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4. We casually hung out with him at a show last year, and he was nice, funny, and down to Earth.
This despite quite reasonably expecting yours truly, the music editor of a snarky local alt-weekly, to be kind of an asshole. Jenkins brought up some mean things SF Weekly had said about him in the past, and asked about them. When we told him, honestly, that we were probably headbanging in a high school rock band at the time -- not talking shit in print -- he shrugged, and we went on to talking about other things.
5. He's right about the Occupy movement.
Corny as it may sound -- and yeah, "If There Ever Was a Time" is pretty glossy and upbeat as far as protest songs go -- it's hard not to agree with the sentiment in the song. And its forthrightness of expression is straight-up brave: We love that Jenkins' calls out News Corp., and that his lyrics are all simple, sincere, and reasonable. There's no hyperbole or sloganeering -- just a straightforward call for people to pay attention and do something about the collusion of money and power. In an era of overheated rhetoric and ubiquitous snark, we can't help but appreciate a guy who does that.
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