EMP Pop Conference 2007: Ready for more?

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Hi ILM,

The schedule for this year's conference is up for your perusal. Lots of folks from here will be going. Enjoy!

http://www.emplive.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26

Best,

Eric

― Eric Weisbard, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

I have lots of vacation days to use up by June, which makes me think I should maybe go to this.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

As well you should.

Live link

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Looks like huge amounts of fun, wish I could be there -- maybe next year. I recommend Cedars in the U District for good Indian food.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

I will be attending as a spectator and popcorn muncher. I hope to see some of y'all there.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh!

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Don't worry, you will.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

My first time in Seattle too! Fun!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

i am not going. i hope someone will fall down drunk in the punch bowl for me.

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 February 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

this year looks fucking KILLER.

i anticipate lots of trying to bounce around from panel to panel, with zany mishaps ensuing of course, and much thai food consumed, and more vivace coffee drunk, and i'd say i can't wait but i still have a lot to do on my own presentation first...

― Mike McGooney-gal, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

See, Mike, I anticipate the same way as you, but without having to worry about a presentation (a good/bad thing but probably good in the end!).

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Not ANOTHER one!!

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

Here, I will be.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

damn...

i'll try

― kraemlin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 08:04 (eighteen years ago)

Randall Roberts, “The Birth of the Snark: Creem Magazine’s “Rock & Roll News” section, 1971-1976.”

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

That one and many others look good. I'd love to hear the Ned Sublette New Orleans one. But alas, I don't think I can make it out there.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

i live out there.

― kraemlin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

Well then.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

hi Ned Raggett.

and thank you.

:RYAN:

― kraemlin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

yeah registerrred.

― kraemlin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

Flights are surprisingly inexpensive. I must decide this week

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I WOULD HAVE BEERZ WITH ALL THIS ILXORS

― scott seward, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

You're bringing the whole family I trust.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I tried to, but Mom and Dad are fixing their bathroom.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

i should send my mom in my place

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

JUST MARIA D

― scott seward, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Roxor!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

i never go anywhere...it will be an experiment in terror...

― scott seward, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

oh, also, i wanted to know who else would be there. besides ned. not that ned isn't enough. oh he is.

― scott seward, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'll be there!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

I, as stated upthread, will stoop to letting you unworthy peons befoul my graceful presence.

― The Reverend, Monday, 26 March 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'll be the judge of that!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 March 2007 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

Bah! I've already felt your taint.

― The Reverend, Monday, 26 March 2007 06:38 (eighteen years ago)

(On second thought, that sounds very wrong.)

― The Reverend, Monday, 26 March 2007 06:39 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

this is coming up and i am STILL looking forward to it. which is just plain weird cuz i rarely look forward to things and i HATE to travel. this is also the first time ever that maria and i have both been away from the kids. so that will be weird. i have no idea what to expect. i have also never spoken in public before.

and, hey, i will get to meet geeta, right!? duuuuuude!

― scott seward, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Should we start a Seattle FAP thread?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Heeeeeey.

― Eppy, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

This IS the Seattle FAP thread, Alfred.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome. This is the time when I let everyone know that it's my first time in Seattle. I'll need...orientation.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Is that your phrase.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

I'll still be in Seattle for this! I'm taking Thursday and Friday off. Yes! We live down by the airport - anybody needing a ride into town - get in touch, we might be able to help out.

― Jaq, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

I arrive Thursday and leave Monday morning. Good times.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'll be coming up on Thursday with Mike M. and crew, and also leaving on Monday morning or so -- there should definitely be a final Sunday night send-off or something, though trust me, you will be VERY tired by the end of the conference itself.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

we are going to seattle kinda early cuz we are gonna hang out a bit with maria's brother who lives nearby. he runs a children's health clinic in seattle.

― scott seward, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot - I asked for Monday off too, as a recuperation day :) Last year was too fun.

― Jaq, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Wise, that! It's part of the reason I'm taking the extra time on either end in Portland, makes more of a vacation out of it!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

We all know there's only really one reason to be there:

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/3742/nedhotfv2.png

― The Reverend, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

lol

― strongohulkington, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

If only I were that stunning.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

My long plane flight will have to do. I may bring Henry James' Princess Cassimassima to help with sleep.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 172 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

i. thx to eric and everyone for organising everything and inviting me
ii. thx to excellent panel xx devon, randall and michael
iii. x0x to everyone i hung with x0x
iv. apols to ppl i didn't get to talk to so much :(
v. RAMBLING!!¡? heavens i kill u now ;-)
vi. standard of papers pretty high comp.other conferecnes i've been at
vii. UR ALL GHEY

― mark s, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

So did Pitchfork assign anyone to cover the conference?

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

dave marsh

― mark s, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

I remain extremely envious of those who are able to go to EMP.

