EMP Pop Conference 2007: Ready for more?

whoa. I've finally caught up (one hour link following, reading)

--> http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/ April 21 posting by Steven Shaviro on the Wu-Tang panel and his presentation
This was awesome and OTM. I don't think it could be described any better. I've tried discussing similar thoughts with my Wu-Tang friends but I'm not sure they think about the characteristics of the members this much. (Except for U-God--he seems so out of place in Wu-Tang ("Black Shampoo") and we're always trying to nail down exactly why.) But this was muy refrescando!. I want to read the other Wu-Tang related presentations--please?

scottpl's response to Amy Talk/Pitchfork "is THE PIT" is interesting too and unfortunatley seems accurate. I've never had a conversation with anyone on the intricacies of the Stax horn section or the relevance of mall-punk today and perhaps that's a good thing: 1. Is it really that important to talk about? 2. I'm probably not smart enough to carry a conversation on such matters. Nonetheless while I'm always looking for interesting and well written incite on even the lamest elements of music/culture(?) the discussion of ideas where it still occurs (ILM?, Stylus features, Pitchfork) seems like a dying art. And yes!, the "longform review" being percieved as pretension/snarkiness seems so commonplace among some of my friends and ILM (maybe?) that it must be really frustrating for people who really want to give even a little bit of a shit about all these aspects of popular music/culture.

Anyway, I'd like to see this thing one year. Congrats to the presenters.

"Black Shampoo" is awesome and totally Wu-Tang! It's not a far step from there to some of Masta Killa and Ghost's stuff at all.

Best part is when Meth is like "Fuck these hoes" and U-God is all like "Naw, naw chillllllllllll......." (I may be imagining this, I haven't listened to "Forever" in quite a spell)

I've never had a conversation with anyone on the intricacies of the Stax horn section or the relevance of mall-punk today

I'd love to have these convos. Start threads on them!

Simon Reynolds made my week when he called me lovely on the interweb.

On the localism discussion...

http://www.zoilus.com/documents/in_depth/2007/001032.php

I missed so much. Including Wayne Marshall's presentation...

http://wayneandwax.com/?p=128

I met him at Matos's, but then missed him DJing at... a gambling speakeasy????

http://wayneandwax.com/?p=130

"I met up with Filastine at about 1am on Saturday night, post-Matos’s-post-conference party, and he took me to an all-night underground speakeasy type of thing, complete with cabaret and craps tables. It was something else. Lots of kids dressed to the nines, pretending it was the 20s, wading through warehouse puddles in their finery. The proprietors asked me to DJ, and lucky enough I still had my laptop with me."

Holy fuck!

I mean seriously, that's ten papers right there.

so if anyone wants to read my paper, just e-mail me. i've got a final version all sorted out. i think. if i send it to you don't put it on the internet or anything, cuz i'm gonna give it to someone to print. i mean, i don't know why you would...
anyway, in case anyone is interested. i'm still gonna write up some late thoughts on the whole thing for my blog, but haven't finished, um, reflecting. hey, i'm a slowpoke, sue me.

Pete, I seem to have missed you. You did that great article on the Minneapolis reggaeton scene, correct?