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Comment on The Beauty of Hipster Porn: Explained. by Jordan Threadgill

Jordan Threadgill — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:31:32 +0000

brilliant! i wrote a SOC paper on hipsters once ( http://theredgill.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/hipsters/ ), but this definitely trumps my efforts.

Comment on The Reason America Won’t Change (with thanks to W.H. Auden) by Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:54:16 +0000

David, I am… goodthanks.

You? (send me an e-mail!)

Comment on The Reason America Won’t Change (with thanks to W.H. Auden) by davidbacker

davidbacker — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:32:20 +0000

Pat! How the hell are you?!

Comment on The Reason America Won’t Change (with thanks to W.H. Auden) by Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:02:09 +0000

Let us remain sophomores indefinitely, and be happy.

Thanks, David

Comment on A Mandolin’s Divorce: Regarding Chris Thile @ Le Poussain Rouge by davidbacker

davidbacker — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:53:37 +0000

Thanks for this lovely comment. I think you’re right to include spirit and heart in the equation here (if there should be such a thing). After writing this I’ve since thought that the second half–the voice part–is a little short-sighted. Thile, or any artist, should move in whatever direction they feel called to. That’s what art is. It feels a little strange to recommend that he go in a certain direction. Still, I stand by what I wrote here…the process of re-vision is ongoing.

Also, I love your definition of critique: “insight of an opinion with decisive reasoning shoring up the ambiguity of the ungraspable for others.” Does that phrasing have a history? Where did you built it from?

Comment on A Mandolin’s Divorce: Regarding Chris Thile @ Le Poussain Rouge by liberty

liberty — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:49:33 +0000

Firstly, I commend your analogy of the Mandolinist Chris Thile and what he does both in instrument and voice. I say this only in the best intent possible, because critiques are but this; insight of an opinion with decisive reasoning shoring up the ambiguity of the ungraspable for others.

I differ on only one count of your opinion on Him as an individual. I’ve met him twice and while I doubt he would recall a face to name at this point; the point remains that I believe you have forgotten a singular very important componant of someone who plays like him. It is literally not just a mandolin he is playing with or his voice, it’s his heart and spirit aka humanism.

When you meet Chris you find out how open he is to people and genuinly surprised; I think, each time, that they show up. He plays to not let us down and himself, he’s driven. This is a young man who has begged for a mandolin since a child saving up allowance. It was a part of him before he knew how to play, now that he can, he is just repaying back his Dad perhaps for the allowance and his greatfulness. It has become a bike, well ridden, a family pet, who never abandons his side, his best friend during troubled mind, nay, that mandolin in my opinion is the jar that holds his “Genius”. The notes we hear are just muted versions of what is going on inside…imagine within. He’s far from done, Working on his vocals would only silence what he has yet in mind.

Comment on The Reason America Won’t Change (with thanks to W.H. Auden) by davidbacker

davidbacker — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:47:19 +0000

thanks marie! looking forward to reading your stuff.

Comment on The Reason America Won’t Change (with thanks to W.H. Auden) by kvennarad

kvennarad — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:59:16 +0000

To my mind there can be no democracy, no freedom in any society where wealth and political power devolve upwards into the hands of the few. I find your Auden quotation and your poem thought-provoking.

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Marie Marshall
writer/poet/editor/blogger
Scotland
http://mairibheag.com
http://kvennarad.wordpress.com

Comment on I feel weird about Internet writing. by herocious

herocious — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:59:04 +0000

Hey David,
Great post. Very honest. I love how you started it all, though I never pinned you as angry or fat based on your internet words, but it’s still funny to think someone did. I have no idea how you can change that impression. I don’t know if you should really try to.

Comment on The Beauty of Hipster Porn by Jean-Sebastian

Jean-Sebastian — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:20:50 +0000

I love thathipsterporn. Came across it on a divine search for procrastination avenues during my final exams last year. I must’ve looked through 250 posts that first day!

Your Lacan / Zizek hypothesis seems definitely plausible.

Great read.