bitch magnet: C or D

he definitely has strongly held beliefs that he expresses without hesitation, and admits that the even more strongly dogmatic beliefs of his younger days were kinda ott

dunno if that's what you mean. doesn't matter how old he is but dude wouldn't stop talking about his hair (and eventual lack of it), that's for sure.

I thought the book was an interesting and entertaining read despite finding Fine not really remotely likable (to be fair I don't think Fine is pitching himself as likable either).

sooyoung's not a dick though, right?

Sooyoung was definitely pretty aloof, in my years-ago experience, but not a bad dude.

I liked the book, I felt it didn't come off nearly as misogynist as it comes off a half-dozen or so posts upthread, I feel like JF championed quite a few female/mixed-gender bands/artists. Well... unless maybe if you were a Simple Machines fan, that may have been pretty pointed.

What stuck with me was how low-/pre-tech life rather recently: payphones, cheap gas, no internet/email, etc. Looking back it seems incredulous anything got done but somehow it did.

JF definitely pulls no punches about himself and his flaws, and not in a cutesy self-depricating manner. Might be a metro NYC cultural thing tho, or possibly a cathartic therapeutical "let me get this off my chest" memoir.

Is he (or SYP) a dick? I think they're both nice guys, JF is still seems enthusiastic about music as ever whereas today SYP is more reclusive and/or purposefully obtuse*.

*Can't remember if it's mentioned in the end of the book but SYP & Orestes kind of anonymously/pseudonymously joined this band shortly after the BM reunions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7DCkI4iATY (SYP is off-camera stage right playing bass).

The hardcover of Fine's book is £3.69 on Amazon UK right now, which is weird considering the paperback is £12.

i must have missed this when it was posted but i saw it with this latest bump

I felt it didn't come off nearly as misogynist as it comes off a half-dozen or so posts upthread, I feel like JF championed quite a few female/mixed-gender bands/artists.

1) I didn't say he was a misogynist, I said I didn't like the way he wrote about women.

2) Championing bands with women in them is not some kind of misogyny-free pass