October 2010
4 posts
Ryan Schreiber, Outside the Pitchfork #Offline...
I get to the #Offline Festival, Pitchfork’s CMJ-weekend festival that was announced last week, a few minutes before Angelica, who is meeting me there. It is at a venue in Brooklyn called Brooklyn Bowl that is both a live music venue and a bowling alley. I go up to the box office window and give the guy behind the window the name of my friend who told me that he’s on the press list, but he...
Went to a Literary Gala, Interviewed Rolling Stone...
…Mike waits until Tom Wolfe is finished talking to the woman he’s talking to and then Mike introduces himself, asks Tom Wolfe some questions, and then finishes his questions and introduces me to Tom Wolfe. I ask him if he listens to any pop music.
Tom Wolfe says that right now he is quite fond of this song called You Are The Only Exception and I guess I make a quizzical face to indicate...
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews Read Out Loud in a...
No new long post today, but two weeks ago I was in Whole Foods and I got a Google Alerts e-mail and it was a link to pitchforkreviewsreviews.blogspot.com. I emailed my mom to see if it was actually what it said it was, this blog read out loud in a German accent, and she said it was real and that the boy reading it “reads beautifully.” I thought you might get a kick out of it! I did.
Chillwave as an Economic Phenomenon
I was coming up out of the subway on the way to work today, listening to the Baths record, and I ran into a girl named Natalie who I went to school with, and I took my headphones off and we spoke for a minute and I asked her about some people from college that we both know, but she knows them better and has kept in contact with them and I’ve fallen out of contact with them. Most of her answers...