Archive for the “The Rock-Word Files” category

An Open Letter to Poppiness

by Alexa Weinstein on January 27, 2012

IN THIS POST PLEASE FIND: Poppiness. Whining vs. beats. Popularity and pornography. The promise of romance. Ineffable emanations. Surfing waves. Hating and loving. Nasty ghosts and pod people. Goodness v. happiness.

Here in Your Mind

by Alexa Weinstein on April 28, 2011

IN THIS POST PLEASE FIND: My dad asks why anyone should care. Sportsball. Billie Jean King. Threadbared. Dungeons & Dragons. The Velvet Underground dissing Mo Tucker when they made Loaded. Interiority vs. information. The flag of this nation. Rusty machinery. Discourse and phenomenology. Emphatic epistolary proclamations. Crisis of faith in one’s own blog. Poly Styrene goes into the waves.

Funny Is the New Deep

by Alexa Weinstein on October 21, 2010

IN THIS POST PLEASE FIND: Steve Almond. Wordstock. Tin House. The secrets of funny writing. Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life. Toto compared to Proust. Jaded bitches. Simon Rich. Tragedy and shame. Rain v. reign. 30 Rock and igneous rocks. Comedy diamonds. Mining for dummies. Shit in stew. King Lear, Charlie Chaplin, Stewart & Colbert, and Hitler. Betrayal and redemption. Nihilism and hope. Rock & roll hearts. Moral codes and sports. Drunk girls and goth kids. Wackjobs and maggots. Love and tigers.