Everybody suffered Covid differently and of course, unequally. Phil Christman: Mission accomplished, but yeah. Peter Mommsen: No, it’s actually genuinely funny. I don’t think the article’s depressing, at least I hope not, but it definitely has the most depressed-middle-aged man vibes of anything that I think I’ve ever written, which, the result within the article hopefully is funny. Could both of you, maybe you start Phil, just kind of tell us a little bit about what you wrote about and why you wrote about it? I think you started off, Phil, in the midst of Covid, staring at your computer screen. One thing with both your articles was the relationship between music and community and the strange communities that can be built around music. And Joey has written a piece about Christian hardcore, “The Death and Life of Christian Hardcore,” where he tells the story that a bunch of us who were around specifically in the ’90s and early 2000s will remember, of the death and life of hardcore. Peter Mommsen: Phil, you’ve written this piece that you have to read to understand fully, I think, called “ Reading the Comments,” subtitled “Fans of 1980s post-punk and new wave find a community and catharsis online,” specifically in the YouTube comments section. Susannah Black: Joey Keegin is a writer and editor at Athwart and The Point, currently living in Chicago.
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His most recent book is How to Be Normal.
And he has a great book column at Plough. His work has appeared in the Christian Century, Paste, Books and Culture, the Hedgehog Review, and other publications. Phil Christman teaches first-year writing at the University of Michigan and is the editor of the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing. Peter Mommsen: Right, and that speaks to me. Susannah Black: This is what we’ve come to call the aging hipster wife-guy segment of The PloughCast. Peter Mommsen: And now, welcome to Phil and Joey, here to talk about Christian hardcore and the strange nostalgic community to be found in the YouTube comments of new wave bands. And then we’ll be talking with Plough editor Joy Clarkson about her new book, Aggressively Happy. We’re here to talk with Phil Christman and Joey Keegin about two of their pieces in the most recent magazine. Susannah Black: And I’m Susannah Black, senior editor at Plough. I’m Peter Mommsen, editor-in-chief of Plough. Peter Mommsen: Welcome back to The PloughCast. Section I: Phil Christman and Joey Keegin: Christian Hardcore and Post-Punk Nostalgia
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Chris Morgan, “ It’s Lit: Youth Culture and the Possible Resurrection of Savonarola,” Jacobite.Joey Keegin, “ The Death and Life of Christian Hardcore,” Plough.Phil Christman, “ Reading the Comments,” Plough.II: Christman & Keegin: How to Build a Good Musical World.I: Christman & Keegin: Christian Hardcore and Post-Punk Nostalgia.Collins, is unfairly maligned and is a model of appropriate ambition, resilience, and contentment. Most controversially, Joy makes the case that Pride and Prejudice’s sycophantic vicar, Mr. Unlike many such guides which focus on one’s internal state, this book encourages readers to find joy in the actual goodness of the world: it is an anti-stoic text. Then, Pete and Susannah talk with Plough’s own Joy Clarkson about her newly-published title Aggressively Happy, a how-to guide to finding joy. They also discuss the way that YouTube comments provide a strange Covid-era community of nostalgia for the children of the ’80s and ’90s. They discuss what makes derivative Christian music bad, and how some Christian hardcore escaped the fate of imitative mediocrity. The blend of nostalgia and genuine appreciation makes for a powerful and enthusiastic back and forth between the two guests, with Pete chiming in and Susannah remaining respectfully silent. Peter and Susannah talk with Joey Keegin and Phil Christman about their pieces on Christian hardcore and ’80s, ’90s post-punk respectively. Listen and subscribe to The PloughCastĪpple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts | iHeartRadio: About This Episode Joey Keegin and Phil Christman on nostalgia and music, and Joy Clarkson on her book Aggressively Happy.
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