Things Apart from your music collection That Render You a Consumate Geek About Your Fandom

i seem to have lost thae stupid enthusiasms that used to result in a good time.

it reflects more my general music geekery than artist-specific fandom, but how about making mix CDs exclusively of cover versions of favorite songs, e.g. '17 versions of "Pretty Polly"' or 'Caravan to Tunisia: 8 versions of "Caravan" and 4 versions of "A Night in Tunisia"'

I don't know if they put their pants on one leg at a time, though. Some of my heroes don't wear pants or have their pants put on for them.

You crazy Americans!

The most geeked out thing I do is keep all concert ticket stubs in the CD case of the album the band happened to be touring. Perhaps even geekier, I fret about what I'll do with said stubs once CDs go the way of the 8-track.

Guilty as charged:
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As for myself, I'm not sure what would render me as such. I'm not terribly obsessive.

And...yeah, that's about it.

Also great: the bits about The Godz, Tangerine Dream, his horrible neighbor, and The Guess Who's "American Woman."

-when a new friend shows me his guitar, and offers it to me to play a showoff lick, i instead try to pick out the melody to whatever song is in my head at the moment. after a few tries, i get it, and then hand the guitar back, saying something like, "that's been in my head all day." often it's a radio commercial jingle or something ridiculous like that.

-i keep my exes organized in my head by what i was listening to at the time, because their reactions of disgust or fascination are so vivid; because i know when i was into various bands, i can then extrapolate the time periods when i was with them

-when "high fidelity" came out, everyone i knew made fun of me in various ways related to it

-i've had sex in musty basement stacks of huge record stores, and it's quite a turn-on

-i am not really interested in the world news and the political scene of southeast asia, and suspect this is because i don't much like the music of that area and think gamelan is horribly overrated

-if i'm driving through a big city in the middle of a road trip, i'll make new presets on the radio even if i'm only in town for an hour's worth of traffic, because i end up scanning the dial compulsively the whole time as i try to analyze the city's musical vibes

That must get tougher over time, as more and more radio stations become Clear Channel-ized.

it used to annoy me when i'd see a really good show at a bar that didn't have any paper tickets and i therefore wouldn't have a stub to take home. in recent years, though, i've learned to accept this.

Ha ha! Life is HARD, I know...

I've seen Radiohead 40 times in 23 cities around the world in the past 4 years. And...yeah, that's about it.

Good enough for me. I'm almost embarassed to admit I flew down to L.A. once just to see them in 2001. But hell, Bush's tax cut gave me the money to do it. All the more embarassing/perverse, I guess...

starting (but never finishing) a screenplay for an animated full-length set entirely to the swans - great annihilator (many disembowlments, skull crushings and goth sex scenes were planned but never realized, unfortunately)

I am definitely sad this didn't pan out. I'm convinced there's a whole world of art/film just lurking beneath the surface of Swans waiting to be birthed.

And me? The geekiest thing? Well, I have two large boxes of alphabetized index cards upon which I wrote every single band/song I had taped off the radio from '85-'88 or so, one card for each artist's songs. The card would tell me what tape I could find the song on and I had each tape's sequence of songs written down in a separate notebook.
Of course this was college radio, before Clear Channel, when there was a better chance of the existence of God.

oh, God, yes. Ask any Brown and they will go on at length. also...the email address, the Built to Spill tattoo, the Fall setlist on my wall next to the Mission of Burma setlist, etc. I'm too indie to live, much less have a happy relationship

simple as that. as a dad of 2 time demanding kids i really should grow up. but the search for the new as well as remembering the old keeps me bashing away on the keyboard.

I record nearly every show I go to (in the last 5 years.)

I have made silkscreens to make ONE t-shirt (each) of Pere Ubu and Lou Reed.