Cosign that. Also, I remain extremely envious of those who can concentrate on one thing for more than about five minutes at a time.

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

i feel like i missed spring break

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

a very fat and pasty spring break

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

"I had to stay ~~in the dorm~~home, I had ~~a paper~~to go to work and take the kids to soccer and baseball practice."

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

I remain extremely envious of those who can concentrate on one thing for more than about five minutes at a time.

YES

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

De-lurkifying to say thanks (and to Matos, too; all that was missing from yr house was a keymaster in a chicken costume). Also: if anybody wants to write something, uh, analytical about Karen Dalton, I'm happy to share contacts and transcripts.

My favorite moment was Mike yoink-quoting celestial ice cream trucks -- and I did the Patti Smith interview at P4k; the credit's since been changed.

― Mairead, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

I wish the EMP pop conference would come over to my house for beers tonight after Lost.

― Maria :D, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

OK, and who's going to be the one next years whose presentation is called "Use of music as clue-dropper and plot-mover in the hit TV series Lost"?

― Maria :D, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

year

― Maria :D, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

lame request -- if anyone's using del.icio.us and bookmarking this year's emp papers, can you tag them "emp2007"? i want to read whatever's online, since i didn't attend this year. thanks!

― theoreticalgirl, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

In some prior years The NY Times covered the event, but alas I've seen very little coverage of it in newspapers or online in blogs. Maybe those who were there will eventually post about it.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm with theoreticalgirl, any directions to papers posted online would warrant a hug from da hoos.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

/uncreepy

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

haha the seattle weekly wrote it up

they hate me

― mark s, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yea, only Seattle coverage. As no big name indie-rockers did presentations you don't get "first and fast" website coverage, and old-school media likely no longer wants to pay to send writers to hear other writers talk (as the NY Times did in the past) and figure their mainstream readers do not care. Oh well. I want to read a bunch of papers and especially want to hear more about Ned Sublette's presentation on New Orleans--all I heard about was his criticism of the current administration.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

They are New Times bozos, Mark.

― Nicole, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

ok well yeah, i'm not entirely sure why i'm supposed to be apologising for quoting other writers and commenting on them in a panel on music-writing but i guess the fact she totally missed the point of my paper IS somewhat my fault -- the biggest larf i got on the day was when i sed i'd asked a key question on ilx once and response was "the usual bafflement"

note to self: work out what talking about AND CLEARLY TELL PPL WHAT IT IS WHEN YOU DISCOVER IT

― mark s, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

was it maria:D who sed thst ann powers had the gift of larfing at her own jokes on VH1? i am of course too fastidious for such crowd-pleasing shtick bah

― mark s, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

My notes on Ned Sublette's:

As with bumper sticker: “If you aren’t completely appalled, then you haven’t been paying attention.” “If losing an American city…the canary in the coalmine of climate change, as well as [social inequity], under an ultra-reactionary government, doesn’t radicalize you and get you off your ass, what does it take?” Stripping away drums (=culture=history) capital of slavery and of sex slavery. "On Sabbath evening the African slaves meet on the green by the swamp and rock the city with their Congo dances." --letter written in New Orleans. 1819 Roy Brown “Good Rockin Tonight.” LA 18th state in 1812. Previously isolated; then a hub of communications. NOLA wanted to be a French town but the French didn’t want it. 3 colonizations: French, Spanish, Anglo-American (colony of Virginia pre-statehood). 3 languages, 3 slave regimes, 3 black populations. Spanish=”Congo period.” Increasingly cosmopolitan African population in NOLA. French project by Canadians. Thomas Jefferson, one of the great villains of American history, if you look at it from a black perspective. HAITIAN REVOLUTION. Earl Palmer (NOLA rock drummer) stowed away on a fruit barge to Havana (the music! The music!) 1962 embargo of Cuba was also an embargo of NOLA & destroyed the cities’ link. NOLA is the point of intersection between Cuban importation and US slave-raising. Black experience in NOLA: 1. French, 2. Spanish (re-Africanization). NOLA ruled by Cuba. Large population of free people of color. Slaves could attend dances, own property and businesses (and other slaves), and buy freedom guaranteed (only in Cuba and NOLA). First mention of tango: the beat of reggaeton, of the second line, etc. 3. American, 4. ultra-reactionary ex-plantation owners (10K French-speaking refugees fleeing Cuba after fleeing what would be Haiti) 1/3 each, [white, free people of color (mostly female), and slaves] allowed to keep their slaves by act of Congress (because the slave trade was prohibited January 1, 1808). SC brought in 40K Africans for resale, undercutting the VA & MD markets, hence the 1808 prohibition. Clandestine privateering business (Laffittes) importing slaves illegally from ships bound for Cuba.

Note that my 1-4 list was enumerating what Sublette said was five stages so obvs I missed one.

