Month: November 2014

Learned in the Studio

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Recently I stumbled upon a track online that happens to be the first studio recording I ever made. It was a guest appearance on a folk-pop album titled Xylon I, by a local musician named Xylon Cozens, and I play soprano sax on a single track. It’s odd: there’s basically nothing online about Xylon, or the album, even though it was recorded in 1995: I guess that says something about my own personal sense that the Internet caught on about that time: it did for me, but everyone was still on dialup, and it didn’t seem apparent that the Internet and music would necessarily …

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An Open Poem to Facebook (After Ginsberg)

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Facebook (with apologies to Allen Ginsberg) Facebook I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. Facebook two comments on my blog since October 17, 2014. I can’t stand my own mind. Facebook when will we end the online war? Go fuck yourself with your Like and Share I don’t feel good don’t bother me. I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind. Facebook when will you be angelic? When will you take down your ads? When will you look at your practices through futurity? When will you be worthy of your billion-plus users? Facebook why are your comment sections full of rage? Facebook when …

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Clueless Reviews, Complicit Academics, and Hallyu Nationalism

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Update (1 May 2015): My more formal review of The Korean Popular Culture Reader was published in Kyoto Journal 82, for those interested. Original Post: First, the clueless book reviewer: I’ve submitted my own review already–it’s apparently somewhere along the process toward becoming forthcoming, over at The Kyoto Journal–and I can say  found the book disappointing, but not for the same reasons as Bradley Winterton: I am sorry to have to say it, but The Korean Popular Culture Reader is close to the most disappointing book I have ever had to review. Not long ago I found myself engrossed in a Korean TV …

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