Gods eyes are closed just like yours
Califone, in a song off their new album
The weekend was great sooooo exciting being around alla these smart and sometimes successful music writers (FYI there are VERY few successful music writers) especially my friend RJ who was the best editor I ever had (years ago at the VOICE he edited their Rock and Roll Quarterly) and hes just the sweetest guy now I have another reason to go to L.A. soon (main one being my new new nephew!)
This week looks to be really interesting three groovy shows up ahead (Schneider TM, Polyphonic Spree, and the great NYC band VERSUS), and two dates planned thus far (one with the artist chick, another with the almost-repentant and still very friggin cute record store girl.)
I put off my taxes until um, tonight! Extension time
This conference really was amazing but it gave me an existential jolt. Like, oh man, what am I doing??? At my job all I do is write dumb little blurbs that I pretty much could have written when I was 15! So, I think Im gonna start working on a book about gospel called something like WALK AROUND HEAVEN ALL DAY: A Heathens Guide to Christian Music Current plan would be to do about 30 chapters, 2500-3500 words apiece, with the real meat of it being the golden age of black gospel (40s to 60s) and to focus on amazing artists like the Dixie Hummingbirds and Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mahalia and the Swan Silvertones and Soul Stirrers and Four Internes and The Caravans and the Staple Singers et al. and of course to pay special attention to gospels role in the civil rights movement which is huge but also to act as like a consumers guide because this is such a difficult music to jump into what is good? Theres very little info.
The book would give very much attention also to like roots stuff such as recorded sermons, sanctified blues, and turn of the century black choirs like the Fisk Singers as well as lots of fringe-y stuff like chapters on Christian rock that doesnt suck, steel and slide guitar gospel, all-brass gospel bands, hillbilly gospel, sacred harp singing and lined-out hymnody, the whole confluence between gospel and disco/ house music vocals, and something on visionary xtian pop -- Daniel Johnston and Jeff Mangum gotta sneak Low in there too even though as Mormons theyre pretty fringe-y even before you listen to em.
I guess I need to start pitching some of the articles to people or just go ahead and write some of em for YETI first, that way Ill get more of a move-on towards finishing the things I figure itll take two years but theres a lot of research in store plus I will have to READ THE BIBLE too King James version to really get what the hell these folks are singing about, which hasnt much concerned me before Maybe its more of a three year project. Ive already thought of a GREAT chapter title Stained Panties And Hoarse Metaphors: Why Gospel Is So Fucking Sexy (a take off of a chapter in Nick Tosches Country called Stained Panties and Coarse Metaphors.)
Califone, in a song off their new album
The weekend was great sooooo exciting being around alla these smart and sometimes successful music writers (FYI there are VERY few successful music writers) especially my friend RJ who was the best editor I ever had (years ago at the VOICE he edited their Rock and Roll Quarterly) and hes just the sweetest guy now I have another reason to go to L.A. soon (main one being my new new nephew!)
This week looks to be really interesting three groovy shows up ahead (Schneider TM, Polyphonic Spree, and the great NYC band VERSUS), and two dates planned thus far (one with the artist chick, another with the almost-repentant and still very friggin cute record store girl.)
I put off my taxes until um, tonight! Extension time
This conference really was amazing but it gave me an existential jolt. Like, oh man, what am I doing??? At my job all I do is write dumb little blurbs that I pretty much could have written when I was 15! So, I think Im gonna start working on a book about gospel called something like WALK AROUND HEAVEN ALL DAY: A Heathens Guide to Christian Music Current plan would be to do about 30 chapters, 2500-3500 words apiece, with the real meat of it being the golden age of black gospel (40s to 60s) and to focus on amazing artists like the Dixie Hummingbirds and Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mahalia and the Swan Silvertones and Soul Stirrers and Four Internes and The Caravans and the Staple Singers et al. and of course to pay special attention to gospels role in the civil rights movement which is huge but also to act as like a consumers guide because this is such a difficult music to jump into what is good? Theres very little info.
The book would give very much attention also to like roots stuff such as recorded sermons, sanctified blues, and turn of the century black choirs like the Fisk Singers as well as lots of fringe-y stuff like chapters on Christian rock that doesnt suck, steel and slide guitar gospel, all-brass gospel bands, hillbilly gospel, sacred harp singing and lined-out hymnody, the whole confluence between gospel and disco/ house music vocals, and something on visionary xtian pop -- Daniel Johnston and Jeff Mangum gotta sneak Low in there too even though as Mormons theyre pretty fringe-y even before you listen to em.
I guess I need to start pitching some of the articles to people or just go ahead and write some of em for YETI first, that way Ill get more of a move-on towards finishing the things I figure itll take two years but theres a lot of research in store plus I will have to READ THE BIBLE too King James version to really get what the hell these folks are singing about, which hasnt much concerned me before Maybe its more of a three year project. Ive already thought of a GREAT chapter title Stained Panties And Hoarse Metaphors: Why Gospel Is So Fucking Sexy (a take off of a chapter in Nick Tosches Country called Stained Panties and Coarse Metaphors.)
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melissa2:
you said stained panties........hehehehe
clara:
You're not a first time visitor, you're just used to seeing my face.
