http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/-problem-avant-garde The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/fireworks-online-offline <p>Back on the grid again, after a holiday week in Amsterdam &amp; Barcelona, which brought some deep thoughts on life online &amp; off as well as some literal fireworks.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/fireworks-online-offline">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/fireworks-online-offline#comments Amsterdam Barcelona Blackie Books Email google Jacob Palme Koert van Mensvoort NextNature The Problem With the Avant Garde Vacation Wikipedia http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1389 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:06:25 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 1389 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/brassland-10-short-attention-span-essay-publicity-intimacy-community-behind-labels-anniversary <p>Here are some more-poised than usual thoughts on the first ten years of this record label-like thing I've been running. To cover the entire bodily spectrum in a single mixed metaphor, I'd like to think this piece is a bit less of a gut-level kneejerk response than I usually muster, a bit more of a heady, meditative deep thought. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/brassland-10-short-attention-span-essay-publicity-intimacy-community-behind-labels-anniversary">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/brassland-10-short-attention-span-essay-publicity-intimacy-community-behind-labels-anniversary#comments 9/11 Aaron Dessner Anniversaries Baby Dayliner Brassland Bryce Dessner Buke &amp; Gass Clogs Doveman Good Music Laura Snapes Matt Berninger New York City Nico Muhly NME Padma Newsome September 11 The Community Function The Guardian The National The Problem with Capitalism The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde tl;dr Too Long; Didn&#039;t Read http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1336 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:46:37 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 1336 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/real-temples-of-culture-short-attention-span-essay-el-sistema-mnmp-art-education-art-institutions <p>The video below embodies the excitement I've felt recently for exploring a life outside of the Arts, a life that values the application of the Arts in day-to-day life more than Art for Arts sake.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/real-temples-of-culture-short-attention-span-essay-el-sistema-mnmp-art-education-art-institutions">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/real-temples-of-culture-short-attention-span-essay-el-sistema-mnmp-art-education-art-institutions#comments 60 Minutes David Byrne Disney Hall District 75 El Sistema Frank Gehry Gustavo Dudamel Jose Abreu Los Angeles Philharmonic Manhattan New Music Project MNMP Sir Ken Robinson TED The Arts The Community Function The Problem With Glamour The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1287 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:13:52 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 1287 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/jai-pauls-btstu-still-sounds-future <p> Jai Paul's debut single has been floating around the internet for well over a year now, and the internet claims that it was originally a demo he cut in 2007 -- but I wonder how long it will take for this to not sound like the future? Let's try it out one more time. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/jai-pauls-btstu-still-sounds-future">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/jai-pauls-btstu-still-sounds-future#comments Jai Paul Mary Margaret O&#039;Hara Q Lazzarus Recluse The Problem With Glamour The Problem With the Avant Garde XL Recordings http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1219 Tue, 24 May 2011 15:35:57 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 1219 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/clogs-postscript-year-later <p>About a year ago, I put out on my label <a href="http://www.brassland.org">Brassland</a> what I think is one of the best records I've ever had anything to do with, a strange &amp; mysterious song cycle called <i><a href="http://www.brassland.org/album.php?catno=021">The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton</a></i> by a group called Clogs.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/clogs-postscript-year-later">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/clogs-postscript-year-later#comments Clogs Ecstatic Music Festival Padma Newsome Shara Worden The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1179 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:04:20 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 1179 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/power-of-song <p> <p>About a year ago, I found myself on the set of a late night television show on the same afternoon as a taping by the California group, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Sharpe_and_the_Magnetic_Zeros">Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/power-of-song">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/power-of-song#comments Andrew Sullivan Edward Sharpe &amp; the Magnetic Zeros Great New Music Ima Robot The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1125 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:47:41 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 1125 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/2010-year-freak-folk-went-electric <p>In 2010, Sufjan Stevens came out of a self-imposed bout of musical silence. In 2011, Iron &amp; Wine releases his first major label statement. What do they have in common? Here is some musical mathematics.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/2010-year-freak-folk-went-electric">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/2010-year-freak-folk-went-electric#comments Bob Dylan Dave Markay Dave Markey Grunge Culture Iron &amp; Wine Newport Folk Festival Sufjan Stevens The Problem With The Problem With the Avant Garde The Year Punk Broke http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1119 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:35:08 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 1119 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/brian-eno-cooluncool-and-lack-thereof <p> In <a href="http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2009/11/the-death-of-uncool/">last December's issue</a> of the British magazine <i>Prospect</i>, the musician and producer Brian Eno explained that gone are the days of distinct stylistic trends -- &quot;this season's color&quot; or &quot;Abstract Expressionism&quot; or &quot;psychedelic music.