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Okay, so I needed that. Much as I hate to admit that needed something to go right, the way Sunday and Monday kicked me around left me feeling that the next big thing on my plate needed to go well. Fortunately, it was something that was within my control: this afternoon's sit-down with Candlebox. I spent a half hour sitting with the band's singer and guitarist at the rooftop pool of their hotel, and it went really well. They made it easy.

I thought I might end up feeling nervous or fanboyish due to the fact that these guys were one of my favorite bands in high school, and maybe I was, but I think I got away with it. Near the end of the interview Kevin Martin told me how a fan at a recent concert insisted on getting his money back because he was convinced that the band had changed singers, which caused me to totally lose it laughing, but other than that I mostly held it together. After the interview I stopped at a restaurant on the Strip, and while I was eating Candlebox's "Far Behind" video began playing on the television sets in the restaurant, as the song belted out over the sound system. That's about as surreal as you can get. Wasn't I just sitting at a table with those guys twenty minutes earlier? Hey, I don't know how these things happen, but I like it when they do.