EMP Pop Conference 2007: Ready for more?

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I'll still be in Seattle for this! I'm taking Thursday and Friday off. Yes! We live down by the airport - anybody needing a ride into town - get in touch, we might be able to help out.

― Jaq, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I arrive Thursday and leave Monday morning. Good times.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be coming up on Thursday with Mike M. and crew, and also leaving on Monday morning or so -- there should definitely be a final Sunday night send-off or something, though trust me, you will be VERY tired by the end of the conference itself.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

we are going to seattle kinda early cuz we are gonna hang out a bit with maria's brother who lives nearby. he runs a children's health clinic in seattle.

― scott seward, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot - I asked for Monday off too, as a recuperation day :) Last year was too fun.

― Jaq, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Wise, that! It's part of the reason I'm taking the extra time on either end in Portland, makes more of a vacation out of it!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

We all know there's only really one reason to be there:

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/3742/nedhotfv2.png

― The Reverend, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

lol

― strongohulkington, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

If only I were that stunning.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

My long plane flight will have to do. I may bring Henry James' Princess Cassimassima to help with sleep.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Looking forward to meeting Scott and Alfred. Woo hoo!

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

And Rodney's coming?

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Umm, yes I live in the vicinity, but who are you?

― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Rickey.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

We both like Stevie Wonder.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be more psyched about the conference once my piece is closer to being done!

I did hear of this benefit show Fri. evening for Seattle-based Ong Ong 'zine, which is published by two of the nicest/ knowledgablest local record store clerks:

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Ong Ong Help Help!: Friday, April 20 8:00 pm/ Gallery 1412 [1412 18th Ave E (18th Ave. and Union St.)] all ages/ $10 (but if you really really really can't do that much, we'll talk)

With: [Removed Illegal Link]/ [Removed Illegal Link]/ [Removed Illegal Link]/ The Slide Rule – personal video players (featuring Stefan Gruber, Davey
Oil, Tyler Gillies, and Todd Gillies)

― Mike McGooney-gal, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Ack on links. These are the people playing that thing OK.

Lucky Dragons -- http://www.hawksandsparrows.org/
Eats Tapes -- www.eatstapes.com
Powdered Wigs -- http://www.myspace.com/powderedwigs
The Slide Rule – personal video players (featuring Stefan Gruber, Davey
Oil, Tyler Gillies, and Todd Gillies)

― Mike McGooney-gal, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, alright, looking forward to meeting you, Rickey! Sorry if I came off a bit brusque.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link

You folks can't have such a good time that you do not remember the presentations and panels well enough to post here about them afterwards, for those of us who can not make it!

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 April 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Rodney, not a problem. I had no idea you were near here!

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, are you a Seattlite? I was under the impression you were traveling here.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm in Seattle. Capitol Hill.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 15 April 2007 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link

neato. thanks for mentioning the ong ong show mike. and i am lucy (zine editor/show booker/long time ilm skulker). one side note is that powdered wigs is david from extreme animals/paper rad. and another is that the space is very small. so if you dig it, i'd show up early. may your conference be most merry!

― Valerie, Sunday, 15 April 2007 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post: EMP -- bringing Seattlites together!

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Cool beans.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 15 April 2007 07:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Meanwhile, confirming that Earth is indeed playing an in-store at Easy Street at 7 pm on Saturday. Last panels end at 6 pm though maybe there's a reception after that, the schedule doesn't immediately say.

I've just looked through all the panels once again, meanwhile, and my head is spinning. I am literally going to have to hop from panel to panel during each block in order to catch even half of what seems of interest, and I've already had to chalk up several things I'll unavoidably miss.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess it hasn't been mentioned that it's free this year? Pretty cool.

― musically, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Earth's wikipedia page makes them sound not to my liking, but good enough for a get-together, I guess.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Anybody interested in some kind of karaoke get-together Saturday night? (Anybody want to acquire a banquet license so we don't have a repeat of last year's disaster?)

― Douglas, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

hey douglas -- this might be a bit out of the way, and it does get crowded, but the best karaoke bar i've ever been to anywhere is seattle's bush gardens -- went there like the first year i think with simon r. and sasha, maybe? i forget, but yeah that's my two cents.

http://search.cityguide.aol.com/seattle/bars/bush-garden-restaurant/v-111451889/print

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

There's going to be a party at my house on Saturday if anyone's interested in coming, btw. Details at the conference itself.

― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to fit some sightseeing into my schedule too.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I will see you all at my presentation--and Matos's house.

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

AT HIS HOUSE, AT HIS HOUSE. (I am all up for this party.)

I guess it hasn't been mentioned that it's free this year? Pretty cool.

Really? Nice.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

How big is Matos' house? Like this:

http://www.petersburgproperties.com/photos/waterfront_home.jpg

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I will definitely be there Saturday, and probably Thursday, too. I'm pretty sure Friday is out, but we'll see.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i almost never ever post here, but i talked with hisham mayet from the sublime frequencies label today, and they're gonna be having a discussion of their collections/travels/etc. at the henry art museum on thursday at 7. i'm pretty sure this conflicts with the lethem keynote, but i think i'm probably going to forgo it, and thought maybe others might be interested.

― mike powell, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 08:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm coming in this evening at about 5:30 Pacific, though I'm going to try and make a mad taxi dash from Airport-hotel-Safeco Field since the Twins are in town for a 7:00 pm game and I haven't seen a game in a non-Metrodome stadium in over ten years. Failing that, I'll probably go record shopping.

― nate p., Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Right now Mike M. and his crew (and me!) are planning to be there mid-afternoon tomorrow in time for the 5 pm reception, so we'll catch folks there...

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be there at noon; will probably attend the Lethem lecture.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

So far, I still get to leave this pit of despair tomorrow morning, arriving back in Seattle around noon. Looking forward to the reception and the rest of the weekend.

― Jaq, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah the thing at the henry is def. at the exact same time as the lethem lecture -- i'll def. be at the lethem thing instead.

more on the sub. freq. event here:
http://www.henryart.org/programs.htm#thisweeksspecial

― Mike McGooney-gal, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I'll be there for the 5 PM reception, then.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 19 April 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I just realized how arrogant my last post reads. See you there wherever I see you!

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Opening night great, reception wonderful, Lethem speech v. cool, q&a session afterwards...interesting. Especially the Kurt Cobain question.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned, for a person w/o a cell phone even, you are awfully quick with the technology :)

― Jaq, Friday, 20 April 2007 06:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I wanna know if the Cobain guy is going to ask that question at every panel. I thought it must be Richard Lee (Seattle's infamous "Kurt Cobain was murdered" guy), but apparently not.

― AKA Mr. Jaq, Friday, 20 April 2007 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I see: Jaq/Mr. Jaq with a "Q". Yes, I have seen you two around.

― The Reverend, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned, you were mad wrong for trying to blame the Cobain question on me!

― The Reverend, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I blame others for the suggestion first! (I am shameless.)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

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photos on flcker

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

― earinfections, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"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!

― The Reverend, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Maria :D, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

On the localism discussion...

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

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

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."

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy fuck!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

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