good thread!
― goole, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
“okay what is your favorite black sabbath record?” because ozzy osbourne is her father and was the lead singer of black sabbath
can't understand why people think this guy could maybe do with reigning it in a tad
― being a ringmaster's crul (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Is "reigning it in a tad" slang for cutting his own hands off?
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
that was Tony Iommi iirc
― being a ringmaster's crul (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
to ask the finest writer of my generation to self-edit is perverse~
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I would endorse this site if every article ended with a paragraph about how badly the interviewee beat him up
― SO YOU HAVE A BLOG, I HAVE A FIST (HI DERE), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
PRR weighs in on the Everything Everything review:
Cohen also writes, “…the self-absorbed musical equivalent of having 12 browsers open at the same time…” and having 12 browsers open at the same time would be like having Firefox and Chrome and Safari and Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and Opera and 6 other browser programs open simultaneously, and i don’t even know if there are 6 other browsers so i think what he means is either 12 browser tabs or 12 browser windows open, because probably not even the most dedicated tech writer would ever have 12 browsers open simultaneously because what would even be the point of that? they have tabs now
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
<3
― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
because probably not even the most dedicated tech writer would ever have 12 browsers open simultaneously because what would even be the point of that? they have tabs now
how can you not enjoy this dude, i ask you
― camphor jars (c sharp major), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
very fucking easily
― SO YOU HAVE A BLOG, I HAVE A FIST (HI DERE), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
what the world was missing was a cross between fred figglehorn and a self-deprecating ryan schreiber
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
that ian cohen guy, who wrote the everything everything review, also wrote a particularly smug review of the latest blonde redhead album where he all but dismisses the band's career as a product of new york chic and nothing more, and makes gross assumptions about the band's motives for releasing a quiet record.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
u mad
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Ian Cohen can only handle four browsers at most.
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
really possible that ian cohen is not all that as a reviewer, and this everything everything band is not very good either.
― goole, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the first few lines of that BR review didn't look too persuasive to me either, but i haven't heard the record, so
wahts pitchfork
― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
wrote a particularly smug review of the latest blonde redhead album where he all but dismisses the band's career as a product of new york chic and nothing more
they're kinda mediocre compared to DNA - whose song title they appropriated for their band name - but they're not awful, and i have no problem with other people liking them, even though their career is kinda a product of NY chic
― sarahel, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm happy to concede that as one possible outlook, but really BH have been around for many years now and have done a lot of things with their sound. seems each time you read about them somebody's having a go at their roots, which by now have more than been transcended.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
seems each time you read about them somebody's having a go at their roots
geddit
― sexy mfa (history mayne), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
roots -- like hair
i'm dying - geddit?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
shd have just said 'dying' but you had to be all blatant about it
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you joke-policeman jagger
― sarahel, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
it's how i'm conditioned
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
so would your next ban be ... permanent?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
it'd certainly be a sb and sides
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
don't mull it over too much though
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
well before you go, LJ, I'd like to tell you that I kinda liked that EE song Final Form...the NASA song though is way too Coldplay-ish for me...
― i wish them hell and happiness (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
glad you could tidy that one up
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
you're welcome
― i wish them hell and happiness (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
it's the parting shot this thread needed
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
GOD u guys this is the prr thread
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^last of the mohicans
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
what if James Fenimore Cooper wrote for Pitchfork?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
He'd review Deerslayer -- whoops, Deerhunter.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
what if renowned ex-soccer player David Platt wrote about the band Ponytail for Pitchfork, praising its Afrobeat influences?
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
ian cohen is a fun writer imonot into his taste outside of his feel for late 90s NY tunnel raps but yeah
― you cant see me markers (deej), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
and then i got to san francisco and met chris and went to the hostel we were staying at and it turned out that our neighborhood, The Tenderloin, is, according to the New York Times who puts it politely, “the most run down neighborhood in San Francisco.” if you live in san francisco you’ll know what i mean when i say it felt like a post-apocalyptic zombie movie because there were no cops anywhere to deal with all of the people who were walking slowly and mumbling to themselves and the other people who were openly conducting drug and prostitution transactions on the street all around us, like handing each other $20 bills and baggies and vials. it felt like the government had collapsed and they moved all the worst-off and deranged people into one neighborhood
and me and chris couldn’t believe it because we thought brooklyn was pretty gritty and we talked about how The Tenderloin felt like new york must have felt in like 1977 when you could walk to 14th St and 2nd Avenue and pick up a prostitute and nobody would bother you, and now it’s so clean it’s like martial law. chris said The Tenderloin was grimier than the bad parts of Baltimore, which is where he’s from, and he referred to Baltimore, Maryland as bodymore murderland
"Mr. Officer, there are people mumbling out here! Mumbling!"
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 September 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
and it turned out that our neighborhood, The Tenderloin, is, according to the New York Times who puts it politely, “the most run down neighborhood in San Francisco.”
O_O
This was one of the most famous red light districts in US history.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I pressed post too early. I was going to add, "And he had no clue about the place's reputation?"
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe Pitchfork hadn't covered it.
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
and he referred to Baltimore, Maryland as bodymore murderland
instant cred imo
― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
it's like he's never even seen the wire
and me and chris couldn’t believe it because we thought brooklyn was pretty grittyand me and chris couldn’t believe it because we thought brooklyn was pretty grittyand me and chris couldn’t believe it because we thought brooklyn was pretty gritty
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I was going to add, "And he had no clue about the place's reputation?"
In the full piece you find out that he knew nothing about SF and chose a hostel in the Tenderloin solely because it was mentioned in a Belle & Sebastian song. He also spent the entire time there listening to B&S on his headphones and texting while his buddy was hooking up with a girl who worked at the hostel.
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
like a young hemingway, this kid
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 16 September 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
and every time i turn around there’s one less number to text to go get dinner
like a modern-day hal david, this kid
― jaymc, Thursday, 16 September 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, the Kelly Osbourne bit was quoted already but not this:
courtney love looks at me like she’s a bull about to charge me and goes “YOU WRITE FOR PITCHFORK?!” and before she maybe would have started throwing punches, i quickly clarify, “no i write a blog ABOUT pitchfork and other stuff” which doesn’t seem to pacify her that much because she says “WHY would you write a blog about pitchfork? WHY?”
― jaymc, Thursday, 16 September 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
If Courtney Love ever tells me I'm being obsessive and unhinged on the internet I like to think I'll take that as some sort of sign
― being a ringmaster's crul (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 16 September 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link