&quot;</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/brian-eno-cooluncool-and-lack-thereof">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/brian-eno-cooluncool-and-lack-thereof#comments Brian Eno Genre The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1118 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:31:13 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 1118 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/two-christmas-standards-sufjan-ian-axel-julia-nunes-dessner-bros <p>Generally speaking I find Christmas to be a bummer time of year. Quiet too quiet. Friends have headed home. Not enough ambient buzz to distract me from... <p> A few months ago I began advising a young pop musician from New York named Ian Axel. He's recorded a holiday song with an equally young <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/jaaaaaaa">YouTube phenom named Julia Nunes</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/two-christmas-standards-sufjan-ian-axel-julia-nunes-dessner-bros">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/two-christmas-standards-sufjan-ian-axel-julia-nunes-dessner-bros#comments Aaron Dessner Bryce Dessner Christmas Songs Ian Axel Julia Nunes Seasonal Affective Disorder Sufjan Stevens The Nightmare Before Christmas The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1112 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:24:02 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 1112 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/brief-thought-political-art-or-revolution-will-be-advertised <p>I won't pretend like I trust or respect political art. I think it's inherently suspect. Which is not to say that art cannot have a powerful galvanizing effect on politics, or that it cannot be great art.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/brief-thought-political-art-or-revolution-will-be-advertised">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/brief-thought-political-art-or-revolution-will-be-advertised#comments Bob Dylan ethics Kaiser Permanente Michel Houellebecq Political Art politics Shepard Fairey The Paris Review The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde The Sixties The Times They Are a-Changin&#039; http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1030 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:25:05 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 1030 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/deep-thoughts-about-election-after <p>I have an idealistic view of what it is to have a career. I like to imagine that people are careful about choosing a life's work. I like to think that pointless activities -- while key to recreation -- are banished from the world of work. Unfortunately there is a sharp rebuke to this idea. In a word: Politics.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/deep-thoughts-about-election-after">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/deep-thoughts-about-election-after#comments democracy Donny Osmond ethics Marie Osmond Michel Houellebecq Midterm Elections Miley Cyrus politics The Electoral Process The Paris Review The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1023 Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:25:32 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 1023 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/video-art-post-gaga-short-attention-span-snippets-kanye-bjork-bob-dylan-nin-icp <p>It used to be easy to understand the difference between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Clark">Pop Music</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique">Art Music</a>. Pop Music was awesome (but kind of slight) and Art Music was awesome (but kind of tedious).</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/video-art-post-gaga-short-attention-span-snippets-kanye-bjork-bob-dylan-nin-icp">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/video-art-post-gaga-short-attention-span-snippets-kanye-bjork-bob-dylan-nin-icp#comments Bjork Bob Dylan Chris Cunningham Dick Clark Encyclopedia Pictura Gesamtkunstwerk ICP Insane Clown Posse Joel Peter-Witkin Kanye West Lady Gaga Lars Ulrich Mark Romanek Metallica Nine Inch Nails Prince Spike Jonze The Buggles The Problem With Glamour The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde Trent Reznor Twitter http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/994 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:56:24 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 994 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/zigs-when-others-zag-alex-ross-john-cage-poverty-arts-why-i-ross-better-sasha-frere-jones <p>Let me present a backhanded insult about <a href="http://therestisnoise.com/">Alex Ross</a>. (Which is to say, a compliment.) Here's the thing that pisses me off about the guy.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/zigs-when-others-zag-alex-ross-john-cage-poverty-arts-why-i-ross-better-sasha-frere-jones">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/zigs-when-others-zag-alex-ross-john-cage-poverty-arts-why-i-ross-better-sasha-frere-jones#comments 4&#039;33 Alex Ross Bard College Classical Music Four Seasons John Cage MacArthur Award Mushrooms Sasha Frere Jones The Fifties The New Yorker The Problem With the Avant Garde The Sixties http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/978 Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:20:47 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 978 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/some-quick-thoughts-death-of-record-object <p>I can attest to the fact that it's rough out there for recorded music. As some of you may know, I founded and run a <a href="http://www.brassland.org">record label</a>. As of about six months ago I was running <a href="http://www.cantaloupemusic.com">another one</a> as well. And about two months before that I was still lending a hand on a <a href="http://www.atprecordings.com">third label</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/some-quick-thoughts-death-of-record-object">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/some-quick-thoughts-death-of-record-object#comments Bandcamp Colin Greenwood Digital Music ethics In Rainbows Internet Poem Jerry Lewis Radiohead Sufjan Stevens The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/942 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:24:51 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 942 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/o-ludwig <p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein">problem</a> for me is that if I follow this thing I believe I would never be able to say anything. <p> <b></b></p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/o-ludwig">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/o-ludwig#comments Internet Poem Ludwig Wittgenstein New York Times The Problem With the Avant Garde Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/928 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:11:23 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 928 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/girl-talk-vs-internet-filtered-through-brain-of-one-evan-roth-brief-thought-internet-culture When people say that the internet doesn't have any culture, I respectfully disagree. i.e...