, "girl across the street" may seem trite but works more for where things are heading. 100,000 words since June, am I a mad woman or what?

Eats N Beats Festival Shot Pontiac, MI Sept 4, 2005

Here's a photo from the Sloan show I attended, I got it from their website, it's a fan shot but it's better than the ones my camera got. The review from me is still to come but here's a fun blurb from Chartattack.com about Sloan's tour with the Foo Fighters.

(Referring to Dave Grohl) The frontman's comedic prowess was also in effect. His recap of their Canadian tour with Sloan and The Constantines was especially entertaining.
"We played Vancouver and it was OK," he said. "Edmonton was a little better. Calgary was kinda kick ass. People in Winnipeg are fucking kind of crazy. Winnipeg is kinda nuts… people said wait 'til Toronto, those mother fuckers are crazy."
Then Grohl took a shot at Sloan.
"We got Sloan on tour! I think they're older than us!"
Finally, he dedicated "Up In Arms" to "the boys in the Cons and Sloan (and) to all Canadian boys in rock bands. Fuck that, this goes out to the ladies."

Posies Vs. Sloan battle for Leah's heart in 1993

Photo of Jon and Ken Posie with Blaze DJ Teresa who interviewed them Sept 10, 2005

I can’t seem to decide which show I want to blog about first Sloan or The Posies. It was truly two very different experiences in many ways. It is very odd that they both were on DGC, both under appreciated by their label and both still going even after the record company machine could have broke their spirit. I even told the Posies it was DGC band week for me, they were asking how well Sloan does in Detroit when I said I saw them there.
I guess for my first installment, I will tie the two together in my scheme of things. I have often wondered as of late what it would have been like if I had taken to Sloan back in the day the way I did The Posies. Would I have seen Sloan 17 times like I now have seen The Posies had it been the other way around? I certainly never mean I regret my life as a Posies fan, I wouldn’t trade it, especially now that I see them again and was reminded how much they have meant to me in the past 17 years (yikes) I have seen them in many forms but it still never ceases to amaze me, those guys never have a bad show, they are so in tune with each other, so meant to play together. I didn’t doubt they would still be this way but I was utterly amazed at how in tune they are still with each other even after breakups, solo careers, REM, etc… I was actually thinking while I was watching Ken that hanging out with Michael Stipe may have enhanced his stage presence. Ken is so sedate with REM, it was funny to see him back being himself, the wild mad man on stage that he has always been. I remember the tie I saw them at Woody’s the first full band show I saw, he was so crazy he was bleeding from the strings he was breaking. I would say Jon seemed a little more reserved this time around but that didn’t stop the unbelievable guitar solo madness. I also remember vividly being at the 2nd full band show I saw at CDGBS, two industry men were standing in front of me going on about Jon being the next “Eddie Van Halen” Another guitar virtuoso is what they billed him.
I am soooo glad Dan got to see The Posies, as I said to Ken, can you imagine marrying me and having to become Posies familiar whether you like it or not. Fortunately Dan now chides me for not being as big a Posies fan as he is. I think it meant the most to me to see them together and that all the hype that I have told Dan in the past 6 years was lived up to. Dan was cute, all day Sunday he kept saying “I saw The Posies” My answer was “You can see them again, let’s drive to Tucson” but alas we both decided that they would play way too late for us to get back home and actually function at work Monday. I think as much as I wouldn’t mind seeing them again, we had more than our share on Saturday- sometimes it can be enough and for me, I needed to just let the week sink in. I am so fortunate that they also came by The Blaze as I got past my jitters of seeing them again plus the acoustic experience with The Posies is always equal in intensity. I got my wish to surprise them by being at The Blaze as they did not know I was the advisor there. Jon came walking into my office, just as he was figuring out it was me his manager had just spoke to about how KASR was one of the first stations to play “Failure” and that I had seen them quite a few times. Turns out their current manager is a Cronkite school alumni which yet more deliciously perfect irony to why they were prompted to come to The Blaze! I told Jon and Ken it was odd that I never got them to come to the station when I was an undergrad. A couple of other favorite moments included when Ken said on stage they were going to “play a few older ones that only Leah would know” That is when they launched in “Apology” (Yippee!) A local club DJ here in Phoenix Mr. Peabody was able to get on stage and play “Flavor” like he did many moons ago, anyway he grabbed me the set list which was very very kind of him. Then as we were about to leave and were saying goodbye, Jon asked Dan if he could hug me goodbye. I said “don’t worry Dan knows” as I very embarrassedly gave a hug to my old crush. Dan was good natured and laughed later about it. It was very sweet. Oh the angst I can remember there, maybe I should never unearth my old journals, I would hate to read how much anguish I experienced with each one of those Posies shows until the ’93 weenie roast when I finally got over it!
Did they do oldies, yep, but oddly none from “Success” or “Failure” They also did not do anything from the ep “cheekbones” The new songs sounded great live, I noticed I liked them more when they came up on my ipod during my Michigan trip. “Any other way” continues to be the opus live but I was stunned that they ended with “Flood of Sunshine” as “Burn and Shine” was on the set list. The set was heavy on Amazing Disgrace tracks but that was fine with Dan and I. At the acoustic set at The Blaze, they did “Lady Friend” their Byrds cover which was another in the highlights reel. I saw a few old friends at the show but there weren’t as many Tempe popsters as there should have been there. It was an exhausting show finishing with Ken stripping to his ladies panties. I knew he did so at old shows but I had yet to be at one when he did, yikes I was blushing as we were up front by this time. I like my favorite musicians but I don’t need to see them in their underoos-hahaha! Oh well, it was still fun, totally consuming concert actually.
I guess to tie this back to Sloan, I think I was meant to be a Posies fan in the 90’s, they are more in tune to my musical taste, not that Sloan is not but it’s very different, maybe because Posies-2 singers, Sloan-4 singers. I still contend that if I had seen the video for “500 Up” back in the day, I’d probably have found my way to Halifax back then. It’s like that “Sliding Door” movie, had I been at CMJ when Sloan was there would it have been the same affect on me that seeing The Posies at CMJ was? I am guessing it would but Sloan has served a totally different purpose in my life 14 years later, to inspire a story about everything I did experience with said Posies and those Blossoms. I can’t help but be utterly amazed at how these things are unfolding in front of me so widely. I welcome these signs; I just hope to interpret them correctly!

