The Dismemberment Plan: Classic Or Dud?

i think travis has given up on pleasing old school indie-crowd types except in a "give me money, i give you hits" capacity

i don't think referring to him as a rock star is like a we-r-so-indie sticking point, it's just that she sort of structures the article around that thought ('omg, a rock star?!') in a way that is kind of out of touch with the inappropriateness of referring to a moderate turn-of-millennium indie rock success as a 'rock star'. the response is like, guh? what are you talking about?

she does admit up front that she knows nothing about music and doesn't care. she also uses an analogy to a leather mini-skirt wearing fangirl from Almost Famous not once, but twice.

right. it's almost in no way about music, being a musician, a rock star.

'omg, my fiance used to be a porn star', 'omg, my fiance used to be a stripper!', 'omg, my fiancee used to play arena football!'

haha I go to bed at 10 o'clock too

B/c it reflects badly on him, or?

― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:59 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

not at all. i'm just like, i COULD write an essay about my wife's cool job, or encourage her to write one about mine, but i wouldn't.

wonder if Zooey is gonna write one of these when she realizes Ben Gibbard used to be an indie-rocker too

...wait fuck ABANDON JOKE

Ira and Georgia writing endless recursive songs about discovering one another's dark musical pasts

what level of actual (indie) rock celebrity would the fiancee have to have achieved before this would be an article to write? like, obviously it couldn't be 'omg my fiancee was in slint'. but 'omg my fiancee was in pavement'? or?

well i mean this kind of article could be written about pretty much anyone who's not a household name and might plausibly work a day job outside the music business but could sell out clubs and bring out fanatical fans if they got the old band band together. and that represents a really wide spectrum of different levels of success.

travis morrison was such a babe

i remember being crushed when he went all neo-con post-9/11

I like the idea of Trav Morrison singing in an Episcopal Church choir!

I have tickets to see them on/in a boat in Bristol. Excellent.

i remember being crushed when he went all neo-con post-9/11

Wait, this was a thing?

yeah i remember at least one long idiotic blog post advocating war in iraq etc.

this appears to be some morons discussing it but the meat of morrison's argument is roughly (and as abuard) as i remember it.

to be fair, i knew a lot of previously intelligent people who turned into chest-beating morons on September 12.

http://devonrecordclub.com/2013/10/28/the-dismemberment-plan-emergency-i-round-56-nicks-choice/

They are so awesome and dorky live.

yup

aren't they shitty at this stage?

they're basically as good a live band now as they ever were. even if you hate the new songs, they sound better live and aren't the whole show.