https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iMqBhNKfPo
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 September 2023 17:14 (eight months ago) link
wenner fears black people and hates radical politics so turn of the 70s funk must have really terrified him, I think that's the crux of his issue with CM
imagine how much more expansive "rock" could have been without people like this calling the shots
― Left, Friday, 15 September 2023 17:15 (eight months ago) link
the part where he says maybe he should have included "one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism." the fucking nerve
I think Alfred will agree with me here as to what this quote most reminds me of:
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/21/Interior-Secretary-James-Watt-drew-laughs-when-he-told/1131432964800/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 September 2023 17:38 (eight months ago) link
roffle
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 September 2023 17:39 (eight months ago) link
i feel like even Mick would cringe at being called a "philosopher" of any kind. Dude has never been particularly articulate, he seems to just coast whenever anyone tries to ask him anything meaningful. Which is fine! That's how Mick Jagger should be!
― tylerw, Friday, 15 September 2023 18:21 (eight months ago) link
idk I’m holding the dulux chart up to a pic and he looks v Articulate to me
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Friday, 15 September 2023 18:23 (eight months ago) link
Jagger's contributions to Harriet Vyner's book about Robert Fraser, Groovy Bob, are actually quite thoughtful and interesting, perhaps because he's not talking about the Stones specifically.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 15 September 2023 18:38 (eight months ago) link
Jeb Lund on Bluesky:
my wenner story is that i once found a guy in my editor's office who radiated the pre-indictment energy of every real-estate crook i've met & was dressed as if he'd asked "what's the most expensive looking version of this i could wear" and immediately put on whatever the answer is, and that was jann
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 September 2023 19:08 (eight months ago) link
i am gonna be the guy who says, “why is anybody surprised that this guy is among the biggest assholes ever, and the Times is doing puff pieces for him”
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 15 September 2023 19:28 (eight months ago) link
If that's supposed to be a "puff piece", I really want to see the guy's hatchet jobs because uh, this is exposing Wenner's assholishness to entirely new audiences, going by what I'm seeing on social media.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 September 2023 19:31 (eight months ago) link
they would've gotten someone other than marchese if they wanted a puff piece
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Friday, 15 September 2023 20:16 (eight months ago) link
Yeah. NYT interviewer went pretty hard during that section, at least
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Friday, 15 September 2023 21:18 (eight months ago) link
lol the preview text and the headline definitely made it seem like a puffy, i didn’t read it cuz fuck Jann Wenner
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 15 September 2023 22:56 (eight months ago) link
The interview is the definition of give em enough rope
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 September 2023 00:00 (eight months ago) link
We have a new contender in this review of Boston Lyric Opera’s updated production of Madama Butterfly:
https://www.classical-scene.com/2023/09/18/correcting-butterfly/
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 00:43 (eight months ago) link
Among all the horrors of war, the experience of Japanese Americans in camps seems relatively mild. Yes, 1,800 people died from medical problems while in the camps and about one out of every 10 of these people died of tuberculosis—the given cause of death for Cio-Cio-San’s baby in the current version. How many would have died had they remained in San Francisco’s densely populated Japantown?
― omar little, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 00:58 (eight months ago) link
I’m amazed that this was written and published without the author ever rereading it and thinking “is this REALLY the hill I’m dying on today”
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 00:59 (eight months ago) link
It reads like he accidentally pasted Facebook group posts he made under an anonymous account
― omar little, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:02 (eight months ago) link
that is an amazing passage in a review of a 120yo opera anywhere
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:05 (eight months ago) link
It’s an updated production that moves the setting to San Francisco in the 40s so there’s context that makes it comprehensible but nothing about it actually makes sense
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:08 (eight months ago) link
I got too out of breath trying to find the end of the sentences in the first paragraph and gave up.
― enochroot, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:13 (eight months ago) link
Don’t ever upset the opera queens.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 02:07 (eight months ago) link
Counterpoint: upset the opera queens as often as humanly possible
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 13:49 (eight months ago) link
that part that omar quoted is
O_O
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 13:53 (eight months ago) link
Why did BLO depict the Poston camp with a sharpshooter in a guard tower taking aim at Suzuki during an argument? A Wikipedia article on the Poston camp said that “the site was so remote that authorities considered building guard towers to be unnecessary.” Did the conceit lay a guilt trip on us?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 13:57 (eight months ago) link
of all the things I expected to show up in this thread, "interning japanese-americans during ww2 was good, actually" was not one of them
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 13:59 (eight months ago) link
You’d think “internment camps are bad” would be considered fact at this point in time but you don’t expect “but they weren’t THAT bad” as a kicker
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 14:19 (eight months ago) link
lol the comments are getting lively now
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 14:22 (eight months ago) link
claims he's not taking down posts for any reason other than valid emails, took all three of mine down within seconds!
lmao
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 14:29 (eight months ago) link
lol
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 14:52 (eight months ago) link
"Ashley"
― omar little, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 15:46 (eight months ago) link
The eleven singers (six of whom had Asian-sounding names)
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 15:54 (eight months ago) link
It’s the job of a journalist to question received wisdom, event sometimes when he personally agrees with it
also the writer responded to someone who criticized the piece by saying "you didn't seem to take umbrage when we reviewed your performances positively in the past!" like....what?
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:29 (eight months ago) link
"we gave you a good review, you have no right to criticize us!"
lol so my comments eventually got posted. it's ridiculous - their 'verification' system isn't automated.
not long after you post the comment, it disappears, then you get an email that someone manually writes to you saying "Is this you?" and nothing else, and if you reply "yes" they say thank you and post the comment
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:30 (eight months ago) link
What comment is yours, actually?
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 19:09 (eight months ago) link
(There’s a Facebook thread of people tracking vanishing comments and it would be good to point them to it so it’s clearer that dude is 100% fossil)
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 19:10 (eight months ago) link
lol mine is "Peter Bobles"
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 19:48 (eight months ago) link
We got a live one here!
https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/05/taylor-swifts-popularity-is-a-sign-of-societal-decline/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 23:49 (eight months ago) link
They just don't make 'em like Tom Petty any more.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 23:52 (eight months ago) link
Petty was obviously very masculine and a baby boomer
― omar little, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 23:54 (eight months ago) link
Unlike, say, Taylor Swift or Barack Obama.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 23:56 (eight months ago) link
this horrible seeming website that I already regret giving a click to also provided me with a pop up ad about open carry permits #onethread
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 23:57 (eight months ago) link
lol at twitter account “heminator”
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 00:58 (eight months ago) link
Still, someone who truly, deeply cares about the state of popular music has to stand athwart Taylor Swift, yelling “what is this @#?!,” and it might as well be an intellectually dyspeptic Gen X guy with nothing to lose.
ahhhhhahahahahaha
― I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 01:37 (eight months ago) link
he wishes
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 02:30 (eight months ago) link
Negative partisanship is making me a fan of Taytay
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 06:06 (eight months ago) link
let's anticipate
Pondering a column about Taylor Swift and American conservatism, pray for me.— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) September 26, 2023
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 06:16 (eight months ago) link
i've been so ponderin with a column every day tay won't say that we've fallen
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 07:08 (eight months ago) link
People say Swift is a good songwriter but have you considered The Beatles?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 12:05 (eight months ago) link