Comments for Michael Hoinski http://michaelhoinski.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:10:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Texas Monthly by Sandra Julian http://michaelhoinski.com/articles/texas-monthly/#comment-901 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:10:09 +0000 http://michaelhoinski.com/#comment-901 Micheal…waiting to hear from you. Am responding to your email from a couple of days ago! Great story here! Lets talk. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Sandra

]]> Comment on A Conversation With Billy Joe Shaver by Steve Satterwhite http://michaelhoinski.com/2011/04/10/a-conversation-with-billy-joe-shaver/#comment-671 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:03:52 +0000 http://michaelhoinski.com/?p=2670#comment-671 Nice interview Michael. Wish it was longer, but you gotta love what you get.

Come visit us in Dallas sometime!

ssssssssssssteve

]]> Comment on VOWS: Carolyn Wonderland and Whitney Brown by Steve Satterwhite http://michaelhoinski.com/2011/03/20/vows-carolyn-wonderland-and-whitney-brown/#comment-648 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:56:13 +0000 http://michaelhoinski.com/?p=2647#comment-648 Nice job, Michael.
I love Carolyn and her music. I once shot her for The (pre-New Times, pre-Village Voice) Houston Press, and I took my son along to her apartment; he was about six or so. She was very kind to him, and we got a real nice shot. Makes me start thinking about digging out those negs. Great memories.
Steve in DFW

]]> Comment on Introducing GTT and The Drop Everything List by Steve Satterwhite http://michaelhoinski.com/2010/10/30/introducing-gtt-and-the-drop-everything-list/#comment-576 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:26:11 +0000 http://michaelhoinski.com/?p=2539#comment-576 Wow. NYT. This is very cool.
CONGRATS to you.

]]> Comment on With Words on Paper, Independent Defies Trend by Ron Seybold http://michaelhoinski.com/2010/12/02/with-words-on-paper-independent-defies-trend/#comment-569 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:43:04 +0000 http://michaelhoinski.com/?p=2588#comment-569 I don’t know if BookPeople has slayed anyone yet. Borders has made an offer to buy out Barnes & Noble, but many books are sold at Walmart, Sam’s Club, Costco and HEB stores. BookPeople is a local treasure, to be sure. It defies what trend, exactly? That B&N and Borders and Books A Million put indie stores out of business? In every major city there’s one BookPeople, like Tattered Cover in Denver, or A Clean Well Lighted Place in SF, or Powell’s in Portland. Smaller indie stores, like BookWoman, suffer from the Boxes. Where Bercu goes awry is thinking ebooks won’t matter: “One thing you can’t do with a digital book is get it signed by an author… you can’t drop it in the swimming pool by mistake and have it work when you pick it up.” But unsold ebooks have no return costs, and scant delivery fees. Physical books won’t die – but these comments sound like Blockbuster insisting “movie rental via mail will never work.” Consider the percentage of books sold at BookPeople with no chance of being signed, or the number dropped into swimming pools. These are not great reasons to dismiss ebooks. Reselling used books, lending them to friends, marking ebooks easily: those are real shortcomings. I pray for the continued health of BookPeople, which has shrunk in size from its zenith in the 90s, after its so-modest beginnings as Grok Books during the 70s. Survival would be a more prudent goal than hoping to slay anything. And if the store could become an outlet for ebook buying, somehow, tying the store experience with the advantages of ebook cost and storage, that might break some genuine new ground in Austin.

]]> Comment on LIVE REVIEW: My Morning Jacket by Didn't Vote For McCain http://michaelhoinski.com/2008/08/25/live-review-my-morning-jacket/#comment-409 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:29:33 +0000 http://michaelhoinski.wordpress.com/?p=584#comment-409 It just meant that the paper doesn’t endorse tired and predictable (not to mention awkward) political injections within a music review. Good for them, in this case.

]]> Comment on INTERVIEW: Crazy Heart Author Thomas Cobb on His Character Bad Blake, Deer Tick, and Why Chet Atkins Killed Country by CRAZY HEARTS & BONEYARDS « Jesse Sublett's Little Black Book http://michaelhoinski.com/2010/03/04/interview-crazy-heart-author-thomas-cobb-on-his-character-bad-blake-deer-tick-and-why-chet-atkins-killed-country/#comment-360 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:06:41 +0000 http://michaelhoinski.com/?p=2221#comment-360 [...] or not, or you are just a Jeff Bridges fan or you like country music or whatever, please read this interview with Thomas Cobb in Village Voice by writer Mike Hoinski. There are many reasons to love this film [...]

]]> Comment on Dodging the Ditches at GM by Lois http://michaelhoinski.com/2009/06/25/dodging-the-ditches-at-gm/#comment-206 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:18:22 +0000 http://michaelhoinski.com/?p=918#comment-206 I’m digging this site. Lots of fun and interesting culture and information!

]]> Comment on RETRO ‘SPECT: Blind Willie Johnson by Michael Hoinski http://michaelhoinski.com/2009/07/23/retro-spect-blind-willie-johnson/#comment-187 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:59:53 +0000 http://michaelhoinski.com/?p=970#comment-187 Thanks, David. I think all of these songs have taken on different titles over the years, and “Motherless Children” is the title under which Clapton recorded it. “Mother’s Children” is how it’s listed on the Blind Willie double-disc The Complete Blind Willie Johnson, which I highly recommend as a primer. For what it’s worth, I also think Dylan recorded “Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed” under “In My Time of Dyin’.”

]]> Comment on RETRO ‘SPECT: Blind Willie Johnson by David Grover http://michaelhoinski.com/2009/07/23/retro-spect-blind-willie-johnson/#comment-186 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:17:22 +0000 http://michaelhoinski.com/?p=970#comment-186 Hey Mike, great article on Blind Willie Johnson. One small correction. The song title for the last clip is: “Motherless Children Have a Hard Time”. Your blogs are really fun to read.

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