This is part 2 of a series of articles on Dashboard Confessional’s frontman Chris Carrabba: an attempt to dissect his public persona in order to understand his inner person. You can read part 1 here. The Swiss Army Romance is a voyeuristic trip through a 20-something’s diary that feels as naked as it is. Thoroughly [...]

During a rehearsal with a band I was in the subject of Dashboard Confessional came up. Dashboard was probably first mentioned negatively, maybe as a joke about the band’s overly emotional nature but the bassist of my band reacted strongly against our jest saying that “Dude, Chris Carrabba means every word he sings!” If you [...]

Well, one of the problems anyway. ABC just launched a fun, kind of terrifying, mystical, psychological murder mystery called Happytown. Great show so far. I’ve seen two episodes that you can also see at Hulu. It reminds me of one of my all time favorite TV dramas, and one you should all see if you [...]

One major event I forgot to mention in my previous post about the people I encounter at Hartford is one of much significance: Friday’s Open Mic Night. A night filled with 60s-80s folk and pop songs performed by people who should never, ever sing in public and really awful poetry. Some of you may have [...]

As with many jobs in the service industry, you deal with some strange people. Many of my tweets lately have reflected such weirdos that enter Hartford Coffee Company and the weird things they do. These weirdos have nicknames, but I realize after receiving a few responses from some of you that you don’t have the [...]

I found today’s song review, first of hopefully many, on NPR’s SXSW mix page. The page allows you to stream over a hundred artists that played SXSW last week, and download some of the songs. Actually, quite a few of them. About 30 or so, but who’s counting, right? One of the songs I downloaded [...]

While browsing one of my favorite, funny websites at work this morning I came across an image that is similar to a few I found last week and blogged about here. While this picture of the “still loading” cat reminds me of blurry, fuzzy, incomplete jpeg images files of yester-internet-year, I also think of Star [...]

My initial response to hearing that U2 had a new album coming out in a few weeks was “Oh, that’s cool I guess.” After giving it a listen through I still feel the same way. No Line on the Horizon is pretty similar to what U2 has done since 2000′s All That You Can’t Leave [...]

I read two articles at Gizmodo while browsing my RSS feeds this afternoon. This first of the two is about a biker whose protective helmet is painted to look like a Lego biker’s helmet. You know, red helmet with a “clear” visor revealing the yellow, smiling face of our Lego man. Here’s the picture of [...]

Upon finishing New Brunswick, New Jersey Goodbye on Saturday, I think I’m glad I read it. I like that I was immersed in another’s experience of punk rock, and I liked the description of the New Brunswick scene, although it was minute. I also would have loved a companion CD with the book of the [...]