September 2010
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“Right now artist management seems to be the way to be involved in music & be...”
– Alec Hanley Bemis, “Some quick thoughts on the death of the record as object”
Bemis may be right, but for how long?
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Lower Dens (Jana Hunter) Daytrotter session →
I love how the blue-lit guitars creep like night predators and Hunter hides behind long shadows . We could all use a little more mystery.
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Bowie songs
Stuart Berman’s terrific Station to Station review on Pitchfork today reminded me to remind you, tumblr followers, of something. If you like Bowie and like to read interesting things about his music, you should be following Pushing Ahead of the Dame. Chris (of Locust St. fame; also, my friend and colleague) is going through Bowie’s career one song—and a kaleidoscope of...
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Pew Research religion quiz
They’ve posted an online version.
I got 14 out of 15 right, or a score of 93%. (I missed the one on prayer in school.) That puts me—not religious in a church-going sense, but raised mainline Protestant (Congregationalist) with which I still identify—way ahead of your average evangelical. As a group, atheists/agnostics made the best showing on this survey.
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“In an age when the Dalai Lama himself has a Twitter feed, is there really any...”
– Heather Havrilesky on three (count ‘em, three!) recent books on some chick who calls herself Lady Gaga (???).
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This morning on NPR
In the spirit of contributing to class conversations circulating on tumblr…
Morning Edition was reporting on recent data about the wider-than-ever gap between rich and poor in the U.S. The economist being interviewed (sorry, can’t remember who he was—prob some D.C. think-tanker) commented that this growing gap is a sign that capitalism is getting more efficient.
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Fun!
A Marnie Stern diss cheat sheet.
Not a diplomatic bone in her body. I like this girl!
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Female Music Critics Transcend Fan Culture →
theoreticalgirl:desnoise:(via Anwyn Crawford)
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, MOTHERFUCKERS
Ha. It’s probably too early in the morning for me to be thinking about these issues. But one thing that strikes me about the Female Problem pieces is that they talk a lot about the importance of women music writers mentoring other women. True, I’m only a part-timer in this and make my actual living...
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“Much of the history of the city—its built forms and its politics, the urban...”
– Warren Breckman, A matter of optics
Pretty sure I took this seminar in grad school. Still, a nice humanist-historical survey of the subject with Le Corbusier, Jane Jacobs, Thoreau, Baudelaire (but only tossed off refs to Jacob Riis, Mike Davis, David Harvey, etc).
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Honesty and cruelty
desnoise:
Honesty and Cruelty by the Numbers: Pitchfork and the Art of Tastemaking < PopMatters
Ugh. No comment on the rest of this essay, but I wrote the review mentioned above, and I gotta say, this sort of reaction from a band (or at least, its “industry” connects?) just bums me out. Not because I hurt their feelings: It’s called music criticism, and none of us takes...
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The New Yorker: Which Words Drive You Crazy? →
newyorker:
The two biggest off the top of my head:
1. surreal, when used to describe anything other than a 20th century art movement and
2. quirky, which I shouldn’t have to explain.
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Light autumn reading
Boo to “how to” and “self improvement,” but there’s zero chance I won’t buy this. (Unless I win a signed copy, of course.)
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“It’s not clear what caused this rift. Reached by the Voice and shown...”
– Thanks to the Voice for this bucket of LOLs!
I can’t decide if my favorite part is “editorial direction” or “interesting to say the least” or the fact that a story that belongs in the Onion found it’s way to the Voice’s site (though I can’t fault Rob...
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I know I shouldn't be surprised to hear Tuneyards...
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“When we admit cats and animals into our world, and we think of them like...”
– Great Salon interview with anthrozoologist Hal Herzog, author of Some we love, some we hate, some we eat on (you guessed it!) human and animal relationships. I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about these issues—from my hypocritical eating habits (I eat birds, but not mammals) to my...
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“All you need to do is ask one basic question – the one you should always be...”
– Christian Thorne on Thomas Hobbes, George W. Bush, fast zombies and 28 Days Later
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