― Nick Minichino, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Nick coming through again! (And please send me those notes, sir.)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

was it maria:D who sed thst ann powers had the gift of larfing at her own jokes on VH1?

i think simon said that

― Maria :D, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

Nick, thanks much for those Ned Sublette notes.

― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 April 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

i dig this person's take on things:

http://musicology.typepad.com/dialm/2007/04/nerdcore.html

― scott seward, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

SR's take on the conference. To meet your daily requirement of meta, he quotes liberally from this thread. he says nice things about my thing too, which is nice, but i'm posting this cuz i think it's a good wrap-up:

http://blissout.blogspot.com/

i'm tempted to dust off my blog and write something about the whole thing as well. i'm afraid my blog won't recognize me though.

― scott seward, Saturday, 28 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

I think Ulver's sales might have doubled from your presentation alone.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 April 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

ha! we can only hope.

― scott seward, Saturday, 28 April 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

wow, so i go to sign in to my blog and apparently google owns my blog now! who knew? i thought i paid attention to these things. it really HAS been a while.

― scott seward, Saturday, 28 April 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

I saw this via google:

http://invisibleoranges.com/2007/04/emp-pop-conference-2007.html

Invisible Oranges blog April 23rd posting. The guy also posts metal mp3s

I've been to wonderful places - most recently, the EMP Pop Conference in Seattle. What a strange experience. A convention of rock critics, an abundance of dudes with glasses, a celebration of unbelievable music geekdom.

I met great people, though, and took in some interesting presentations. One of my favorite talks was by Decibel's Scott Seward, who delivered a powerful, poignant meditation on folk metal. He and his wife make mixtapes together - unbearably cute.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

That's Cosmo Lee's blog! he is a very groovy dude. It was great to meet him. It's funny, cuz i really don't read blogs that much, but i HAVE enjoyed his in the past. it's great. So, it was nice to tell the one person whose blog I read that I enjoy it!

― scott seward, Saturday, 28 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Here's Ali Marcus' mix of criticism and praise on his blog re EMP:

http://alimarcus.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/emp-pop-conference-16-end-bits/

April 23, 2007
EMP Pop Conference #16 - End Bits

One thing that I continually find entertaning is the feedback loop at the conference, presenters quoting writers to help support their point, and those writers are literally sitting in the audience listening to their own words spoken back to them. This kind of validation (or cancellation?) is a kind of black hole, a weird moment in time when the reasoning behind an argument starts to sound circular. For some reason the fact that the original writer is in the room listening sort of serves to render the intellectual capacity of the argument null and void. Like anything that is circular, you have to wonder whether it’s useful to end up where you started. Of course it can be. And of course it can’t be.

Also.

There seemed to be an exceptional amount of political commentaries built into the arguments I saw. The theme of the conference, “Waking Up From History,” propelled many writers to arrive at the concusion that we should actually wake up TO history, to learn from history, and to draw conclusions between the cultural sphere that our work covers and the political sphere of which we are citizens.

Some examples:

-Robert Bennett on the Jazz Diplomacy program and the things we should learn from it.
-Scott Nelson’s timely mention of “abortive gun policies” in the paper about John Henry’s exhumation - I’m not sure how he managed to reference the VA. Tech shootings in that conversation but at the time it made perfect sense.
-Brendan Greaves’ talk of Terry Allen’s border politics and the ways in which the Texas/Mexico border is treated by the government versus the inhabitants.
-There was also an entire panel about New Orleans, as well as a smattering of other related papers throughout the weekend, all of which contained a fervent expression of the power of music and solidarity and the essential character of the city.

In general, as there seems to be in more and more things these days, there was a real sense of urgency that was more palpable than in previous conferences. It may have been the effect of the theme, but in general people’s research was very much rooted in the grim realities of life and music’s ability to help maintain and even create hope where all seems quite hopeless.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

That's Cosmo Lee's blog!

Ah cool -- he was with Donut B. and I and others for the Earth show.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 April 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

oh, and Cosmo named his blog after the famous Decibel Magazine invisible oranges story. okay, it's not really famous, but it was awfully funny...

― scott seward, Saturday, 28 April 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

Ali marcus has a bunch of postings about the conference:

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excerpt from: April 23, 2007
EMP Pop Conference #8 - John Henry

In a different panel later in the day, Scott Nelson walked us through the process by which he tracked down the sequence of events in the real John Henry’s life to city records and signed contracts to buried bones in the Virginia clay. Literally de-mythologizing the hero of the song, Nelson brilliantly unveiled a mystery, revealing a narrative that is just as much a part of American history as the legend.

