third eye blind -- classic or dud

when did Matt Damon join?

"I just joined a shitty alternapop band. Howdya like THEM apples?"

lol

I've always wanted to start a Third Eye Blind tribute band called Third Nostril Anosmic. maybe now's a good time?

with hit single "Misplacing a Whole 6 Months"?

song should really have been titled "Losing a Whole 3-½ Minutes" out of sympathy for its listeners.

f u

John Vanderslice with wisdom. The trick: it's not so much the song as a key member of the band.

That was a fun read.

yeah that was awesome. exactly how i picture jenkins lol

this is also one of the more insane-o fandoms i've ever semi-engaged with

lol

* cues "Never Let You Go" *

sometimes you're looking for any news of a new record and you see a bunch of fanboards where jenkins' lawyer is referred to by first name

The creative mind at work:

We took a car. The thing that Hwin was keen for me to understand about his life that week was that it wasn’t really his. For the past several days, he’d been doing a “life swap” with Stephan Jenkins, the lead singer of the alternative-rock band Third Eye Blind. Jenkins has a large and lovely house in Pacific Heights, but his charmed life in San Francisco’s old-money district wasn’t helping him write fresh and edgy music. So Hwin would occupy Jenkins’s Pac Heights studio for a while, and Jenkins would inhabit Hwin’s small, dormlike room in the Sub. (“It’s at the intersection of the gentrification on Valencia and the gritty, hard, dug-in city life,” Jenkins said. “People are walking around with knives.”) Hwin asked me whether I wanted to maybe head over there—it was a pretty sweet place, and Jenkins had hella guitars and shit—and I said sure...

“Look at the water!” Johnny Hwin said, squinting at the bay as we crested Pac Heights and drove west, toward the Presidio. It was the kind of day that kicks aside the quilt of summer fog, and every detail of a northern coast of the bay showed clearly in the late-afternoon light. We stopped in front of a white house set back slightly from the street. Hwin paid the Lyft fare on his phone, and we headed down an alley passage to a back patio. It was breezy, and it smelled of jasmine, and the movement of palm leaves overhead stippled everything with small feathers of shade. Hwin led me behind the house, where Stephan Jenkins had set up his music studio. Part of the idea of the life swap was that Jenkins and Hwin would share what they had written in each other’s homes. Jenkins had already drafted a song inspired by the Sub, Hwin told me, titled “Back to Zero.”

“Welcome to the spaceship!” he said as we entered. Hwin calls most rooms spaceships, but the term seemed apt here. Jenkins’s studio had the air of a man cave that had been subjected to a decorator’s polish. Its walls were covered in a dark-brown acoustic fabric, with cheery, stylishly contrasting green curtains. In the middle of the room was a gigantic mixing board, with a computer at its center.

We surveyed Jenkins’s large cache of guitars. “Stephan was just like, ‘Yeah, man—I have the best fucking setup, bro,’ ” Hwin told me, running his fingers up the neck of an electric model. “It’s like, Dude, you do! You do!” He twanged the guitar’s open strings. “Literally, there’s a room dedicated to miking these bad boys.” He twanged again.

They deserve each other, really.

'his charmed life'

<3

http://crystalballr.tumblr.com/post/21411426337/how-i-met-stephan-jenkins

"I put my hand out and said something shy and foolish like “hi, I just wanted to meet you” and he shook my hand. then I said “I didn’t think I’d get to honestly so I don’t have a marker or anything but could you just maybe initial my ticket with this tube of mascara I found on the ground?” to which he replied with “I did not hear a word you just said” and his friends snickered.

My face basically burned up and I said “can you just initial my ticket please” and he’s like “um haha okay I’ve never done this before”
His friends started to make faces and were like “whaaat…” to each other
Then, Stephan just went into this like, rap frenzy and started saying vulgar and crude things like “14 year old wet pussy” and people fingering underage girls."

absolutely unsurprised that stephan jenkins "raps," unprompted, in the middle of any situation

and then there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BG_HwQbES0

what is with this dude? i find him oddly compelling. and how has his band not escaped the County Fair circuit

feel sad that that poor girl had to meet him in person to find out he was a douchebag :/

yeah that is the worst :\

best song on earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdTnN_qrfeM

Hadn't event listened to that album til today. Pretty good!

the first album is their masterpiece but albums 2 and 3 are underrated too

i pretty much like every song on album 4 at this point too

especially this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKJnk7YOY1g

lol rebuttal by close friends (??) of Stephan to that post the fan posted about meeting him: http://vvitchyandbitchy.tumblr.com/post/21421731888/how-i-met-stephan-jenkins

apparently his misogynist uncomfortable rapping was intended as SATIRE, guys!

Album 4 very good! What have I been doing neglecting their last two albums all these years...

They are playing here w dashboard confessional in a couple months, it's on.

hi Brad

hi alfred

They are playing here w dashboard confessional in a couple months, it's on.

yeah tbh this is my dream show, i need to grab tickets

I heard "Graduate" at CVS four nights ago.

prob a perfect cvs song tbh

considering the line in which I stood for aluminum foil and cigs I deserved "Jumper."

can you get your punk ass out the cvs

ew dashboard tho, do you have to bring your own GHB or is it easy enough to find there

Ha. Dashboard will be fine, hoping they play the full band stuff and not the solo acoustic stuff tho.

a mark a mission etc. is a greaaat record

Brad I invite u to my thread thread of dashboard confessional lyrics and pictures of chris carrabba

finally a thread for me

oh wait and then there's this, which i think is the actual best third eye blind song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd5Xjh3caMs

yeah thats good. Ive been listening to the last two albums and think they are both better then than the second album.

no wait that's wrong though

idk i'm pretty alone in liking blue the most though

i thought that was a big cult favorite though

maybe. not like they're leagues above but just for me at the mo I'm into them more.

alright gonna get familiar w blue again.