A Rant: Do I sound like a total babbling fanboy? If so, good; because I always hope I’ll be floored when I get to meet someone who makes great music - or a great artist, or a great writer, for that matter. Oh, and few things in life make me as happy as meeting someone whose music I respect and hearing “The teenage me is flipping out.” When you’re a musician, particularity a musician in an obscure punk band, you often wonder if any of those people who grew up on your music went on to make music themselves. And finding out that they made music you love makes a decade of riding in a smelly van and sleeping on sticky floors worth it. And when you meet a musician whose work you respect and they turn out to be a really decent human being, well…it reminds me to make an effort to be less of a dick.

A Rant: Do I sound like a total babbling fanboy? If so, good; because I always hope I’ll be floored when I get to meet someone who makes great music - or a great artist, or a great writer, for that matter. Oh, and few things in life make me as happy as meeting someone whose music I respect and hearing “The teenage me is flipping out.” When you’re a musician, particularity a musician in an obscure punk band, you often wonder if any of those people who grew up on your music went on to make music themselves. And finding out that they made music you love makes a decade of riding in a smelly van and sleeping on sticky floors worth it. And when you meet a musician whose work you respect and they turn out to be a really decent human being, well…it reminds me to make an effort to be less of a dick.

—Rodney Anonymous, My Belated, Yet Totally Fuckin’ Awesome, Tour Diary Concludes