<p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/girl-talk-vs-internet-filtered-through-brain-of-one-evan-roth-brief-thought-internet-culture">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/girl-talk-vs-internet-filtered-through-brain-of-one-evan-roth-brief-thought-internet-culture#comments culture Evan Roth Girl Talk Internet Poem The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde Video http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/926 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:03:58 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 926 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/kanye-west-underground-great-pain-renaissance-painting <p>Say what you will about Kanye being a douchebag occasionally.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/kanye-west-underground-great-pain-renaissance-painting">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/kanye-west-underground-great-pain-renaissance-painting#comments Good Tailoring Internet Poem Kanye West Next Level Shit Raphael Rolling Stone The Problem With the Avant Garde The Underground Twitter Video http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/864 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:43:45 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 864 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/scott-williams-starring-%E2%80%9Cnirvana-ice%E2%80%9D-worthy-internet-meme-some-thoughts-web-commentary <p>I've been sitting on this internet meme for awhile. I've done the research. It's not an internet parody, a YouTube vid equivalent of <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445934/">Blades of Glory</a></i>. Nope, rather this is figure skater <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Williams_%28figure_skater%29">Scott Williams</a>' championship effort to revolutionize skating.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/scott-williams-starring-%E2%80%9Cnirvana-ice%E2%80%9D-worthy-internet-meme-some-thoughts-web-commentary">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/scott-williams-starring-%E2%80%9Cnirvana-ice%E2%80%9D-worthy-internet-meme-some-thoughts-web-commentary#comments Internet Poem Nirvana Scott Williams Smells Like Teen Spirit The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/730 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:32:24 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 730 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/what-mark-morris-thinks-about-butts <p>Of late I have been endeavoring to understand dance. A <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/dancing/2010/03/15/100315crda_dancing_acocella">review</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Morris">Mark Morris</a>'s "Socrates" at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Academy_of_Music">BAM</a> helped me some with its inclusion of a quote about...butts.</p> <p><p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/what-mark-morris-thinks-about-butts">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/what-mark-morris-thinks-about-butts#comments Brooklyn Academy of Music Butts Joan Acocella John Cage Mark Morris The New Yorker The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/710 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:00:21 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 710 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/particularly-short-attention-span-essay-big-ears-festival-knoxville-tn <p>Apologies for being somewhat slack on the blogging front these last few weeks. Exciting activities among the family of musicians I've been working with the past few years have kept me away from computers more than usual. I spent much of the last week hanging out in the American South -- a part of the country I rarely get to see -- on the occasion of <a href="http://www.bigearsfestival.com/2010/">Big Ears Festival</a> in Knoxville, Tennessee.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/particularly-short-attention-span-essay-big-ears-festival-knoxville-tn">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/particularly-short-attention-span-essay-big-ears-festival-knoxville-tn#comments Asheville Big Ears Festival Black Mountain College Doveman God&#039;s Storehouse I-40 Knoxville New York Times Nico Muhly North Carolina religion Rockmont Camp for Boys Rockslide Tennessee The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/704 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:46:52 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 704 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/%E2%80%9Ci-have-felt-pulse-of-modern-art-and-know-it-will-die%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%A6just-neck-beards <p>&quot;I have felt the pulse of modern art and know that it will die! This knowledge, however, fills me not with despondency but with joy, for I know at the same time that it is not art in general which will perish but only our own particular type of art—which stands remote from modern life—, whereas true—imperishable—constantly renewed art is still to be born...