January 2012
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“When I was a young piano student I got so caught up in the seriousness of...”
– Eve Barlow’s The Problem With Music Critics is the most salient piece of music writing that you missed in 2011.
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December 2011
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Vol. 1 Brooklyn presents: The Greatest 3-Minute... →
perpetua:
I will be participating in this event tonight at Brooklyn Based in Greenpoint along with luminaries such as Maura Johnston, Norman Brannon, Jessica Suarez, Daphne Carr and Mark Yarm! Please come out if you can.
I’m going on early, so I have plenty of time to ruin anyone’s Internet perceptions of me!
Also, while I’m still working on the actual substance, I decided...
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The Death of a Music Writer: A 20-Year Exit...
This essay is longer than most, but it was important for me to write.
I. 1991–1993
Three weeks ago I handed in my final music column for Towleroad. In the weeks before that, I contacted anyone who still paid me to write about music and told them I wasn’t accepting any more work. As of today, I have one more invoice to file — for about $800 — and as soon as that check is cut and cashed,...
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“Imagine you’re in a band, and when you played shows, people were...”
– I could listen to Ian MacKaye all day, forever.
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November 2011
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My Mortifying Month →
I’m blogging this as a link because I’m not sure I’ve ever read a (thoughtful) essay about this topic before. The overarching thesis, then, being:
Somehow, amazingly, I had written 1200 words for a magazine, and the only thing I’d managed to clearly convey was the exact thing I didn’t believe, and was making a point of not saying.
What makes this especially interesting to me...
October 2011
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“Today, one vision of how America works is that it’s an even game, that anybody...”
– Elizabeth Warren, from a new profile in Vanity Fair well worth reading.
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“We all know the classic scene from cartoons: the cat reaches a precipice, but it...”
– Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street: Where critical theory meets real life.
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JD Samson, Rawkblog, and the 99 Percent.
rawkblog:
This JD Samson HuffPo piece:
“I’m really surprised I haven’t made very much money by being a modestly popular underground rock musician! Rent is expensive in Brooklyn! I’m being financially persecuted because I’m queer, an undoubtedly true fact but one I will present no evidence in this column to prove or generate sympathy about! Um, Occupy Wall...
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“We don’t believe in a small America. We don’t believe in the kind of smallness...”
– Barack Obama: He still gives good speech.
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September 2011
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“What had hitherto maintained this practice of torture was not an economy of...”
– Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish. In memory of Troy Davis.
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August 2011
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WatchHurricane Songs #1: “Northern Aggression”
It’s almost midnight now and I’ve been alone in my apartment all day since Hurricane Irene began her threat. The hysteria had me convinced there would be a power outage, and I prepared: The battery in my computer is fully charged, a flashlight and candles sit nearby, and my acoustic guitar was designated to be in-darkness...
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Noah Kalina: 50 tumblrs I follow and maybe you... →
It’s always nice to be included on a list. Especially when the list-maker is a talented photographer, fellow Brooklynite, and person whose Tumblr you should probably follow as well.
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