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

look I'm not going to play the zing game with you guys: sneering is the default setting for Mr W, and I do not wish to develop skills as such.

go hard or go home

― open-y, ob-la-da (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 19, 2014 5:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly you don't step in the arena and then say I'm not here to gladiate

(to wit: https://twitter.com/maura/status/445769042633445376)

omg got murgsplained

Unlettered and Hapless should have been what Morrissey called his autobiography.

Wanted to ask some M some questions. didn't come to fuck with anyone, gladiate, whatever it is you henny youngmans do…

do you not got email on that thing

henny youngmans

i'd have to read a lot more of the tumblr to get a more solid opinion, which i probably won't do, so gr80 otm probably. wu-wei, man.

i'd be more forgiving if the writing were more insightful about the music, if there was some spark there about what happens in the room when these particular records are playing. but on that level it didn't grab me.

or if there was some kind of interesting or funny window into these two people's lives as such but what's there didn't do much for me either -- admittedly this falls into a bunch of minefields and i doubt i'd be moved by something more 'personal' anyway.

i haven't ventured out into the wider internet on this (let alone FB, fuck) but there's absolutely no doubt this woman is generating a shitton of misogynist energy in response. that's bullshit, of course. but i don't see any of the posters here on ilx engaging in that. i really don't. this couple is already a living breathing ilx stereotype and the thread here has been pretty respectful of them as people.

again i think j. and maura have been pretty much right: both in form and in content this is another example of one li'l bit of america's elite talking about itself to itself w/o much wit or zip to make it worth it.

is this thing really all that viral anyway? I haven't heard about it from anyone outside of this thread.

*christopher nolan twist*

is this thing really all that viral anyway? I haven't heard about it from anyone outside of this thread.

― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:11 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^this

i know chris isn't on facebook, but it's all over there

ok, maybe my friends just don't really post stuff about music crit very often

i wouldn't want to be "friends" with anyone who posted that Tumblr in earnest

what if they were nice ppl and loyal friends and were nice to you?

what if their sandwich artistry was just superb

yeah i went back to that well but come on

wow between the people who posted that tumblr in earnest and the people that made fake coachella posters, whiney must have like no friends anymore

xxxp i've heard about it on multiple music nerd/industry lists/threads/facebooky type things. it hits all the right notes for people who care too much about the things that we do but probably renders as near invisible to anyone who doesn't.

i applied for a grant for maura magazine last year and this site got it instead http://boxxmagazine.com/

and... well.

― maura, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:04 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow

I'm not in the same music crit circles so the only people I've seen posting about this are ILXors.

the ppl that are gonna share this sincerely are no doubt the ppl who shared that stupid STRANGERS MEET AND KISS video

Rob K seems cool

i'm just so glad i love sports so i don't have to think about ILX type stuff all the time

That boxx magazine place has zero comments on basically all of their articles

yeah that's p wack maura should have got that scrilla :/

yeah but 'boxx' is more shareable, stop being counter-productive

I'm not in the same music crit circles so the only people I've seen posting about this are ILXors.

Which I guess is no doubt still the same as crüt

This thing kind of reminds me of a list of top people under 30 who are changing the media. Most of them are people who've made it big on twitter or youtube doing fairly tried and tested stuff like cookery shows or humorous vine vids, but with an entrepreneurial 'twist'. And that twist is they're all able to market their personalities through social media. Part celebrities, part web moguls, part PR merchants, they've all got their own shtick to wield and they're all doing well out of it.
Made me wonder how much I had ever been told to 'sell myself' growing up. The idea was something I had to learn slowly, especially by the time I had to do job interviews. But it never felt like something I ought to do naturally. I wonder if, especially for millenials, this is all becoming just a part of success; developing an online persona as a kind of amplification of oneself in order to get noticed. I can imagine a time in the not so distant future when the internet is full of 'branded personalities' trying to get noticed.
Guess this kind of thing has been happening on ilx since it began - the louder, more controversial, funnier posters and their respective sockpuppets commanding the most attention from the rest of the board.

*the list was in the guardian the other day

several gigging musician types and college radio people I know posted it

dog latin u may enjoy this:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/generation-like/

a non-ILX person posted it on my fb. i looked at it and then came here to see how bad you fucktards were gonna be crying about it. Real music writing is mad boring and i would never even click on any let alone read some, but if you have a clownish gimmick tumblr i will definitely read a page or two of it.,.. hope that was helpful

Gr80 sadly can't watch it in UK

Wanted to ask some M some questions. didn't come to fuck with anyone, gladiate, whatever it is you henny youngmans do…

― veronica moser, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you not got email on that thing

― j., Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ all time

whatever it is you henny youngmans do…

Take my whiney...please

what i took away from this tumblr is that the husband has a pretty boring record collection.

dog latin v much otm, I know of a couple of ppl who've turned blogs into bookdeals and their personae were a big part of that success, afaik

what about a la-z-boy brand sofa? is that better than ikea. forget music i'm worried about where i sit every day help me please.

Ikea seems a weird signifier to pick out - everyone I know has Ikea stuff - but maybe it's different in the US?

everyone in the US has ikea furniture too

you have to have a car to get to IKEA tho

and a special plate for the metaballs

meatballs too

horseballs

they have the best horseballs though

uh…j. and s. clover: I thought my questions were relevant to an extensive discussion taking place and posted them as such… jesus christ, rock critics are so fucking defensive and thin-skinned…

no offense but you came onto a message board basically saying "I'm posing this question to one person and one person only"

he's posted here before this iirc