Hate to be a downer, but I think this is a horrible idea. Print is dead. Even the giants of print are writhing in the last throws of life. You could move something like this online though. Like any good business, start small and work your way up. If…
Low Point: Going with members of Jot to set up a show(?) / talk to Bill Levin. I'll never forget it because of how wasted Bill seemed to be and he ended up whipping his penis out while we were talking.
High Point: Seeing Cody Chesnutt play there.
Around the time I was attending Herron (mid/late '80s), The Ten had a rep' for REALLY good food, so when my girlfriend invited me to dinner there, I jumped at the chance. Her Womens' Psychology class had reserved a big table, and the reputation turn…
Julie, do remember which video? I'd love to get that excavated from YouTube. I think I may have seen it because I recall watching a Sonic Youth video one a long, long time ago and trying to decide if some of the clips were from the Ballroom show. I…
I was one of the contributers to that space. I think it was pretty nice considering the funds that we had. It was really open and we had alot of cool shows there including Sonic Youth, who by the way used footage that me and Mike Sheets shot in one…
I grew up in the 80s in the Indianapolis punk scene. I used to hang around with Jim Black (Jot) and Tom Watts (Jot and Helen Shields), and loved a lot of the music that came out of Hit City at that time. Spent a lot of time going to shows at places like Muggins, The No Bar, and little bars in the middle of nowhere Indiana.
These days I'm a blogger, writer, radiologic technologist, and a GLBT rights activist.
I need to write a blog totally marginalizing vinyl. I'll get to work on that ;) Seriously, good piece. I need to find my way back to vinyl - I need to convince my wife to let me set up the turntable in the living room again.
My family still had 78's and a record player that would play 'em when I grew up in the '50's. My father had big band, Beethoven, country, all kind of things. My mother worked at the RCA plant that made records in Indianapolis, when she left to have…
I've had a vinyl influence since I was alive. I am grateful my father had a record player and that he would actually use it. I think there is something unique in a medium that takes so much to slow down and truly appreciate it for what it's worth. W…
I know, I'm on some sort of nostalgia trip these days while running a Web agency. Everything balances out. That's kinda my point. As we go further into the digital realm we have the increased need for a tactile experience.