OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

remember Steve Zahn in Reality Bites?

i'm a pr nerd dude

1991 stand up!

seems like run of the mill shut-in academic to me

au contraire, i'm a shut-in academic and i posted this precisely because it so dramatically exceeds the standards of self-absorption I've set for myself

painful article

Where is the Sylvia Plath-obsessed would-be writer who shopped quite happily at the Salvation Army?

By the way, it can't really be true, can it, that there no longer exist people in college who aspire to write poetry and read Plath?

Which Gen-X actor will be cast in the remake of this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Gran_Torino_poster.jpg

Probably should be a poll

Edward Norton

What is coke snortin

Gen x's clint eastwood is 100% Ben affleck

barf

yeah, is it possible that all the interesting students (you can tell they're interesting if they shop quite happily at the salvation army) are off learning english from a more interesting teacher?

the "i like all types of music lady" seems lame, yes, but her coworker who actively dislikes the carpenters is basically a monster.

at least she doesnt like all types of music except country

how are you all ignoring the steaming hot panglossian pile of "thinkpiece" garbage from this week's nymag

http://images.nymag.com/images/2/home/13/05/27-lede-umami.jpg

i'm always about two issues back on ny mag, which puts me at nj levels of cognition i suppose

I think she meant this one, right???

http://nymag.com/news/features/punk-movement-2013-4/

i've been to umami burger in l.a.. the burger cost $12 and while i ate it beggars put their hands through the holes in the wrought-iron fence installed to screen them from my view.

why poppage stars rule the world

There was an on-campus coffee shop at my school that seemed to play nothing but a loop of Closer to Fine and River.

Is someone suggesting that that Nabisco was not otm

gasp

no the pop star one
cmon guys it is low hanging fruit all over the place

B-b-but did it mention the Solid Gold Dancers?

http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/why-pop-stars-rule-the-world.html

Oh

feel like that was covered in another thread?

The answer may be that the relentless and unforgiving feedback loop of social media has made being unfeasible anything other than consistently awesome, like (and forgive one last culinary metaphor) opening a bad restaurant in New York

First of all, this sentence is garbled -- maybe "has made unfeasible anything other than being completely awesome" is meant? And what is going on with the metaphor? Surely New York is a notably EASY place to get by running a bad restaurant.

I don't know, before social media it was consistently awesome to be unfeasible; I miss those days tbh

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Zaireeka_cover.png

Surely New York is a notably EASY place to get by running a bad restaurant.

nah not really. the usual quoted figure is that 80% of NYC restaurants close in their first five years.

still a terrible sentence.

And that sentence goes out of its way to be terrible! It like goes all the way across town to be terrible and gnarled and wrong!

the usual quoted figure is that 80% of NYC restaurants close in their first five years.

Sure, but the question is whether this is different from other cities! That sounds like a long median lifespan to me.

For six seasons, I obsessed over “Lost” and wept prolifically through the last episode.

Me too. Like WAAAAHHHH!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT? WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE? WAAAHHHH!!!

hahaha

I've still only seen the last 5 minutes of the last Lost episode

That's the worst part!

I've still only seen the last 5 minutes of the last Lost episode

...in today's lack of surprise, that's all I've seen too. Plus that little epilogue thing. Series should have been about the two drones at the warehouse wondering what the hell they were doing.

tbf, the last ep of lost is really funny

*************SPOILERS**************

Is it that the island is Hell's butt plug?

The first few sentences of this article actually made me angry. Fine, try to have a "unique" writing style, but when you devolve into fucking gibberish you've gone too far and need to dial it back a little. And that's without even bringing up the sections that are just bad English, with misplaced or missing articles, etc. Gurgh.

I present no loose little mistress-list that rattles itself off in splendid flesh-bone-suck order.

^ haha

"a dark and crispy nimbus"

Fuck Rob Sheffield.

It is, after all, the genre that gave the phrase “comfortably numb” to the language.

you know, that phrase people use all the time

More thoughts on the Sheffield piece.

Yeah, Sheffield really should stop being close-minded and taking about things he knows nothing abo—

Hip-hop critics are some of the most myopic, Year Zero-minded writers in all of music criticism, with virtually no interest in anything predating the summer's hot single or mixtape

Sheffield's also written at length about Dylan, Roxy Music, Neil Young, Pavement. Shiny perhaps, not ephemeral.

Sheffield's great and that piece is hilarious

"At one point, Peter Gabriel is praised as the bluesiest of prog singers, which is like calling Betty White the fiercest arm-­wrestler on 'The Golden Girls.'"

Great! (And my guess is that Rob likes Peter Gabriel fine.)

Gabriel made his list of worst singers ever.