West Coast record camp began with a trip down a desert road
to a beautiful house with a pool.
We swam
We ate and ate
we dj’d
We played Crack Dice
We discussed turntablism, record club policy and canine hegemony
Things can get kinda rulesy at record camp.
Biffy flew in from the cape and surprised us with his charming presence. [...]
Summer is treacherous. Summer scares me, just a little…
Well, actually, what I should say is—I scare me.
Before summer begins, my life is a series of duties and responsibilities, schedules and lists.
A typical weekday:
9:30 - 12:00: grade 9 papers
12:00 - 1:00: take a break, eat something (if there’s time?)
1:00 - 3:00: grade 6 more papers
3:00 - [...]
Writing a weekly post can be a bit like needing to put a meal on when it’s your turn to cook. Good days, you’ll have adequate time to come up with something satisfying. But sometimes it’s like preparing a meal in half an hour. You need to pull out something fast, but you still want [...]
“Change is the only constant,” they say.
On the other hand, they also say, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
Whether directly opposed clichéd truisms such as these simply render themselves and each other meaningless is up to debate, I suppose, but they both seem fairly valid to me, in a paradoxical [...]
Postscripts, follow-ups, and a few odds and ends I’ve wanted to share for a while:
1. Nostalgia or counternostalgia? The Jon Kessler Experience
VBS.tv has a little four-part Art Talk! interview with a friend of mine, Jon Kessler, who set up studio space out in Williamsburg in 1980. He took an entire factory building for $150 a [...]