I just mean ... there are lots of things people will joke around with you about via permanently preserved correspondence, but legal issues surrounding key business trademarks = seriously not one of them! I don't know that that's even a punch for real, more of a "this is not really an area in which anyone is going to dick around and have fun with you."
― nabisco, Friday, 16 November 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Ouch.
― The Reverend, Friday, 16 November 2007 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
pitchforkmediadotcom is dumb (#1 in a series)
Given how many times this album was pushed back, it wouldn't be out of the question to suspect some quality control issues, but RZA himself said in The Wu-Tang Manual that he tended to gear the overall style of an album based on what time of year it dropped, and 8 Diagrams couldn't have debuted at any time other than winter-- perpetually overcast, dark before the afternoon ends, and freezing your eye water.
freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water freezing your eye water
http://virginsuicides.no.sapo.pt/frozentear.bmp
― stephen, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
the comments on the 'worst covers' list are, for the most part, more embarrassingly awful than the artwork.
― jermainetwo, Thursday, 13 December 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Seriously, it's like pretending like you're about to punch someone in the face and then getting mad when their first reflex is to punch you in the face for real.
-- Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 16 November 2007 20:28 (4 weeks ago) Link
It is more like yelling, in your worst French accent, "Ah m goiiin too pawnch zhoo in theh fehce (frog laugh)" with one eye closed while dangling a baguette delicately between two fingers like a distasteful pornographic magazine discovered during an unscheduled room cleaning by your disapproving Belgian mother and then being forced to write every victim of violence in the entire world ever (even those made into kidney pie maggot-styley) explaining that a consciousness-raising committee had been formed to ban people like yourself from ever talking in silly voices about silly things again.
that is what the pitchforkmediadotcom.com situation is like. what do I know, though?? I am just a PASSIVE OBSERVER.
― Jeff!, Friday, 14 December 2007 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
No, threatening a lawsuit and assuming everybody's gonna know you were just a-funnin' because, hey, the way you phrased things was totally funny - that doesn't really compare to telegraphing your intentions via ridiculous accent and costume.
― J0hn D., Friday, 14 December 2007 10:47 (sixteen years ago) link
webdev lulz.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Monday, 7 January 2008 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Seems more intelligent and thought out than usual. What gives?
― King Boy Pato, Monday, 7 January 2008 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
the email to pitchfork is confounding not because it touches on "serious", unfuckwithable issues but because it's simply unfunny and pointless.
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 7 January 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
wouldn't this http://www.pitchforkmediadotcom.com/index6.htm get him off due to fair use laws regarding parody? or is the url too intentionally misleading?
― kiss out the jams, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 07:20 (sixteen years ago) link
also, I laughed at "beanbag chair chorizo"
― kiss out the jams, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link
<i>No, threatening a lawsuit and assuming everybody's gonna know you were just a-funnin' because, hey, the way you phrased things was totally funny - that doesn't really compare to telegraphing your intentions via ridiculous accent and costume.
-- J0hn D., Friday, 14 December 2007 10:47 (4 weeks ago) Link</i> Well John, at least you find me totally funny! :-)
― Jeff!, Friday, 11 January 2008 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link
yay a famous person likes meeee
― Just got offed, Friday, 11 January 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ ahaha !
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Two of the questions from Pfork's interview of Colin Greenwood, bassist for Radiohead:
Pitchfork: The Pitchfork review of In Rainbows suggested "Radiohead have grown tired of trying to outrun themselves." What do you think of that assessment?Pitchfork: The Pitchfork review of Hail to the Thief put forth the idea that "anything Radiohead does from here on out will sound like Radiohead"...
Pitchfork: The Pitchfork review of Hail to the Thief put forth the idea that "anything Radiohead does from here on out will sound like Radiohead"...
― stephen, Friday, 28 March 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
"For personal questions, please press 2. For favourite Torchwood character, please press 3."
