tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41947201919979288592024-03-12T17:14:42.013-06:00Samantha Anne CarrilloBurqueña writer & editor Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04873261321591718227noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194720191997928859.post-76132009723108959792018-04-27T10:00:00.000-06:002017-06-01T03:09:53.185-06:00A body of work* by Samantha Anne Carrillo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1) Breaking Bad</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">/</span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Better Call Saul</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> characters </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">| If you’re looking to emphasize the local angle, go with Skyler White (née Lambert), whose actor counterpart is native Santa Fean Anna Gunn or Burqueño and Democratic Bernalillo County commission candidate Steven Michael Quezada’s Steven Gomez. Got a Hank or W.W. lookalike in your life? If so, your choice is obvious.</span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Going into the City: Portrait of a
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Robert Christgau</span><br />
<a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062238795/going-into-the-city" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Dey Street Books</a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">hardcover</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If a music critic ejaculates in a
forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? That question—loosely based on an 18<span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> century thought experiment—has been </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">effectively </span>rendered <span style="font-family: inherit;">rhetorical by Robert Christgau's memoir
</span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Going Into the City</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Epistemology and metaphysics aside, the
self-appointed “dean of American rock critics” leaves few
erections unchronicled in his autobiographical narrative </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Portrait
of a Critic as a Young Man</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">. The sexually explicit content in </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Going Into the
City</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is certainly titillating, but the work's captivating aspects
are largely anecdotal and definitively aural.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From 1974 to 2006, Christgau served as
chief music critic at the <i>Village
Voice</i>. His <a href="http://www.robertchristgau.com/cg.php" target="_blank">Consumer Guide column</a>
contributed about 15,000 graded, capsule reviews to the annals of popular
music criticism. A shifting media landscape retired Consumer Guide,
but<a href="http://www.robertchristgau.com/cg.php" target="_blank"> Christgau still writes about new music and publishes reviews of albums</a> that he rates a B-plus or higher. With his compulsive
intellect and obsessive memory refocused on navel-gazing, he narrates his own life and times with the same authoritative voice and
incisive contention that pervades his body of critical work. From his childhood in Queens to his studies at Dartmouth to his tenure at the <i>Voice</i>,
<i>Going Into the City</i> recounts a life lived </span>thoroughly<span style="font-family: inherit;"> ... with an elite soundtrack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the internet age, it's difficult to grok the power that Christgau wielded from his
typewriter. Imagine one of your album reviews provoked Lou Reed
to rant about you ... <i>on</i> a record. Visualize Christgau dropping the
needle on his promo copy of <i>Live: Take No Prisoners </i>to find <a href="https://youtu.be/j0R8gNGZcVY?t=3m55s" target="_blank">Reed calling him out and speculating on his sexual predilections</a>: “Critics. What does Robert Christgau do in bed? You
know, is he a toe-fucker? Man, anal-retentive—The Consumer’s
Guide to Rock? What a moron! A Consumer’s Guide to Rock, man! I
object to the fucking liner notes. Start studying rock ‘n’ roll?
I can’t believe it.”
