I just got back from NYC to speak at the Experience Music Project / IASPM conference (EMP) which was awesome I presented Saturday afternoon, we got a decent turnout and it went well. Did it, at times, resemble a comedy act? Yes.........
As my fellow panelists were working on our presentation until the last minute, I didn't have the chance to see some of the panels I wanted to, but there has been a plethora of 'stars' at the NYU Kimmel centre. Here were some of the people there:
- Chuck D
- Spike Lee
- ?uestlove
- Jay Smooth (Cute! and nice dude)
- Esperanza Spalding (meh)
- Santigold (interesting)
- Heen (from Das Racist)
- Angélique Kidjo (very interesting woman)
- Lots of 'rock star' journalists, authors and academics - Eric Lott, Robert Christigau, Jeremy Wallach, Greil Marcus, Scott Steward, Ned Ragget, Phil Freeman, Daphne Brooks, Devon Powers, and of course, Ann Powers and Eric Weisbard, etc.
