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March 13, 2005
Hide Ya Face
Ibiblio's ibiblog has just started podcasting. For the inaugural show, Bret Dougherty did a short interview with me about the security clampdown that prevented me from wearing my UNC Mexican wrestling mask at last Sunday's UNC/Dook game. I'd been thinking about the incident in the framework of a post-9/11 surveillance society but Bret aptly ties it back into the whole concept of crowd spirit and the considerable efforts that have been put into juicing up those once-lackluster Smith Center crowds. I had to confess to actually having been a part of the very quiet Smith Center crowd on December 15, 1991 - the day that Florida State's Sam Cassell made his infamous "wine and cheese" remarks following FSU's surprisingly victorious ACC debut. The Smith Center crowd rowdiness has definitely changed a lot since then, masks or no masks. Check out the interview via ibiblio's podcast feed or via the MP3 link in the ibiblog post.
While I'm on the hide-ya-face "masked man" tip, here's a pretty great mystery-diffusing interview that Hua Hsu recently did with MF Doom. I really like the way that The Wire is providing unedited interview transcripts online as a supplement/alternative to the full critic-speak articles that appear in print. For artists that I already like and know something about, I am finding that the raw interviews are actually much more enjoyable and informative! The Wire's web site has also been offering up some MP3s for the artists featured in the magazine. So if you didn't pick up Mm..Food last fall, check out "Deep Fried Frenz" (6.8 MB) for a very Doom-ish spin on the Whodini classic "Friends".
Posted by Tim at March 13, 2005 02:28 PM