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first person
Now that this weblog has passed its first birthday, I find myself seeking out new things to do with it.
It's served as a repository for a number of different sorts of things: recipes, things to apply for, the names of songs that Chris and I improvised in the course of an evening. But way back when I started I was intending more to use it as a storehouse for quotes taken from things I was reading—the very second entry, for instance, was a long passage from Interview With the Vampire.
I kind of drifted away from that idea, in part because I don't always have access to a computer when I'm reading things (and I don't plan to begin moblogging anytime soon), and also in part because there's no easy way to link to something I'm reading in the real world.
So anyway, I had this idea that what I'd do in the new year was seek out more interviews and profiles on the Web&151;authors, scholars, artists, interesting thinkers of all stripes, just talking—and I'd do an occasional series called "First Person," where I'd link to an interesting person talking about an interesting topic—maybe a topic that they were a known authority on, but maybe not.
For instance, here's Thurston Moore on the Spice Girls:
"Well, I was watching the Spice Girls movie, and when they cover Gary Glitter's 'You Wanna Be In My Gang' I got goose-bumps. It was chilling. When they came out in those costumes with all the dancers I thought to myself, this is as great as the first time I saw Blondie at Max's. This is as exciting as sitting behind Sid Vicious at CBGB's right after he lost his mind. I could just see being an eight-year old girl, and wanting to be that. At the same time, there was something freakish about it, and it struck me as this completely total rock thing. God bless them all, that's what I say."
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Could be interesting. Of course, this begs the question of who out there really is producing interesting cultural work / ideas at the moment... recommendations are welcome, as always... |
Monday, January 13, 2003
5:00 PM
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