oh god
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
oh lord pac
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
they killin the spirit of gatsby
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
shoulda gone for broke and ditched the hyphen, editorial
― j., Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:56 (ten years ago) link
i've always thought that those casual asides are how received wisdom, both abusive and non-abusive, actually gets reinforced, rather than something actually being the subject of a piece, for exactly those reasons
otm. Watching American political talk shows it's amazing how Dem and GOP guys will say "We all agree Social Security is out of control and the deficit is a problem" without fear of contradiction.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
https://my.secondlife.com/gatsby.core
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 June 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
It's funny how they always stick metal albums in that #5 review slot. Kind of feels like "we hired a couple of reviewers who specialize in metal but now our audience doesn't care about metal as much as they did a few years ago."
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
otm
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
It’s alright, ma; they may be only bleeding, but they have a box of Band-Aids handy.It’s alright, ma; they may be only bleeding, but they have a box of Band-Aids handy.It’s alright, ma; they may be only bleeding, but they have a box of Band-Aids handy.It’s alright, ma; they may be only bleeding, but they have a box of Band-Aids handy.It’s alright, ma; they may be only bleeding, but they have a box of Band-Aids handy.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 10:49 (ten years ago) link
You can sense that North Carolina rock trio Late Bloomer hears Dinosaur Jr., Hüsker Dü, and Nirvana differently than most revivalists, that they’re doing so without any pretense of sounding cool. In fact, Late Bloomer don’t think of their heroes as "indie rock" at all, but rather as some of the most popular bands of their time, actual heroes who deserve to be spoken of with grand gestures.
A world where Nirvana was among the most popular bands of their time, what a thing to imagine.
― franklin, Thursday, 10 July 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Right? I noticed that too.
It's that weird "indie vs. mainstream" mindset that I never have, nor probably never will, understand.
― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 10 July 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
Gotta do some serious crate digging to find out about Nirvana.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 July 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure Ian knows nirvana was very popular
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
*makes swooshing motion with arm* "i speak of NIRVANA"
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 10 July 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Nirvana, they were a Scream side project right?
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 July 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link
You know, that band the dude from Sweet 75 was in.
― cwkiii, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:22 (ten years ago) link
expanding his sound to include bold elements of vintage country and R&B.
― campreverb, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
NEWSWORTHY
http://pitchfork.com/news/55871-laurie-anderson-was-trapped-inside-a-hyperbaric-chamber/
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 12 July 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
i get that there's a core of truth in even the dumbest/most poorly expressed criticisms, but this is still a pretty dumb thing to say:
And it doesn't render commonplace technology personal and alive—there's not much here that a savvy amateur couldn't do with GarageBand, a low bar to clear when grid-based composition with soft synths is so accessible.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
I used a soft, clear synth to clean my coffee pot this morning.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
Braff’s most vaunted position in pop culture circa 2014 isn’t as the actor who played the annoying guy on the TV show your college roommates watched all the time, or as a fervent Redditor who once assisted in helping someone propose to their girlfriend online, or as a distant blood relative to Mitt Romney. Arguably, he’s not even most known as the guy who directed Garden State—he’s the guy who put together the Garden State soundtrack
I'm always happy to read something taking down this dude, but the idea that he's most famous for putting together the Garden State soundtrack is kind of dumb.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
Though I guess it outranks the random Romney factoid pointlessly thrown in there.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
Scrubs ran on a major network for 8 years, but yeah he's definitely more famous for really liking Iron & Wine.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
Obviously the assertion that the Garden State music is more renowned than Scrubs is silly, but I definitely know people that are still really into that soundtrack (I seem to recall someone I knew at university telling me it was her all time favourite album)
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I definitely feel that it's fair to say that the Garden State soundtrack--and the role it played in mainstreaming a certain idea of indie--is actually Zach Braff's most lasting cultural legacy. But that paragraph makes the odd assertion that he's actually most famous for picking movie soundtrack songs.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
The whole review read like someone who hates everything he's heard about Garden State but hasn't actually seen it himself. And I don't mean that in a "he doesn't get it" way- I'm not a fan of the movie.
