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jonny2

OKAY THERE IS NO MUSIC SCENE HERE–Cover bands, bad country and a total ignorance of our rich musical heritage.

BUT…more to follow and congrats to the winners!!

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First, Nick Hart: That passage is awful. That’s why you didn’t win. Stream of consciousness imagery does not make a well-connected piece.

Second, I think Jessica Walden-Griner’s piece on Macon captured the “what was” of the Capricorn records scene quite well. There’s some good local bands, but they border on the less-than-obscure at the moment. While I don’t find Jason Aldean to be a worthy export from Macon, I do note that Macon was once as important, or at least on the cusp of being as important as Memphis and Nashville to the music scene and yet it died a quick death in the late 70s. Why is that? It’s a good lead-in to a much bigger story that frankly, I’d like to read.

WOW!!!! THAT IS SO COOOL HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

I couldn’t have been more honest about the music scene in my hometown. With one bar and only bands who play cover songs what the hell am I supposed to write about. Plus I am in Newport, Maine and I told you the only good thing to come from this area was Country Music Hall of Famer Yodelin Slim Clark. To me it sounds like a lot of the finalists had a template to go by and that is just boring.

Crystal Lafata’s San Pedro article was great. I just wish she had more words to work with. I want to know more!

Jordan, go back to folding shirts.

as a maconite and local music enthusist, our city’s local music scene was not represented here. it was a great write up on our history, but honestly the greatest thing out of macon lately is not jason aldean. as a writer you need to do a little research before you try to fill empty pages, you might be surprised that you are actually surrounded by great music.

wow, I will read the last 10 next time I can’t get to sleep. Does anyone remember when writing was interesting and didn’t follow a all too predictable template?
Where is mine? Why didn’t I make the cut? Because I used profanity?

Tell me whats wrong with “Somehow, somewhere along the beat path, raves turned from powder and ass playgrounds to that guy who should have died naturally long ago, and only kept alive by beat machines and happy medication. Make it stop. I want it to end. I want it to be a porn star, I want to love to watch it suck.”
No? Terrible? Please, critique me. Tell me why I don’t belong in the finals.

I think all of the entries are great. Much better than what I conjured up in the 30-minutes before deadline. There is always round two though…

This is horse shit…why even bother with any of this. Go back to sleeping with local musicians to make yourself feel better about your sub par writing.

These people shouldn’t be journalists. They should work for the tourism commission in each of their respective cities. A real essay would have found a story, something unique about the city worth telling. Nancy Chow did that. Almost everyone else just wrote book reports about why they live in the best city ever. And way too many essays included the phrase “on any given night.”