It turns out, John Henry was a prisioner at the Virginia Penitentiary. Along with hundreds of other convicts, he was leased out to the railroad companies to build the tunnels, work that men would not volunteer for due to the incredibly high risk of death (Nelson says that in 1866 the highest export from the state of California was Chinese bones, the dead men who came to America to work in the tunnels). Anyways, Nelson found records of a steam-engine drill at Lewis Tunnel, across the WV border but near the Big Bend Tunnel of the “John Henry” ballad. He found contracts that fined the railroads In a different panel later in the day, Scott Nelson walked us through the process by which he tracked down the sequence of events in the real John Henry’s life to city records and signed contracts to buried bones in the Virginia clay. Literally de-mythologizing the hero of the song, Nelson brilliantly unveiled a mystery, revealing a narrative that is just as much a part of American history as the legend.

It turns out, John Henry was a prisioner at the Virginia Penitentiary. Along with hundreds of other convicts, he was leased out to the railroad companies to build the tunnels, work that men would not volunteer for due to the incredibly high risk of death (Nelson says that in 1866 the highest export from the state of California was Chinese bones, the dead men who came to America to work in the tunnels). Anyways, Nelson found records of a steam-engine drill at Lewis Tunnel, across the WV border but near the Big Bend Tunnel of the “John Henry” ballad. He found contracts that fined the railroads $100 for every man not returned to the Penitentiary, which explains the hundred of skeletons found buried in mass graves, Henry’s presumably among them.00 for every man not returned to the Penitentiary, which explains the hundred of skeletons found buried in mass graves, Henry’s presumably among them.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://alimarcus.wordpress.com/2007/04/page/2/

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

Simon's blog post did an excellent job of articulating my queasiness after that last panel.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 28 April 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://wishiwerethere.typepad.com/pgwp/

More blogging about Amy Phillips comments

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

See the April 26th posting

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

photos on flcker

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

whoa. I've finally caught up (one hour link following, reading)

--> http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/ April 21 posting by Steven Shaviro on the Wu-Tang panel and his presentation
This was awesome and OTM. I don't think it could be described any better. I've tried discussing similar thoughts with my Wu-Tang friends but I'm not sure they think about the characteristics of the members this much. (Except for U-God--he seems so out of place in Wu-Tang ("Black Shampoo") and we're always trying to nail down exactly why.) But this was muy refrescando!. I want to read the other Wu-Tang related presentations--please?

scottpl's response to Amy Talk/Pitchfork "is THE PIT" is interesting too and unfortunatley seems accurate. I've never had a conversation with anyone on the intricacies of the Stax horn section or the relevance of mall-punk today and perhaps that's a good thing: 1. Is it really that important to talk about? 2. I'm probably not smart enough to carry a conversation on such matters. Nonetheless while I'm always looking for interesting and well written incite on even the lamest elements of music/culture(?) the discussion of ideas where it still occurs (ILM?, Stylus features, Pitchfork) seems like a dying art. And yes!, the "longform review" being percieved as pretension/snarkiness seems so commonplace among some of my friends and ILM (maybe?) that it must be really frustrating for people who really want to give even a little bit of a shit about all these aspects of popular music/culture.

Anyway, I'd like to see this thing one year. Congrats to the presenters.

― earinfections, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:47 (eighteen years ago)

"Black Shampoo" is awesome and totally Wu-Tang! It's not a far step from there to some of Masta Killa and Ghost's stuff at all.

Best part is when Meth is like "Fuck these hoes" and U-God is all like "Naw, naw chillllllllllll......." (I may be imagining this, I haven't listened to "Forever" in quite a spell)

I've never had a conversation with anyone on the intricacies of the Stax horn section or the relevance of mall-punk today

I'd love to have these convos. Start threads on them!

― The Reverend, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:04 (eighteen years ago)

Simon Reynolds made my week when he called me lovely on the interweb.

― Maria :D, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

On the localism discussion...

http://www.zoilus.com/documents/in_depth/2007/001032.php

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I missed so much. Including Wayne Marshall's presentation...

http://wayneandwax.com/?p=128

I met him at Matos's, but then missed him DJing at... a gambling speakeasy????

http://wayneandwax.com/?p=130

"I met up with Filastine at about 1am on Saturday night, post-Matos’s-post-conference party, and he took me to an all-night underground speakeasy type of thing, complete with cabaret and craps tables. It was something else. Lots of kids dressed to the nines, pretending it was the 20s, wading through warehouse puddles in their finery. The proprietors asked me to DJ, and lucky enough I still had my laptop with me."

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

Holy fuck!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

I mean seriously, that's ten papers right there.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

so if anyone wants to read my paper, just e-mail me. i've got a final version all sorted out. i think. if i send it to you don't put it on the internet or anything, cuz i'm gonna give it to someone to print. i mean, i don't know why you would...
anyway, in case anyone is interested. i'm still gonna write up some late thoughts on the whole thing for my blog, but haven't finished, um, reflecting. hey, i'm a slowpoke, sue me.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

Pete, I seem to have missed you. You did that great article on the Minneapolis reggaeton scene, correct?

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

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