Hello and happy 4th of July to my fellow USA residents. It's beautiful in Philadelphia right now. Festivities everywhere and weather perfect. I am off for a run, but wanted to post these up first. This was a tough week of writing. I took up the challenge of interviewing Michael Eric Dyson who is a hip-hop noteworthy. I don't want to run down his resume, but this man is pretty fierce and opionated. He's challenged Bill Cosby and the ladies of the View (on air). He's written about Tupac and Marvin Gaye (just google him). First of all, I've never interviewed an author (it is usually musicians), never did a Q and A type interview for Citypaper and also hadn't read this particular book. It didn't get to me in time. Next, he talks and I mean a lot...so at the end of the interview I had 1200 words, which I had to somehow squeeze to 500! Editing someone like him isn't easy because everything is connected, and so if you pull one sentence, the ones around it don't make sense. And this isn't some indie musician I was messing with, so I really couldn't be lazy with it. And, we had to do the interview on the phone, so I was working off of a recorded phone conversation! I worked on it hard for days and turned it in a day late (sorry Monica), but ahhh...it's here and I am so happy with how it turned out. I will go see him on Tuesday also. Not that this man is so uber elite that I was scared. I was more worried about represented him correctly. Interviewing him was a huge step for for me...*wipes off forehead and breathes*
Philadelphia Citypaper, Michael Eric Dyson, 7/4/07:
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/07/05/hiphops-hero
My next challenge was the people who are doing this DJ Aktive party. Aktive is an ill ass DJ and that is why I wanted to write it up. Never have I asked my editor to pull a write up, but after dealing with the promoter, I asked him to. Information was missing and attitude was flying and I really don't play that especially on a deadline. But, my editor didn't listen and ran it...atleast it is small and I didn't spend a lot of time on it...headache!
Philadelphia Citypaper, Welcome to Hollywood party, 7/4/07 (scroll down):
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/07/05/soundadvice
Next was MC Lightborn. He was a pleasure to talk to about his album. This write up is for his album release party which is this weekend. I won't be able to make it, but I wish him luck! Mad chill dude. Oh, this says that Elisa Ludwig wrote it...but I did! Not a big deal!
Philadelphia Citypaper, MC Lightborn album release party, 7/4/07:
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/07/05/lightborn
I also got to write up a review for Mark Ronson's Version album. It's actually pretty good. Then I read somewhere that he believed Eminem was the Bob Dylan of rap and Tupac was basically repetitive or something. Ummmm...Ronson, Ronson, Ronson...my dear boy - someone told you wrong. I'm also going to see him (along with Stuart Zender) in New York next week. Yay for concert, ick for being broke..ha!
Giant Step, Mark Ronson Review, 7/7/07:
http://www.giantstep.net/features/184
That's it!
xo
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