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And he wrote another review of their performance. Like, is this bad? Did I write him a bad email?įOO: You're, like, obsessing, right? Like, you are overanalyzing things?įOO: Then Marc traveled to South By Southwest to see Third Eye Blind play. HAWTHORNE: When I'd send an email to Stephan Jenkins and I didn't get a reply in a week, I would be talking to my girlfriend, I would be talking to other friends of mine, just like, look at what the email said. And he started to take their relationship a little too seriously. He'd write positive articles about Third Eye Blind as often as he could for the Onion. But it felt - it actually felt real.įOO: Marc started trying really hard to impress Stephan. HAWTHORNE: You know, like, I knew that we weren't best friends. He invited him to his place to hang out and invited him to a couple of parties. Like, this is really happening.įOO: Jenkins kept an email contact with Marc. HAWTHORNE: The whole time I was just like, oh, my God, I can't believe I'm, like, hanging out with Stephan Jenkins. And they got along so well, Stephan Jenkins invited Marc to come over to his house and listen to the record he was working on. HAWTHORNE: The thing that was so amazing just right off the bat is that he was expressing, like, how much he loved the Onion, and he would stop every once in a while and apologize to me for not being funny enough.įOO: They talked for two hours. I was very nervous.įOO: But the interview went well - super well. HAWTHORNE: He drove up on his motorcycle, which was pretty perfect because, you know, they have the song "Motorcycle Driveby." I mean, not to get too crazy about it, but there was something sort of, like, magical when, like, he, like, pulls off his helmet, and it's, like, him. And he set up an interview with Stephan Jenkins. JENNIFER PAIGE: (Singing) It's just some little thing, not like everything I do depends on you.įOO: And he could only dream of a bromance between him and Stephan Jenkins until he got a job as the editor of the entertainment section of the San Francisco Onion. HAWTHORNE: Yeah, I may have, like, started building up a fanboy crush or whatever on this guy. I love this song, and I'm just going to be OK with that.įOO: He bought all their albums, went to all their shows to see their lead singer, Stephan Jenkins, in action. But I heard this song, and I was like, OK, fine. I knew it was, like, this big popular band.
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HAWTHORNE: "Semi-Charmed Life," and I felt like I was probably too cool for Third Eye Blind. Do-do-do, do-do-do-doo, do-do-do.įOO: It was around 1997 that Marc Hawthorne first heard it. (SOUNDBITE OF THIRD EYE BLIND SONG, "SEMI-CHARMED LIFE") My name is Glynn Washington, and have you ever had a song that you just cannot, cannot get out of your head? Well, this week you can blame SNAP JUDGMENT's Stephanie Foo. Welcome back to the SNAP JUDGMENT, from PRX and NPR, the "Unrequited" episode.