{"id":1510,"date":"2013-05-04T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T21:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2013-05-04T14:10:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T21:10:35","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e24-aftershave-smile-with-jeff-weiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E24: Aftershave Smile with Jeff Weiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1512\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"jeffweiss\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/jeffweiss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Los Angeles&#8217; Franklin Hills with Jeff Weiss, music writer for the <em>LA Weekly<\/em>\u00a0and many other publications, editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/passionweiss.com\/\">The Passion of the Weiss<\/a>, co-host of the podcast <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earwolf.com\/show\/shots-fired\/\">Shots Fired<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0and co-author of the book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_10?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=jeff+weiss&amp;sprefix=jeff+weiss%2Caps%2C443\">2pac vs. Biggie<\/a><\/em>. They discuss the total time of his life spent waiting for rappers to show up to interviews; Tyler the Creator and Odd Future as today&#8217;s representatives of Los Angeles, and what the collective has to do with West Coast experimentalism and the city as a magnet for eccentrics; how he fights his personal war against clich\u00e9; kids today, and their tendency to listen to music of all eras, including golden ones, several of which we live in at any given time; Dam-Funk, Matthewdavid, Flying Lotus, and the new, highly Los Angeles-y genre they have created; the genesis of modern instrumental hip-hop; the un-irony of Los Angeles, and your need to carve out your own world within the city if you live in it; his journey from jock to writer, and his novel about a real tragedy on his baseball team; his childhood growing up in a culture-free household; how he one day found himself &#8220;hate-watching&#8221; <em>Girls<\/em>; how the Low End Theory helped him stop hating Los Angeles, and how the city concurrently &#8220;opened its gates&#8221; more generally; which albums can mentally prepare you for the city, and especially for its absurdity; his mentorship by Herbert Gold, the alleged rival of Jack Kerouac; and the only two prices that have come down in the past decade: that of cocaine, and that of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e24-aftershave-smile-with-jeff-weiss\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e24-aftershave-smile-with-jeff-weiss\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Los Angeles&#8217; Franklin Hills with Jeff Weiss, music writer for the LA Weekly\u00a0and many other publications, editor of The Passion of the Weiss, co-host of the podcast Shots Fired,\u00a0and co-author of the book\u00a02pac vs. Biggie. 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