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You sound passionate, and your rhetoric of battles to be re-won piques my interest. But I would love to know what battles these entail; what danger are we facing. I'm not sure, for example, whether you'd view my profession (preserving/reusing historic buildings, rejecting suburban waste and...

Ok, it usually seems to be put more broadly and insidiously, ie that "rockism" is an attitude that need not be espoused by a fan of "rock" alone. I always feel like it's code for a combined hipster/angry white man/critic/false-consciousness/hippie/naive/idealist/cynic/anti-commercialist...

I can't say I tend to worry about "rockism" or "anti-rockism" or anything analogous when listening to/aquiring/exploring/recommending music. While my tendancy has always been toward expanding eclecticism, I'm not troubled by the fact that I don't like everything (for example, still haven't...

If I could write like you (in your previous post) I probably wouldn't have made a mix ; ) I would be incredibly happy to see someone else take a stab at the year from a wholly different perspective--and I think it could be done with equal intensity and quality. With my own set, I don't feel...

As for getting a copy---at the moment, I'm taking a break from making them due to personal and professional needs. However, it is my hope to start making them again by early autumn. I do have a queue of ~150 already, but if you're interested and patient, do feel free to contact me at...

I hadn't heard of this, but it seems like a fun assessment of '82. Basically, I made a mix because I'm not a writer--I couldn't do the stuff justice with words. The simple '1981' title is slightly misleading, I'll admit--but it had more graphical appeal than '1981...