that's cold, man, you think a 17 year old can't see the word 'humor' in the URL of a site's humor section?
― some dude, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
our safesearch is set to "make the kid think all humor sites are true." no-one can challenge our asshole parenting style
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
the "omg i can't believe anyone would be fooled by this!" thing is mainly theoretical since the overwhelming majority of people who even read it did so after the brouhaha and SR's response already happened. but this probably popped up on the RSS reader or whatever of a few jazz fans who were momentarily confused and asked Rollins what was up, let's keep harping on how dumb they must be.
― some dude, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
OK they're dumb. I don't know much about how Rollins talks and thinks and I could tell it wasn't him. You'd think his stans would have an advantage.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
everybody knows Rollins said he thought it was funny right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3LfPYqSZs
and gave a reading roughly in line with 誤訳侮辱's, that it was kind of a cutting piece, and expressed concern that people might have thought it was real
then after he thinks about that for a while he seems to change his mind, but his take seems readable as "taken as humor, fine; if people take it seriously, a drag"
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Oh fuck anyone who thought this might be srs, that's just goofy
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
no one is saying people didn't know it was a humor column, aero, but the fact that "humor" on the internet in 2014 can mean "made up stuff" or "aggregated actual things that are also funny" is where the confusion lies...
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
the irony of protecting old people from a humor column started circa the great depression
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
it's about a year older than sonny rollins
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
FAVE OUTRAGE:
http://nicholaspayton.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/on-the-new-yorker-satirizing-sonny/
"It’s about as funny as some White people think it is to let their kids run wild in a restaurant or on an airplane terrorizing the other patrons. It’s about as funny as how those kids grow up to be government officials who terrorize Africans or Palestinians."
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
anchorman-escalated-quickly.gif
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
#BAM
— Nicholas Payton aka The Savior of Archaic Pop
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
Here’s one of the most respected American periodicals posting a picture of a somber-faced Sonny with a piece “in his own words,” rhapsodizing about how he hates music and he’s wasted his life. Where’s the humor in that?
Where indeed?
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
he has a whole journal dedicated to his sax sound fyi
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, August 6, 2014 5:03 PM (1 hour ago)
rollin's tone
overlooked
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
someone post an example of terrible music writing please.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Wednesday, August 6, 2014 11:22 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nothing by me please.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
http://forum.minecraftpvp.com/uploads/default/8609/ed420441ea3f654e.jpg
― ♪♫ teenage wasteman ♪♫ (goole), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
shame about the errant apostrophe
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Rollins Banned.
― Doran, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
Rollins Suggest Banned.
― Doran, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Rollins rollins rollins I ain't slept in weeks
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
right i read the joke here as 'isn't it absurd to imagine this guy who publicly has taken such joy in this music for decades to have actually been truly miserable all along'
the tone deafness there being that of course, there was a lot of misery along the way
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, August 5, 2014 10:20 AM (Yesterday)
i took the joke to be, "well-respected artist is horrifyingly bitter about the complete futility of his life in a retrospective profile piece." we typically expect such things to consist of fondly-remembered peak experiences and reassuring life lessons. NYer piece upends the form, using rollins only as a jumping off point. all you need to know about him to get it is that he's a jazz dude. it'd work just as well with carl sagan or mary lou retton. the best jokes are all simple inversion: "that was the worst day of my life."
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
no such thing as bad publicity imho
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
it'd work just as well with carl sagan or mary lou retton. the best jokes are all simple inversion: "that was the worst day of my life."― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, August 6, 2014 7:55 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Wednesday, August 6, 2014 7:55 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'isn't it absurd to imagine this guy who publicly has taken such joy in science for decades to have actually been truly miserable all along'
'isn't it absurd to imagine this woman who publicly has taken such joy in gymnastics for decades to have actually been truly miserable all along'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
idk i think imagining it as a joke about the lion in winter profile piece is exceedingly high concept but
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
I was looking for a DJ rich list and found this. I thought it was a parody at first - the Moby entry is particularly special.
http://www.top10covered.com/top-10-richest-djs-2014-net-worth
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 7 August 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
Music has no boundaries and that is certainly true.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 August 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
that moby entry really is a treat
i dunno, that is just some one horse webpage, every entry is written by this guy:
About Author Manishk
Manish Khatri is an acclaimed writer who's good at what he's doing. He writes about various subjects related to relationships, social media, tech reviews, gadgets, health, travel, etc.
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 7 August 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
i did enjoy the characterisation of rooney as "this short player from England (who) looks to be very pale" from here though:
http://www.top10covered.com/top-10-best-football-strikers-world
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 7 August 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
that's not even Moby in the picture is it??
― lol on hoosly (crüt), Thursday, 7 August 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
we are all made of stars
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 August 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
stellar buffoonery
― Flan O'Brien, bibliotecario de Babel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 August 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
would have liked to hear some of those entries turned into a Wesley Willis song
― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 7 August 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
similar style to this site:
http://listdose.com/top-10-best-famous-jazz-musicians/
― soref, Thursday, 7 August 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Benny Goodman is among the most respectable and famous Jazz musician, he is esteemed at such an extent that his clarinet is among the world’s most expensive musical instruments today
― Dedekind Cut Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 August 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Miles Devis
― lol on hoosly (crüt), Thursday, 7 August 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.top10covered.com/top-10-popular-countries-monarchical-government
― just sayin, Thursday, 7 August 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
[Nat King Cole] was very famous for his unique and pulchritudinous soft voice.
!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
Okay, that one is a keeper.
― Dedekind Cut Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
― Dedekind Cut Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
at least he acknowledges the importance of that Louis Armstrong classic “what a beautiful world is”.
― Brio2, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
Music is a very important part of life, music has the power to change a person’s mood in a blink of an eye, it is capable of making you smile, and it is also capable of making a person cry. Music can bring a person back to life, it can make you enthusiastic, and it can inspire you.
― soref, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CK2hx377iU
― write 500 words of song (sleepingbag), Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
music can make your soul less hungry, and it can feed your soul.
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
describing Monk as a singer gives the game away. It seems quite mean sneering at someone who is just making "content" and grappling with English as a 2nd language. I'd guess the author knows this is a load of shite, it is the hacks who purr away at their perceptiveness and ingenuity whilst talking a load of shite who deserve the real contempt.
― autumn reckoning faction (xelab), Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
http://sherly.mobile9.com/download/media/446/rastasmile_XXfBedHk.jpg
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2014/08/in_defense_of_sublime.php
― scott seward, Friday, 8 August 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
i think this is really it. the one. the one we've been waiting for.
― scott seward, Friday, 8 August 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
I have so many feelings, probably too many
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 August 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
"I say this as a person who was sixteen in 1996" = the person who wrote this is not actually 16.
which might be the stunner for some.
― scott seward, Friday, 8 August 2014 03:49 (nine years ago) link