maybe this is just the Richard Marx stan in me talking but that guy just seems like 100% douche.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
150% even
I was gonna say Richard should just ignore the trolls like any sensible person but this is probably going to give him the most publicity he's had in years.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
nobody really comes out looking great in this thing. but i mean when has "a writer dissed me, if i CONFRONT him nobody will write bad things about me!" ever worked?
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
true
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
“A Christmas album?” he said. “At Target? You know, I was kind of ehhhh on what you said about him”—Mike lifted his palm to chin level and wobbled it back and forth—“but that is shameless.”
This is such a funny way to end this article. Though recording a Christmas album w Kenny Loggins is probably a better way to earn money than writing a story about how you insulted a guy you never met and then impressed your boozehound friends by avoiding a bar fight.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
The funny thing to me is that the writer sounds like like he was kinda meek/apologetic at the bar meetup, but then like any good passive-aggressive douche goes and editorializes about all the things he WOULD have said in the blog.
it's so fucking lame
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
At one time, Rogers Park had been an Irish and Jewish neighborhood, but immigration and suburbanization transformed its demographics to equal thirds white, black, and Latino, with a few Middle Eastern grocers mixed in for diversity. The Lighthouse was the last redoubt of white folks too sentimental—or too broke—to leave the old neighborhood. Sitting next to the stubborn ethnics on the torn vinyl stools were broken, drunken men and women who lived in adult care facilities on Sheridan Road, the neighborhood’s main drag.
COOL STORY BRO OH WHAT YOU HAVEN'T STARTED YOUR STORY YET COOL I'LL WAIT
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
“What happens when two Irishmen and a Jew buy a bar?”
How about 'What happens when a dickbag and a butthurt dickbag meet up in a bar?'
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
just remembered in college i once e-mailed a certain chicago critic about his use of the word "ironic" and he responded "irony is in the eye of the beholder."
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
same dude also got called out by a lunatic celeb for word choice and released the convo, possibly more than once. Whoever can guess who i'm talking about gets to realize they've spent more than a decade caring about this shit.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
not me then.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Is there anyone who cares about a dickhead blogger being a dickhead to Richard Marx in 2013?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
Who is the audience for this?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
dickheads
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, readers of The Morning News I guess. Not sure who that is generally, but they exist.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
anyone who clicks on a thread titled "richard marx - s&d"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Heh -- saw that quip coming soon as I hit submit
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
I thought this article was hilarious.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 13 January 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
My favorite part:
Until I wrote that blog post, I hadn’t thought about Richard Marx in more than 20 years. Back in 1989, my friend Marty was trying to describe the roster of a celebrity softball game, but couldn’t come up with the name of one of the musicians.“Who’s that guy who really sucks?” Marty asked.I knew immediately. “Richard Marx?” I replied.Marty’s face lit up. “Yeah! That’s it!”
“Who’s that guy who really sucks?” Marty asked.
I knew immediately. “Richard Marx?” I replied.
Marty’s face lit up. “Yeah! That’s it!”
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 13 January 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
This blogger can have his fun, but here are the facts
Marx wrote "Hazard".This 'blogger' wrote...this.
Nuff said.
― NINO CARTER, Sunday, 13 January 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
Blogger also seems like the guy who would write an entire blog lamenting today's price of milk.
― NINO CARTER, Sunday, 13 January 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Marx wrote "Hazard". This 'blogger' wrote...this.
I like this article more than I like anything I've heard in the Richard Marx catalog.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 13 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
I do not like Richard Marx. "Hazard", however, is fantastic.
― NINO CARTER, Sunday, 13 January 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
gtfo
xpost
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 January 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
LOL
― NINO CARTER, Sunday, 13 January 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
sb poliopolice imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
I wouldn't care if Marx had performed only harmonized farts for 20 years, tho, that article was just a self-backslapping piece of crap regardless
― NINO CARTER, Sunday, 13 January 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
Totally. But kind of funny.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 13 January 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
I liked that article, especially how it subdivided his ballads into pre-prom, prom, and post-prom.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 January 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
Where does that leave Children Of The Night
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Sunday, 13 January 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
9 months post-prom
― mark e, Sunday, 13 January 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
I like it because the guy writing the article depicts himself as a not-particularly-influential critic who makes an offhanded comment thinking nothing of it, and finds himself sucked into an a comically ominous battle with a soft rock B-lister. I think he approaches the situation half-wanting to blow off Richard Marx as some lame has-been, and so he never takes Marx seriously, just riding the wave of this bizarre experience to the point where he ends up having an uncomfortable face-to-face meeting.
“Explain to me why I’m shameless,” Richard Marx said.Had I given it more thought, I would have written that Richard Marx was the kind of musician who wouldn’t be ashamed to record anything he thought would sell a million copies. But I didn’t want to say that to his face."You called me shameless in my hometown, where my family can read this.”That was a douchey thing to say, especially since Richard Marx is married to a model and I’d woken up alone that morning. I let it pass, though. I wasn’t there to start another argument.
Had I given it more thought, I would have written that Richard Marx was the kind of musician who wouldn’t be ashamed to record anything he thought would sell a million copies. But I didn’t want to say that to his face.
"You called me shameless in my hometown, where my family can read this.”
That was a douchey thing to say, especially since Richard Marx is married to a model and I’d woken up alone that morning. I let it pass, though. I wasn’t there to start another argument.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 13 January 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
He took him seriously enough to meet him for a drink.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 January 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
yeah .. i think thats pretty cool actually ...
― mark e, Sunday, 13 January 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
Richard Marx was the kind of musician who wouldn’t be ashamed to record anything he thought would sell a million copies.
what does this even mean? As an artist I want to record a song bought only by the Edward McClelland claque?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 January 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
i'm super-curious why marx is so worked up about the phrase "shamelesness," but why should a journalist be expected to explore that, or even defend his work, when he can just hem, haw, hand the offended a copy of his book about obama and write a tell-all later?
― da croupier, Sunday, 13 January 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
no question he gets defensive about music. Besides the Adam Curry kerfuffle, I remember reading an irate letter in his name after Entertainment Weekly made disparaging remarks about him in the mid nineties.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 January 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
It's doing what you want without concern for how it might be received vs. cynically doing exactly what you think will sell. Isn't this the classic 'sell-out' debate?
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 13 January 2013 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
oh is that what the debate was about
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 January 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
the sellout argument is kinda moot if you never liked him in the first place though, surely
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
he's referring to the Alan Vega-Colin Newman collaboration that Marx left in the vaults because the record company wanted "Endless Summer Nights."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 January 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
It's not my argument that Richard Marx is a sellout. It's my argument that he sucks.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 13 January 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
better log out before he reads you!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 January 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
was thinking of starting some shit with him on twitter
― Poliopolice, Monday, 14 January 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
omg his dad's name for real is Dick Marx?
― NINO CARTER, Monday, 14 January 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
i mean obv Richard = Dick but if that was my last name I'd probably just go by Richard like my son did
back on topic, Richard frequently plays shows at this Theatre called Plaza where all kinds of over the hill acts perform, apparently he began his last show with like a 15-min movie or something like that...
― NINO CARTER, Monday, 14 January 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
Richard Marx ✔ @richardmarx
"Risque" clothing banned at Grammys but guys who beat up women? Come ooonnn downnnnn.....#goodcallgrammys
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 February 2013 03:33 (eleven years ago) link