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Sonic Youth song “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LYpyXerDg" target="_blank">Kill Yr Idols</a>”
also name-checks Christgau: “I don't know why/ You wanna impress
Christgau/ Ah let that shit die/ And find the new goal.” After
Christgau published a negative live review of Sonic Youth—a
band he lumped in the “pigfucker” genre alongside Big
Black and Butthole Surfers—Thurston
Moore briefly renamed the track “I Killed Christgau with My Big
Fucking Dick.” The fact that Christgau's rock-crit </span>take-downs<span style="font-family: inherit;"> provoked public professions of resentment from rock stars speaks volumes about his sphere of influence. So about the sex, Christgau's </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">candid coital remembrances read more like erotic scripture than brassy pornography. If erotica and relentless reference to art, music and literature
perturbs you, </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Going Into the City</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> may not be for you. Equal
parts bibliography, soundtrack, history and diary, Christgau's largely unflinching autobiography makes the grade. He prefaces his memoir with “I Am Not A Big Deal and This Happened to Me Anyway.” This expert
witness thinks Christgau is a pretty big deal, but let's split the
difference and call it a B-plus.</span></div>
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The last 109 weeks of my life <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">have been s</span>pent promoting cultural literacy, good grammar and civic engagement full-time via print media. <span style="font-family: inherit;">I was hired as an editor for a weekly newspaper in spring 2013.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I was laid off sans notice t</span>his past Monday morn<span style="font-family: inherit;">. Sunday is traditionally a day of rest for me, and the transition feels easier on a weekend. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were </span>pretty normal<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">—</span>except for one thing. <span style="font-family: inherit;">My life is the same; it is also radically different.</span><br />
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What I'll miss most about my former job is the opportunity to empower/promote other creatives. I'm incredibly proud of the formidable work we published in collaboration with local writers and artists. Eschewing purple prose and an audience-as-therapist model, scope shout-outs to some of the staffers and writers who made my tenure as managing editor of the <i>Weekly Alibi</i> time exceedingly well spent.<br />
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To colleague/comrade Ty Bannerman, for his guidance on how to make sense<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">—to myself and others</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">—and for rocking a concertina amid his chickens. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Thank you.</span><br />
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To the strongest editor I know, Lisa Barrow, for her inspiring work ethic and, natch, for hipping me to the awesome that is <i>Gilmore Girls</i>. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Thank you.</span><br />
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To film guru & grammar maven Devin D. O'Leary for his endless know-how and sage advice. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Thank you.</span><br />
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To tender, authentic human Amelia Olson for her kindness and insight. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Thank you.</span><br />
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To fellow ex-Texan Mark Lopez, for our endless film/TV convo and his hilarious stories about his grandmother and raccoon rescue. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Thank you.</span><br />
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Other folks, including Jesse Schulz (Twerk Queen 2014), August March ("In case you wanna know ..."), M. Brianna Stallings (feminist superhero), Captain America (4EVA!), Mike Smith (dark genius), Steven Robert Allen (defender of democracy/half of BaBa), Holly von Winckel (<i>The </i>Ornatelier), David Correia (La Jicarita), Michael Henningsen (RIP, rock star) and Jim Phillips (RIP, Dawn Patrol Captain) kept me knee-deep in talent the whole time. If I forgot to list you<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">—yes, I do mean <i>you</i></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">—please accept this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">❤</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Thank you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">So back to the present, as it were: I am unemployed. I have performed the appropriate rituals: filing for unemployment, registering with an agency, updating my <a href="http://samanthaannecarrillo.blogspot.com/p/resume.html" target="_blank">résumé</a> and revamping my <a href="http://samanthaannecarrillo.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-body-of-work-in-progress.html" target="_blank">virtual portfolio</a>. I've danced widdershins 'round carefully arranged office supplies. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Here in the now, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">I am nervous but also exhilarated.</span><i style="line-height: 21px;"> </i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">It's a pretty normal Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">—</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">except for one thing</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"> But perhaps you landed on this entry owing to its clickbait headline</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">—maybe you're </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">in search of a real answer. If so, please read on. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">So you've been fired, laid off, downsized or phased out. How can you move past the emotional and financial challenges of losing your job? When it comes to finances, take at least 42 deep, relaxing breaths. Realistically assess your finances, then sketch out a realistic budget and stick to it. It's as simple as that, which is not simple at all. Take stock of your resources. What can you do? Who and what entities<i> need</i> what you do? Do you even <i>want</i> to do what you did? Regardless of the tenor of your dismissal, you are <i>not</i> now what you were</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">—</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">professionally speaking. Personally, you are the same badass human you always were. So show yourself appreciation and love. J</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">ust because you're not currently employed as an editor, Fly Girl or rocket scientist, you still have the skills. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">But what about the future? I know it's scary, but I assure you there is life after layoff. Reach out to organizations in your industry, and don't be timid about letting the world know what you have to offer. Over</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"> the past week, I've taken several meetings, and I'm optimistic about my future. Here's another valuable piece of advice: Don't assume that what you made at your last job is what you're worth. Chances are, you're worth a hell of a lot more. Finally, don't feel like you have to show everyone how "fine" you are. If you're an extrovert and being around people energizes you, that's great. If, like myself, you're a dyed-in-the-wool introvert, take advantage of your surplus time by spending more time with your loved ones. If you feel like giving back, offer your services pro bono to organizations that are close to your heart. Whatever you decide, do what you love, and love yourself. </span></span><br />
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