wilco
- Entertainment Weekly: "Did I read correctly that you were once mistaken for an usher at the Grammys by P. Diddy?"
- Jeff Tweedy: "You did read that correctly, yeah. The first time Wilco was nominated for a Grammy it was for Best Contemporary Folk Album for the Mermaid Avenue album [Wilco's 1998 collaboration with Billy Bragg]. So I was standing outside the bathrooms waiting for my wife and some other guys in the band. And as they went into the bathroom everybody kind of unburdened themselves of their programs and their coats and jackets and stuff, so I'm standing there holding a big stack of programs. And Puffy and his entourage came up to me and took one of my programs. Like I was standing there offering them to people! I guess I just looked like a page. I didn't look like I belonged there, is the main point of the story. I might have been beaten with a diamond-encrusted cane, but things didn't go that way. So I feel lucky."
pulp fiction
do two posts for Thursday, April 12, 2012
1) respond to hooks’ critique of tarantino. despite her being a fan of his work, what is her primary argument of the way he treats the patriarchy in his films? for instance, how could that be true in regards to tarantino’s treatment of female and african-american characters in this scene from pulp fiction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMRi-gFeK-M&feature=related ? despite all the “border-crossing” prior to this scene (whether or not you’ve seen the film), how does it seem that the patriarchy is restored at the end?
2) respond to one of your peer’s discussion of hooks’ article, either through the comment function on tumblr or in a post on your own blog (at least one paragraph).
