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dennis_obell

You Know My Name...

Apr 08, 2009 23:32

Hey LJ peeps:
Fulfilling a longtime request by bradamant, who made the inarguable point that it was a bad idea to maintain a LiveJournal under our mutual last name, I have reinvented my LJ identity. I am now dennis_obell.

Dennis O'Bell, for those who are curious, is a fictional character named in an obscure 1970 Beatles B-sideIt's a pseudonym I first adopted 18 years ( Read more... )

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thekatzman April 9 2009, 05:31:51 UTC

changing lj names is something i've been meaning to do myself. any new one sounds stupid, though. i guess the one i have is pretty stupid, too. but the devil you know...

ex_nicestem April 9 2009, 13:19:54 UTC

welcome dennis. you remind me a lot of this molanphy guy who used to post here. :)

misterpardonme April 9 2009, 14:46:13 UTC

nice to meet you mr. o'bell

have you watched that billy bob thornton interview yet? it's priceless.

That must be your hell dennis_obell April 9 2009, 21:35:48 UTC

I can't imagine what it must be like to represent an act that goes off the reservation like that. What a douche.

Re: That must be your hell misterpardonme April 9 2009, 22:25:13 UTC

yeah, i can just picture his publicist getting that sinking, sick feeling in his stomach as he heard the interview going on. i actually had to deal with BB himself at this event last october- he was the MC and we had to schedule and facilitate interviews with him at the venue. he was pretty composed then, thank god. none of this bullshit. i think one writer even asked him about angelina and he didn't lose it. but i mostly wasn't around for those interviews- i was out front (although i did meet him briefly in his dressing room afterwards).

ennnis April 10 2009, 05:06:32 UTC

I don't know how I feel about anonymous handles on LJ ... ;)

More seriously, isn't this still linked to your rock writing? If so, will that be anonymous too?

Not anymore dennis_obell April 10 2009, 12:44:15 UTC

About three years ago bradamant helped me set up a separate WordPress blog for the music writing, and we transferred four years' worth of music-related LJ posts over there to preserve them for posterity. (They're still here as well, obviously.)

I continued blogging about music there for a little while in the summer and fall of 2006, but then I got happily ensconced at Idolator, and it has served as my de facto music-writing home for the last two-plus years.

Of course, I might need to reactivate the WordPress blog soon, as I just found out yesterday that Idolator has had its entire freelancer budget cut, and my column there will terminate after April. :-(

Re: Not anymore famatandi April 10 2009, 16:43:36 UTC

oh no! i liked your column! :( poo. can we organize a mass write-in campaign to encourage them to keep your column?

Aw, shucks dennis_obell April 11 2009, 12:37:28 UTC

You're sweet. Sadly, a lobbying campaign wouldn't do much -- Maura, the editor, wants to keep me as badly as I want to stay. She literally can't pay a single person besides herself anymore. So I have to go.

Unless, of course, I'm willing to continue to column for free, which despite sounding like a fiscally imprudent move I am seriously considering. I mean, what the hell, I've been saying for years, "I'd write about the Billboard charts for free!" and now I could put my (lack of) money where my mouth is.

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