</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/%E2%80%9Ci-have-felt-pulse-of-modern-art-and-know-it-will-die%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%A6just-neck-beards">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/%E2%80%9Ci-have-felt-pulse-of-modern-art-and-know-it-will-die%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%A6just-neck-beards#comments Alex Ross Richard Wagner The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde Werner Herzog http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/693 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:29:58 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 693 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/die-antwoord-transcend-transgress-nsfw-particulary-short-attention-span-essay-one-strand-of-south-af <p>Read <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/37934-die-antwoord-answer-our-questions/">this interview with Die Antwoord</a>. Or <a href="http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n9/htdocs/die-antwoord-154.php">this one</a>. Or, better yet, catch up with them by reading <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/03/more-on-die-antwoord.html">this informative, catch-all post</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/die-antwoord-transcend-transgress-nsfw-particulary-short-attention-span-essay-one-strand-of-south-af">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/die-antwoord-transcend-transgress-nsfw-particulary-short-attention-span-essay-one-strand-of-south-af#comments Bogan Chav Die Antwoord ethics J.M. Coetzee Next Level Beats NSFW PC Computers Pitchfork Progeria Rare Diseases Redneck Roger Ballen South Africa The Problem With Glamour The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde Zef http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/634 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:14:58 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 634 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/some-thoughts-black-mountain-college-nature-of-communities <p>If you know nothing about Black Mountain College, where the photo below was taken, start <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_College">here</a>. Its teaching ranks were populated not by academics but practitioners. Among those who taught there during its brief, 24-year lifespan were Josef and Anni Albers, Alfred Kazin, John Cage, Harry Callahan, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Walter Gropius, Franz Kline, Charles Olson, Aaron Siskind, and Robert Motherwell. (I'll let you Google the unfamiliar names.)</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/some-thoughts-black-mountain-college-nature-of-communities">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/some-thoughts-black-mountain-college-nature-of-communities#comments Asheville Black Mountain College Communes Cults Martin Duberman Niche Culture Photos Subculture The Community Function The Problem With Nostalgia The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/616 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:39:21 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 616 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/gaga-gesamtkunstwerk-fever-rays-melting-face-short-attention-span-essay-operatic-gestures-contempora <p>Let's lead this post with a bit of theater: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Dreijer_Andersson">Karin Dreijer Andersson aka Fever Ray</a> (or maybe it's a stand-in?) accepting an award for best dance artist at that country's equivalent of the Grammy Awards. (They're called the <a href="http://www.grammis.se/">Grammis</a>. American cultural imperialism is no joke.):<br /> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/gaga-gesamtkunstwerk-fever-rays-melting-face-short-attention-span-essay-operatic-gestures-contempora">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/gaga-gesamtkunstwerk-fever-rays-melting-face-short-attention-span-essay-operatic-gestures-contempora#comments Beyonce Butoh Fever Ray Gesamtkunstwerk Grammis Grammys Joseph Volpe Karin Dreijer Andersson Lady Gaga Madonna Metropolitan Opera Peter Gelb Spectacledebacle Sweden The Knife The Package The Problem With the Avant Garde Wall Street Journal http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/608 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:10:04 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 608 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/brian-eno-has-beef-steve-reich-enjoys-musical-seduction <p>Few artists' careers are as unimpeachable as Brian Eno's. (Well, ok, there is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprise_%28Paul_Simon_album%29">that Paul Simon record</a>.) Anyway, you can marvel at Eno's recorded accomplishments <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno">elsewhere</a>. As impressive as his long list of amazing, culture-impacting albums, though, is the way he talks <i>about</i> music:</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/brian-eno-has-beef-steve-reich-enjoys-musical-seduction">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/brian-eno-has-beef-steve-reich-enjoys-musical-seduction#comments 20th Century Composition Brian Eno Drumming Music for 18 Musicians Paul Simon State of Grace Steve Reich The Problem With the Avant Garde http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/578 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:47:17 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 578 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/addendum-mary-margaret-ohara-mike-bloomberg-u2-blackberries I don't want my permanent record to reflect that my favorite things are BlackBerries, Mike Bloomberg &amp; U2. So, to clarify some confusions that have arisen in the real world since <a href="http://ahb.brassland.org/2009/09/25/loving-u2/">posting last week about Bono's Bloomberg shout out</a> I need to make three points. <!--more--> <b>1. RE: BlackBerries /</b> I like them more than iPhones.<p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/addendum-mary-margaret-ohara-mike-bloomberg-u2-blackberries">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/addendum-mary-margaret-ohara-mike-bloomberg-u2-blackberries#comments Blackberry Mary Margaret O&#039;Hara Mike Bloomberg The Problem With the Avant Garde U2 http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/382 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:34:53 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 382 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/blackberry-loves-u2-u2-loves-mayor-mike-bloomberg <p>Last night I saw U2's 360° Tour. This was definitely the WTF moment of the night. Via <a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/09/mayor-locks-up-billionaire-irish-celebrity-vote">TheAwl</a>:</p><p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/blackberry-loves-u2-u2-loves-mayor-mike-bloomberg">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/blackberry-loves-u2-u2-loves-mayor-mike-bloomberg#comments Giants Stadium Mike Bloomberg Subculture The National The Problem With the Avant Garde U2 http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/371 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:34:17 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 371 at http://arcade.stanford.edu