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Arts Morning Roundup: The Problem With TV Remakes…
Is that they all suck, apparently. Morning, y’all! Re TV: You got Chris Klimek and Glen Weldon gracefully dropping huge turds on the new Prisoner, and here’s Bill O’Reilly meh-meh-mehing about how the script writers for the alien invasion show V are taking “potshots” at the Obama Administration. Incidentally, Klimek and Weldon are criticizing a not-very-good apolitical remake of a very good political show, while nutters from all over are railing for and against the supposedly political and very good remake of an apolitical and very bad show. How complicated is that? There’s no pleasing these motherfuckers. All I know is that I would love it if my friends would stop accusing me of being a birther every time I mention V.
Further evidence that Tobias Wolff is the only author in existence who doesn’t sound put upon when interviewed for the millionth time , a great piece on Edward P. Jones, the Bad Sex in Fiction Awards, and more, after the jump.
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Sampling the thought streams of D.C. musicians past and present.
-A man has our elevator filled to the brim w/plants. Its like a 2 acre jungle crammed into a cubicle. he’s complaining the door won’t shut.
-i think i just discovered the malkovich floor of my building? what exactly is going on the 3rd floor? :-)
-Mother fucker, I’m trying to watch the lost boys!!
Wale:
-dear ucb..i will go to breakfast w/ yall but i am NOT goin to eat a Dinosaur sized pancake at “The Griddle”
-everybody askin what kinda shoes im wearin…haa
-09 airmaxes http://pic.gd/38d0d6
-is listening to some old songs he wrote and thinking that they are not that good.
-The Whitespace 7″ should in stores soon, but it’s available now here: http://www.dischord.com/release/ws01/whitspace
-My bookbag smells like it’s been eatin chicken behind my back…literally
-Somebody somewhere has candy paint…on their house though.
-I think I’m just gonna say “Jordan!” after I have sex or something from now on.
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-For those that don’t read credit I wrote”Gently” on Usher’s last album most of my other stuff has been in the HIp hop World UGK ,Game & ect
-so bilal oliver just arrived to my studio in NJ to lay his parts for the last song that needs to be completed on my album!
-to everybody asking me what kinda coat I had on yesterday it’s a Rocksmith joint, that joint is so alias that I didn’t even know lol
-Just had to have that “you’ve-really-been-inconviencing-me-since-you’ve-been-in-town-as-much-as-I-love-you” talk with my mom had to do it
-Sooo…people are leaving demo’s under my windshield wiper. I dunno why.
-IDEA! I should do a short film where cartons of milk are like black peoples kryptonite or sumthn. Like bamas run from the cartons like noooo
-So…how do we eat ice cream? Do we have to take a lactaid pill everytime or something? Cuz I haven’t had ice cream in 10yrs either!
-involuntarily tears up at “Amazing Grace” by Aretha Franklin and “New Grass” by Talk Talk and can’t listen to them at work.
-slow grocery stores. A DC institution.
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-My fathers advice to me before I head out to Cali in the morn = “talk alot” Thanks dad, where would I be without you. LOL
-Got alot done so far & now I’m about to take a nap and dream about my pop life in 2010.
-DMV popping so hard these next two weeks, hu homecoming, Monday night football, bp3 tour and Halloween get sleep now
-Chris samuels set to retire due to his recent neck injury? Damn
-at inner year last night til 1am knocking out flute overdubs and my mouth feels just fine! we begin MIXING THIS WEEK…it’s about damn time
Beauty Pill (Chad Clark)
-Doctor says BP can tour next Spring if I keep with the same regimen. Death 0, Chad 1. Hoping to defer the rematch.
CMJ Notebook: Casper Bangs, Shots of District Acts, Kiwi Rock
Tabi Bonney performs at Fat Baby last night in New York City.
The thing about CMJ is, not all of it’s CMJ. There are the unoffocial day parties—free, sometimes invite-only events sponsored by record labels, PR firms, and media. There are the more exclusive parties at night. And there are the shows that, although not nominally part of the five-day conference and music festival, go on anyway, right in the middle of it all.
Take Casper Bangs‘ show last night at Pianos, which was sponsored by the weekly concert series Cross-Polination and was not part of the official CMJ roster. Nevertheless, the band—the project of Rob Pierangeli, who used to play in the Hard Tomorrows—played to a nearly full room.
Pierangeli paid $45 when he applied to play at this year’s CMJ, but his band was turned down. “Sorry to be frank, but I don’t see if the music has that much to do with who gets in,” he told me today. “So if you want to play, you have to know someone. Everyone knows that though. That’s not new information.”
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For District Artists, Mixed and Measured Expectations for CMJ
Middle Distance Runner performs at the CMJ Music Marathon in 2008.
