EMP Pop Conference 2011

Is there stuff tomorrow?

Yup, starting at 1:30.

Tomorrow's lunch might be a more prosaic stop at In-n-Out near campus but that's because the good Mr. Seward might be there too. Will let folks know.

Dammit, I was planning on going to see Drive Angry 3-D tomorrow afternoon.

I'll be around at lunch time...

Rock. Will text you when I'm up in LA itself.

Have fun for all of us desperately wishing we were there! Jealous of you that will get to hang out with Mr. Seward.

I'm so mad I have to work evenings on Friday and Saturday. I really wish I can go and see the talks during that time. :( :(

I hope Sunday's topics will be good.

They'll be great!

Anyway my notes on the Friday presentations will be updated throughout the day starting in the early afternoon.

Off to a great start! Wish you were all here!

Love the iTunes talks from last year! Have fun!

But Christ NOW would be the day when I would have a screwup where a lot of my notes get wiped. Bah. Will try again tomorrow.

Sorry. Liked your notes that survived:
Juan Carlos Kase, “Go-Go Dancer and One Hit Wonder: Toni Basil as Embodiment of Cultural Mobility in 60s Los Angeles” — Toni Basil mostly associated with “Mickey” and the accompanying video that she choreographed, banished to VH1 nostalgia specials and the like. Short-sighted! She had a different impact in the 1960s/early 70s as a dancer/choreographer in film and TV, an active visualization of the time. An exchange of sexuality, cinema and sound. TAMI Show, Shindig, Hullabaloo, various B films, dancing in the go-go style of the Sunset Strip. There’s a semantic excess in her style, goes beyond the terms. Clip from _Village of the Giants_ shown — no Tom and Crow though! — Jack Nitzche music and she shakes groove thing to Beau Bridges’ giant leers. Great blue bell bottoms. Classical training, modern dance moves, improv all at once. The film is goofy and formulaic, but still altogether stranger. Representing the social energy of the era — theorist cited on go-go dancing, an icon like the 20s flappers. “The girl is free to let themselves go, as wild as they feel.” Little scholarship here on popular dance of the time, but a change in gender roles, quick turnovers, solo dancing. “Dance, Gender and Culture” cited, males not defining the dancing,

Somebody's tweet:

Chritigau: Barry White & Abba are a simulacrum of authenticity. You can get pleasure from that. Shank calls it ironic discourse. #popcon2011

And more:

Christgau, to Shank: "What is Pitchfork doing if not assessing greatness? Badly."

Camper V B dude on another panel

Lowery: buying records just like options trading. Long positions on average last longer.

"Here comes the obligatory Adorno quote..."

Paper on Disney's tween music informs us that the main listening-tracking company ignores under-12s

Is the isolation of tween culture really the marginilization of GIRL culture? Diane Pecknold suggests

Jerry Lee Lewis's dad mortgaged his house to buy the 8-year-old a piano

"Music was their way out of the working class...but there were personal costs."

Christgau

it always comes back to foucault. always

Really wish I could have hung out the rest of the weekend! I left L.A. this morning.

Nothing but tweets. I wonder if any of these presentations are being videotaped? I guess when the weekend's over some folks will hopefully post their presentations and do more extensive discussions of what they've heard.

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-charts-explain-the-real-death-of-the-music-industry-2011-2

This is being tweeted about

Presentations are being recorded for iTunesU

scott seward killing it from what I hear

It pretty damn well ruled.

the man is worth his weight in liquorball 7 inches

tweets:

David Ritz's account of the origins of "Sexual Healing" includes the phrase "Marvin, this is some fuckin' sick shit here."

Bob Pfeifer reveals: Human Switchboard reissue coming--at long last!--from Bar/None later in 2011

Audience member: "But why does everyone leave Cleveland?" Cheetah Chrome: "Because it sucks

what did scott talk about

I think Scott talked about buying used records on Ebay; the ongoing demand for Marley and Led Zep vinyl in his record store...

