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Sean Nelson

sean@thestranger.com

Sean Nelson has worked at The Stranger on and off since 1996, shortly after having simultaneously quit and been fired from Seattle Weekly. His job titles have included: Assistant Editor, columnist (Last Days, DVD, Erasing Hours—the last of which ran for only 15 brief, glorious weeks), Copy Editor, De Facto Arts Editor, Interim Film Editor, Film Editor, and Associate Editor, which is his current honorific. His writing, if you can call it that, has also appeared in DIW, Alternative Press (where he was edited firmly but fairly by Dave Segal all those years ago), Heeb Magazine, Resonance Magazine, The Seattle Times, and The Portland Mercury. He was recently hired to write about Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark for Continuum Books’ 33&1/3 series of books about great albums from the rock era. Regrettably, Nelson is also a musician. Because the first record he ever made with his band Harvey Danger, sold half a million copies and launched him to momentary international notoriety, he has difficulty giving up on this pastime. A two-time college drop-out (New York University, University of Washington), Nelson enjoyed the honeysuckle irony of being hired by one of his former schools to teach a class in the very subject (songwriting) he dropped out to pursue. Good times. He also co-hosts Audioasis, the local music program on KEXP (www.kexp.org), and maintains a half-ass blog at www.seannelson.net. His favorite Beatle is obviously Paul McCartney.

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