WFMU

I quite fancy this radio station and would like to share their likes with you.  The chef’s recommendations this evening come from the “Most Recent Archives,” a veritable buffet of choice musical meat for your commercial-free enjoyment. http://wfmu.org/ Freshness abounds.

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TBD: How To Hate The Kindle

Well, Bezos, if you’re listening—and I know you are—listen to this: No. Not no thanks. No. No Kindle. No glorified etch-a-sketch. No fake book that smells like what I can only assume is not a book. No safe harbor for trees doomed to become the novels I buy and read half of. I will chop down that tree, pulp it up, print words upon it, bring it to St. Marks Books, pay for it with my credit card and then read half of it all by myself if I have to!

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A Short Thought

      I just got back from two and a half weeks on the road with Hermit Thrushes. We went to Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, etc.  The best part about traveling is seeing great music communities and meeting interesting, thoughtful people from all over the place.  There were moments when I’d [...]

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Events: Story Slam Philadelphia

PBQ’s First Ever Story Slam When: Tue, April 14, 7:30pm – 10:00pm Where: Bubble House, 3404 Sansom Street, Philadelphia (map) Description: Painted Bride Quarterly hosts its first ever anti-poetry month Story Slam on Tuesday, April 14, 7:30 p.m. at Bubble House 3404 Sansom Street. Our story slam is an interactive improv writing experience: Think “Whose line is it [...]

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Slumdog

I taught a course in advertising history last summer and we spent a lot of time discussing the way “the culture industries” try to train us to see the world. In the 20s, for example, when PR and advertising were new professions, when mass production demanded mass consumption, advertisers tended to celebrate modernity: what’s new [...]

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We’re Twittering

Come follow us… http://twitter.com/PaintedBrideQ

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All Wyn Cooper Wants to Do

I went in to my friend Alex’s Almira Studio last night to record a new song I wrote while I was in Houston.  I don’t write a whole lot of songs, but when I do I find it’s a lot of fun and very satisfying. Houston is a very bayou-y, bluesy town, and the new [...]

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Is India the answer?

This is quite a stretch, but since the heaviness of global warming birthed its own little counterculture I’m finding an inundation of all things Indian—as in India. As in back to the hippiesque Hindu spiritualism of art, music, writing and living. I’m not talking about that corny new age spiritual crap that we used to [...]

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Running Late so Why Not Read?

Anyhoo—I have a huge number of things that have to get written, mostly for editors who offer me far more affection than I deserve considering my general tardiness with assignments—so of course I spend the day immersed in two books that 1) I’m not slated to review and 2) are not related to my dissertation.  [...]

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In the News: Sweet Mary Jane

I’m always shocked: my neighbors are in their 60’s; they have jobs and kids and know who to call for a plumbing job; but all roads point to the fact that they also enjoy dancing with sweet Mary Jane.

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