Ellen and Adam Lambert had a child and it's called Glee, which has affected the Top 24 American Idol panel at #popcon2011
about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck Ann Powers

Ned quoting Scott

"I can't think of anything lamer than cleaning your weed on top of your hard drive." And fin. Amazing as ever, Scott

Scott Seward's "eBay, Light of My Life, Fire of My Loins, My Sin, My Soul: The Confessions of a Record Dealer
"I've spent so many hours on my knees in strange basements that the jokes just write themselves!" It's flying here folks

Soulsides tweets:

Cohen's book, all about Aretha's "Amazing Grace" album, coming out in Sep:

what a great time! i could go on forever. emp thing kinda rules if you ask me. and i finally got to meet the beeeeyooooteeeeful jbr in person! yay!

nice to chat with d. wolk for a bit. sad i won't see his thing tomorrow.

great to hang with yeti mike and amy p.

great to see simon again. and meet the awesome joy p. and i was glad that simon introduced me to the dude that wrote that great disco book and arthur russell book cuz i am a big fan of that stuff. kinda bummed i didn't see his talk.

nice to meet and hang with scott t.! and i'm glad he got to talk to david grubbs about his slint book. um, scott's book. not david's book.

and nice to meet d. grubbs. he's a swell guy. and it was really nice to meet g. marcus too. i finally got to thank him for the kind words he wrote in his intro to the marooned book. and he really dug my thing today which was nice.

here's a little something you might not know about me: i love talking with ann powers. she is so friggin' smart and fun to talk to. if you get the chance talk to her about anything. her brain is always on go.

and jeff "girly metal" treppel! great to see him as well.

and ned, well, ned is 100% ned and i wouldn't have it any other way. and i'm so glad my first visit to in 'n' out burger was with him.

g. marcus's thing might have been my fave talk when all is said and done. but i saw lots of interesting stuff. wish i could have caught more. and i know i will miss a ton of good stuff tomorrow. but we are leaving early in the morning.

and jaymc! yay! great to see him in the flesh!

um, who am i forgetting? probably lots of people. i'll come back here if i think of more.

loved LA. wanna come back. didn't get to go to any record stores. just great to finally see a little bit of a place that i've always been fascinated by.

:-D it was a blast as ever, sir!

Really good to meet you too Scott - and everyone else I met at the conference. Bummed I won't be there for the final day.

and i finally got to meet the beeeeyooooteeeeful jbr in person! yay!

bless your heart! glad i got to meet you, sorry you couldn't stay in town longer.

personal highlight was getting to take matos for his first in-n-out burger! (we went to the one on sunset near highland; there was a crazy traffic clusterfuck but that seemed to heighten the excitement for him.)

anyway, today i'm going to cheer everyone on from home -- the westside is madness on weekends, and it's oscar day to boot. my only regret is that there were still more people i wanted to meet, reconnect with, etc. i'll catch up with the presentations when they hit the web.

When do the presentations get posted on I-tunes University?

No idea, will check. Heading home now! Great times, everyone! Come out to NYU next year!

i would luv 2 party with all these ilxors in nyc. leave the kids at home this time.

NYC next year? Hell, I'll show up for that.

Couldn't make it to any of the days but it sounds like a good time was had.

Come out to NYU next year!

will james franco host?

I had a great time today. Chuck D sat behind me in one of the talks and I almost had a heart attack. This is the second time I ever felt lucky living in Los Angeles.

Dude did we meet at all this weekend? I just now remembered you'd be there.

No we didn't. I was reading your twitter feed and you were at the talks that were my second picks.

Haha it does happen. I literally was finally saying a first hi to some people almost just before I left.

how can you miss ned at the emp conference? it's a statistical impossibility.

he's everywhere man!

Yeah I left quickly because I felt embarrassed after asking a question and fumbling a little bit because I realize it was years I was in a setting like that.

he's everywhere man!

Yeah I didn't speak to anybody there. I went by myself because I'm new to Los Angeles anyway. Plus, I don't know what people look like so it would've been hard to spot people.