Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Aram Sinnreich
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The only thing more obscene than a billionaire is a trillionaire.
In 1999, Playboy spoke with Maya Angelou. The Playboy Interview never ran. The copy was misfiled and forgotten for 20 years.
Now, as we bring this remarkable piece of history online, it serves as a bridge to a voice that remains as vital and urgent as ever.
I saw it with my dumb friend Aviv for my 9th birthday. Even after watching the entire film, he was still convinced it was about Noah's Ark.
Get 'em
YES! This was the vena cava of my teenage years. RHPS @ the Playhouse. Posters @ Psychedelic Solution. Drinking 40s w skinheads. I logged countless hours on the stoop of Electric Lady Studios (probably many of them listening to Hendrix on my Walkman) before I finally realized what the building was.
But my favorite version is probably the live one we did at the Village Underground back in 2002 when Brave New Girl did our "last show" (before we got back together in '08):
Happy #LovingDay to all my fellow lovers, especially the love of my life @duniabest.bsky.social.
Incidentally, I wrote a song years ago called "8th Street" that, for me, really captures that vibe. I first recorded it with my band Brave New Girl back in 99/00:
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Years later, @duniabest.bsky.social and I recorded a very different, slower, more acoustic version of it on our album "Bedfellows":
Read Maya Angelou's Playboy Interview, written in 1999 but not run in the magazine until 2019.
