EMP Pop Conference 2011

i'm in this, which means i need to find some money somewhere. of course it's the first one not to be a $60 train ride from my city. still, v. excited.

So glad this is in my hometown now... looking forward to attending for the first time.

It will be such an amazing treat to have this locally. Also we need to persuade all the best food trucks to come to UCLA on that weekend or something.

Still think this whole thing should be webcast--it seriously would be my TV for a month. And I hear there are people with cameras in Los Angeles.

I'm already hoping to change the title, but here's the abstract of my paper:

http://www.empsfm.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26&ccID=127&xPopConfBioID=1466&year=2011

Oh so that's who you are! (I never wanted to flat out ask, y'see. Thought it would be rude.)

Hah, I wouldn't have minded, but then my username is pretty arcane/ridiculous...

Think this has more stuff than earlier schedule posted upthread (thee CLE contingent, for inst)
http://tinyurl.com/64r37ls

Will also selfishly say this is happening a couple of days before my fortieth birthday so I have half a mind to turn any Saturday night get-together into a pre-birthday bash.

okay, this is new. my biggest fan wasn't moderating before:

>> Hunting for Records
Venue: Royce Hall, UCLA
Moderated by: Greil Marcus
Featuring:
John Shaw, "Tune Thieving on the Popular Front"
David Grubbs, "'Remove the Records from Texas': Parsing Online Archives"
Scott Seward, "Ebay, Light Of My Life, Fire Of My Loins, My Sin, My Soul – The Confessions of a Record Dealer, The New Vinyl Renaissance, the Impossibility of Supplying the Demand for Old Led Zeppelin Records, and the Essential Human Need for Objects"

damn, better rite something good now.

A bigger fan than us?!

The preface to Marooned says it all!

http://books.google.com/books?id=FhGhMWOQk-MC&lpg=PP1&dq=marooned&pg=PR10#v=onepage&q&f=false

Page x

so rock critiky. the squirrel bait dude. the dylan dude. the whatever i am. rock on. squirrel bait made me appreciate phil ochs more.

and now--phil ochs IS squirrel bait!

Playing in heaven with Ned Raggett's All-Squirrel Band.

Could happen.

Word.Furry Fans sing along with me: "Cheep cheep, Unca Ned!"

Argh, my panel was moved to the same timeslot as the Big Payback one.

i want a Marooned sequel. Phil should rally the troops and have them put new shit up on the blog, if you ask me. money? bah! fuck money!

any Saturday night get-together into a pre-birthday bash

Double sad now I can't be there this year

http://media.cakecentral.com/gallery/754886/normal_1285684914.JPG

exact replica of the cake i am getting ned, by the way.

I suppose I should go to this, what with it being literally right up the road from me.

I approve of this cake. And damned right you should go, Jeff. I'm staying with a couple of friends nearby for the weekend.

Seems like there should be anthologies of EMP papers...

Annual series, dammit.

There actually have been two collections so far!

I only just realized yesterday how many panels and presentations I'll inevitably miss. Triple and quadruple booking is busy enough, but quintuple, dang. My notes this year will be even more of a brief impression of the whole than ever.

don, the thing i read in seattle at the conference is gonna be in the emp book coming out this year. duke university press. i don't know when its coming out though.

Just dropping in to make sure you all know that the Thursday before EMP, a bunch of the folks from the EMP proceedings will be doing the pop/gender/sexuality/professionalism conference Work It! at USC. Details here: http://workitconference.blogspot.com/

It's free, there's lunch, and it is going to help frame some of the discussions that go on all weekend. Hope some ILX folks come.

Best-DaphC.

Is there an archive of any of these papers available to read online? I wish these presentations were filmed and available to view afterwards.

They've tried to make archives before, but there's no one central deposit of them. So many people end up using the work for freelance or scholarly articles or even books, it would be hard, I imagine, to have such an archive.

The presentations from last year's conference are going up on iTunes U shortly -- I know this having received a note about it earlier this year. But mine was already long up on YouTube so hey.

And heya there Daphne! Won't be able to make Thursday, sadly, but anyone else who can go really should do so!

Oh cool re: the iTunes U thing, but they didn't ask your permission to record the talks first? Hmm. I wonder if they'll do it this year, since the change in venue is bound to cause some chaos.

And, hi Ned! And ILM. I'm usually lurching, sorry. It's BMW season so I shouldn't be doing anything else but work work work.

they didn't ask your permission to record the talks first?

Oh they did, and specifically referred to that in the note to me; I remember signing the release. So if someone didn't sign theirs presumably it won't go up.

Btw, I will be in attendance for this.

:-D

glad this is on a weekend, i will make some of it at least

Just a quick note that a slew of the 2010 presentations are now live on iTunesU.

http://bit.ly/eCug4u

And of course looking forward to seeing everyone next week! I'm planning on being at UCLA pretty much early Friday afternoon.

Can only go on Sunday, but going nonetheless. Thank goodness I live near UCLA so it would be easy for me to get there. Looking forward to it.

would love to go but i have a friend in town this weekend :(

I know what it means to party like a rockstar, but what does it mean to party like a music critic?

The drink level is about the same from what I can tell.

Presumably there are less groupies.

But critics have Twitter!

I assume it's a lot like this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/15/18909607_ee51edc31d.jpg?v=0

Speaking from experience:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/2007_Pop_Conf_afterparty_03.jpg/800px-2007_Pop_Conf_afterparty_03.jpg

Rock critics live blog their encounters with groupies.

so gonna happen

100.

Does Daddino post here anymore?

No.

the fact that you're counting down each of your new posts makes me worry that something like the premise of that Eddie Murphy movie A Thousand Words is happening here