― Evan, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
I guess I'm just referring mostly to this:
"...obvious visual framing, a reliance on juvenalia for comedic effect, a bizarre focus on discouraging the use of antidepressants for the mentally ill..."
1. Visual framing example was a joke in the movie, right?
2. "Balls" written on the forehead was pretty self-aware iirc (linked image in second point), and not exactly handled in a Dude Where's My Car? fashion.
3. Braff's character wasn't actually mentally ill so wasn't that the conflict? Just now I'm thinking there may have been some lame speech about widespread reliance on medications so that criticism could actually hold.
But this coming from someone completely indifferent to the movie overall. What do I care?
― Evan, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
An editor once taught me never to start a sentence with "arguably." You're already making the argument. It's redundant.
Didn't people dress in trash bags in that movie? Something like that?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
I think that was a makeshift rain poncho solution.
― Evan, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
He spends four paragraphs talking about all the baggage of Garden Sate before getting onto the soundtrack at hand. a) who needs that recap after a decade of "Shins will change your life" hackery, and b) give the new soundtrack at least a little credit and try to judge it on its own terms.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i knew as soon as i saw that as the lead that it would be an extremely low grade plus some Braff-bashing.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
I'm fine with Braff-bashing tbh just feel like this was a particularly low quality version.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
@Evan Feel like he was trying to find new ways to criticize a move that's already been beaten to death. But the established things that are awful about Garden State (extreme solipsism, underwritten cliche as female lead, some random quirky idea functioning as the driving force behind each scene, Shins scene) are bad enough; "it includes visual gags" is a much weaker criticism.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
Right! It's a weird position to be in when you have to defend something you don't like or are otherwise indifferent towards because the other person is criticizing minor or irrelevant details.
― Evan, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
i think it's time to pack this one up guys
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
garden state is shit (#31467846953264847 in a series)
― wins, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
I've noticed a really irritating trend. So many of my favorite albums this year - like YG, tune-yards and Owen Pallett - has gotten 8.1 or 8.2, without a bnm-nod. Which, I mean, who cares, but the reviews never ever bother explaining why these albums - some of them from artists who were bnm'd before - weren't quite good enough this time. And todays review of Shabazz Palaces is just weird. It ends like this: The soul of Shabazz Palaces is pairing next-gen sounds with classic brass-tacks show-and-prove emceeing, and Lese Majesty tugs those extremes as far as they've ever been pulled; that it never shows signs of wear speaks to the strength of the bond. How is that not a bnm? Tugging next-gen sounds as far as they've ever been pulled? But there's nothing in the review taking it down. It just seems as if they've completely giving up on the idea of innovation being anything to be aplauded.
On another note, no hip-hop albums have been bnm'd this year. The only bnm'd black artists - afaict - are Beyoncé and the Hyperdub-comp. They've really become Mojo for hipsters, haven't they?
― Frederik B, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
I'm furiously tugging next-gen over here
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
there it is
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
It's been established that reviewers don't assign BNM so the language of the review has nothing to do with whether it gets BNM or not. That said, they should just stop doing BNM because it's weird and confusing.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
I don't think the reviewers assign the ratings either?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
That said, they should just stop doing BNM because it's weird and confusing.
Maybe but it is a go-to for people who aren't hardcore music nerds and just want a cool playlist for their Hanukkah party, I've seen it happen.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Shabazz Palaces would be great at a Hanukkah party, give it BNM now.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
bnm is for ppl w/ lives/jobs
― balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
Basic New Music
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/493789133601394690 <-- logical endpoint
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
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this is not true
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
yeah this canard comes up fairly regularly itt
― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Monday, 28 July 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2oic3J0vk1qz9rjn.gif
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
you're gonna break out your box sets this week aren't you
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link