" I work between 70 and 80 hours a week on a website which is pretty much a labour of love and the freelance work I need to do, in order to keep myself in baubles and biscuits." "We need to have really good google presence for me to earn the paltry amount of £100 a week (do a google conversion and start weeping) and this is for a 70 hour 7 day week, which is kind of destroying my physical and mental health at the moment." "Maybe I'll start working 14 hour fucking shifts instead of 13 hour shifts."
I usually don't like to post negative things on this board just cause, but this?? Is the life of a music journalist/web designer really so strained and laborious?
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 9 April 2011 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
My life as a freelance journalist is a piece of piss. My life as the owner/editor/features editor/staff writer of an independent music site is *exactly* like that. No overexageration. No metaphor. One of the 15 - 20 people I know on this board could probably confirm it if they so wished.
I'm not looking for sympathy by the way, I enjoy doing nothing other than my job with my waking hours. I wouldn't have it any other way. That's not to say I like having my time wasted though. This is the only time I've ever mentioned my hours/pay in the context of not wanting trustafarians in shit NYC bands pulling spoofs on me.
They took one of my questions out. They said who should they have spoofed if not Salem and I said they could have done Wavves by taking a liquid shit onto a dictaphone. Didn't make the cut.
― PG Harpy (Doran), Saturday, 9 April 2011 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I said they could have done Wavves by taking a liquid shit onto a dictaphone.
Would've definitely left that in any interview I was publishing.
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 9 April 2011 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
My question wasn't meant to be sarcastic or ironic. I'm far removed from the music industry. I do write quite a lot, though I never consider it work exactly. I've never gotten paid for my writings. Any kind of work involves a certain labor, yet also when a lot of strain and stress is involved I question the joy and quality of the work. Not that writing always comes easy and that certainly can be stressful. Maybe that's why I choose work that doesn't concern my loves, taste, and pleasures. When music becomes work are you really listening with the same ears you once had?
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 9 April 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a question for yourself not for me. And, no slight intended, I think it shows a lack of imagination.
This is my job. I love it. I don't think the scale of listening I do or the fact it pays my rent affects my appreciation of it.
The truth of the matter is I don't really see it as work, in a 9 - 5 job sense, I see it as an utterly pointless and mainly harmless calling that allows me to get loads of music and to get into all the gigs I want to go to and to hang out with other people like me so I don't feel like so much of a fucking mentally ill freak.
Music fills the space in my life that other people would fill with religious or spiritual concerns. It has also given me a solid framework to help me get over my genetic predisposition toward thirstiness and narcotic use and, to a certain degree, has helped me with low level mental health issues.
― PG Harpy (Doran), Saturday, 9 April 2011 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=91272
― markers, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
And he looks so happy!
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
what a cute couple
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Such a perfect meeting of minds. Is he the rapper? Please let him be the rapper.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
There's our boy!
A small fire broke out early Thursday morning in Courtney Love’s West Village home, a Fire Department official said.The fire, in a fourth-floor bedroom of Ms. Love’s town house, at 250 West 10th Street near Hudson Street, was probably started by a candle next to the curtains, the official said. Ms. Love discovered the fire, the official said, although it was not clear whether she placed the 911 call, at 1:52 a.m. There was also a male occupant at the home at the time.
The fire, in a fourth-floor bedroom of Ms. Love’s town house, at 250 West 10th Street near Hudson Street, was probably started by a candle next to the curtains, the official said. Ms. Love discovered the fire, the official said, although it was not clear whether she placed the 911 call, at 1:52 a.m. There was also a male occupant at the home at the time.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/small-fire-in-courtney-loves-town-house/#
― Position Position, Friday, 24 June 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Killing Courtney with fire lol
― Frogbs Day Afternoon (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 24 June 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
so who overdoses first?
― frogbracist (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 June 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
he'll be the one to drop. you can't kill courtney.
― scott seward, Friday, 24 June 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i think you're right
― frogbracist (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 June 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
omfg
― sleeve, Friday, 24 June 2011 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Listen, and understand. Courtney Love is out there. She can't be bargained with. She can't be reasoned with. She doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And she absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
― Actual LOL Tolhurst (Doran), Friday, 24 June 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
the only person who'll remember the Fader Fort performance will be markers
http://i53.tinypic.com/xaxo2a.jpg
― markers, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
SHE SAY I DOWN WIH HUH I SAY BITCH YOU ALOOOOONE
― i'm not a ★, somebody lied (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 26 September 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^
― markers, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
she say im down wih huh, i say bitch you aloneyou lyin wit the flesh, lyin with the boneshe say i'm lyin wih huh, my mind in the SKREETi say i'm not with me, i'm with she, i'm with shenow plane lights blinkin, off in da eveningot me thinkin, wish i was leavinit's not that i'm tryna be somewhere elsei'm not tryna be here... by myselfif you were here too i'd still be with myselfi talk real loud, i don't wanna hear myselfi'm faraway lost and i don't want helpif you could bring me back, i kill myself... haaanot myself, that's just myselfi don't know if you could tell, but i'm in helli don't know if you noticed, but i haven't spokenmy arm might be broken, i'm so sick of jokin
― i'm not a ★, somebody lied (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 26 September 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha eeeeee
― markers, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
LMFAO!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7pRqaIX64
― markers, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
"Salem's cover of Alice Deejay's immortal trance anthem "Better Off Alone""
(((d-_-b)))
― markers, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I'll start paying attention when they cover Ian Van Dahl.
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
this is apparently from a new ep they have coming out
― markers, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
does this band still exist?
― badg, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
naw...they're out on the skreets
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 15 November 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― ya bish called wanda (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 15 November 2012 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://rapgenius.com/Salem-sick-lyrics#note-587099
― ya bish called wanda (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 15 November 2012 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsBvDm9-Bk
no one seems to have posted this here yet. it's pretty amazing...
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Friday, 3 May 2013 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
i love seam
― groovy replacement (electricsound), Friday, 3 May 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
after a few years of avoidance due to all the hype at the time of release, i picked the SALEM album up today.3 spins in ..love it.are they still working together, or have things fallen apart due to vice magazine related excess ..
― mark e, Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
I think theyre still together. The album is great though. Also check out their remix of gucci mane's "round one"
― Treeship, Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah .. i need to track that remix down due to the love on this thread.the album still sounds amazing.love the dark claustrophobia vibe.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
a one off album i guess.
― mark e, Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:22 (eight years ago) link
To this day every time I hear "Fader Fort" I initially assume it's shorthand for the band's performance there, like it's some sort of "Never Forget" reference
― Evan R, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
lol. Me too.
― how's life, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:42 (eight years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWHhV5TDKnA
new mixtape
― boxedjoy, Monday, 14 September 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
gross
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 14 September 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
Lol
― treeship., Monday, 14 September 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
They're no Mora Prokaza.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
i tried to give this a relisten lately and i couldn't believe how bad it sounded
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
i mean just in terms of the production, they should have hired someone to clean it up
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:09 (four years ago) link
we did this recently
defend the indefensible: Salem
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
I still laugh at this SXSW performance:
https://youtu.be/Ej7s8Bnq5_o
New article on stereogum about salem / witchhouse:
https://www.stereogum.com/2089949/witch-house-salem-king-night-turns-10/franchises/columns/sounding-board/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 28 September 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
skreets is watchin
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 September 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
That pan across the audience at 1:57 is the best.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Monday, 28 September 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
xps that could be said of a lot of music c2010 tbf
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 28 September 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
that Fader video though..
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 28 September 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link