Hey I know it has been a little dead around here lately like as if Disgusting Things I Have Eaten is finally running outta gas (HINT: IT IS!) but before the well runs completely dry I just want to remind you about a very special event that your humble blogger here will be participating in:
Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Gigantic Present
Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever
Writers, rockers and raconteurs telling three-minute stories about the best rock ‘n’ roll shows ever.
Thursday, Feb. 11th, 8pm @ Bar Matchless
557 Manhattan Ave. Greenpoint
Stories from:
Jami Attenberg (Author, The Melting Season)
Eric Davidson (New Bomb Turks/Author, We Never Learn)
Aaron Lefkove (Livefastdie/Liquor Store)
Maura Johnston (Village Voice / The Awl)
Justin Taylor (Author, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever)
Franz Nicolay (Musician/Writer, The Hold Steady/Complicated Gardening Techniques)
Zachary German (Author, Eat When You Feel Sad)
Adam Wilson (Managing Editor, The Faster Times)
Nick Gazin (Artist, Vice Magazine)
Franz Nicolay (formerly of The Hold Steady)
Jens Carstensen (The Giraffes)
James Yeh (Gigantic)
Aaron Hartman (Old Time Relijun/Girls in Trouble)
Kendra Grant Malone (Poet, author of the chapbook Conor Oberst Sex)
Mike Conklin (L Magazine)
Chelsea Hodson (poet)
Lincoln Michel (Fiction writer, The Faster Times)
Samuel Carter (Overflow Magazine)
Derek Evers (Impose Magazine)
More TBA
Hosted by Jason Diamond and James Yeh
Special musical guests: The Wailing Wall
You know, Brooklyn is a kind of alright place for music and books. But where can you find the two gathered together? At Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever, that’s where.
Greatest Three-Minute Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Ever is where writers, rockers and raconteurs are united at last, relating three-minute stories of youth, sex, booze, noise and a little thing called rock ‘n’ roll.
