Not posting because I have a dog in this race, but more to marvel at how calm and borderline debonair Gene Siskel is as he lays into John Ritter (Larry Sanders Show, Season 2). Who knew Siskel was such a stone-faced assassin? Don’t worry about the intricacies of the “dog” stuff after the jump, either; [...]
From a Harper’s Magazine, early/mid ’70s, that I found in my office the other day. Anyone else never hear of these? (EDIT: OH GOOD SWEET LORD THEY ARE IN THE 80S TOO)
I’m going to keep posting these examples as they arise. Hope that’s okay (they’ll be under this tag). For those times we all have that make us go “these kids/these days.” Here, we have Bartók, in the midst of the Modernist revolution:
To be frank, recently I have felt so stupid, so dazed, so empty-headed that [...]
The two biggies have recently sent out their CFPs. One (EMP) is much more tailored to my interests than the other (IASPM), which means I’ve got a better chance at going to LA than Cincinnati. So. If you’re interested, though: EMP is much easier to get into (I’m told) than IASPM, which typically wants academics [...]
Managing Media Work is out, via Sage. My chapter, titled “Same as the Old Boss? Changes, Continuities, and Careers in the Digital Music Era,” is the twenty-first chapter. It’s really nothing like the dissertation proposal, but more of an overview of how the hell an American music career works right now. Amazingly, it’s still current, [...]
There’s Wendy Fonarow, whose Guardian column on indie rituals is as good as her book on same. This latest bit, on “why say ‘check 1-2′ during soundchecks, is particularly awesome:
This isn’t a matter of creativity. Saying “testing, one two” or “check, one two” is formulaic and serves the same function as other formulaic [...]
Re: that last mega-post, there are plenty of people doing similar sorts of work out there. If you don’t read Tom, and you were at all interested in what I wrote in that earlier post, start! Tom’s point here, about pop music, is anthropologically valid! It’s also called “capitalism.”
Put crudely, you succeed in pop music [...]
In blog years, I’ve been away for long enough to put out a reunion album. If only I had more to show for it.
Not that I haven’t been “being productive.” The opposite, actually. It’s just that said productivity hasn’t manifested itself publicly. Yet. Along with taking trips out of town for various reasons (the Pitchfork [...]
Michelangelo Matos interviews Rob Sheffield over at eMusic’s blog, and it’s long. It’s also compelling and funny and just plain great. This bit made me tear up a bit. Sheffield has a knack for doing that. I’ll be back tomorrow, with something much less wonderful than this:
A lot of listening to music is memory, and [...]