reverse projection
<3
if i had all of the answers / and you had the body you wanted / would we love with a legendary fire?
when they love you and they will
(and they will!)
i’ll tell them all they’ll love in my shadow
and if they try to slow you down,
tell them all
to go to hell
going away to spain, gonna start tomorrow, etc.
Leave it to Lou to make a photo of me washing the dishes in my gym clothes look REALLY COOL . . haha. He posted a bunch of rad photos from Saturday on his blog.
Fiona Apple - Oh Well
Just going to keep listening to this on repeat to rationalize the plane ticket to Barcelona I bought super-last-minute yesterday. I didn’t think it was actually going to work out but hey cool I’m going to Primavera. #Yolo
“We need friends, not fans / We need guitars, not rock stars / We need more than just loud drunk white straight male punk bands.” — Evan Greer explains a lot of what is fucked about the music world in one lyric #folkpunkforever
echoesephemera.tumblr.com
I’ve always been really bad with naming things and creating consistency with my various radio/blogging/writing/show-booking/etc, but I am growing to really like the name/concept of Echoes/Ephemera so I think I am just going to go for it. It’s my radio show and now it’s a column in the Phoenix and a Tumblr. Maybe I will make a zine eventually too? Who knows! Follow along if you want.
Also I think this is a good time to explain the name a little bit. “Ephemeral” has always been one of my favorite words. At some point during sophomore year of college I heard the song “I Thought I Saw Your Face Today” by She & Him and wrote the lyric “I somehow see what’s beautiful / In things that are ephemeral” on a piece of paper and stuck it above my desk. (I took that post-it with me to my various desks in various homes over the next 3ish years.) It was a transient time in my life so it seemed fitting. (I soon learned that if you live in Boston, Massachusetts, every period of time is a “transient time” … it’s one of the polarizing elements of living here.) I thought about calling my show “TRANSITOIRE” for a while which is the French word for “transient” as a way to take the concept of “transience” and make it sound prettier. I don’t speak French though so it seemed funny/weird. Then in one of my classes on American Folklore that I took at BU for my American Studies minor, we started learning about ephemera and I became sort of obsessed with that and how home-recordings and super lo-fi music (and folk music in general) could be seen as a form of ephemera. When I was trying to name my show for WZBC last year I knew I wanted to have it focus on that idea, and I also really liked the name “The Echo Canyon” (the name of Sonic Youth’s recording studio), I actually did a couple shows under that name while I was trying to figure out a name for the show. I said to Jenn one day on GMail chat “I don’t know what to name my radio show but I know i want it to have something to do with like echoes/ephemera/etc” and she was like “why don’t you just call it that” and i was like “oh cool idea yeah that works”.
“maybe it would really ruin me, maybe i’d feel really shitty about it, but at least it would come out”
thnx jenn
“For people like you and me that see the DIY cultural work as a form of political or proto-political organizing, maximum geographic reach is a crucial step towards maximum impact. It’s just so crucially important, politically, that people have access to these ideas and sounds, not just in the cool cities, the blue states, the college towns.”
— Kevin Erickson of the All-ages Movement Project/Future of Music Coalition, re: the value of geographically diverse micro-scenes and fests like Total Bummer. More @ Thephoenix.com.
All kinds of stuff going on this weekend at Lorem Ipsum.
Thursday 5/17- the Sig Amet reading series returns feat. Greg Lawless & Tanya Larkin: http://on.fb.me/KYYSI8
Friday 5/18- a five-band caravan of traveling michiganders makes a stop at the bookstore on their way home from Total Bummer 3D on the Zen Tapes Traveling Sleepover Tour with Kowhi, Sad Souls, Dreampeter & Fthrsn: http://on.fb.me/IUkmzw
Saturday 5/19- the Papercut Zine Library celebrates it’s 9th birthday in human years, with the release of BayState Badass #2 (a lady-centric bike-zine taking the streets by storm) and live music: http://on.fb.me/KZacE6
plenty more events coming up in the next few weeks! stay tuned.
“WAIT A MINUTE. IT SAYS HERE WE NEED TO REDEFINE PATRIARCHY CATEGORICALLY TO ALLOW ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLICATIVE INTERSECTIONAL DOMINATION STRUCTURES FOCUSED AROUND (AND POSSIBLY FILTERED THROUGH) NODAL POINTS OF SUBJECTIVE PRIVILEGE, ALLOWING US TO UNDERSTAND AND HOPEFULLY INVERT MYRIAD HEIRARCHIES OF SYSTEMICALLY INSTITUTIONALIZED AND INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION.
Sounds lame.
I BELIEVE THAT’S A NODE OF ABLEISM.”
(via animalstalkinginallcaps)
