Marathonpacks is me, Eric Harvey.  When I’m not blogging, I’m a PhD candidate at Indiana University, in the department of Communication and Culture.  My dissertation focuses on the ways in which new technologies have impacted music circulation and value; I’ll be researching and writing it for the next few years.  During 2010-11, I’m a Mellon Graduate Fellow for IU’s Sawyer Seminar, titled “Rupture and Flow.”  Expect a lot of what you see here to pertain to that sort of thing. Recently, I’ve written a chapter for the volume Managing Media Work (Sage). If you’d like an academic CV, holler.

I’m also a contributing editor at Pitchfork, where I write reviews and articles.

For beer money I’ve written for Rolling Stone, Spin, the Atlantic, the Village Voice, the Onion A.V. Club, the Arizona Republic, and SF Weekly. I kept a South by Southwest diary for North Carolina’s Indyweek, and scrawled some stuff for the dearly departed Stylus and Idolator.

From 2000-2002, I shot and edited quite a few documentaries for the Discovery Channel, TLC, and PBS, on everything from the Army’s sniper school, to UFO fanatics in Roswell, to demolition derby drivers in Wisconsin, to the best vineyards in the midwest, inter alia.  I never want to do that again.

If you’d like to see some examples of what I do here, check out the archives.  If you’d like to see who else I like to read online, dig the blogroll.

If you’d like to get hold of me for any reason, hit me up at marathonpacks at g mail dot com.  I have an annoyingly hyperactive Twitter account here, a Tumblr here, and if you dig, I’m on Facebook too.