Guitar player, teacher, and student
Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2011
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Corey Mullee retweeted
I was never the same when I discovered that he conceived the funk vamp in his head while watching this classic scene from the 1968 Western, Once Upon a Time in the West. A clear precursor to how he'd approach the film score for Shaft two years later.
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My only opinion of tucked-in wool sweaters is that they remind me of my first job, where I worked as an after-school chess instructor for kids ages 8 through 12. On the first day, I was being trained by someone who tucked in their wool sweater.
This person showed me how to lead kids through a chess lesson by incentivizing them with gummy worms and printed posters if they answered a chess question correctly. The posters had illustrations on them, such as an anthropomorphic bishop defeating a knight.
To hype up the kids, this guy held a poster in his hand and peeked at it, but also hid it from the kids' view. And then he looked at me and said, "I don't think the kids can handle this one, Derek." And, of course, this egged the kids on, and they said, "WE CAN HANDLE IT, WE CAN HANDLE IT."
Without warning, he then flipped the poster around, unfurled it, and yelled RAWWWRRRRRR!!! The poster was of an evil queen defeating some pawns. Then, at that moment, one kid started crying uncontrollably. He could not, in fact, handle it. He was so unable to handle it that he crapped his pants, and it started to smell very bad. I had to take him to the nurse's office so that his parents could come pick him up.
That's all I think of when I see tucked-in wool sweaters.
Also, I think it looks weird.
Corey Mullee retweeted
There should be a band called “Sold Out” that exists solely as a support band to make every marquee look amazing in the headliners favor.
**Throws phone into the ocean
For Sunday Styles, my story about the Luddite Club. A New York tale about a band of Brooklyn teens and their quest to walk away from technology 🙏📚nytimes.com/2022/12/15/style…
Corey Mullee retweeted
For Sunday Styles, my feature about the dusty old hole-in-the-wall guitar shop in the Chelsea Hotel, which ever since the landmark’s transformation into a chic luxury hotel, has become an unlikely link to the building’s fabled bohemian past 🙏🎸
nytimes.com/2022/11/25/style…
SIGN: Ticketmaster is an unchecked monopoly that exploits artists, venues and consumers. It's time to break up Ticketmaster, lower ticket prices and fight back against corporate influence. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ta…
Corey Mullee retweeted
In the weekly NYT Opinion “The Conversation” feature from Gail Collins and Bret Stephens, kind words about our story last weekend:
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Corey Mullee retweeted
For Sunday NYT, one of the most difficult stories I’ve ever worked on: “The Life and Death of Daniel Auster, a Son of Literary Brooklyn” nytimes.com/2022/07/27/style…
Corey Mullee retweeted
For @nymag/@Curbed, I spoke with residents at Olympic Tower, an LLC hive obsessed with anonymity (yet filled with residents happy to dish about their homes). Oh did they have stories to tell—about deposed foreign leaders, quaaludes rings, and more! curbed.com/article/olympic-t…
Another tasty and incisive column from Philly’s Finest @ShawnMcCreesh 🐘
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Corey Mullee retweeted
In print today, my NYT Sunday Styles cover story about the rise of The Drift. A tale of New York intellectual tradition, tote bags and Tevas, argument and belletrism. Feat. Susan Sontag, Partisan Review, Sharlene’s, David Remnick and Eugene V. Debs🙏📚🍸nytimes.com/2022/02/26/style…
Corey Mullee retweeted
My NYT Sunday Styles cover story about the rise of a little magazine called The Drift. A tale of grand New York intellectual tradition, tote bags and Tevas, argument and belletrism. Feat. Susan Sontag, Partisan Review, David Remnick and Eugene V. Debs📚🍸🙏nytimes.com/2022/02/26/style…
Corey Mullee retweeted
Forty years since Omen opened in SoHo, it remains a unique downtown New York institution and a cherished art and fashion world canteen. My obit for Mikio Shinagawa, its founder and ethereal anti-restaurateur: nytimes.com/2021/12/12/dinin…
Corey Mullee retweeted
One of the most remarkable lives I've written about. My obit for Justus Rosenberg, who as teen brought safe passage to artists out of Vichy France, & became a celebrated professor at Bard, where he represented a living link to Holocaust history. He was 100.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/nyreg…
