3.17.2008
PASTE: Belfast
Started some writing for PASTE, the coolest culture magazine ever to be published in Decatur, Georgia - hands down. Turns out, people in San Fran, Brooklyn, and Houston dig it too. It wins the mag-o-year Plug award, indie-media's Oscars, like Hilary Swank. Anyways, I wrote two stories in April's issue (not the Michael Jackson sequine glove cover). One is a short essay on an old book. The other gives an inside look into the Belfast music scene, something, surprisingly, I actually know about. I love that city. A preview of the Five Things piece:
****Best Hollywood DJ who spins at a dockside divebar: You know his licks from the Soderbergh films (those caperific Ocean’s soundtracks are his) but locals in the know find David Holmes on one-in-four Friday nights at the Lifeboat Bar near Lagan Weir. It’s a bar’s kind of bar, pleasantly dingy, genuinely-haphazard, full of red heads. They might even be mean to you. But a Holmes’ surprise spin of the Supremes will gladden your heart.**** (The wording likely changed when going through the meat-grinder of editing. This is the realthing.)
Also, check out the best musician from Belfast NOT mentioned in this list in May's issue (cover: ben Gibbard from Death Cab.) More to come.
Started some writing for PASTE, the coolest culture magazine ever to be published in Decatur, Georgia - hands down. Turns out, people in San Fran, Brooklyn, and Houston dig it too. It wins the mag-o-year Plug award, indie-media's Oscars, like Hilary Swank. Anyways, I wrote two stories in April's issue (not the Michael Jackson sequine glove cover). One is a short essay on an old book. The other gives an inside look into the Belfast music scene, something, surprisingly, I actually know about. I love that city. A preview of the Five Things piece:
****Best Hollywood DJ who spins at a dockside divebar: You know his licks from the Soderbergh films (those caperific Ocean’s soundtracks are his) but locals in the know find David Holmes on one-in-four Friday nights at the Lifeboat Bar near Lagan Weir. It’s a bar’s kind of bar, pleasantly dingy, genuinely-haphazard, full of red heads. They might even be mean to you. But a Holmes’ surprise spin of the Supremes will gladden your heart.**** (The wording likely changed when going through the meat-grinder of editing. This is the realthing.)
Also, check out the best musician from Belfast NOT mentioned in this list in May's issue (cover: ben Gibbard from Death Cab.) More to come.
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