Author Archives: Jason

About Jason

Jason R. Koepke is Founder and Data Strategist at GNT LLC, a risk-analysis and data strategy firm that provides analytical and technical services to the public and private sectors. His work and research has been featured in the academic, financial, and technical industries.

Album Reviews

1——>3——>5
Terrible—>Fantastic

5
Namlook, Pete and David Moufang – Art Of Love, The
Namlook, Pete and David Moufang – Home SHopping
Namlook, Pete and David Moufang – Let The Circle NOt Be Broken
Namlook, Pete and David Moufang – Live in Heidelberg 2001
Namlook, Pete and David Moufang – Wagon Lits

4
Alias – Collected Remixes
DJ Vadim – Sound Cather, The
Ghostland Observatory – Delete Delete I Eat Meat
Ghostland Observatory – Paparazzi Lightning
Magnetic Fields – Wayward BUs & Distant Plastic Trees, THe

3
Aa- Gaame
Cinematic Orchestra – Ma Fluer
Eno, Brian – Before and After Science
Gordan, Peter – Fabriclive.36
Hot Chip – DJ Kicks
Masekela, Hugh – African Connection, The
Masekela, Hugh – Boys Doin’t It, The
Masekela, Hugh – Grazing in the Grass: The Best of Hugh Masekela
Masekela, Hugh – Grrr
Masekela, Hugh – Hope
Masekela, Hugh – You Told Your Mama Not To Worry
Octopus Project, The – Hello Avanlanche
Panthers – Let’s Get Serious
Shellac – Excellent Italian Greyhound

2
Antiguo Automata Mexicano – Kraut Slut
Bowie, David – Buddha of Suburbia
Money Mark – Brand New By Tomorrow
Nastasia, Nina and Jim White – You Follow Me
Orb, The – Dream, The
Parts & Labor – Mapmaker
Peterson, Gilles – Fania Dj Series
Third Sight – Symbionese Liberation
Turbo Fruits – Turbo Fruits
Underworld – Oblivious With Bells (yes, yes, Beautiful Burnout is awesome)
Valet – Blood Is Clean

Updike’s Rules For Reviewing

More to remind me than anything else:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation–at least one extended passage–of the book’s prose so the review’s reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending. (How astounded and indignant was I, when innocent, to find reviewers blabbing, and with the sublime inaccuracy of drunken lords reporting on a peasants’ revolt, all the turns of my suspenseful and surpriseful narrative! Most ironically, the only readers who approach a book as the author intends, unpolluted by pre-knowledge of the plot, are the detested reviewers themselves. And then, years later, the blessed fool who picks the volume at random from a library shelf.)

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author’s ouevre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it’s his and not yours?

Moving!

I’m moving, which partly explains why I’ve been keeping such a low profile lately. If you haven’t been notified of my move and think you should have been, send me an e-mail.