man makes zine, that is not news. zine makes a man, now that's another story.
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, 27 October 2011 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://thetangential.com/2011/10/27/interview-pitchfork-reviews-reviews-david-talks-the-worlds-first-perfect-zine/
― buzza, Saturday, 29 October 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
the zine's title/logo is so perfectly hacky mcsweeney's circa 2002
― Metal Dennis Perrin (some dude), Saturday, 29 October 2011 11:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://houseofplates.com/post/12474432158/tc-fleming-interviews-pitchfork-reviews-reviews
― buzza, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
pitchfork reviews reviews interviews interviews
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
god this fuckin kid
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
"When I heard about Occupy Wall Street, the thing I first thought of when trying to process it was specifically your post on chill wave"
― /\/K/\/\, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
I’m surprised by how much criticism you have directed your way. Given the excited, introspective nature of what your posts, that bewildered me.
who the fuck is this guy
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 8 November 2011 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
I wish I’d had more time to blog about going to parties and interviewing celebrities.
sick epitaph bro
― ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶ (sic), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
Good evening Sir, my name is Steve. I come from a rough area. I used to be addicted to crack but now I am off it and trying to stay clean. That is why I am selling magazine subscriptions.
― omar little, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://flavorwire.com/223216/one-night-in-central-florida-with-off-and-cerebral-ballzy
― buzza, Monday, 14 November 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
When you name your publication "the world's most perfect" anything, you're setting the bar pretty high. But given this new magazine edited by Pitchfork Reviews Reviews creator David Shapiro, it kind of makes sense.
For the zine's debut issue (out today) the NYC writer enlisted everyone from Swedish music duo jj to filmmaker Lena Dunham to novelist Tao Lin to contribute articles, images, and anecdotes to the collection.
Given its Thought Catalog-meets-Tumblr aesthetic, it might seem unusual that this group of artists (many of whom have made names for themselves online) are trying their hands at a print publication. But if you ask us, the 70-page zine proves that the two can-and should- coexist.
Consider this paper mate a necessary addition to your daily dose of screen time and buy The World's First Perfect Zine here.
― buzza, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yesterday a friend and I agreed that at a place like 285 Kent or Glasslands, and even Webster Hall on some nights, more people will have consciously read your music writing than that of, say, Robert Christgau, Greil Marcus, and Chuck Eddy combined. How does this success affect your voice as a writer?
I don't know those places are representative (and therefore broadly meaningful) sample pools, and I don't know if that's true, but I'll suspend disbelief for a moment and say that thinking about anything like that is not helpful for me. Secretly, but perhaps you've noticed if you follow my writing, I can't really write anymore. Have you seen any of my new writing lately? If you happen to have seen it, it sucks. Places I used to write for, who I would never expect to turn down pieces of writing, turn me down consistently now, and it's not because they've realized they don't like what I was doing. It's because I don't know how to write in a way that captures people anymore. Trust me, I read all of my writing and it's not what it used to be, whatever that was. Those dudes are classic bands, I'm a one-hit-wonder.
Every time I start something I write like 200 words and then delete the memo because it's bad. Even this interview is not revelatory or funny or engaging like one I could have written a year ago. I'm not joking, and I don't want you to edit this part out. The amount of words I used to write in two days I can barely eek out in a month, and I don't really like the stuff I do write when I put it out.
An older and established professional writer told me, at a party, that it's natural to feel fallow as a writer sometimes, which seems true, but I've been waiting to feel fruitful again for longer than I spent writing in the first place.
― buzza, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
the sufjan stevens of music blogs
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
nabisco weighs in http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/12927986166/prrr
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 November 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
I laughed
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 November 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
surprisingly ineffective imitation! but i like the "class" reading.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
^^ otm
― markers, Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://guestofaguest.com/nyc-interviews/interview-our-own-blackberry-blogger-david-shapiro-launches-the-worlds-perfect-zine/
― I gave your mom morgellons (buzza), Friday, 18 November 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.papermag.com/2011/11/tao_lin_david_shapiro_worlds_first_perfect_zine.php
― I gave your mom morgellons (buzza), Friday, 18 November 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
i recognize some ppl in that papermag gallery
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
buzza, did you go?
― markers, Friday, 18 November 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
Because you can't imitate Shapiro's style and be insightful. Despite Nabisco's occasional praise.
