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April 15, 2006
EMPhasis: The Musical Landscape Through Which We Walk, Somewhat Dazed
Anyone else going to the EMP Pop Conference, on April 27-30? I won't be presenting this year, though I did consider turning something in, something about The Frogs and concealed homosexuality and the mirrored gaze and Foucault and Protestant mores and Sen. Robt. LaFollette and some child development psych stuff, and of course the MSG of modern discourse, Irony. Then I decided I just wanted to relax and hear some great panels. Track me down and say howdy!
April 11, 2006
Woot Woot!
The blog for the 33 1/3 book series on Continuum offered up an informal contest a few months back: predict what the chart ratings will be in late March for the books about Neutral Milk Hotel and the Band. (By "chart" they're referring to Continuum's own internal ranking of book sales in the series, not a public "best-seller" list or anything.) Well, I won! And holy crap - check out exactly what I won...
April 01, 2006
Do the Polymath
Thought I'd repost this announcement: Franklin Bruno is the main ingredient in Nothing Painted Blue, the pianoman of the Mountain Goats, a poet, a critic, a philosopher, and a friend. Joshua Clover (aka Jane Dark) is one of my favorite pop culture critics ever as well as one of the smartest and wittiest people you could ever have the pleasure to meet. -- J. The Danny's Reading Series ~ Wednesday, April 5th ~ 7:30 p.m. SHARP! Poetry by Joshua Clover and Franklin Bruno Joshua Clover's newest book, The Totality for Kids, is newly published by University of California Press. His last book, a monograph on The Matrix and political economy, was published by the British Film Insititute. He writes for the New York Times, teaches at University of California - Davis, and maintains the blog Jane Dark's Sugarhigh! at www.janedark.com. He likes Miranda Lambert, Red Vines, and E-40. Franklin Bruno is the author of Armed Forces, in Continuum Press' 33 1/3 series, and MF/MA, a chapbook of poems from Seeing Eye Press. His poetry has appeared in The Hat, Faucheuse, The New Review of Literature, and the anthology Intersections: Innovative Poetry From Southern California (Green Integer). His criticism has appeared in Village Voice, The Believer, and Da Capo's Best Music Writing series. Since 1990, he has recorded and performed as one-third of Nothing Painted Blue and under his own name; he has also contributed to projects by Jenny Toomey and The Mountain Goats. He is currently a visiting professor of philosophy at Northwestern University. He stopped blogging a few months ago to force himself to work on something less ephemeral, but that hasn't been working out so well. Danny's Tavern is located at 1951 W. Dickens (near the intersection of Armitage and Damen). 21 and over/please bring ID.
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