Richard Martin

Writer. Editor. Snob. Amateur Carpenter.

David Foster Wallace, RIP

from  Richard Martin
Sunday, den 14. September 2008

Just woke up to the news that David Foster Wallace has committed suicide. I find this unspeakably sad. One of my favorite stories ever is “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again,” a 40-plus-page essay about going on a cruise and how all the expected idiocy is even worse than imagined. I remember when […]

A Case of the Mondays

from  Richard Martin
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008

Ok, so here’s a bit of a belated recap of the weekend, mainly because I did things people might actually care about. Like seeing Radiohead. Twice. On a plot of land overlooking the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Lower Manhattan. As few of you know, I’ve been working diligently on a new magazine called […]

whoa

from  Richard Martin
Thursday, den 7. August 2008

Brooklyn’s been good lately. Lots of outdoor music action. This past Sunday, King Khan and Deerhunter at McCarren Pool in W’burg. Quite wild, quite entertaining. Not sure about Khan’s recorded stuff, but live, this dude and his James Brown-meets-Iggy-Pop band put on a SHOW. And Deerhunter. Well, the record’s out in October, but I have […]

art and stuff

from  Richard Martin
Friday, den 30. May 2008

I ran into my old colleague Nathan Nedorostek on the F train in Brooklyn this morning. He’s putting the final touches on a book called Radio Silence/A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music, which most of you will wanna see when it comes out in September. He and his co-author Anthony have been scouring […]

More on Wine

from  Richard Martin
Thursday, den 29. May 2008

So She One invaded from his blog to recommend a St. Emilion as a late-nite wind down, and it got me thinking that a few issues back I got the Wooster Collective folks to do this section called Evidence in Antenna, and one of the items they included was a bottle of Grgich Hills red […]