Every CMJ has its success story—the unknown act who, thanks to buzz and grit and talent and luck , tickles the right trigger of the wayfaring label rep or taste-maker who, for whatever reason, has decided to see it. But most of the thousand-plus little-known bands and artists who descend on New York City each fall for the College Music Journal Music Marathon don’t walk away with freshly inked contracts or top-tier management. Their game is more incremental: A write-up here, a handshake there. So whether they’re dampening expectations or they mean it, it’s probably unsurprising that most of the D.C. bands performing during this year’s CMJ say their primary goal is just to “have fun.”
“These things are kind of a madhouse, and there’s a lot of talk of ‘there’s gonna be a lot of industry people,’” says Matt Dowling, whose band Deleted Scenes has two CMJ gigs and a meeting with a marketing firm. ”I don’t mean to be a cynic, but we’ve been playing for long enough and pined over certain goals to realize that the bottom line is to have fun. If the industry happens to like it, then great.”
John Thornley, of U.S. Royalty, is equally cautious: “I don’t think we’re going to go there and get a record, and I mean, it may happen. The goal is just to go there and play a show and get a lot of people.” But he also sees less tangible benefits. “If you meet a band at a party, and you like their music and they like yours, it’s that much more easy to work with them.”
At least a dozen bands and artists from the District will play gigs during this year’s CMJ, which starts tomorrow night and runs through Saturday, and includes about 75 different venues across New York City (there are also panel discussions and a film festival). Some acts already have recording contracts, others don’t, and all of them—once you get past their shared enthusiasm for merriment—have different goals.
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Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
-Sitting at a cafe, eating a sandwich & overhearing a very awkward first date at the table to my left. Guy working too hard, girl turned off.
-Mary Timony gives guitar lessons. That seems like something I invented in my head, but it’s true. Is there also a Vespa made of 2Amys pizza?
-File under: cool stuff that escaped my notice. Madlib’s apparently on some kind of Sun Ra trip. http://bit.ly/aMrSF & http://bit.ly/Oui50
-Things U.S. Royalty never do: USR never only uses the mens restroom.
-Things U.S. Royalty never does: USR never checks out of their hotel room on time.
-Just got some delicious white vinyl for the Casper Bangs 7″. It’s gorgeous. http://yfrog.com/0wgo8gj
-Loading gear out at 5 am is true rock stardom.
-If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn’t much to you in the first place.
-I forgot to mention that last quote was from Proverbs. I didn’t come up with it. Just sharing with you guys
-is honored to have the chance to collab with the laughing man and see the blk jks! see us all on the 29th
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Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
Tabi Bonney:
-Missy Elliot is/was great! How did I not list her in my top female rappers?She changed the whole game sonically & visually with Timbo & Hype
-I’m actually listening to my own music “dope” which I don’t do after I release it to the world.This joint is tight & I’m not even biased LOL
These United States:
-day off! sittin Oceanside in San Diego, listenin to Everest and The Parson Red Heads, two killer bands we’re rockin Los Angeles w tomorrow!
Wale:
-im happy .. but rewriting for the 848774943th time :)
-in the studio with pharrell…i wanna go live…but im not sure if this aircard can take ustream right now
Foul Swoops:
-grabbing all my can goods and headed for the hills. i am not gonna be a part of the race war taking place at the VMAs.
-who’s more in the wrong: me for trying to sell an unopened copy of Murmur to Cd Seller or CD Seller for not wanting it?
Craig Wedren
-The Making Of Pony Express Record in all it’s raw, mundane glory. http://bit.ly/34tGPe
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Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
–You know how I know I’m a professional rapper now? Cuz I just be randomly grabbing my nuts wherever I am: the dollar store, church, pool etc
–I think that the ppl who named “nutella” were either high or extreme comedians. Ain’t no way I will ever try that.
–Don’t look away girl just cuz I’m driving my fathers insulation van. LOL
–finally looked at pitchfork’s top 500 songs of the 2000’s. not a single song from my top two albums this decade. what a bummer.
–too bad the black crowes ruined “hard to handle” because otis really kills on the original.
–Beauty book, Hotel De Dream: falling drops of vertebrae=gorgeous neck, cut-glass veil=only kidding yrslf, everyone else knows.
–HUNG ep 8 realgood, my score n cover of Queen’s Play The Game been waiting to do that since Camp Modin 1982
–Manson all riled up. Won’t stop trying to tattoo a swastika on to my forehead. Gotta convince him to do the Rolling Stones lips instead…
–Oasis – the “Family Feud” of Beatles cover bands.
–“Funny People” – kind of the lime flavor in the Judd Apatow Life Saver roll.
Tabi Bonney x Lil Jon
Yeaaaahh. Last night DC’s own emcee laureate Tabi Bonney hit the studio with the King Of Crunk himself, Lil Jon. Jon’s spastic party sound doesn’t exactly seem like the best fit for Bonney’s slicker approach, but surely the duo came up with something dope. At the very least it produced the hilarious picture above (alongside “Dat Baby Don’t Look Like Me” architect Shawty Putt and an unidentified fourth party) .
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