Author Archive: Chad Thomas Johnston
Chad Thomas Johnston is an aspiring author, sonuva’ preacha’ man, PhD-dropout, singer/songwriter, daydreaming doodler, cinemaddict, & pop-culture obsessive. He is represented by Seattle, WA-based literary agent Jenée Arthur, who is currently shopping his manuscript, The Stained Glass Kaleidoscope: Essays at Play in the Churchyard of the Mind, to major publishing houses. Chad is happily married to Rebekah Christine, and lives in Lawrence, KS with his wife and five cats. Chad and Rebekah look forward to welcoming Baby Evie into the fracas of their frantic fold in October 2011.
Visit Chad at his subterranean, subcutaneous Interweb lair:
http://chadthomasjohnston.com/
Music Retrospective Review | Let’s Active’s ‘Cypress’
Musicians say clearance bins are where records go to die, but I disagree. There are some records in clearance bins that have never really lived – at least not in the headspace of the record-buying public. Eleven years ago, I happened upon an antiquated analog album – a cassette, of all dead media formats – [...]
Music Review | ‘Obscurities’ by Stephin Merritt
Stephin Merritt has a way of clinging to my brainstem as though it’s a vine in a jungle, and he’s a monkey bent on boosting all of the bananas in my brain. Since I am completely and totally bananas – my wife will freely attest to my apelike nature – my brain is a place where Merritt [...]
Music Review | Sam Phillips’s ‘Solid State’
The most common ailment amongst music critics is fifth Beatle syndrome. Sure, there were people like Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe, who were actually the fifth and sixth members of the Beatles, historically speaking. But this is not what I mean. No, music critics have long made a party pastime of pinning the fifth-member tail [...]
Music Review | ‘Newermind: A Tribute Album’
Whoever said there’s no such thing as a free lunch has obviously never supped at the Internet’s free MP3 dinner table. You see, the same MP3 revolution that dried up the music industry’s revenue stream – toppling corporate Goliaths, leveling the playing field, and making it possible for independent artists to become slingshot-swinging Davids – [...]
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