which it probably is
― markers, Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:19 (fourteen years ago) link
kid is the best damn music writer i have read in ages and i am crazy crazy jealous, like knowing what truman capote was up to his teens & 20s level jealous. just for the record.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link
^ primarily why i have refrained from saying anything about him up to this point
how old is he?
― max, Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
your age i think
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i think he's like 22?
― markers, Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i might've just made that up
― markers, Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
he's a little older than that i think
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
he thinks a lot
― max, Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
truman capote?
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
not "too much" necessarily but
maybe he should think... less
contenderizer = truman catrolly
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
reading the part I quoted above was really, really depressing -- like, I don't want my stupid, tossed-off shit on ILX to hurt some super sincere kid
― markers, Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
ksh, you should know that super sincere kids that have been abused by stupid, tossed-off shit on ilx are more likely to be offenders themselves
it's not your fault
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
markers, is def a better man than I
― miccio kurihara (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno. he talks about reading michael moore's stupid white men at age 14, and that came out in 2002, so 22 max, probably less than that
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Sarge, I'm gonna assume yr kidding
― markers, Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
he reminds me of a more earnest burt_stanton sometimes
― max, Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i was making a child abuse joke
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link
everything i've learned i know from law and order: svu
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"show me where the anonymous commenter touched you"
― miccio kurihara (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i am not even trolling at all, j0rdan. i just really like reading his writing, in all sincerity. have been meaning to say that since reading lil wayne post, like what, two days ago? but did not, so i will say it now in the wake of grievous internet-based emotional traumas. kid is a good writer.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
no
― miccio kurihara (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
but yes. and he's got nothing in common w burt fucking stanton. level of sincerity, insight, writing chops and real-life sense construction i honestly admire.
like if this "internet project" were just a screen for a novel, it would a good novel and i would want to read it.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:38 (fourteen years ago) link
its not "burt fucking stanton" its "burt_stanton" and i wasnt comparing their sincerity or whatever i was comparing their anxiety disorders
― max, Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link
stand corrected
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
― max,
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.)
lol
― buzza, Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
idk i wasn't zingin or anything \(o_O)/
i could've said my age
― "bubbling" pictures for mormon approved j0hn (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i would love to see this kid write a book report on finnegan's wake
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
he is max years old
― the embrace of waka flocka is v pertinent (deej), Thursday, 2 September 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
writing chops and real-life sense construction
I like reading his stuff too, but no way, man.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 September 2010 07:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, he writes horrible fucking sentences. They are energetic, unconscious paragraphs, which are fun to read (because his enthusiasm and earnestness are so wholly on display) but are still arranged like shit.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:01 (fourteen years ago) link
kid is the best damn music writer i have read in ages and i am crazy crazy jealous, like knowing what truman capote was up to his teens & 20s level jealous. just for the record.― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, September 2, 2010 6:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, September 2, 2010 6:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
ok i was gonna post 'lol' here but then
i am not even trolling at all, j0rdan. i just really like reading his writing, in all sincerity. have been meaning to say that since reading lil wayne post, like what, two days ago? but did not, so i will say it now in the wake of grievous internet-based emotional traumas. kid is a good writer.― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, September 2, 2010 6:34 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, September 2, 2010 6:34 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
WTF
i generally think you have pretty bad judgement but this...
― i am legernd (history mayne), Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:10 (fourteen years ago) link
So the question is... is he referring to ILX?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, September 2, 2010 5:10 AM (2 hours ago)
thing is tho the prr dude thinks people are calling him out even when they're not sometimes? (there was a bit on t ewing's tumblr recently where he sent in a qn that was like 'that one time you talked about people who find this thing confusing did you secretly mean me?? tell me, i can take it!') and so maybe it sounds callous or w/e but i don't see any way he could have not been hurt by just being talked about, he seems like a person who's guaranteed to take any negative comment hard. the thing is that his touchiness is part of the same sensitivity that makes him so worth reading, the hyper-attention to nuance, the filter on his thoughts that doesn't quite work as you'd expect, the sincerity and straightforwardness.
also i know this sounds appallingly callous but... that's such a good description of the confused angry/ashamed when you let yrself get upset by meanness on the internet, i am spending rather more time thinking 'oh, evocative' and rather less going 'oh, poor guy'.
― czyczyczyczy comparative (c sharp major), Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link
idk who is crazier, the dude himself or people who read it on the reg... 'so worth reading'? rly? you've read everything else?
― i am legernd (history mayne), Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link
back of a cereal box - 'so worth reading'
― just sayin, Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:39 (fourteen years ago) link
'so worth reading'? rly? you've read everything else?
wtf does this even mean?
i thought his blog was going to be awful and embarrassing and instead it was really fascinating - the way he writes is curious and evocative, i really enjoy it, though i don't understand any of the pitchfork stuff.
― czyczyczyczy comparative (c sharp major), Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess it means life's too effing short to read pitchfork reviews reviews
― i am legernd (history mayne), Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing is that his touchiness is part of the same sensitivity that makes him so worth reading, the hyper-attention to nuance, the filter on his thoughts that doesn't quite work as you'd expect, the sincerity and straightforwardness.
take a polaroid, the internet now resets itself every 15 mins.
― itsinthetrees, Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
www.diaryland.com
― itsinthetrees, Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
well, okay, i have bad judgment or whatever, but the vast (vast) majority of music writing is unreadable and borderline meaningless, on a human/emotional level. the simple regurgitation of attitudes and half baked observations copped elsewhere. this is especially true of what passes for writing on the internet, my own included, if you insist. but it's not true of PRR dude. his writing is smart, vibrant, evocative (C#M), emotionally resonant and distinctive. i can't say i read him regularly, cuz i haven't bothered with him until a few days ago, but what i have read in that short time has been pretty fucking remarkable. yeah, it's "voice writing" of a sort, therefore sometimes lazy-seeming ("energetic, unconscious"), but i deny that his ideas are "arranged like shit". i think his pieces flow and communicate extremely well. like, shockingly well.
again, i haven't read his work very deeply, but his list of "posts i am proud of" contains some damn fine (yeah, often unconscious-seeming) writing. as does the awesome lil wayne story. and fine, i'm some nerd thinking uncool shit is cool, but whatever. i do.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
his writing is smart, vibrant, evocative (C#M), emotionally resonant and distinctive.
no no no no no
― i am legernd (history mayne), Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:55 (fourteen years ago) link
but yeah. it really is. if you think there's vastly better music blog writing out there, i'd really and truly like to see it.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
you mean other than the alt report?
― i am legernd (history mayne), Thursday, 2 September 2010 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
carles is the worst
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
glad all of this is 100% real
― buzza, Thursday, 2 September 2010 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link
are yall on #teamcarles or #teampitchforkreviewsreviews?
― i am legernd (history mayne), Thursday, 2 September 2010 09:05 (fourteen years ago) link
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 09:07 (fourteen years ago) link