I Couldn't Throw It Out Blog

March 21, 2024

Melanie Songs: A Fan's Favorites

For our podcast tribute to Melanie, I loved listening again to her music -- finding old favorites and ones I missed until now.  For those of you with Apple Music, here's a playlist of essentials.   For everyone else, I've added note…

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March 21, 2024

Melanie and Maddy: Photos of a Friendship

In our podcast episode about singer/songwriter Melanie, photographer Maddy Miller describes some iconic photos that she took of Melanie and shares some of the gifts she received from Melanie during their lifelong friendship.  Here's where you c…

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March 20, 2024

It's Official! We're a Hidden Gem!

Sally and I are gazing with joy toward the Great White North because Amazon Music's podcast page in Canada has added I Couldn't Throw It Out as the first entry on their list of Hidden Gems.  How could South Park blame Canada for anything? …

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Feb. 8, 2024

Don't know Mojo Nixon? You need some fixin'!

When I heard that Mojo Nixon died today at 66 of a "cardiac event" after performing last night on the Outlaw Country Cruise, it took me a minute to believe it. This guy -- who invented a crazy style of wild, funny, out-of-control, totally disrespec…

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Dec. 5, 2023

America's Worst Swedish Death Cleaner

When Sally and I launched I Couldn't Throw It Out, we thought every episode would be about tossing the treasures I've saved for decades. Well… that didn't happen.  A year and a half into our podcast, and I've thrown out -- what? -- a few…

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Oct. 29, 2023

Very Honorable Mentions

The honor was all mine when two terrific podcasts -- Comedy History 101, and Conversations on Dance -- each invited me to join them on an episode about treasures I've saved and why I saved them. Both of these podcasts deserve a place on your favorit…

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Oct. 22, 2023

Tupac Shakur: The Best Music, Movies, TV, Podcasts, Websites, and Books

When Sally and I starting looking for information about Tupac Shakur, we were stunned by the amount we found. There's so much, we couldn't possibly get through it all. So we decided to compile a list of the best sources -- as a guide for anyone who…

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Aug. 21, 2023

Tom Gammill's Drawings: This is why I save stuff!

In the new episode of I Couldn't Throw It Out, you can hear how our pal Tom Gammill played a key role when I nearly wrecked the 1982 opening party for the movie Tootsie. However.... this isn't Tom's greatest claim to fame. Aside from his years as a…

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Aug. 7, 2023

1996 Flashback: My first They Might Be Giants interview

Flashback – November, 20 1996.  That's the date when They Might Be Giants' John Flansburgh joined me for one of the very first live-streaming interviews on the Internet.  These days, we take it for granted that we can talk in real-ti…

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July 28, 2023

Sinead O'Connor: Lesson Learned at the Berlin Wall

While thinking about Sinead O'Connor in recent days, I remembered this photo of her -- which I've kept for 33 years in one of the many photo albums I've collected for decades.  It's a reminder of a mistake I made -- and Sinead's appropriate res…

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