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new shirts - Posted on 2006-05-19 12:17:45

after visiting the merch sites of the respect sextet and naked brunch, both of which feature my designs, check out the newly christened site, chest of drawers!

zizek! - Posted on 2006-05-08 15:46:48

i had the wonderful opportunity to hear philosopher/cultural critic slavoj zizek in conversation with simon critchley last week at labyrinth books. it was pretty great to witness him speak (i've seen and heard videos and mp3s, but when you're close enough to literally be spat upon by the lisping slovene, it's a whole new feeling!).

zizek dwarfed critchley throughout (critchley floundering around zizek's direct questioning of his stances; zizek dancing, ali-like, around the ideas of kant, hegel, lacan, whilst critchley spoke in busts of effete philosophical sound bites; zizek improvised wildly, picking up the scraps of the conversation and sharpening them into deadly arrowheads; critchley looked like a stuffy classical musician forced to socialize with a pack of bikers.

ok, it wasn't that bad, but as usual, zizek's acute insights and always entertaining diversions and digressions stole the show.
steve smith was there with me and asked a nice question about how zizek's mode of thinking mirrors/diverts from adorno's. zizek brought up schoenberg in his response, which was great for steve, as his diss could very well be centered around shoenberg and adorno. [incidentally, after the talk steve asked zizek if he planned on writing any more on music, and zizek said he probably wouldn't, but he would like to stage an opera at some point!]

part time blogger - Posted on 2006-05-04 12:04:41

respect sextet related:

respect has recently played two great gigs in nyc, the first, a short set at the knitting factory (with excellent guest drummer, take toriyama), the second, a classic respect double set at brooklyn's bar 4 with our own ted poor back at the helm.

the complete audio from the knitting factory gig (in mp3 format) is available here as well as on james hirschfeld's new and improved web page. in other respect news, we've been asked to perform as part of a bulgarian festival on monday, june 5th at cornelia street cafe. we'll be playing some re-writes of some older bulgarian-influenced respect gems, some brand new joints, as well as a couple bulgarian staples, thrown in as a matter of course. please come check it out if you're around!

lastly, an appeal to upstate new yorkers: respect will be making the grand reappear at the rochester international jazz festival on monday, june 12th at 7:15pm and 9:15pm outside on the "jazz street" (gibbs street) stage. it's a free show, so please come out en force, bringing friends and neighbors along!

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