New Year’s Fuddy-Duddy
Friday, January 1st, 2010 Posted in Introspection | No Comments »I'm kind of a New Year's fuddy duddy. Last night on Twitter I made this comment: I can never get that excited about New Year's. It's like watching an arbitrary cosmic odometer rollover. Woohoo? And it's a sentiment I shared 11 years ...
Top 5 Christmas Songs
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Music | 9 Comments »Christmas music is playing everywhere, but it's not always good. Every year I find myself on the elusive search for truly good Christmas music. Here are my top 5 Christmas songs: 1. "You Gotta Get Up" by Five Iron Frenzy (Buy ...
What’s Five Iron Frenzy Up To?
Friday, July 4th, 2008 Posted in Music | No Comments »Every year or so I like to follow up on the members of the lost but not forgotten ska band, Five Iron Frenzy, and see what they're up to. It usually happens when iTunes shuffles across a Five Iron track ...
Where’s My Five Iron Frenzy?
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 Posted in Music | 4 Comments »About a week ago I popped in an old Five Iron Frenzy CD while I painted the basement and remembered how much I loved FIF. Loved the music. Loved the lyrics. Loved the concerts. They were my favorite band in ...
What’s the Best Five Iron Frenzy Ever?
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 Posted in Music | No Comments »This is too much fun. Squidoo just added a voting/ranking functionality (I learned about it because CFCC/CMS is ranked among the top 59 smartest organizations online, currently at #5 (!?) in the voting). So let's try it out, shall we? ...
Leftover Reese Roper
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004 Posted in Music | 1 Comment »Last week I interviewed Reese Roper, the former lead singer of the now defunct Five Iron Frenzy and current front man for the new pop-punk band Roper. The band released their debut album, Brace Yourself for the Mediocre (see my ...
Our Best FIF Ever
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003 Posted in Music | No Comments »Yesterday I finally got around to posting my self-indulgant, retrospective Five Iron Frenzy article. In honor of that article, and in a previous tradition, I present my choices for a Five Iron greatest hits collection: The Best FIF Ever. As usual, ...
Proof That the Youth Are Revolting
Saturday, November 15th, 2003 Posted in Music | 2 Comments »As I mentioned the other day, I went to my last Five Iron Frenzy concert ever. What a show. I interviewed Keith and Micah before the show, which was fitting because I've interviewed both those guys several times before. The interview ...
All of the Ska that Your Money Can Buy
Wednesday, November 12th, 2003 Posted in Music | No Comments »Tomorrow night I'm going to my last Five Iron Frenzy concert ever. It's the first of two shows in Minneapolis, on their farewell Winners Never Quit tour, which winds up in Denver on Nov. 22. For those of you who don't ...
The End is Near
Wednesday, December 18th, 2002 Posted in Music | No Comments »On Monday Five Iron Frenzy announced the end of an era. They're calling it quits. It's kind of sad when your favorite band from high school throws in the towel. But they've had a pretty long ride, especially considering that ...
