yeah johnny, idk, i think you're misreading it completely
― Mordy, Friday, 6 August 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
there is nothing ironic about this venture from what i can tell, tho Poe's Law is in affect
This kid writes as if he lived in the house where Winter's Bone is set.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
so anyway the reason i’m reading Master of Reality is that i stopped reading Our Band Could Be Your Life for the moment because i carry a tote bag and the book is really heavy so it makes me hunch over in one direction and i don’t wanna get adult-onset scoliosis, and i guess i’ll pick it back up when i get a backpack, but for now i’m reading 33 1/3 books because they’re light.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
you know, I don't necessarily think it's a problem that he's doing this blog. he's, what, 22? if he's still doing this in a year or two, sure, he'll definitely need an intervention, but as of right now he's basically just some kid "critically" & enthusiastically engaging with music writing, albeit in a really obsessive way
someone should tell him, though, that he doesn't want to become permanently known as "dude who spends all his time thinking and writing about one indie music website." if writing about music is already seen (perhaps unfairly) as somewhat lesser than actually playing music, writing about other people's writing about music way more than you write about music yourself is really down on the scale of things worth spending your time doing
― markers, Friday, 6 August 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i agree that it's a total and complete embracing of taboos and stereotypes, not naivete -- i never read the latter into it at all
― righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
also i think he's crazy
how heavy could that book possibly be...?
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
if I were as crazy as he was, I'd start reading through his posts looking for quotes to make an argument that he's tonally not ironically distanced from his own naivete. but my interest in him only extends to talking shit about him on ILX and mocking his dreams of being a famous indie review site reviewer. so maybe it's ironic! i don't have the interest to really do any investigative textual work about it, lol.
― Mordy, Friday, 6 August 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
― jaymc, Friday, 6 August 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
this is, like, one of the craziest things i've ever seen. it almost seems fake.
― pounding beats of worship (the table is the table), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:12 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Is it just me that thinks the tone and cadence of his writing is incredibly Holden Caulfield-ish?
― someone who has fainted mid-squeeze at a Real Big Fish gig recently (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
there was an entry where he was writing about how he was talking to a stripper and he explicitly referenced Catcher in the Rye
― markers, Friday, 6 August 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
that being said, no idea -- haven't read that novel in years
i never went through a hard rock/metal phase in high school that i think a lot of kids go through where they read guitar magazines and wear hard rock t-shirts, and i’m sort of sad i missed it because it seems really formative, you know? yesterday i was at a museum opening and i told Elizabeth that i spent all afternoon listening to Black Sabbath and it was changing me because i was getting in touch with the beast and she giggled but this record gets me so pumped up, you know what i mean? then i pulled her aside and showed her my air guitar and my hard rock face which isn’t as menacing and tough as a lot of peoples’ hard rock faces but i’m still working on it
― markers, Friday, 6 August 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
painfully, painfully earnest
― markers, Friday, 6 August 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Reads more like a Tao Lin IRL sockpuppet to me. Painfully, painfully self-aware.
― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I am making my "why did I read that" face right now
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/913814425/black-sabbath-and-rick-ross-interviewed-ed-droste-the#disqus_thread
― markers, Friday, 6 August 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
can't we just invite this kid to post here and get it over with
― Party Car! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
we would drive him to suicide in like a week
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
he "liked" one of my tumblr posts
― max, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, actually, the posts I've read make it seem like he just kind of goes around annoying his friends, acquaintances, and various indie-level celebrities by obsessively talking about Pitchfork and all of his ~deep thoughts~ about music -- so in a way, I wonder if wouldn't just be more productive for him to be on a message board!
― jaymc, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, August 6, 2010
dan we have said this about SO many people over the years and they are all still here.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i can relate to this guy in a way. i was pretty absorbed when i first discovered the site (pitchfork not prr obv), but whereas my attraction was counterbalanced with feelings of shame and guilt related to the site's reputation irl society, he is just totally shameless and letting it all out in what seems like a pretty deep and weirdly emotional & honest public diary
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
someone should tell him, though, that he doesn't want to become permanently known as "dude who spends all his time thinking and writing about one indie music website."
I'm not convinced that he *only* reads Pfork; he says, for example:
Ian Cohen’s Teflon Don review is precluded from being revelatory because so much quality stuff has been written about Teflon Don already, but it is a fantastic synthesis of the discussion about the record and it’s written succinctly and intuitively.
Doesn't that imply that even though his site focuses on Pfork, he's got a pretty well-rounded reading list going?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
this is just what it's going to be like from now, with those millennials, isn't it
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I like that he hesitated about interviewing Ed Droste not out of concern for Droste's right to privacy or anything but because he didn't want the inevitable subsequent blog post to seem gimmicky.
― jaymc, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
also if anyone has ever read the blog stereogum it's like basically the same thing. i would bet money this dude was p prolific regular poster in their comments section before this started
also please don't invite him to post on ilx
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
in the NYT feature, he apparently wouldn't give his surname because he didn't want his day job to find out, but he did consent to a photo o_0
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
xp to jaymc
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
― max, Friday, August 6, 2010 4:00 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
welcome to the club homie
― righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
xp lexyeah, I found that very odd. Everyone reads the NYT, no?
― elephant rob, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
he is just totally shameless and letting it all out in what seems like a pretty deep and weirdly emotional & honest public diary
yeah i was wondering how to put this, but it really reminds me of those people who assumed the internet was a "private" place and would put all manner of TMI/shameful shit out there, and whose IRL/internet crossover was basically nil, which is the case for so few people now and surely not him?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not convinced that he *only* reads Pfork
feel somewhat obligated to point out that you introduced the concept of him exclusively reading Pitchfork in your rebuttal of the idea that that is all he reads and that the incredibly loltastic paragraph about him being afraid a 500 page book is going to give him adult-onset scoliosis conclusively proves he reads other things
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure that he reads, like, the village voice and shit -- not that crazy of an idea
― righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor, only reading music sites or books somehow related to music does not a well-rounded reading list make.
that and stronghulkingtonsghost, yes this is the way it's going to be. which makes me want to puke/
― pounding beats of worship (the table is the table), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
can't be repeated enough
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
someone should just give this guy a really long hug and whisper "shhhh it's okay everything's going to be okay" into his ear
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
THAT'S WHAT HAS BEEN TOLD TO HIM HIS ENTIRE FUCKING PATHETIC EXISTENCE.
HE NEEDS TO BE PUNCHED FUCKING HARD WITH A COPY OF ANNA KARENINA
― pounding beats of worship (the table is the table), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
y'all need to relax and give a kid a break
― Party Car! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
in his legs, you mean.
― pounding beats of worship (the table is the table), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, August 6, 2010 9:03 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
loooool
― unchill english bro (history mayne), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i30.tinypic.com/vzde6c.jpg
― zvookster, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
nah, I'm inclined to be way more forgiving of youthful earnestness and naivete than I am of callow cynicism a la Hipsterrunoff.
― Party Car! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
ftr i think whoever's behind hipsterrunoff also needs his legs broken
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I tend to want to lock both of them in a box and toss them into a river
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i just want to see prr dude interview carles
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't at all mean to suggest this, btw.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I invited him FYI
― Party Car! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
What's to say he isn't already posting here under some random name, and not in this thread?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 6 August 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link