ysi? photocopier?
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Frank Kogan’s book (don't have a heart attack when you clock the price, there's a ppbk version too) looks amazing at a quick skim. As you'd expect, it's highly unorthodox in its structure and provenance. As well as Village Voice reviews and Why Music Sucks rants, there's an email reply to Geeta, chunks of ILM commentary, interviews with the author from rockcritics.com, unpublished Pazz N' Jop commentaries about 15 times longer than the longest blurbs they ever print, and--piece de resistance--a letter to Voice managing editor Doug Simmonds, with Kogan complaining that the paper is failing to utilise his intellect (the largest, Frank writes, and most self-questioning in all of rockcrit--bigger than Frith’s, bigger than mine, bigger than Bangs', and Meltzer's doesn't count because it's out of service!) to the fullest. All this and an acknowledgements list that takes in virtually everybody in this community and runs for pages. The dedicatee, naturally, is Chuck Eddy.
SR linked it to this page.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
So what are we going to spend our share of the royalties on?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Is that Frank on the cover? I always imagined he had a beard for some reason.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
I thought frank was that more elaborate form
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― karlmarxico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:36 (eighteen years ago) link
David, do you still have that picture I sent you last year w/ good-looking friend and beard? I lost the file for it in the great computer crash of '04. Anyway, you can post it if you'd like.
(My rationalization for using the old picture is that since the writing covers a span from 1970 to 2004, I'm justified in using one that plops in the middle at 1985.) (To be honest, the vast majority dates from after 1985.)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 2 December 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
(They really shouldn't even be listing the hardcover, since my understanding is that it's only going to be available to libraries.)
And here's the link for those of you who use U.S. currency.
And Asian.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 2 December 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 December 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― G-Mart, Friday, 2 December 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 December 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
it isn't out for three months!
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 3 December 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― curmudgeon (Steve K), Saturday, 3 December 2005 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 3 December 2005 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 3 December 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 3 December 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 3 December 2005 07:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 3 December 2005 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link
i also think its possible people (and maybe particularly masculine types) in general have a hard time reconciling parts of their experience with art and their intelligence. for instance, on ILM we talk this way about rock alot, but less so about disco. and it's interesting that you see WAY less of this type of writing in europe, particularly spain/italy/france maybe too. men are warmer there...just ask mareisa sabiel.
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 4 December 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Prat Power! Guilty as charged!
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link
also maybe this discussion is best had elsewhere.
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 4 December 2005 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link
To answer your question Drew, "Yes," though I hope I don't (in the book or here) come off as reductive/dismissive as your summary, "people who use critical theory are just avoiding the direct expression of their hopes and fears," makes it seem.
I just realized that actually my complaint might best be summarized as "crit theorists do a shit job of romanticism when they mire themselves in philosophy" or "hahaha, I'm more romantic than Derrida, nyaaah nyaaah." (My argument would be that "Nobody ever taught you how to live out on the street" or "Do you think that you could make it with Frankenstein?" are the real deal when it comes to romanticism, whereas Husserl's or someone's "metaphysics of presence" uses such a bizarre and dysfunctionally extreme concept of "presence" that deconstructing such "presence" is beside the point and has little to do with the romantic impulse to be face-to-face with "Frankenstein" or whatever you're trying to be alive and present and involved with. Got to go soon, so don't have time to make this argument intelligible.)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 4 December 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link