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 28 March 2008 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I would wager most of the people who posted in this thread in 2002 and 2003 have gone on to write for the site.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Friday, 28 March 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the only one who has "gone on to" write for the site is Jess. Raposa, Dare, and Leone were already on staff at the time. I mean, unless mr. sparkle is a pseudonym for Tom Breihan or something.
― jaymc, Friday, 28 March 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
who was dare
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Christopher "Double" Dare
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 28 March 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
mr. sparkle = Ray Suzuki
― David R., Friday, 28 March 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
mad lolz @ ljag
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 March 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost: mr. sparkle = http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/mrsparkleorig.jpg
― stephen, Friday, 28 March 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i posted to ilx before i wrote for pfork, pplz
― and what, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
lord forgive me, the hennesey got me not knowin how to act / i'm fallin and i can't turn back
lmaaaaaaao
― and what, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
the mobb deep quote fits like a high-top fade, but will it make up any of the cred i'll lose forthis??? let's fucking hope so!
-- ethan, Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link
trifnan delong
there practically isn't any Pitchfork writer on ILX who didn't post here before writing for them, except for a couple PF lifers like Rich@rdson and, well, me.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
and i don't really count cause i was there for all of 3 months.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i mean i started in 01 but i was posting here in 2000
― and what, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
xp nice try, lifer
do we count ramosi here too?
― and what, Friday, 28 March 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh hey you guys, it's Jeff again. I figured since you all collectively have such a vested interest in my, uh... COMEDY I would let you know that I'm working on a new cartoon series called Starving Muppet Babies.
Oh and here's a direct link to the most recent episode.
More to the topic, what's w/ the grade inflation lately??? So much BNM, not enough monkey urine.
― Jeff!, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
FFS, Cohen, get over yourself: The Cinematic Orchestra Live at the Royal Albert Hall "review"
― dblcheeksneek, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
why do you guys bother reviewing albums by your own writers if every single one gets b/w 7.5-7.7
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
it's kinda played out but i still fuck with every day.
― Jordan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
What is song Ma Fleur?
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
pitchforks say oneida in north carolina the 21st
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/50720-oneida-turn-iweddingi-lp-into-live-spectacle-tour
terrastock says oneida's at the fest the 21st
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Terrastock7/Terrastock7_performers.htm
what is wrong, pitchforks?
― kamerad, Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
today's two main reviews:
Bun B - II Trill - Rating: 7.7 -------------------- Recommended
Steinski - What Does It All Mean? - Rating: 8.7 ----- Not Recommended
... .. .
????????????!??!?!?!?!!
― stephen, Friday, 30 May 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
If the Recommended or Best New Music tags were STRICTLY a function of the ratings, there wouldn't be any reason to have them.
― nabisco, Friday, 30 May 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
It does say Terrastock on the 21st...of June. Winston-Salem, N.C. is the 21st of August.
Nabisco's right, but in addition to that compilations/archive releases/reissues of older material, etc., don't get those tags. (The other one being "Best New Music" and all.) There have been a few exceptions for collections of recent-ish 7"/12"-type material that most readers wouldn't have been previously familiar with (this was really stretched for the Braxe comp) but that Steinski is a collection of material from the past three decades, so...
― scottpl, Friday, 30 May 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
good point Scott (i realized it was a comp. after i actually read the review, duhhh)
― stephen, Friday, 30 May 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
why does pitchfork writers never want to bob their heads to trip hop?
― rockapads, Friday, 30 May 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i would like to see a 5.8 rated album get a "Recommended"
― matinee, Friday, 30 May 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Ta-da.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/50523-supreme-balloon
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/50868-dominique-leone
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Close but not quite:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43468-arms-down http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/18319-geography-cones
― jaymc, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
what did rollie pemberton get
― deej, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16509-cadence-weapon-is-the-black-hand?artist_title=16509-cadence-weapon-is-the-black-hand
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link