Here's some songs only Leah will know

More to come....I am in come down mode so bad.... LMC on a Monday

The Posies called, wondered if they could come by The Blaze

It’s gonna take a lot of blogs to tell the amount of incredible things that have happened this week. I knew the week of Sloan and The Posies was going to be incredible but I wasn’t expecting the delicious irony I am experiencing with both. I am not sure if it a life full of coincidences or it’s the just plain bizarre world I live in. The entire Sloan experience last Sunday will fill some pages soon but I have to address what happened today. BTW, in case you were worried if my other favorite band the Blossoms were lost in this process, fear not, they ended up playing a part in my weekend too, Of Course they did!
My title is literal. As I sat in my basement closet office in Stauffer I got an email form my MD at The Blaze. Here’s what it said:
I just got a call from the Posies, and they're going to have a shitload of time to kill before their show on Saturday. They're doing an in-store at Stinkweeds at 4, and then would like to come over here after that!

I told them I needed to run it by you first, but....I think I know the answer. Talk to you tomorrow!
OK, Who does this happen to?? I’m pretty sure they have no idea I am the advisor there. Oh, and btw I gave him my permission-haha! In 1988 in the very office that Matt talked to them is the first time I put Failure on the turntable and fell in love, although I wondered why they played poppy music but looked like The Cure. I remember pointing it out in my music meeting as I presented it to my staff. Is this delicious irony? I don’t know what it is but my favorite teen book growing up was called The Luckiest Girl (Beverly Cleary?) I literally feel like I am the luckiest girl in the world. I could moan and groan over my truck being smashed up but come on, for three days of unfortunate incidents last week, now I am being rewarded beyond belief. I am also being vindicated for writing, but I digress. The Posies want to play on the air too, oh sure come on by my kid’s station and play away, I love private concerts anyway! So, I will have a couple days to wonder if they somehow know I advise the Blaze or not. Not sure how they could know unless they have one of those Billboard style guides to college radio stations, obviously my name is listed in a few of them. I love the idea even better that they just want to play the local college radio station and here’s their biggest fan in AZ “Putt putt girl” running the place. I am really looking forward to seeing Ken as I haven’t seen him since I saw them in Seattle for the “Success” CD release, that was maybe 97? Around the time they broke up (yeah break up, for a few days maybe) MD Matt is about to leave for CMJ next week, of course CMJ is the where I first saw The Posies in 1990. I saw them three times that weekend, once at the seminar acoustic (first time I saw them do my favorite Posies song of all time “This one’s taken”) then a club called Woody’s (owned by Ron Wood of Stones) then at CDGBS (which is about to close it’s doors) My photos from CDGBS were used in the Posies boxset as requested by Ken! I was just telling Matt what an incredible experience he is about to embark on as a college music MD at the CMJ conference. I was the one who got KASR to start sending its music directors. Again is this all irony or do I have the definition wrong like Alanis did?
The Posies asked if they could come by The Blaze, I’d be willing to bet when I put them in rotation in my “breakout” category in 1988, KASR was probably one of the first stations beyond Seattle to add them. I think the door is wide open if The Posies would like to come by, what do you think? I think a Gin Blossom will be at the show…

The Good in Everyone?

If you believe in karma, I must have really bad karma this week. I am not sure what I am being punished for but the last two days feel like I am experiencing the worst before I get the joy of seeing two of my fave bands.
This lovely photo of my "new" truck is now a sad reminder. Today I unfortunately was in my first car accident. The good news was no one was hurt and it would have been much worse if I didn't have said truck... I am just sad, annoyed and bruised ego. It was a chain reaction with three cars slammming into one another because the first guy got cut off. I, unfortunately, was the last car in the chain, hence a guarentee failure to control speed to avoid collision. Man, what a major pain in the behind. I am listening to The Spoons "Romantic Traffic" on the ipod but the metaphor of changing lanes in the lyrics are not easing my troubled mind right now. I want to relax on vacation but now I have to worry about insurance adjusters and how to come up with the deductable. UGH!
So let's not dwell on my two bad days (the day prior I lost my keys, not as bad as the virgin car accident...) My new neighbor in my Stauffer ofice, the new freshman advisor is a super cool guy, loves alt music so we have bonded. He got me talking about Bay Window and made me get past my woos this morning. I got so passionate talking about it. I told him he is now my academic advisor too. we just talked about things in our lives that serve as releases as we both try really hard to serve students and do well for the Cronkite school. He is teaching himself trumpet and painting. We both surmised that it's our ways to please ourselves after days full of pleasing those around us.
Had more to talk about but my Blaze station manager needs to talk so gotta go! Sloan in 3 days! Leave for Mich tomorrow!