ACTUALLY, IT'S 366 (WHAT WITH IT BEING A LEAP YEAR AND ALL)
Do you want to know what day it is, yet simultaneously feel as though it would also help if you knew what to download from verified, legitimate internet music retailers?
The 2008 edition of the 365 Tunes Page-A-Day(tm) Calendar (which I wrote) is now available on Amazon. Guaranteed* to be the only desk calendar on the market to mention Guitar Wolf. You might as well pick up the
2007 edition, too, seeing as how it's less than three dollars.
*not a guarantee
Labels: shills
AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT THE TOP TENS FOREVER
Well, OK, actually not. But common sense has prevailed, and I've figured that maybe more people would be interested in reading these things on a Monday morning when they're bored at work instead of on a Saturday night when they're hopefully out doing social stuff. (This also means the last one will fall exactly on 12/31/07.) Which brings me to my other, more interesting excuse for putting off '58 for a couple days: Afrika Bambaataa is coming to Minneapolis tomorrow night. I thought seeing Lovebug Starski last 4th of July weekend was something, but this... yeah, I'm geeked.
Two other notes:
-I'm going to
The EMP Pop Conference again this year as part of a panel that also includes the mighty
Leonard Pierce, English Prof
Steven Shaviro and culture crit
Charles Mudede, which gives it a pretty even split between People Who Are Paid to Lecture at Universities (the latter two) and People Who Like Comic Books and Professional Wrestling (me and Leonard). My presentation's going to be about how the Wu-Tang Clan simultaneously recontextualized Nixon-age soul music and hip hop production in the early '90s.
-You can't buy it yet, but my edition of the 365 Tunes Page-a-Day calendar -- I think I forgot to publically mention I was doing this -- is
available for pre-order on Amazon. I'm not sure who made the decision to highlight those specific artists in the book description, but I like how they chose to point out that Booka Shade is included.
Labels: procrastination, shills
