THE RACK: Three Days of the Con, Part 16

A romantic moment is interrupted.

New Disco Potential: Five Tracks mix!

THE LINE: My Dinner With Guido, Part 19

In which there is a special bulletin

I Consistently Forget To Mention These On This Site.

Those images above will take you to the respective pages for the latest two Five Tracks mixes I’ve made. As the title says, I should probably make an effort to update this page with links when I do these kinds of things, or make sure to at least post the flyers for my new residency at River Gods in Cambridge, which has just been confirmed in an email. We’ll be broadcasting the next one over the internet, probably, so that’ll be nice if you like nu-disco.

THE RACK: Three Days of the Con, Part 15

The shop gets an after-hours visitor.

BOLDLY GONE: Fitter, Happier

THE LINE: My Dinner With Guido, Part 18

Some thinking happens.

RIP, Adam Yauch (Crossposted from Disco Potential)

Adam Yauch taught me that you could be a Jewish Buddhist who made hip-hop records, or that you could be a Jewish rapper who became a Buddhist. Either way.

Adam Yauch taught me you could be interested in many different media and genres and still be the same person, that camp wasn’t the only way to look back on pop culture excess and that when you’ve got a platform, you shouldn’t hold back from using it.

Mostly, he taught me that a middle-aged guy from Brooklyn could be the funkiest man in the room at any given time. I’m very glad that we had the Beastie Boys for as long as we did.

THE RACK: Three Days of the Con, Part 14

The gang goes out for dinner. Yay.

New Disco Potential: Five Tracks Mix

Now Available!

THE LINE: My Dinner With Guido, Part 16

Paul is pretty screwed.

THE RACK: Three Days Of The Con, Part 13

The first day on the floor wraps up.

THE LINE: My Dinner With Guido, Part 15

The gang watches a DVD.

THE RACK: Three Days of the Con, Part 12

A voice from above! Hark! What might it be saying?

A Thing I Can’t Believe I Have To Address

I woke up this morning to find out that my local comic shop (for whom I occasionally perform computerly and/or retail duties) had won the Boston Phoenix’s Best Of Boston 2012 award. That’s great and they really deserve it.

Unfortunately, the photo they used (of my friends Neil, Emmy and Maris digging in the $2 back issue bins) was taken by me and used without permission or attribution. Every three or four months somebody comes along and asks to use a photo I’ve taken for something or another and I’m always happy to give permission, as long as they’re not selling prints or anything and as long as I get some kind of attribution. I’d certainly do that in this case, as I’m actually pretty happy with the entire set that I shot that night. (In fact, The Pulse in Worcester, The Roanoke Times in Virginia and I Am Korean magazine all used photos from that night and I asked for not one dime.)

I know that it’s the web and “What can you do?” is the prevalent attitude most people have about this sort of thing, but the fact is that if you like my work enough to use it, you should like my work enough to give me credit for it.

Edited to add: Apparently they thought the photo was “from their archives” and will remove it.

THE LINE: My Dinner With Guido, Part 14

A meeting is interrupted.

THE LINE: My Dinner With Guido, Part 13

Guido says his goodbyes.

THE LINE: My Dinner With Guido, Part 12

Something changes!