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saladfork: reverse projection <3

Tue, 29 May 2012 08:02:06 +0100

saladfork:

reverse projection

if i had all of the answers / and you had the body you wanted /...

Tue, 29 May 2012 07:16:30 +0100

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...

Tue, 29 May 2012 06:53:50 +0100

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.

Tue, 29 May 2012 05:39:03 +0100

going away to spain, gonna start tomorrow, etc.

Leave it to Lou to make a photo of me washing the dishes in my...

Tue, 29 May 2012 03:14:00 +0100

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

Sat, 26 May 2012 03:14:33 +0100

Fiona Apple - Oh Well

Just going to keep listening to this on repeat to rationalize...

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:05:44 +0100

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...

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:16:36 +0100

“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

Sun, 20 May 2012 19:36:00 +0100

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”.

HYFR

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:39:42 +0100

HYFR

“maybe it would really ruin me, maybe i’d feel...

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:22:00 +0100

“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..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:55:00 +0100

“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.

Photo

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:16:42 +0100

loremipsumbooks: All kinds of stuff going on this weekend at...

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:44:08 +0100

loremipsumbooks:

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...

Mon, 14 May 2012 05:36:01 +0100

“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)

Amy Rebecca Klein: When Do It Yourself Becomes Do It Together: The All Ages Movement Project

Sat, 12 May 2012 04:55:17 +0100

Amy Rebecca Klein: When Do It Yourself Becomes Do It Together: The All Ages Movement Project:

“The fear of subculture being co-opted, repackaged, and sold back to the masses as a watered down, inauthentic version of itself, has been realized several times—in the case of hip hop, originally an underground political and arts movement hijacked by commercial promoters and record executives and re-sold to the general public as mostly devoid of its political content, and then in the case of Riot Grrrl, a grassroots feminist rebellion by adolescent girls that was converted by the mainstream media into a fashion trend, and also, in the case of punk itself, which has been co-opted and commercialized and sold to us for so many years that most people argue it’s already dead. As In Every Town makes clear, however, punk—or at least, the spirit of punk is still very much alive—not in the form of individuals, but in the form of communities. In the form of organizations that foster the growth of authentic youth culture as a form of resistance to the dominant, commercial, whitewashed, masculine, and inauthentic cultural ideologies of our day … . . . . Some may fear that publicizing information that was previously available only through private relationships with others in “the scene” may contribute to the further weakening of underground culture. But the fact is that the Internet has changed everything about underground music, and about who can access it, and how. Whether we like it or not, ours is a new, open source culture, where sharing information doesn’t necessarily mean selling out.”

(via amyrebeccaklein)

"It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what is universally important about fests like Total Bummer, but my..."

Fri, 11 May 2012 20:57:44 +0100

“It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what is universally important about fests like Total Bummer, but my immediate reaction is that it’s exciting to see kids in a place like Orlando focusing on building their creative community rather than just moving to places like Brooklyn and LA. (Like most people in Boston do after four or five years.) … Because to move towards an underground culture that is more sustainable and less commercial in general, it’s important to build up authentic micro-scenes in geographically diverse locations.”

- From “Portraits from Total Bummer Fest, part one: contextualizing the coolest summer camp ever,” the first of seven articles I am writing for ThePhoenix.com re: Total Bummer Fest and related themes.

nalbs: best video I actually just shrieked with excitement...

Fri, 11 May 2012 05:59:01 +0100

nalbs:

best video

I actually just shrieked with excitement watching this video of Real Estate play “It’s Real” at a hotel on Long Island, to a crowd of bros who are like “whatever bro.” Best Video Ever. Thx Nathan Albert. See you Saturday LI xox

dontdiewonderingmusic: Oh FortunaThis band is pure gold....

Thu, 10 May 2012 20:50:00 +0100

dontdiewonderingmusic:

Oh Fortuna
This band is pure gold. Seriously, all their songs are good.
Oh Fortuna -St Bernadino’s Fire (mp3)

I saw this band at Total Bummer fest and it was one of the most spirited performances/crowds I’ve seen at a show in recent memory. Same goes for the show I saw by Michael Parallax, who is in Oh Fortuna too, and brothers with Oh Fortuna’s singer JT. (They also helped start/organize the festival.) There was something seriously spiritual and exciting about both sets, it’s really hard to pinpoint or put into words. I hope these people all come to Boston at some point this year and perform at Lorem Ipsum or Dreamhouse or something for all of my friendz here, everyone would be so psyched.

From Nylon TV? Grimes is a badass #whateverforever

Thu, 10 May 2012 20:38:09 +0100

From Nylon TV? Grimes is a badass #whateverforever