Found: Part of What Makes Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
$12 to see the Found tour? At that point, isn’t it more like Purchased? (And are we the only one who wants to steal a car with a Found sticker and tell everyone about the great found object we spotted just sitting on the street?)
Although it would be worth it if we showed up and some hipster was “sharing” the wallet we lost a while ago. It’s a really ironic wallet, if that helps.
So how long is he gonna milk this cow? Can you make a lifelong career out of picking suspiciously-stained garbage out of bus stops? Doesn’t the voyeurism get ever more creepy as Davy ages? In short, has he any plans to get a life?
posted by bikeamaran on November 18th, 2005 at 12:14 amEveryone is a voyer of some kind. Maybe you fill your voyersitic need by surfing the web at home or tuning in to celebraty gossip. Besides turning an idea into an adventure is the best way to live life. Everyone knows touring in a used van and sleeping on strangers floors is the key to the big bucks, duh!
posted by Uniqueolive on November 18th, 2005 at 8:32 amWHHHIIIIIINE. I’m so bitter about someone else having a successful idea. I feel bad about myself, so I’ll call him creepy and say he doesn’t have a life.
posted by p on November 18th, 2005 at 11:54 amSuccessful? What is that?
This guy was wasted up there at the FF last year. Ridiculous.
How many books sold––that’s what determines a publishing career. The big GUYS in NYC saw a potiential WAVE of followers. I doubt if it actually took off.
Going after your passion—i’m all for it. But, i doubt this is that. i think this more has to do w/ that guy consistently getting laid. And as long as that keeps going, his “found” movement will keep going.
Help us all!
(Actually, love the notes. But the ’scene’ around it, could loose that fast by walking away and NOT buying the book. I’m all into the old issues of lost––self publishing is what it;s about in this country post-internet.)
posted by felice on November 19th, 2005 at 10:01 amGeez, it’s one thing to not care for the project but it’s quite another to slander the guy, Felice. I’ve been drunk and stupid before, as I bet you have, but I’m also willing to bet we’re both good people. As far as “the big GUYS in NYC,” they seem to have been happy enough to allow Davy to parlay Found into his own writing career (the Michigan Theater show was partly dedicated to his new book of short stories). It’s a good book.
And AAiO, the $12 ticket is necessary to afford the rental of the Michigan Theater. It’s not a cheap place to commandeer for the night. I don’t know why it’s such a big deal that tickets are that much considering, especially coupled with the fact he did two free shows in town this year.
For full disclosure, he is an acquaintance of mine, and though I don’t know him well, I have a good feelings about what I believe to be his intentions.
posted by greg on November 21st, 2005 at 4:28 pmFor even fuller disclosure, your other band was also included on the Found Magazine 7″, of course…
posted by Brandon on November 21st, 2005 at 5:05 pmDavy has always been nice to me. I don’t get it either. I wish I was found. Bling Bling.
posted by langel on November 22nd, 2005 at 12:48 amAlong with Michigan Theater, Jewelheart, Ghostly; Found is one of the sacred cows of A2. Nevertheless…
I heard that Found magazine signed a partnership deal with Current magazine & Nike to fund a third world sweat shop which will produce the next three years of “Found” documents, items, and errata. “It’s funny and profound” writes the New York Times, “and so ironic that third world illiterates are producing better material than we’d find on our nation’s streets and trashcans.”
Amazingly, the Theater is planning on closing soon after a record thirteen-year-long engagement of Robert Altman’s “Gosford Park” failed to put enough asses in the hard seats to keep the floodlights on. “I know some people doubted us when we passed on rights to show LOTR: Two Towers or any of the Star Wars films” commented former Director Russ Collins (now manager of Quality 16 concessions) to Current, “but I stand by our theater’s artistic integrity and community values.” The vacant theater will now be a new IKEA outlet.
posted by picky on November 23rd, 2005 at 2:55 pm