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Today:

--I ate the tastiest grapefruit I've ever had in my life. The label says "California Ruby Red," which doesn't tell me who grew it.

--Am listening to Cold Flamez "Kiss Me Miss Me Lick Me" ("Thanks for the sex, it was great, I admit it"), while reading Jeff Weiss's jerkin' story in August 6th's L.A. Weekly ("We're Jerkin' (starring the New Boyz, J-Hawk, and Pink Dollaz)").

--Finally reading Sam Ubl's term paper on Robert Christgau.

--Sampling Jonathan Bradley's blogs: here and here and here (he writes about Vanessa Carlton's "Nolita Fairytale"!) and here.

--Will Buffy, if I have time.

EDIT: I also like this comment of mine to Jonathan's post here:

Well, I think societies also share - if that's the right word - conflicts and arguments and misunderstandings. E.g., black-white relations can play a large role in a society, but a factor in that relationship is that people often don't share meanings (and sometimes even shape their meanings to be misunderstood by others of a different class or social group). But our noticing some particular, characteristic misunderstandings in one society might be one way we distinguish that society from other societies, that are shaped by different misunderstandings.

Date: 2009-10-04 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chuckeddy.livejournal.com
Sam Ubl's term paper on Robert Christgau

Frank, where can one read this?

Btw, I skimmmed Jonathan Bradley's post on genre (which you mentioned in an earlier post, but I'm consolidating here), and it was indeed quite interesting. But I don't get the either/or dichotomy he sets up -- I mean, I guess you touch on this in your reply, but why should I even be asked to choose between what he calls "sound" and what he (more vaguely) calls "culture"? And why can't Jimmy Castor or Teena Marie's [i]Emerald City[/i] be both r&b [i]and[/i] metal, and Montgomery Gentry be both country and rock, and Kid Cudi be both hip-hop and indie-friendly electrodribble? Who besides Bradley is demanding that they only belong to one genre? (Well, record store owners maybe, but I thought nobody went to record stores anymore. At least that's what I keep reading. And when I update assets on Rhapsody, I can categorize an artist or album under however many genres I deem applicable -- it's not only allowed, it's encouraged.) I guess it's obvious I think this, since I've spent the past quarter century of my writing acting on that principle, but it just struck me as a glaring omission in his post. Unless I missed it.

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