Although I suspect that preferring Balzac could make for a semi-ironic sort of hipster statement, akin to preferring the Mets. the winner of that first battle?ĭAVE 1: Flaubert. STEREOGUM: Do you have a dissertation mapped out?ĭAVE 1: Yes. My focus within French lit is literary theory (and within literary theory, rhetoric, theories of reading, aesthetics and semiotics) and 18th Century literature. STEREOGUM: How far along are you in your studies? What’s your focus within French literature?ĭAVE 1: I’m in the sixth year of my Ph.D.
Listen to “Fancy Footwork” while Patrick gives you tax tips. Note: the two call themselves “the only successful Arab/Jewish collaboration since the beginning of time,” but hadn’t seen Zohan (me neither) so couldn’t answer my question: “Your press release claims you’re ‘the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture.’ What happens with the release of that new Adam Sandler movie?” They answered the rest. The guys are here today because Macklovitch is working on his Ph.D. It’s a two-disc comp of the original album plus remixes of tracks from their oeuvre by MSTRKRFT, DFA, etc. The Deluxe Edition of their 2007 album Fancy Footwork, aka Fancier Footwork, came out a couple of weeks ago on Vice. Gemayel handles keyboards/synths and talk box. Chromeo’s the Montreal/New York electro duo of childhood friends P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) and Dave I (David Macklovitch).