― Jedmond, Friday, 18 November 2011 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theawl.com/2012/01/djing-a-new-years-party-for-one-of-the-richest-men-in-america
― buzza, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
get the kind of "i'm angry that i even know who this person is" feelings about this guy that most people get about the kardashians or whatever
― seasonal thug (some dude), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
An hour and a half later it's about 11:45 and the party is in full swing. I've had some cups of wine, one of the richest men in America dances with his girlfriend and greets his guests in the middle of the room, some Gawker writers hang out and drink cups of wine, a kid keeps coming up to me and telling me to play "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" by Busta Rhymes ("It will work! I promise! It'll work. I'm a DJ too!"), a venture capitalist who doesn't not look like Raj Rajaratnam dances with some girls, a bottle of champagne in one hand.
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)
― buzza, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
actually kind of liked his recent thing on meeting lil wayne b/c he seemed genuinely enthusiastic in a realistic way
― I Love Pedantry (D-40), Monday, 16 January 2012 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
Heard he was starting a new blog, @SPINReviews reviews
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Monday, 16 January 2012 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah this kid honestly its just...
― HOOS steen is it anyway? (Lamp), Monday, 16 January 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
like the exact opposite of what you were pining for when you talked about wanting more 'long-form' reviews in the SPIN thread?
― incredible shrinking man on euphonium (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
it's sort of like a seven-style "you get what you wish for" ironic death.
― omar little, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
well, yeah, although his writing is just mostly blank and unremarkable its more that he seems like an idea of a possible self i had or s.thing which is v existentially irritating
its esp bad if he starts djing fashion parties and putting out a zine i guess
― HOOS steen is it anyway? (Lamp), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
agreed
― incredible shrinking man on euphonium (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://twitter.com/#!/fusedavid
― buzza, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
i hope he's the new co-host of the guy from blink 182's show
― some dude, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
fusedavid David Shapiro Hi @LilTunechi! It's David. We met two weeks ago and you wanted to hang out. I'm free Sunday, text me if you wanna get together (brunch?)7 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― buzza, Friday, 27 January 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
― some dude
omg
― markers, Friday, 27 January 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think this guy's tone is an affectation. it really does seem like he's just hurriedly typing all of this out on his blackberry somewhere
― markers
― buzza, Saturday, 4 February 2012 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
\(^o^)/
― markers, Saturday, 4 February 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Hi! I'm David Shapiro, a 23-year-old pseudonymous blogger and the author of Pitchfork Reviews Reviews. I'm into live music DVDs and concert recordings, borrowing my mom's car and taking day trips on the weekends, nature documentaries, BlackBerry devices, and, probably most of all, long-form music journalism and criticism. I live in Clinton Hill in Brooklyn and if you live around there, you can catch me after work at the Met Foods on Fulton and St. James where The Notorious B.I.G. used to be a bag boy. Sardines for dinner!
― buzza, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
it's amazing how quickly that area's gentrifying. Don't remember too many 23-year-old bloggers hanging out at Met Foods when I lived there. But I did see MIA at a coffee shop. The writing was on the wall.
― da croupier, Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
was she eating truffle fries?
― Number None, Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
all i remember is her wrap-around reflective shades and shiny track suit.
― da croupier, Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
Maya has in fact had her eye sockets sealed with vision-enhancing mirrored lenses that were surgically attached to her face by the skilled black-market surgeons of Chiba City.
― contenderizer, Friday, 9 March 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
So it turns out there are a heck of a lot of one-hit wonders!
According to an analysis of every artist that's appeared on Billboard's Hot 100/Top 100 chart between 1955 and today, about half of the artists that appeared on the chart never reappeared. That means that almost half of pop successes are one-hit wonders! This is pretty sad for a huge group of people. But maybe when they die, they go to a heaven where it's always the week their song was on the chart and they feel awesome.
― utopian dipshit (buzza), Monday, 12 March 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
DAVID SHAPIRO: What's your middle name?
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME: Why?
SHAPIRO: I looked at your Wikipedia page and it says your name is "Juaquin Bertholimule Malphurs," and Bertholimule sounds like a middle name so unconventional that it, you know, didn't sound real.
FLAME: (laughs) What's it say? Bertholimule? My middle name is James.
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/waka-flocka-flame-is-a-product#_
― buzza, Sunday, 22 April 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
i thought his middle name was Flocka
― some dude, Monday, 23 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
I guess Waka James Flame doesn't have the same magic
― when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 23 April 2012 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not super familiar w/ david shapiro on gawker
http://gawker.com/5912835/riff-raffs-got-a-record-deal-making-sense-of-the-most-viral-human-being-in-music
― markers, Friday, 25 May 2012 12:55 (twelve years ago) link