EMP Pop Conference 2012 -- NYC

I will be there. Perhaps not at 5 - bus arrives around 430 and I need/want to head out to Brooklyn where I'm crashing to drop my stuff at a friend's place but I should get there for the keynote.

Damn that was a great first night. Had to miss karaoke though.

the keynote thing was awesome! all those guys were so smart and funny.

karaoke was wild, i think you all are great

man more and more i feel like i missed out by not getting in earlier last night for the fun stuff, but hey i'm here now

skot i'm gonna try to come to your panel today and say hi! really hoping i run into everyone itt at one point or another, i guess there'll be nametags and it'll be easy to spot people?

;_;

I pre-registered but then found out I had a stupid concert with stupid rehearsals this weekend

I hate peeking into this thread because my blood boils. I had also registered.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/03/22/149155311/watch-the-emp-pop-conference-keynote

This NPR link says that when the Thursday night keynote with Angélique Kidjo, Esperanza Spalding, Santigold, and Himanshu Suri (aka Heems)
is available it will be posted on this NPR site

http://clivedavisinst.tisch.nyu.edu/object/popconlivestreaming.html

live streaming here?

it occurs to me I'm not sure what curmudgeon's real name is. I imagine you walking around this weekend saying "I'm curmudgeon" and getting the response "me too!" over and over.

Ha. I am not there alas, family obligations. I'm in the DC area.

oh bummer! we need to hang sometime, though, we're practically neighbors

So Scott Seward killed it again. A sample line of many:

"OK UK stop inventing things, all hopped up on Cadbury bars and PG Tips"

Exchange after he was done:

Jim Miller: "You grew up on Sesame Street didn't you?"
Scott: "Yeah!"

hello people! i'm in town but i haven't been to any of the popcon stuff yet. no sleep on the plane last night means zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. anything fun happening tonight?

that was fun today. i'm glad my dad could make it. nice to meet jim miller today and tom smucker tonight. it's really nice that greil is my biggest fan, but him sitting right in front of me when i was talking was still kind of intimidating. i avoided eye contact.

is that why you sat right in front of matos and me and tried to psyche us out?

exactly! it didn't work though. you guys were fine.

http://storify.com/touchofallright/layers-and-layers-of-not-so-dope-synths-listening?awesm=sfy.co_jHd&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=storify-pingback

Wish I could have heard that one and Some Dude's Baltimore club thang

that whole panel of yours was really good. all 4.

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joshua clark davis's frankfurt rap thing was such a kick. scott you ran off but hopefully at some point this weekend i'll run into you and we can tape a quick interview, i need your pov for what i'm doing!

would love to have watched greil's facial expressions during "you gotta have dick control"

yeah that whole panel killed btw

I wish I could be at more of this :(

You around today? What are you doing for lunch?

From 1 to 2 there's a lunchtime Prince panel.

Thing tonight needs extra prep time, I can't make it today and I'm *sad*, yesterday was a blast, but also *here for aero*. May drop by Von afterward b/c that's my "Cheers".

Yeah you better. For one thing I haven't said hi yet!

J Shep is interviewing Josh Kun on east village radio about his EMP presentation on Mexico/Cali border music right now (plus playing songs from Nortec collective and others) 4:10 Saturday East coast time

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/

nick sylvester calling out whiteness of mixtape panel, but admits to hiring all his friends at pitchfork #popcon

discussion of minstrelsy w/ all-white panel

enough twitter excerpts for now from me

so much good stuff on sunday. getting option anxiety!

i went to the mixtape panel and said hi to Breihan and enjoyed what he had to say because that's my dude but oh god so much else of what was said was just a smh greatest hits circa 2005

hahaha

do they do transcripts?

how many songs off 'we got it 4 cheap' were played?

several were mentioned by name

My paper (on 80s Miles Davis) will be on BurningAmbulance.com (with video of his Honda scooter commercial, even!) on Monday morning.

mixtape panel was iffy. i didn't stay for the whole thing. still haven't met some dude despite going to your panel and being at the mixtape one also. haha. perhaps tomorrow.

ah damn man, sorry i missed you! i still have no idea whether i will get back to popcon before getting on my bus tomorrow. 3 day weekend flying by frustratingly quickly!

rob sheffield/ann powers/jody rosen/greil marcus panel was the hightlight for me. everyone so good. kinda the ideal for ANY conference. whitney houston panel was my second fave. could listen to nelson george and danyel smith talk forever. and danyel's story of the time she was dissed by whitney was daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!!!!

really wish i could be their for gza talking about liquid swords tomorrow but we have to get back.

really glad spike lee got into the emp spirit today. it was nice to see.

did not see owen at von. i drank a LOT of beer at von.

dinner at prune after von kinda one of the highlights of my year. ohmygodsofuckingamazing.

and i can't believe john aerosmith was in town and he didn't stop by emp. he missed some great stuff.

also really nice to see the usual emp suspects: daphne carr, matos, my pal amy phillps, carl wilson.

also, ilxors sang freud and alex in montreal and my hero jbr/get bent.

and last but not least to meet ned's completely adorable galpal!

lotsa folks were tweeting about Greil Marcus recounting Robert Johnson's life if he hadn't died in '38. He produced Straight Outta Compton

Plus pro and con thoughts on Rob Sheffield's presentation on the city of Los Angeles and the Doors

jazz panel with phil and nate chinen was totally for real awesome

missed jody rosen and greil marcus because i don't even want to be remotely near rob sheffield talking about the doors

nate chinen at one point imitated the 'old-timey' voice from ken burns docs

so great

rob's thing on the doors was one of the funniest things i've heard in a LONG time. it was great.