Fuck 's sake Maura I was just about to report this tedious cunt to the fucking sooosh!
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 2 December 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link
hahaha that would have been classic
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link
wait what does it mean in the not-US
― polyphonic, Monday, 2 December 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link
welfare, I think?
― deX! (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
People don't boast about benefits in the current climate over here, it has a different meaning.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 2 December 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
so it means being close to sea level? (current climate)
― From the Album No Baby for You! (Matt P), Monday, 2 December 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
It means the atmospheric hatred that is allowed to exist and always has existed.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Monday, 2 December 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
yeah, we have no real government assistance so "benefits" means health insurance, dental if you're lucky, retirement plan, and your own vlog
― mh, Monday, 2 December 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
I've been sticking $30 in bennies up my ass for the past 11 years
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Monday, 2 December 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
$30 copay per visit and free vlog xp XD
― From the Album No Baby for You! (Matt P), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:00 (ten years ago) link
whenever i hear bennies i always think of benzedrine because i am time traveler from the 1950s
― it's going to be a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
not just an isolated tweet -- that is his standard response to criticism
― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:13 (ten years ago) link
This fucking bell-end is sat, swilling his brandy. Contemplating how many doughnuts follow him on twitter, how many fucking people on this thread are discussing him right now and he is a complete bell end with a stupid fucking punchable face, who talks lame student shite about an era of music that nobody gives a fuck about.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
fooking students innit
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
I've been sticking $30 in bennies up my ass for the past 11 years --Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt)
dying
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 03:51 (ten years ago) link
<i> does chris ott have aspergers syndrome? he's like that guy from the vines but he's got a real sad pompadour </i>
@SadPompadour isn't taken if anybody wants to create a Shallow Rewards parody account
― asthmatic american, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
man the courage it must've taken them to stand up to rolling stone, look fuckin wenner in the eye and say "YOU SHOULD PUT RADIOHEAD ON THE COVER OF YOUR MAGAZINE"
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
yup, they held the hopes of a generation. they were looking history in the eye.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
go for credit in the spin worldlook a wenner in the eye
― how's life, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
Why does he take himself so seriously?
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
^this
― Skatalite of Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
hey i mean i'm just glad they did it...bands like radiohead have had to fight tooth and nail for respect from the rock crit establishment
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
96g, bennies, and 1000s of comments? just call him ot-win
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
It's kind of sad to see Ott flailing around in the dark like this, just looking for a target to hit without enough thought going into what he's saying. Still, I miss the days when an Ott or a True or a Wells would be given room at a major pub.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 16:59 (ten years ago) link
did that actually happen? i don't really have a good handle of where he's written, all i know is he was at PF before it was really a major pub
― deez the season (some dude), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
I initially read "pub" as a literal pub and was imagining bars with "RESERVED FOR MUSIC CRITICS" signs set up on certain tables, which would be kind of awesome/hilarious
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
Give it time.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
critics shouting their opinions of new music releases, in a drunken stupor in a pub area "RESERVED FOR MUSIC CRITICS," is the only really true, pure music journalism. anyone who does it another way -- i hold you in contempt.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
丂んムレレӨω ЯΣЩΛг๔ร @shallowrewards 5h
Earn a living through socially-valuable effort, not helping point corporations at target market. /end @EthanM_Long
.@EthanM_Long modifier: feed people to corporations all you want, work for one, just keep music the fuck out of it.
I thought this was a cute save. "one should work to help others...oh wait, i mean KEEP MUSIC PURE"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
guess he forgot the limits of his piety for a sec
― da croupier, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
an Ott or a True or a Wells
barf that you'd compare this guy to those guys
― fear of zing failure (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
2nded
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
haha was just going to post the same thing
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
Michael @RcmndedListen 2h@shallowrewards From the way you talk, it sounds like you're a well-off mid-30s-something unaffected by the last five years of the economy.
丂んムレレӨω ЯΣЩΛг๔ร @shallowrewards 2h@RcmndedListen maybe that's because I spent the prior 15 years working a trade and doing this in my spare time.
― goole, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
a socially-valuable trade
modifier: a trade that didn't exploit boston basement culture!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
working a relatively recession-resistant trade
― mh, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
"start a white collar career sometime in the 90s" is great advice, everybody should be able to do that
― goole, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
artisanal IT
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Now I have Michael Jackson's "Heal The World (Modifier: OK, Just Don't Be A Professional Music Writer)" stuck in my head
― da croupier, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
I was saying to someone the other day that many of the best people I've ever met are music critics and a handful of the worst. I've never met Ott but damn if he doesn't epitomise the most pompous, vindictive, toxic qualities.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
tbf, he's really making the "be pure! never try to do it for a living, that's so impure!" argument to other music writers that indie musicians frequently make to ::shudder:: "career" musicians.
― deez the season (some dude), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
musician purity test, what did you score
― mh, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
xpost with the added hilarity of having to backpedal from a genuinely altruistic sentiment
― da croupier, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
of all the angles of his multivalent arrogance and naievete, the one that really gets me is the sense that he's the only person to have ever seen through a sponsorship message. the same young people who are chronically underemployed, indebted and broke are very unlikely to be wowed by some logos showing up in their scene somewhere.
― goole, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
what we know about the current young is that they are very brand disloyal and the most hostile to capital generally.
― goole, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
i guess i'm trying to understand how he feels like music publications in the print age weren't in the business of delivering youth demographics to advertisers and large corporations?
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
I'm trying to understand why people are spending time trying to understand him, tbh
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
I Cram 2 Understand U (Ott)
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
telling other people "doing something for profit inevitably leads to moral compromises" says more about your moral compass than theirs in the same way as with religious people who think that not having religion leads to horrible immoral lifestyles
― deez the season (some dude), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
indie musicians frequently make to ::shudder:: "career" musicians.
which ones and where? afaik it's fans that toe the hard line on this, most musicians know you gotta pay for gas
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link