thinking, lamenting, etc,
you should do so here:
http://pedagogyofthehopeless.blogspot.com

Do stop by.

I will be home (as in true home, rather than grad school home -- as in SoFl) August 7-15, on account of a ticket bestowed by a special somebody like manna (or marzipan ( Read more... )

O, the best kind of music writing: politically situated, poetically focused, and totally right-on:

Jane Dark's Sugarhigh takes on that turn between the 80s and 90s, that turn within hip-hop from resistance to commodity (not that it was all that neat), speaking straight to that part of my nine-year old brain that always confuses Digital ( Read more... )

tell me everything you know about malt liquor energy bevs.

Continuing in this new tradition of posts on film:

Okay, Rock School. I've been very sincerely thinking about formulating a class on gender and post-60's (roughly) pop/rock, its relation to consumption, notions of virtuosity, the interchange of the 'underground' with the 'mainstream' re: next-big-thing-ism, etc. etc. etc. (I promise, in time, all ( Read more... )

to one T.A. for the best gaddamn new-teste-revisionist-kinked-out-acoustic-jam EVA.

Webster's is soon to be amended:

bowagic (BO-waj-ick): An amalgam of bogus, wack, and magic. purposefully ambivalent, meaning-wise. meant to amend the already-existing pantheon of ambiguous adjectives, i.e. good, bad, wicked, badass, nasty, gnarly, silly, crazy, etc. etc. ad nauseaum.

That phone call last night was totes bowagic ( Read more... )

In a back issue of Hit It or Quit It, in an article authored by Julianne Sheperd, there is an interview question asked one Carrie B., who you might know from this band that basically saved my life in high schoolThe question goes as such ( Read more... )

I get so, so sad when, on top of yelping out to the whole world about her drug 'situation,' the AP has got to go and pair the report with the least flattering photo ever.

Courtney, I love you.

1. Reply with your name and I will write something random about you ( Read more... )