Macaulay Culkin's pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band

has chris ott weighed in

no, but he did eat some pizza from an awesome local shop in Allston

in 1987.

but does anybody remember that slice? no, and why would they.

i'm going to see this band tomorrow

but will you actually hear their message?

I hear if they finish their set in 30 minutes or less, it's free.

i'm not going to be the one to say that you should feel bad about ponying up for this ultrahipster garbage....

#noshame

^ate the last slice of cheese

dngaf

lol Adam B

I think they have to play their set twice to achieve 30 minutes, unless they worked in a lengthy "Brother Ray's" jam or something.

Feel extra weird about this cos it's in a part of town w a big homeless population and nobody does any fundraisers for the homeless, it's always stuff for the art galleries. I hope they donate some pizzas to the homeless.

There are 5 people in the band, and equally dividing 15 minutes between them gives each person 3 minutes of effort. And these people will be getting free food, free drugs, free places to stay, free hugs, etc. Meanwhile there are people who have been freezing all winter who will be ignored, or likely, exploited for iPhone photos and authenticity stories.

I thought all the homeless lived in Carnegie Hall with pigeons.

People are literally walking by freezing homeless people to pay Richie Rich (and his friends) $15 to sing about pizza that he is getting for free!

When things happen

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2014/04/16/pizza-underground-macaulay-culkin/

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Macaulay-Culkin-booed-stage-pelted-beer-Rock-City/story-21140459-detail/story.html

lol @ attempting to do this in the UK

One fan who didn’t want to be named said: “It just sounds awful. I can’t believe he is doing this. Why bother? It must go down well in America or something.”

Good work, Nottingham!

For the record, Personal and the Pizzas only have a couple of pizza-themed songs.

still dunno how well they'd go down in the UK

Watercooler discussion of child stars today led to Macaulay Culkin, which gave me the opportunity to tell a 60-something-yr-old partner about Macaulay Culkin's pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band. We both agree that he seemed like a guy who had spent some quality time with "the drugs." All in all, it was a good watercooler sesh.

his friend seth green would disagree

Well, yes.

http://gawker.com/macaulay-culkins-pizza-themed-velvet-underground-cover-1668700320

Grab the reins, little Kevin - this horse is one you ride to the flaming end.

or:

Depression and what it's really like [Started by Not Dead Yet in October 2001, last updated 3 minutes ago by Benson and the Jets (ENBB)] 1 new answer

Is there a "Why we don't let celebrities/actors near musical instruments" thread yet?

They released the PU Demos as a single for Record Store Day:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/845/418456381845/418456381845%3A245.jpg

I picked up a copy, one of only two items I picked up for myself for RSD. It's amusing, but we all know that.

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/15148/macaulay-culkin-pizza-underground-disaster/?fb=dd

Aw, that article was good for a chuckle.

et tu, JDarnielle?

so glad i am not in music journalism i would have written that exact email

poor Richie Rich wants a band but doesn't want to interact w the filthy peasants that come to his shows

That is one needlessly long piece about a not very interesting or cool story bro.

By that Friday, it felt like the entire Internet had turned against me. Hundreds of people, maybe thousands, maybe millions, thought I was a jerk. Hundreds told me so on Twitter, dozens on Facebook, a few over email, including a producer of The Drew Carey Show. - See more at: http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/15148/macaulay-culkin-pizza-underground-disaster/?fb=dd#sthash.UKGvC7qX.dpuf

This writer seems to have very little sense of scale when it comes to the internet.

pretty sure i said the exact same thing in my head after reading half and skimming the rest.

xp

missed that there was an "uproar" over her article ... and i'm still not sure i understand why anyone cared? what was the problem exactly? just that it was mean to mac?

Both the reaction and her reaction to the reaction seem blown out of proportion. It was a mean article and not that funny. Culkin and the writer both escaped relatively unharmed and afaict few people noticed or remembered that it happened.

she was an unknown freelance writer w no power and now all these famous people were outing her as a bully in front of a huge audience.

the sum impact of the whole thing is probably the article itself and her nerves for a week. i don't think she is saying anything more really.

It only got worse. The next day, Patton Oswalt—comedian, professional troll, wildly outspoken opponent of Internet outrage—sent several tweets to his millions of followers criticizing my tone. “Way to topple the mighty,” one read.

I couldn’t help but think that if I was a comedian myself, Patton Oswalt—someone who pretends to mock oppressed people (like the transgendered) in service of proving that nothing in comedy should be out of bounds—wouldn’t have been so disapproving; that my blog post would have fallen under the welcoming umbrella of free speech in comedy. Instead, I was a journalist trying to be funny and therefore not allowed to hurt anyone’s feelings, even those of millionaire celebrities and their well-compensated publicists. I wasn’t part of the protected comedy class, and so I wholly deserved the scorn he heaped upon my feeble attempts at mean-spirited humor. Or so it seemed.

Civilians, journalists, famous comedians like Nikki Glaser, comedy fans: all came out against me, saying I was bitter, a failure, jealous, fat, a terrible journalist, a terrible person, a bitch, an asshole, a cunt, that I would rot in hell

In large part it's just too long in relation to the interest/significance of the story, lots of mundane detail that could be left out.

otm

this was usurped on my facebook by a story about a guy who gave public enemy a lift in his car. so, not a lot of legs...

patton oswalt is so fucking annoying. this diss by tim heidecker about those corny as fuck "twitter essays" still cracks me up:

@timheidecker
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