lol men
― maura, Friday, 6 December 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
whole damn thing essentially feels like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGKzWDakK8
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 December 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
dying at ILX just discovering /mu/
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
/mu/-two
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 December 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
but seriously, can someone explain to me why there's a video with audio clips of ott and some other guy, set to visuals of wintry landscapes, with bon iver playing?
why does this exist?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 6 December 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, December 6, 2013 12:41 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i knew it existed but i don't fuck with that place, come on
― napgenius (goole), Friday, 6 December 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, December 6, 2013 6:41 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is some real slick insider bullshit peacockery
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 6 December 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
personally i'm gonna take it as a point of pride that i had no idea it existed
― call all destroyer, Friday, 6 December 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Word
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 6 December 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
always good to see 'u don't know something haha' totally a classic internet sentiment
― intheblanks, Friday, 6 December 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
4chan's Alexa rating in United States: 368 Pitchfork's: 1,410
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jJENKW1nI
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 6 December 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
bragging that i know this incredibly popular, far-reaching thing, ok lets have more talk about girl slugs night unit wut wut
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
http://man-over-board.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/head-up-butt.png
can't believe ilx doesn't know what's going on in here, super hilar brah
― Joe Jack Herpes (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
haha yep
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
considering how this latest revive started, snarking about the alexa rankings of 4chan seems about as an appropriate way as any for it to end
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 December 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
Roll Credits
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 6 December 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
I may start a fantasy novel titled The Alexa Rankings of 4chan next year
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link
In a website...
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 December 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
lol whiney if you really think it's /mu/ that boosts 4chan's Alexa rate at anywhere near the level of /b/, then it's you who are an out-of-touch old-ass man my friend
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 December 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_chord
― Skatalite of Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 December 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
you don't have to be affluent to write about music as a hobby. Not sure where that idea is coming from.
― sarahell, Friday, 6 December 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
you need a certain amount of free time.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
idk most of the people i know who write about music as a hobby are not affluent
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
that you can devote to concerns very distant from those regarding food and shelter for yourself and your family.
and you need even more time to follow what's going on more broadly and engage with it, and time on top of that to assemble thoughts and hone them.
otherwise you're not necessarily writing, you're just putting letters on a screen.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
you certainly don't need to be in the 1%. but you do need secure employment, of the sort where you only have one job, probably.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
writing about music as a hobby is less time and money intensive than being an amateur musician, and if you want to argue that you have to be affluent to be an amateur musician, then i would say you need to get out more.
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:26 (ten years ago) link
writing about music as a hobby is less time and money intensive than being an amateur musician, and if you want to argue that you have to be affluent to be an amateur musician, then i would say you need to get out more. --sarahell
Someone post that Cord Jefferson article about middle class privledge and media jobs, I'm on my phone
― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:54 (ten years ago) link
with an IMPORTANT CLIENT
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
Being an amateur musician is easy
Learn three chords on the guitar and you're basically done
― 乒乓, Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
I'm not saying that it would be a level playing field in terms of "success" -- or that writers should write for free -- but only that if one wants to write about music but cannot support oneself with the meager wages that "playing the game" gets you, it is something one can do as a hobby. Lots of people do it, just like there are lots of people who are amateur musicians. It isn't like writing a review of an Arcade Fire album or a think piece on slut-shaming in pop music requires the level of resources as writing a doctoral dissertation.
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 December 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
same thing with being an amateur music critic too. three words (angular, ethereal, visceral) and off you go. xp
― deez the season (some dude), Saturday, 7 December 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
Again, I am not agreeing with Ott's Randian premise of the cream will always rise to the top in terms of talent. Not at all.
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 December 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
it's so absurd because every moderately successful artist knows at least one other artist, and often several, who he thinks of as much better than himself but whose work never finds its audience. dude is kidding himself if he thinks charisma & biz savvy aren't utterly crucial to any level of success
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned),
Basically this is the truth, and it's really just a matter of how the artist wants to deal with it -- play the game or be a hobbyist or quit entirely
― sarahell, Saturday, 7 December 2013 01:13 (ten years ago) link
i have successfully avoided everything about this for several days, but something compelled me to click on the video today, and i had to stop at "the ceo of complex media, he lives in an almost million dollar apartment in turtle bay."
that's like complaining that "the editor of my website, he spent almost five dollars on a beer."
― i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Saturday, 7 December 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
the CEO of Shallow Rewards, Inc. doesn't live so lavishly, i'll have you know. he won't even take a vacation on a cruise line unless he can get somebody else to foot the bill.
― deez the season (some dude), Saturday, 7 December 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
today's historic inequality doesn't at all impact music/criticism imho. and even if it does, it's boring and not worth talking about, because it's not like there've ever been any songs about social justice
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 7 December 2013 02:13 (ten years ago) link
it's germane to Ott's claims that are at the root of this discussion, but i won't say that's "worth talking about" itself really, so point taken
― deez the season (some dude), Saturday, 7 December 2013 02:18 (ten years ago) link
Take a poorly composed potshot at Cop Shoot Cop and pay the price.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 8 December 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
Ott Shoot Ott
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 December 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
noooooooo
― SHAUN (DJP), Sunday, 8 December 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
sorry
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 December 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
xp to Sarahell. It depends what you mean by music journalism. Sure, album reviews and thinkpieces can easily be done in your spare time but anything that involves reporting can't. I don't want to read nothing but opinion pieces and that's what you get if anyone has to work for free.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 9 December 2013 10:08 (ten years ago) link
Angry Ott is angry.
https://twitter.com/shallowrewards/status/441615906679291904
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
is he angry because a woman is making music, or because a woman is writing about it, this time?
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
both obv, although not in the tweet Ned linked, just this one
https://twitter.com/shallowrewards/status/441301111207505920
― he always came across as a great guy in Kerrang! in the 90s (some dude), Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
apparently he's mad at ilx c---s
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
this guy is so pathetic and sad
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
it's kind of awesome to watch someone completely bury themselves so publicly imo. a few years ago he still had a vague air of legitimacy to people who hadn't seen his ILM antics, twitter is so magical.
― he always came across as a great guy in Kerrang! in the 90s (some dude), Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
it's hilarious that he won't type cunt
why won't he type cunt
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link